Andy King to leave at the end of the season

[Strokes]

2 hours ago, leicesterseddon said:

Been stealing a living since we’ve been in the Premier League.

 

Been a lucky beneficiary of the club’s culture of sympathy contracts, would have been cut adrift anywhere else a long time ago. 

Legend my arse. 

You don’t think his goal against West Ham that sparked the great escape was important then? Or his goal against West Brom in the title winning season?

You’d have to be some kind of miserable halfwit, no make that a quarterwit, to harbour some kind of ill feeling to Andy King and be a genuine Leicester fan.

Edited 18 June 2020 by Strokes

[urban.spaceman]

 

 

[shailen]

Great servant to the club. Scored some vital and memorable goals for us and wish him all the best for the rest of his career. For those saying he's been kept on for too long, he could have left us when we were in the championship to play in the Premier league but chose to stay and the rest as they say is history. 

[walkerleeds]

That left footed rocket at Blackpool is still one of my favourite goals i've seen live. Already looking forward to his first game as manager back here..

[OntarioFox]

I started following the Foxes again during the relegation season, after losing interest as a kid. Kingy was there then. He has been the one constant in my personal journey growing up watching Leicester do it all, right from their lowest low. I don't care if we've seen more technically gifted midfielders since - he will probably always be my favourite LCFC player. When he scored on the day we lifted the title, it was the one moment I burst into tears. It just completed the story perfectly.

 

Which I guess is the problem - apart from the Euros and UCL appearances, it was a slow fade for Kingy from there. It was inevitable that he'd be on his way out after a year or two clawing around for gametime on loan elsewhere, but I respect Rodgers immensely for having been open with him about his lack of future here. I lost what sliver of respect I had left for Puel when I heard he had essentially frozen Andy out as an 'old guard' piece of deadwood without even bothering to talk to him. You don't do that to the club's longest serving player.

 

I sincerely hope Kingy can get more regular gametime now he's finally hanging up his boots for us, and that one day (as seemingly every fan seems to attest to some degree) he ends up with some sort of future coaching or backroom role for us. Fingers crossed this testimonial comes over Christmas, as I'll be back in the UK to see family and, such is my love for our Andy, I'll probably travel back just for that game otherwise. To me, he IS Mr. Leicester City.

 

Thank you Andy. Always had a mancrush on you, ngl.

 l

Edited 19 June 2020 by OntarioFox

[TJB-fox]

He’s going to be a brilliant brilliant signing for a championship club. Only 31 yrs still got 3-4 years left as a very decent championship footballer. 

Honestly gutted to see him go. Forget about his exploits as a footballer here for a sec, I think we can all agree that he comes across as a genuinely lovely guy who has a lot of love + respect for the club. 

Really hope he’s back with us one day as a staff member. Maybe manager, who knows. 

[jonthefox]

I'd love to see some kind of permanent recognition of former great players at the KP. I'm not suggesting a statue or anything like that for Kingy , but surely there's something we could do. 

 

Rename the 1884 bar to Kings bar?. Just a thought. 

[davieG]

47 minutes ago, jonthefox said:

I'd love to see some kind of permanent recognition of former great players at the KP. I'm not suggesting a statue or anything like that for Kingy , but surely there's something we could do. 

 

Rename the 1884 bar to Kings bar?. Just a thought. 

I always thought a load of face sculptures of former greats embedded in the stadium wall would look good with a plaque under each and would be relatively inexpensive

 

Shilton

 

 

[Spiritwalker]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

I always thought a load of face sculptures of former greats embedded in the stadium wall would look good with a plaque under each and would be relatively inexpensive

 

Shilton

 

 

Looks like he's caught mixomitosis.

[davieG]

4 minutes ago, Spiritwalker said:

Looks like he's caught mixomitosis.

Well I know what it is but I haven't a clue what it would look like on rabbits never mind humans  

[Col city fan]

On 18/06/2020 at 22:11, Strokes said:

You don’t think his goal against West Ham that sparked the great escape was important then? Or his goal against West Brom in the title winning season?

You’d have to be some kind of miserable halfwit, no make that a quarterwit, to harbour some kind of ill feeling to Andy King and be a genuine Leicester fan.

