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Andy King to leave at the end of the season

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Corky

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45 minutes ago, baldeagle said:

Unreal the amount of footballers wishing him good  luck even Stevie Gerard 

He seems to be loved by most of the players he played with at Leicester, always comes across as a good lad who works hard and is no trouble at all.

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https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bristol-citys-andy-king-proud-5645708

 

Midfielder Andy King has arrived at Ashton Gate and he finds himself as something of a dichotomy.

King is in the strange position of arriving with something to prove but also nothing. He won the League One, Championship and Premier League titles in 2009, 2014 and 2016 respectively, making him the first and only player to win the top three divisions with the same team (Leicester City) in the Premier League era, and he also has 50 caps for Wales.

But after playing mere minutes in the last two seasons following moves to Belgium and Rangers failing to work out, with a stint at Huddersfield Town in between, the Ashton Gate faithful may take some winning over.

Even from one of their own. We travelled to the Robins High Performance Centre recently to speak to the new recruit, who could reprise a Foxes midfield with Matty James beside him, to ask how things are going and on the last few years.

Of course, Bristol City is a club that King knows all too well having stood in the Dolman Stand as a young supporter previously. It's fair to say that he is beaming at how things have worked out in the last weeks. A fresh start but at a familiar location.

"I came in the week before with some of the lads who had been injured over the summer to have a look around and do some training, and then we had the tests and from day one of pre-season it's been absolutely brilliant," King said.

"I've absolutely loved every minute of it being back in England playing in a competition I know and at a club that means so much to me as well. I've got a smile on my face. Even my wife at home says, 'I've never seen you so happy' and stuff."

King is hugely impressed the new training facility that will become his office for the terms of the next year, with the option of a further year if things go well.

 

He of course knows Nigel Pearson well and his "eyes lit up" when he knew of the interest, while in Belgium needing to wait for the end of the season, and the possibility of playing for the club he supports and under a manager he knows intrinsically.

"The last year or so of my career has been a bit of a disaster to be honest," adds King. "You have such highs of winning the league, playing in the Champions League and then football doesn't just always go up and up and up.

"If I look back at my journey in football it started in the academy at Leicester and until probably 18 months ago it was just an upward trajectory of success and enjoyment and everything like that.

"Now I've had maybe 18 months where things haven't gone so well it's made me really, really hungry to be successful again," he explains.

Brexit meant visa and permit delays as King signed for Jupiler Pro League team OH Leuven last season where Leicester City have a relationship with their fellow King Power (the Thai travel retail group) side.

"I obviously went there because it was King Power's other team so it was more of a King Power signing," explains King. "I don't think the manager - and I don't think I'm speaking out of turn here - was a fan.

"The owner had put me in there to help the team, and the manager didn't feel like I was his player, more like the owner's player.

"Therefore he tried to make a point. He had Filip Benkovic there, who I know played here as well, and he was in the same boat. He didn't play a minute.

"He was there another guy from Leicester, and I think the manager really had an issue with people from Leicester being over there," says King.

King wants to put that to bed and there may now be an increased hunger that Bristol City can make good use of: the wish to make up for lost time.

The 32-year-old says that he is more appreciative of what he has now, a great set of lads, a manager he knows so well and a team that really means something to him.

His family keep messaging him about the move to City. Their team. King watched from the Dolman but wasn't a season ticket holder as from the age of seven he played in Chelsea's academy, while living around Maidenhead.

His dad and brother (who went to university here) are season ticket holders though, and King's first game was Liverpool at home in the FA Cup in January 1994, at the age of five, leaving after just 45 minutes being so young.

A gold and blue away City kit is still in his possession.

"We went to the Football League Trophy final [2003 at the Millenium Stadium, Cardiff] and I remember Brentford away one time. I remember Leroy Lita scoring down at Griffin Park and us all piling down to the bottom of the stand," he recalls, with a glow in his eye.

"The away atmosphere is always good. I was there for the playoff final [in 2004] when they lost to Brighton, at Cardiff's Millenium Stadium. Leon Knight scored a penalty - I was at that one. It wasn't a good one obviously," he adds.

Pulling on that Bristol City shirt will really mean something to King over the next days. With hopefully more good ones to come.

