Louis Page addresses Man United transfer interest as he makes stance clear

However, the club are anticipated to encounter competition from Arsenal, with Leicester insisting on a fee exceeding £10 million, plus a minimum of £2.5 million in add-ons - matching the sum they received from Manchester City for Jeremy Monga. Any potential deal would likely see the youngster stay with the League One outfit until the conclusion of the current campaign.

The teenager remains fully focused on the season at hand, and is confident that working under Leicester boss Russell Martin will prove invaluable to his development both in the present and moving forward.

Addressing the summer speculation, the 18-year-old told BBC Radio Leicester: "It's been a whirlwind, a lot of things going on, but I think for me it's about concentrating on, I'm here at Leicester, I've got a contract at Leicester and my aim is to get this club back to the Championship and that's what I want to do.", reports the Manchester Evening News.

"Being focused and stuff, the manager has helped me loads with that, he said that he wants me to stay here and he believes that I can develop into the player that I hopefully will be one day, and I believe that he will get me there as well."

As rumours intensified during the closing moments of transfer deadline day, Page was gearing up to feature in Leicester's League One fixture against Plymouth Argyle. The midfielder provided an assist in the 2-0 triumph, and his inclusion in the starting XI effectively ruled out any last-gasp switch to United before the window shut.

"For me, I was concentrating on, I knew I was playing, and I was like 'whatever goes on in the background goes on, I don't need to get involved with that'," he said.

"I was like 'right, it's a massive home game for us, I just need to concentrate on playing, playing well, and making sure we win', whatever goes on in the background will go on, if I play well then people will say good things. I think that's what I just concentrate on, playing."

While he remained concentrated despite the rumours surrounding his future, the closure of the transfer window until January has brought some welcome clarity. "I was obviously fully focused anyway on Leicester, but I think now that it's shut, I know that I'm staying here, everyone knows that I'm staying here," he said.

"So that talk can be put to rest and everyone's just focused on me playing for Leicester now."

The teenager established himself in Leicester's senior squad last season aged just 17. He has started each of Leicester's last five games in all competitions, and last weekend played a crucial role in three of the team's four goals during a thrilling 4-3 victory against Stockport County.

"Leicester have given me everything, they've given me the opportunities to play in the first team and I feel like I've repaid that and we've gone down, so now I've got to give back to the academy staff that got me into the first team, the first team coaches that have given me the chance," he said. "I've now got to take that responsibility and get the club back into the Championship."

He added: "We're the players (the academy products), we've seen where this club has been, I'd go as a kid, watch them in the Premier League, Champions League and I think 'I want to do that with Leicester'. I think that's the same with Sammy (Braybrooke), Bade (Aluko), Will (Alves) as well, we all want to do that.

"I think it's personal for us that we're in this situation and it's now on us to take the club out of it and get them back to where they belong."