Nigeria's Ahmed Musa is set to be signed for a record fee by English champions Leicester City, who are set to break their record transfer fee for the second time in a matter of days by buying CSKA attacking midfielder Ahmed Musa on Wednesday.
Musa, who scored a brace for Nigeria in a 3-2 defeat of Lionel Messi's Argentina at the 2014 World Cup, will see his present side Russian outfit CSKA Moscow receive £16.6million ($22.1 million, 19.8 million euros) -- a record outlay for Leicester.
"Everything has been finalised and Musa will be in
England for his medical on Wednesday," Musa's agent Tony Harris told BBC
Sport.
Musa and Sunday's signing former France Under-21 midfielder
Nampalys Mendy, who joined from Ligue 1 side Nice on a four-year deal for a
club record at the time of £13m, will bolster the Foxes squad for a tilt at the
Champions League.
Musa's soon to be former coach Leonid Slutsky said the
Nigerian -- who scored 53 goals in 161 matches for CSKA since joining them in
2012 -- would be ideal for the Premier League.
"If you look at the way things are done over there
you'll see he is a player just made for English football," Slutsky said.
According to the BBC Musa rejected the advances of
Leicester's rivals Southampton, Everton and West Ham.
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