Southampton Defender Vestergaard Signs For Leicester City

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Leicester City has completed the signing of defender Jannik Vestergaard from Southampton, the Premier League club announced on Friday, 13th August 2021.

The 29-year-old Danish international joins the Foxes for a reported fee of £15million and has agreed on a three-year deal until 2024.

Speaking to LCFC TV, he said: ‘I’m very happy and I’m really excited to get going. It’s a special club that has done very well over many years and I think the project is very, very exciting, even from the outside looking in. To be a part of it is a big thing for me.

“I know a couple of the players, and Kasper [Schmeichel] and Ryan [Bertrand] I know very well and get along with off the pitch, so that’s going to be very easy. Just from my first impression of the guys in the dressing room, they’re a good bunch, and I’m sure I’ll settle in very quickly.”

Vestergaard played youth football in his native Denmark before starting his senior career with Hoffenheim in Germany.

He then joined Werder Bremen in 2015 but moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach a year later.

He gained UEFA Champions League experience at Mönchengladbach and made over 175 appearances during his time in the Bundesliga, before signing for Southampton in July 2018.

Vestergaard leaves the Saints after three years during which he made 79 appearances for the club in all competitions.

Last season, he played 32 games helping his side finish 15th on the Premier League table. He also helped Denmark get to the Semi-Finals of the Euro 2020.
He also played in all six of Denmark’s matches at Euro 2020 as they reached the semi-finals.

Vestergaard will now link up with his new team-mates ahead of City’s first fixture of the 2021/22 Premier League season at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday, 14th August.

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