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I didn't think Kingy was the type to publicly come out with that. He's a club legend and all he's doing is dropping the manager in further crap (assuming there is an issue there).

 

Disappointed Kingy.

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23 minutes ago, UHDrive said:

I didn't think Kingy was the type to publicly come out with that. He's a club legend and all he's doing is dropping the manager in further crap (assuming there is an issue there).

 

Disappointed Kingy.

What did he say 

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24 minutes ago, UHDrive said:

I didn't think Kingy was the type to publicly come out with that. He's a club legend and all he's doing is dropping the manager in further crap (assuming there is an issue there).

 

Disappointed Kingy.

His just speaking the truth, he done little wrong in my view.

 

It hardly controversial.

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6 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

His just speaking the truth, he done little wrong in my view.

 

It hardly controversial.

It is in management politics. If/when top hears about his club manager getting dropped in it for schoolyard gossiping from an ex player. Kingy should've known better, you don't name drop and describe situations with further name dropping I.e. benko. 

 

All of this especially in your opening interview with your new club - embarrassing.

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26 minutes ago, UHDrive said:

It is in management politics. If/when top hears about his club manager getting dropped in it for schoolyard gossiping from an ex player. Kingy should've known better, you don't name drop and describe situations with further name dropping I.e. benko. 

 

All of this especially in your opening interview with your new club - embarrassing.

tbf when you have all your new fans thinking youre past it because you couldnt get minutes in belgium, I can see why he'd want to set things straight. 

 

Its not like Top wouldnt know this 

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25 minutes ago, UHDrive said:

It is in management politics. If/when top hears about his club manager getting dropped in it for schoolyard gossiping from an ex player. Kingy should've known better, you don't name drop and describe situations with further name dropping I.e. benko. 

 

All of this especially in your opening interview with your new club - embarrassing.

He is just explaining why he didn't play.

 

Think you are over reacting.

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36 minutes ago, UHDrive said:

It is in management politics. If/when top hears about his club manager getting dropped in it for schoolyard gossiping from an ex player. Kingy should've known better, you don't name drop and describe situations with further name dropping I.e. benko. 

 

All of this especially in your opening interview with your new club - embarrassing.

I’m sure Top and LCFC know this especially as Benkovic didn’t play.

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23 minutes ago, UHDrive said:

I'm sure they do as well. The only issue I'd take from this is that at the core of what King is talking about is one that's obviously fractious between Top and BR and is unlikely to go away anytime soon. So it appears to me that kings the one who may have the arse just because he was sent over there, otherwise why throw more mud around like "maybe I should/shouldn't say this". "Benkovic is over there too and not playing as well". "BR didnt want me over there but Top sent me". "BR didn't want me to go and doesn't like Top taking away some control"

 

All of you negative people must be on cloud cuckoo land. I don't respect King for this at all. 

 

You have a Multi Billion £owner (OUR owner) and our manger (easily replaceable if you start leaking info like this (if that's what has happened). 

 

I'm hoping this will blow over now and that King will continue to be the model pro that we know him as..........and zip it.

The article isn’t about Brendan lol King wasn’t even our player at the time 

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10 hours ago, UHDrive said:

It is in management politics. If/when top hears about his club manager getting dropped in it for schoolyard gossiping from an ex player. Kingy should've known better, you don't name drop and describe situations with further name dropping I.e. benko. 

 

All of this especially in your opening interview with your new club - embarrassing.

lol

 

 

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11 hours ago, pmcla26 said:

As @MPHsaid, Sowah there before so might have been hope from the manager he’d continue there, and with Eppiah being Belgian and not really looking likely of making it here, might have seemed likely he’d make a permanent switch. 
 

King and Benkovic were always short term options for the manager to choose from. Probably knowing King would be released and the owners hoping Benkovic would be primed to come back to Leicester, which obviously didn’t come from his loan spell.
 

King’s not the controversial type in the media either, doubt he’d make comments like that without any substance. 

....it is not about having the background knowledge of what had transpired at OHL!!!

  More the fact that King has chosen to publicly reveal an internal problem existed and has apportioned blame in a certain direction. 

  The way he spoke gives me the feeling that Andy believed it was a well documented, and known fact, but the saying of "what happens in the training ground, stays in the training ground", still applies.

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