Add to that his huge season to haul us out of League 1

[leicesterseddon]

On 18/06/2020 at 22:11, Strokes said:

You don’t think his goal against West Ham that sparked the great escape was important then? Or his goal against West Brom in the title winning season?

You’d have to be some kind of miserable halfwit, no make that a quarterwit, to harbour some kind of ill feeling to Andy King and be a genuine Leicester fan.

 

By your definition anyone who scored a goal in a retrospectively important game is a club legend then?

 

I would agree he played his part in getting us out of League One, but that's the lowest-raked season in the club's entire history.

 

In the Great Escape season, he started 16 games - he scored two goals, with zero assists.

 

In the title-winning season, he started only 9 games - contribution two goals, and two assists.

 

Since signing his FOUR-YEAR contract in the summer of 2016, he has only made the first XI not much more than a dozen times.

 

Any rational assessment shows he's been nothing more than a makeweight for years. I repeat again - he has been stealing a living.

 

[Strokes]

2 hours ago, leicesterseddon said:

 

By your definition anyone who scored a goal in a retrospectively important game is a club legend then?

 

I would agree he played his part in getting us out of League One, but that's the lowest-raked season in the club's entire history.

 

In the Great Escape season, he started 16 games - he scored two goals, with zero assists.

 

In the title-winning season, he started only 9 games - contribution two goals, and two assists.

 

Since signing his FOUR-YEAR contract in the summer of 2016, he has only made the first XI not much more than a dozen times.

 

Any rational assessment shows he's been nothing more than a makeweight for years. I repeat again - he has been stealing a living.

 

A very simplistic and not thought through response. I didn’t say those goals were why he was a legend although they are certainly a contributing factor.

By your thought process, in 2014/15 we only had one central midfielder not ‘stealing a living’ and we sold one of the offenders for £35m a couple of seasons later.

Clown 🤡 

Edited 20 June 2020 by Strokes

[funkyrobot]

Great Andy King article in The Sunday Times

 

The party’s finally over as Andy King leaves Leicester

July 26 2020, The Sunday Times

On Friday, for the first time since he was a bright-eyed boy of 15, Andy King will not be a Leicester City footballer. The first time in 16 years, since he travelled north into the unknown, leaving Furze Platt school in Maidenhead. You would expect anxiety — if you did not know him.

Those who do know “Kingy” will be unsurprised there’s none of that; to learn he’s “excited” about being out of contract and free to find the right club for a new chapter. He has always been a shot of positive energy, a spark both in a team’s engine room and dressing room.

Leicester’s record-scoring midfielder, he’s the only player to win League One, the Championship and Premier League with the same club. “But I want to draw a line under that amazing journey and look forward to the next one,” he says.

What he had at Leicester? “You don’t replace it. You have to re-find it. I’m looking to find a bit of it somewhere else. I want to play for a team hungry to achieve something because I know I can offer that. I have experience of offering it.”

His home is in a gorgeous village near where Leicestershire borders Rutland and he has made his life in this part of the world with Camilla, his wife and The Wolf — their cute and playful cavoodle dog. But change comes around. “From a football point of view, in my head I left [Leicester] 18 months ago,” he says.

That was when he went to Derby County to begin a series of loans, the casualty of a strange marginalising of senior pros by Leicester’s former manager Claude Puel. Frank Lampard, then the Derby manager, personally pushed for his signing and Derby began well, before a freak ankle injury suffered when Nottingham Forest’s goalkeeper landed on him.

That summer in 2019 there were suitors but he couldn’t quit Leicester without one last go at winning his place back under Puel’s successor, Brendan Rodgers. He played in pre-season and Rodgers wanted him in the squad but was frank: Youri Tielemans and Dennis Praet, his big midfield signings, would be ahead in the pecking order.

“I probably should have left earlier but when you’ve a connection like I have with the club you want to give it every chance,” King says. “Brendan was brilliant, though. I appreciated his honesty.” Desperate for time on the pitch to earn himself a berth in Wales’ Euro 2020 squad, he gambled on a loan to Rangers, which didn’t work out.

A stint with Huddersfield Town — which finished on Wednesday — was fruitful. King helped save them from relegation and got a fix of something that became addictive with Leicester where, in ten rollercoaster seasons from his debut aged 18 in 2007-08, there was something to play for every season.

