Lazio expect they will have to pay €10m (£8.7m) if they make a move for Leicester City centre-back Wout Faes in the January transfer window.
The Italian side have long been linked to the Belgian, who remains at City despite a summer of transfer speculation.
Linked to a host of clubs, including Wolfsburg and Besiktas, Faes could not find a move away. Unless a late switch to Turkey materialises before their transfer deadline on Saturday, then he will be at the King Power Stadium until January.
Then, Lazio may come in for him, report Corriere dello Sport, via LazioNews. They missed out on Serbian international Jan-Carlo Simic, who chose to move to Saudi Arabia from Anderlecht, and so they are still in need of a centre-back.
Come January, Faes will have 18 months remaining on his Cit