The Leicester City Courier
Squad27 Dec 2027
Zak Swanson keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Leicester City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Dango Ouattara runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Woyo Coulibaly wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Leicester City know it.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Stephy Mavididi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad27 Dec 2027
A late step up for Josh Maja
At 29 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Market27 Dec 2027
One of our own: Samuel Robinson joins the Leicester City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuel Robinson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market27 Dec 2027
Peter Morgan steps up from the Leicester City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Peter Morgan has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market27 Dec 2027
One of our own: Henry Morris joins the Leicester City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Henry Morris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market27 Dec 2027
Matthew Evans steps up from the Leicester City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matthew Evans has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Match No goals between Leicester City and Wolverhampton
- Player ratings Woyo Coulibaly shuts the door
- Loan watch Lorenz Hutchinson keeps scoring at Harrogate Town