“It’s a special thing, being part of a group, having that feeling of chasing a success, whether it’s a league title or avoiding relegation or a cup,” King says. “It’s an absolute drug and I’m desperate for that feeling again.”

That Leicester journey began with a text from Angie, his mum, one school day at Furze Platt. She had an old Nokia 3310 and was no good with phones so it arrived in capital letters: “LEICESTER WANT TO LOOK AT YOU”.

Released by Chelsea, King interested bigger clubs but just had a feeling. “Chelsea have a song, ‘Over land and sea . . . and Leicester!’ I don’t know why but I always had that in my head. For some reason I saw the name and I was buzzing.” He lived in digs on Aylestone Road, run by Paul and Tracy, with 15 other academy boys. He walked to training until buying a tiny Peugeot 206 he dubbed “the Blue Bullet”.

When he was in the first team and upgrading, he passed the car on to his boot boy and Leicester proved to be like that, especially after Nigel Pearson arrived — a place where relationships are special.

“When we were in the Championship, we used to get a party bus — you’d have the music and lights and if we didn’t have a Tuesday game we’d go out somewhere, Manchester if we were playing up north, London if we were south.” Who was on the bus? “David Nugent. Danny Drinkwater. Kasper Schmeichel. Matty James. Lloyd Dyer. Marcin Wasilewski. Sean St Ledger — he probably booked it.” The day Leicester were promoted to the Premier League in 2014, the squad were round at King’s house. “We didn’t have a game and everyone was watching Gillette Soccer Saturday, yelling as the Championship results came in and spraying champagne in the air.”

Then there were the Christmas excursions: Dublin, Stockholm and, in the Premier League title season, Copenhagen. King, Drinkwater, James and Ben Hamer famously dressed as Mutant Ninja Turtles for that one — and the WhatsApp group the four still have going is named “Turtles”.

“Those are the times you’ll miss as much as anything on the pitch,” King says, “and they help when you’re signing someone. The stories get around and players ask mates, ‘What’s the changing room like there?’ I know Madders [James Maddison] did when he spoke to Chilly [Ben Chilwell] before choosing Leicester.”

His Leicester highlight? “Can I say the whole thing?” From playing at Hereford in League One to Atletico Madrid in a Champions League quarter-final, he loved it all. Unbeatable was scoring and being man of the match against Everton, the day Leicester received the Premier League trophy. After Andrea Bocelli sang, players sat with their families and friends in clusters on the pitch — like the best picnic ever — and he’ll never forget looking over at Jeff Schlupp. “Jeff was one of the lads in digs with me all those years before and to spend that day with people like that: you’ve seen what they had to go through as well, the injuries, the mental battle of everything and then sharing that high . . .

“That’s what brings you back to saying I want to achieve again, I want more. Because I’m not done with it.”

King played 379 times for Leicester, scoring 62 goals but last played for them in 2018. “The past couple of years have been difficult for sure,” he says. “Because I had something so good. I feel I’ve almost done it in reverse: you’re supposed to go to a few clubs when you’re young and then settle but I’ve done it the other way round.”

On loan, “you’re never really part of the club”. He likes “to invest in where I am, become part of the infrastructure,” and is looking forward to signing somewhere permanently. He’d like to go and meet a few managers. “I know how scouting goes. A recruitment guy sits on his computer and goes ‘age — under 26, games — 40 of the last 46’ and my name’s not going to come up.

“But I feel if I sit down [with a manager] and say this happened and I want to achieve this, they might say, ‘Right, actually that’s quite good.’”

On holiday in the south of France, he’ll be watching Leicester v Manchester United. “I’m a Leicester fan, my wife’s a Leicester fan. I’ll be watching with her family, who’ll
be screaming at the TV like they always do.

“I’ll be hoping and praying Leicester qualify for the Champions League. I want that for the team, for the manager, for the fans, for Jon Rudkin [the director of football who signed King].”

“I want it for Top [owner, Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, son of the late Vichai]. I know they really want to win something or get into the top four for Top, and that he wants to do it for his father. He has put so much into the club and deserves it.”

