Leicester midfielder Dennis Praet has revealed that he turned down the opportunity to move to Arsenal when he was a teenager.
The ex-Anderlecht star was shown around the Gunners’ training facilities when he was still playing with Genk as a youth but backed out of making a move, instead preferring to stay closer to home.
“I had three or four really good options,” Praet told the Guardian. “We went to visit Arsenal, Lille, Ajax and Anderlecht. Arsenal would have been a really nice step and I could earn a lot more money there than in Anderlecht, but at that moment my education was not finished and that was really important for me – there was no insurance that I would become a good football player.