LEICESTER CITY PREMIER LEAGUE RELEGATION MESSAGE AS CLAIM ADDRESSED BY JONNY EVANS
The latest Leicester City headlines on Friday, June 2
Squad claim addressed
The Leicester City players understood the severity of their Premier League predicament and did take their relegation fight seriously, captain Jonny Evans has said.
City were relegated to the Championship on Sunday, falling two points short of survival. They are the first club in the Premier League era to have five consecutive top-half finishes and then go down.
For long periods of the season, there was a debate among supporters over whether the squad understood the perilous position they were in and knew that relegation was a possibility.
Ricardo Pereira breaks silence
Ricardo Pereira is the first Leicester City player to take to social media to send a message to fans addressing relegation to the Championship.
The full-back was named on the bench for Sunday’s match against West Ham, and played the final minutes of the game. City knew that they would have to pick up all three points, and then rely on Everton dropping points against Bournemouth in order to stay in the Premier League.
While City came out as 2-1 winners at the King Power Stadium, they faced an anxious wait as the Everton game came to a conclusion. The Toffees’ 1-0 win saw them secure safety at the expense of City.
Kane to Leicester claim
Former Tottenham boss Tim Sherwood has claimed that the North London side were on the verge of selling Harry Kane to Leicester City.
The England striker spent the second half of the 2012-13 season at the King Power Stadium where he scored two goals in 15 appearances as City lost in the Championship play-off semi-finals against Watford.
Kane has gone on to become England and Tottenham's record goalscorer in a career that has seen him go on to score over 300 goals. The 29-year-old is also closing in on Alan Shearer's Premier League record of 260 goals, with Kane second on the all time-list with 213.
Lesson City must learn
After the final game of the season, a tearful Youri Tielemans waved to the King Power Stadium crowd. It signalled the end. Fans were sad, but understanding. Their ‘Starman’, one of their modern-day heroes, was moving onto better things.
That was two years ago. Despite what felt like a goodbye after the loss to Tottenham that denied City a top-four spot in 2021, Tielemans went nowhere. Explaining his emotional reaction while on Belgium duty a few weeks later, he said he was just upset to miss out on the Champions League.
Had Tielemans left that summer, he would still be lauded today. He had just scored the greatest goal in the club’s history to win them the trophy that had long eluded them. He was player of the season in one of the club’s greatest-ever seasons. An exit would have been bittersweet, but City would have raked in a significant amount of cash, and Tielemans’ reputation would have remained at its peak.
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