And King wants it for others. For Gaz the chef, Dilly and Sheila the old laundry ladies, Debs and Rach in the office, Macca the kit man, Dave Rennie the physio, and all the others who were dear to him on his journey. “There are too many to name.”

Coaching may be in his future — he’s taking his badges on an FAW course alongside Ashley Williams, Joe Allen and others from Wales’s Euro 2016 squad — but for now it’s all about playing. “I’m 31 and have this idea of keeping going till I’m about 39,” he grins.

“I’d love to play at the King Power again — with another team.”

 

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11 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

Great Andy King article in The Sunday Times

 

The party’s finally over as Andy King leaves Leicester

July 26 2020, The Sunday Times

On Friday, for the first time since he was a bright-eyed boy of 15, Andy King will not be a Leicester City footballer. The first time in 16 years, since he travelled north into the unknown, leaving Furze Platt school in Maidenhead. You would expect anxiety — if you did not know him.

Those who do know “Kingy” will be unsurprised there’s none of that; to learn he’s “excited” about being out of contract and free to find the right club for a new chapter. He has always been a shot of positive energy, a spark both in a team’s engine room and dressing room.

Leicester’s record-scoring midfielder, he’s the only player to win League One, the Championship and Premier League with the same club. “But I want to draw a line under that amazing journey and look forward to the next one,” he says.

What he had at Leicester? “You don’t replace it. You have to re-find it. I’m looking to find a bit of it somewhere else. I want to play for a team hungry to achieve something because I know I can offer that. I have experience of offering it.”

His home is in a gorgeous village near where Leicestershire borders Rutland and he has made his life in this part of the world with Camilla, his wife and The Wolf — their cute and playful cavoodle dog. But change comes around. “From a football point of view, in my head I left [Leicester] 18 months ago,” he says.

That was when he went to Derby County to begin a series of loans, the casualty of a strange marginalising of senior pros by Leicester’s former manager Claude Puel. Frank Lampard, then the Derby manager, personally pushed for his signing and Derby began well, before a freak ankle injury suffered when Nottingham Forest’s goalkeeper landed on him.

That summer in 2019 there were suitors but he couldn’t quit Leicester without one last go at winning his place back under Puel’s successor, Brendan Rodgers. He played in pre-season and Rodgers wanted him in the squad but was frank: Youri Tielemans and Dennis Praet, his big midfield signings, would be ahead in the pecking order.

“I probably should have left earlier but when you’ve a connection like I have with the club you want to give it every chance,” King says. “Brendan was brilliant, though. I appreciated his honesty.” Desperate for time on the pitch to earn himself a berth in Wales’ Euro 2020 squad, he gambled on a loan to Rangers, which didn’t work out.

A stint with Huddersfield Town — which finished on Wednesday — was fruitful. King helped save them from relegation and got a fix of something that became addictive with Leicester where, in ten rollercoaster seasons from his debut aged 18 in 2007-08, there was something to play for every season.

“It’s a special thing, being part of a group, having that feeling of chasing a success, whether it’s a league title or avoiding relegation or a cup,” King says. “It’s an absolute drug and I’m desperate for that feeling again.”

That Leicester journey began with a text from Angie, his mum, one school day at Furze Platt. She had an old Nokia 3310 and was no good with phones so it arrived in capital letters: “LEICESTER WANT TO LOOK AT YOU”.

Released by Chelsea, King interested bigger clubs but just had a feeling. “Chelsea have a song, ‘Over land and sea . . . and Leicester!’ I don’t know why but I always had that in my head. For some reason I saw the name and I was buzzing.” He lived in digs on Aylestone Road, run by Paul and Tracy, with 15 other academy boys. He walked to training until buying a tiny Peugeot 206 he dubbed “the Blue Bullet”.

When he was in the first team and upgrading, he passed the car on to his boot boy and Leicester proved to be like that, especially after Nigel Pearson arrived — a place where relationships are special.

“When we were in the Championship, we used to get a party bus — you’d have the music and lights and if we didn’t have a Tuesday game we’d go out somewhere, Manchester if we were playing up north, London if we were south.” Who was on the bus? “David Nugent. Danny Drinkwater. Kasper Schmeichel. Matty James. Lloyd Dyer. Marcin Wasilewski. Sean St Ledger — he probably booked it.” The day Leicester were promoted to the Premier League in 2014, the squad were round at King’s house. “We didn’t have a game and everyone was watching Gillette Soccer Saturday, yelling as the Championship results came in and spraying champagne in the air.”

