City's player of the season today put pen to paper signing an extension to his contract for another 2 years.

Paul Dickov is the first of the lads who were offered new contracts to publicly sign.

Speaking to the official website City boss Micky Adams said:

“Paul Dickov resigning for the football club has given everyone a big boost.

“I’m delighted because it shows a commitment from Paul, he has shown confidence that we can take the football club forward from here.

“The problem that you face is that when people are coming towards the end of their existing contract as Paul was after scoring 20 goals it does attract interest from other clubs

“But Paul never intimated to me that he wanted to move and was happy to commit himself again to Leicester City.

“You can never question his enthusiasm for the game, he’s had that throughout his career, but one thing that he’s never had is putting goals to that enthusiasm.

“But this year luckily for Leicester City he’s put 20 goals on the board for us.

“Once you have got a centre forward scoring goals you do not want to lose him.

“So whilst we could not commit ourselves to any sort of deal until we knew what division we were gong to be playing in it was a case of speaking with him and his advisors to find out what the ball-park figure was to sign him again.

Adams clarified the situation with the other out of contract players he wants to keep.

“We haven’t made any offers to other players yet, what we have said is that we will be making offers.

“Over the next few weeks we will be sitting down with Billy McKinlay, Gerry Taggart and Brian Deane and making them offers.

“But I am sure their agents will be touting them around at the moment because they are Bosmans and that’s quite right.”

Adams is also in negotiations on his own personal contract, which still has a year to run, and hopes to sign an extension shortly.

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