Caleb Okoli

Central Defender - Leicester City
28 Sep 2026
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The Leicester City Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Divine Mukasa

Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Leicester City say no — this time

The offer from Crystal Palace for Jannik Vestergaard was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Cundo at 17 — 7.89

The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Cundo did not need any: 7.89, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Tempers go at Leicester City

Jamaal Lascelles was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Northampton Town join the queue for Cundo

Add another name to the list: Northampton Town have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Cundo. The answer from Leicester City has not changed — yet.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Leicester City

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

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.

The terraces

Leicester City supporters have found a favourite in Abdul Fatawu

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Abdul Fatawu has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market

Michael Simmons steps up from the Leicester City academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michael Simmons 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