Kelechi Iheanacho signs new Leicester contract until 2024

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Leicester forward Kelechi Iheanacho has signed a new deal running to 2024&comma; the club have announced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 24-year-old Nigeria international&comma; who joined from Manchester City in 2017&comma; has been in sparkling recent form for the Foxes&comma; scoring nine times in his last nine appearances in all competitions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That included netting five goals in three Premier League matches in March&comma; and he was named the division’s player of the month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iheanacho told Leicester’s official website&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I can’t express how I’m feeling&period; I’m excited&comma; I’m happy&comma; I’m overwhelmed&excl; It’s a great moment and I’m happy that Leicester City gave me a new contract&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s been a great time here&period; It’s not been easy&comma; but there’s a lot of people here that are good people&comma; great people to work with&period; They are nice people and they make me feel comfortable and welcome since I came in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s been really great being here&period; It’s like a family&period; I’m happy being here and hopefully I can stay here many more years&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iheanacho’s tally this season of 12 is among a total of 32 goals he has registered for Leicester in 117 games in all competitions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He previously scored 12 goals in 46 league appearances for Manchester City&comma; who Leicester face at the King Power Stadium on Saturday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers said of Iheanacho ahead of the fixture&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think you see a young player playing at the top of his game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When he was at Manchester City he was a young developing player who hadn’t played much&period; He came here for a big fee &lpar;reported to be £25million&rpar; and then of course coming into a team with one of the league’s best strikers &lpar;Jamie Vardy&rpar; has needed some adapting from him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I can only speak for the two years I’ve been here but his work&comma; his ambition to become a better player was always there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He’s a wonderful character within the squad&comma; constantly smiling&comma; and whatever role he’s been asked to play he’s played it very well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The combination between him and Jamie is very good and at 24 there’s a lot of improvement in him&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e1f88d68f77">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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