Bilal El Khannouss joins - Official

[moore_94]

 

[moore_94]

https://www.lcfc.com/news/4099581/bilal-el-khannouss-signs-fouryear-deal-with-leicester-city?lang=en

 

Bilal El Khannouss Signs Four-Year Deal With Leicester City
 

Leicester City Football Club have agreed terms with Genk for the transfer of attacking midfielder Bilal El Khannouss, subject to Premier League and international clearance.
 

- Leicester City confirm Bilal El Khannouss signing
- Morocco international joins the Foxes from Genk 
- The 20-year-old will wear the number 11 shirt
 

The talented Morocco international has penned a four-year deal with the Foxes and will link up with his new team-mates ahead of Saturday’s game against Aston Villa.

 

El Khannouss moves to King Power Stadium having recently earned international honours by helping Morocco to a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

 

Speaking to LCFC.com, Bilal said: “I’m very happy. Leicester City is a big Club in England and it’s always a dream for a young guy like me to play in the Premier League so I’m very excited and I hope to achieve big things here.

 

“I talked with the Manager, and I immediately had a good feeling with the Club. I’m really excited to meet my team-mates, to make great things with them and I hope win a lot of games too.”

 

Born in Belgium, the highly regarded 20-year-old started his career with Anderlecht before moving to fellow Belgian side Genk in 2019, making his professional debut against Mechelen in May 2022.  

 

The attacker’s performances in the Jupiler Pro League earned him a place in Morocco’s squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar – going on to make his international bow in the Atlas Lions’ third-place play-off game with Croatia.

 

Bilal featured 51 times in all competitions for Genk last season and further established a reputation as one of the most exciting talents in Belgium’s top-flight. 

 

Internationally, El Khannouss represented Belgium up to Under-18s level but later represented Morocco and has since won 14 senior caps for the Atlas Lions.

 

The player helped his country to the Under-23s Africa Cup of Nations title last year and enjoyed further success with his nation this July at the Summer Olympics, including a goal in a 6-0 win over Egypt in the Bronze Medal match.

Edited 29 August 2024 by moore_94

[Sly]

 

[Bilo]

Decent intro vid tbf.

 

Hope he's as good as he sounds. Also, he speaks better English than I thought for a lad who's never played here.

[DJ Barry Hammond]

Down with this sort of thing! 

[JimJams]

Straight into the under-21's...

[FrankieADZ]

hes here 

 

and hes beautiful

 

ish

[TommyK]

Who?

[urban.spaceman]

Hooray!

[Tommy G]

Cheers Jon 

[Hales]

Woo hoo!!!!!

[urban.spaceman]

 

[Torten]

Bil-all around the world

[Iwebema]

Finally! The announcement of it today gives me hope we might find a striker tomorrow and then we've at least given ourselves a chance!  

[UniFox21]

Club love using UFS and the standing section in clips and pictures, but hate to help them create more of the clips they're using 

[OadbyBlue]

[HankMarvin]

Better be good 

[StriderHiryu]

Welcome Bilal!

 

Time to rock the King Power!

 

 

 

[Livid]

They do know the transfer deadline is tomorrow night.

 

No last minute disaster and eligible to play at the weekend, this is so very unleicester. 

[Ric Flair]

Excellent news.

 

Really looking forward to seeing him play.

 

His ball carrying, ball progression and creativity stats are off the charts.

[FoxOnWheels]

We’re gonna have some squad in the championship

[StanSP]

Got it on good authority @moore_94 works at the club in the social media team 

[SemperEadem]

4 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Club love using UFS and the standing section in clips and pictures, but hate to help them create more of the clips they're using 

Tell them that.

We can’t get a reply on two full stand tifo designs before Christmas we have sent them.

[Claudio Fannieri]

1 minute ago, Ric Flair said:

Excellent news.

 

Really looking forward to seeing him play.

 

His ball carrying, ball progression and creativity stats are off the charts.

In that video he also has a lovely arrogance about him 😍

[cropstonfox]

The new Muzzy?

Well done Rudders,we all knew you would pull a few rabbits out the hat!