Then there were the Christmas excursions: Dublin, Stockholm and, in the Premier League title season, Copenhagen. King, Drinkwater, James and Ben Hamer famously dressed as Mutant Ninja Turtles for that one — and the WhatsApp group the four still have going is named “Turtles”.

“Those are the times you’ll miss as much as anything on the pitch,” King says, “and they help when you’re signing someone. The stories get around and players ask mates, ‘What’s the changing room like there?’ I know Madders [James Maddison] did when he spoke to Chilly [Ben Chilwell] before choosing Leicester.”

His Leicester highlight? “Can I say the whole thing?” From playing at Hereford in League One to Atletico Madrid in a Champions League quarter-final, he loved it all. Unbeatable was scoring and being man of the match against Everton, the day Leicester received the Premier League trophy. After Andrea Bocelli sang, players sat with their families and friends in clusters on the pitch — like the best picnic ever — and he’ll never forget looking over at Jeff Schlupp. “Jeff was one of the lads in digs with me all those years before and to spend that day with people like that: you’ve seen what they had to go through as well, the injuries, the mental battle of everything and then sharing that high . . .

“That’s what brings you back to saying I want to achieve again, I want more. Because I’m not done with it.”

King played 379 times for Leicester, scoring 62 goals but last played for them in 2018. “The past couple of years have been difficult for sure,” he says. “Because I had something so good. I feel I’ve almost done it in reverse: you’re supposed to go to a few clubs when you’re young and then settle but I’ve done it the other way round.”

On loan, “you’re never really part of the club”. He likes “to invest in where I am, become part of the infrastructure,” and is looking forward to signing somewhere permanently. He’d like to go and meet a few managers. “I know how scouting goes. A recruitment guy sits on his computer and goes ‘age — under 26, games — 40 of the last 46’ and my name’s not going to come up.

“But I feel if I sit down [with a manager] and say this happened and I want to achieve this, they might say, ‘Right, actually that’s quite good.’”

On holiday in the south of France, he’ll be watching Leicester v Manchester United. “I’m a Leicester fan, my wife’s a Leicester fan. I’ll be watching with her family, who’ll
be screaming at the TV like they always do.

“I’ll be hoping and praying Leicester qualify for the Champions League. I want that for the team, for the manager, for the fans, for Jon Rudkin [the director of football who signed King].”

“I want it for Top [owner, Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, son of the late Vichai]. I know they really want to win something or get into the top four for Top, and that he wants to do it for his father. He has put so much into the club and deserves it.”

And King wants it for others. For Gaz the chef, Dilly and Sheila the old laundry ladies, Debs and Rach in the office, Macca the kit man, Dave Rennie the physio, and all the others who were dear to him on his journey. “There are too many to name.”

Coaching may be in his future — he’s taking his badges on an FAW course alongside Ashley Williams, Joe Allen and others from Wales’s Euro 2016 squad — but for now it’s all about playing. “I’m 31 and have this idea of keeping going till I’m about 39,” he grins.

“I’d love to play at the King Power again — with another team.”

 

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Nearly cried just reading that, proper good bloke and what this man achieved with us is astonishing. Really hope he finds his place in a decent team for the next few years and becomes their main man, I wouldn't put it past him. 

[Lcfc82]

Really good article. He should drop down to whatever level it takes for him to be a regular starter ( probably league 1 ) and enjoy the final years of his career 

[Arkie Bennett]

Great article, made me tearful with delight. He's already had a career 99% of professional players can only dream of as part of our ascent from League 1 to Champions League, and he still has plenty to offer to a suitable new club. 

[notnow john]

I'll finish it later,got something in my eye.

[eblair]

On 20/06/2020 at 11:19, leicesterseddon said:

 

By your definition anyone who scored a goal in a retrospectively important game is a club legend then?

 

I would agree he played his part in getting us out of League One, but that's the lowest-raked season in the club's entire history.

 

In the Great Escape season, he started 16 games - he scored two goals, with zero assists.

 

In the title-winning season, he started only 9 games - contribution two goals, and two assists.

