Transfer news to Leicester City: Yuri Tielemans joined on loan from Monaco

Leicester City announced the signing of Belgian international Yuri Tielemans on loan for the remainder of the 2018-1919 season, while Adrien Silva was heading to the other side of Ligue 1 for the rest of the season.

"I'm really excited to leave," Tielemans told the CFL television. "The Premier League is one of the best leagues in the world and when I was young, I always watched the Premier League matches, I am really happy to be here and I am I can not wait to start. "

"It's a big family. Everyone is really nice and very good to me. I think it will be really good here.

The 21 – year – old will look to put his career back on track, after showing himself so promising when transferred to the club of the Principality of Anderlecht in the summer of 2017.

Entered the first team of Anderlecht at the age of 16, he made a quick climb among the best expectations of Europe. He scored six goals in 2014-15 and 2015-16, before crowning his time in the highest Belgian league with 13 catches in the 2016- 17 league season.

A move to Monaco followed, fresh out of the club, conquering the title of Ligue 1, but Tielemans could not reach the same level in his first year at the club.

He did not find the back of the net last season in the top-ranking French in 27 caps with his only goal in the Champions League.

However, he has shown signs of exploiting this potential that makes him a sought after talent just a few years ago. He has scored five goals and a badist for Monaco this season, despite the misfortunes of the club that places them in second place. League 1 and three points of security.

The young player also made his way into the Belgian national team, making four appearances and two starts at the 2018 World Cup in a campaign in which the Red Devils finished third.

He also started the four matches of the League of Nations of Belgium last autumn.

Tielemans will now look to keep up the momentum with a Leicester club in eleventh place but just three points off seventh, after taking a point at Anfield against Liverpool on Wednesday.

Silva, who has been at the center of a dispute in the summer of 2017 about his initial transfer from Portuguese club Sporting to Leicester, is going the other way.

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The documents relating to the transfer of Silva in the Premier League arrived a little after the closing of the window and Silva could not be registered by the club before the window of January 2018.

After 12 appearances in the Premier League last season and one badist, Silva has played only two league games this season under the command of Claude Puel.