 

Since signing his FOUR-YEAR contract in the summer of 2016, he has only made the first XI not much more than a dozen times.

 

Any rational assessment shows he's been nothing more than a makeweight for years. I repeat again - he has been stealing a living.

 

you're just a wrong'un

[Costock_Fox]

What a bloke.

[fuchsntf]

I believe he was under used & underrated....

Since he hit the first team,his best und most Dynamic Games were as  either AMidfield, or just behind Front 2...

Ranieri never grasped the attacking Force of Leicester in his 2nd season.

He kept putting Kingy either es an Holding midfielder,or sometimes a 2nd DM,playing far too deep.

Kings strengths was in attacking mode or driving forward...Like against Swansea or Everton,in the title year.I just mention these has 2 examples,he played

more than his share of Top & above avg. Games..

 

Oh !!! once and for all,its not about the assists,they actually as stat that show very little. A Good midfielder will get his ratings in his all round play,Plus more times and not how often he initiatives the move,his assists to the assist,and driving forward. King looked lost,when asked to hold back.

Coleman of Wales also dropped King deeper....Where IMO he was hit & miss....

Person once said, Kingy doesn't hold you the game,hes the One who can push it forward or suddenly turn up in or around the box...

He could of and should of had more games under his belt,and could Wasser quickly see a move...I remember a few times under Ranieri,

& Why we struggled,King would get the ball see the pass,Vardy/Another strikers blocked off, but nobody Else making themselves available who was pushing forward...

Its been a set in virus, since the title...though our Quality of movement has improved,we still Take up or Run into  partners space,or we become static with

everybody only looking at Vardy as the go to when other teammate was available....At The beginning of this season Maddison & Tielemans were able to Move

für ball quicker..1-2s were Working at pace....

We seen under Puel before, where Puel tryed and get the players moving and yes he was right, we lost the intensity...and now similar periods under Rodgers...

Its not a Problem slowing the game down,pass the ball around a bit, but those periods of Holding the ball without intensity or driving forward,have become Too

Long & regular....

When King played AM the movement was there...!!!

 

 

[coolhandfox]

Wow, what a lovely article, amazing career for a great guy.

 

Forever a fox, another Legend leaves who has been a key part in are amazing journey. 

[KingsX]

Thanks for sharing this @funkyrobot !  That's braced me up for today good and proper.  A shame Kingy can't be in the KP for this one.

[Unabomber]

Wow I nearly cried reading that too.

[sm1]

5 hours ago, fuchsntf said:

I believe he was under used & underrated....

Since he hit the first team,his best und most Dynamic Games were as  either AMidfield, or just behind Front 2...

Ranieri never grasped the attacking Force of Leicester in his 2nd season.

He kept putting Kingy either es an Holding midfielder,or sometimes a 2nd DM,playing far too deep.

Kings strengths was in attacking mode or driving forward...Like against Swansea or Everton,in the title year.I just mention these has 2 examples,he played

more than his share of Top & above avg. Games..

 

Oh !!! once and for all,its not about the assists,they actually as stat that show very little. A Good midfielder will get his ratings in his all round play,Plus more times and not how often he initiatives the move,his assists to the assist,and driving forward. King looked lost,when asked to hold back.

Coleman of Wales also dropped King deeper....Where IMO he was hit & miss....

Person once said, Kingy doesn't hold you the game,hes the One who can push it forward or suddenly turn up in or around the box...

He could of and should of had more games under his belt,and could Wasser quickly see a move...I remember a few times under Ranieri,

& Why we struggled,King would get the ball see the pass,Vardy/Another strikers blocked off, but nobody Else making themselves available who was pushing forward...

Its been a set in virus, since the title...though our Quality of movement has improved,we still Take up or Run into  partners space,or we become static with

everybody only looking at Vardy as the go to when other teammate was available....At The beginning of this season Maddison & Tielemans were able to Move

für ball quicker..1-2s were Working at pace....

We seen under Puel before, where Puel tryed and get the players moving and yes he was right, we lost the intensity...and now similar periods under Rodgers...

Its not a Problem slowing the game down,pass the ball around a bit, but those periods of Holding the ball without intensity or driving forward,have become Too

Long & regular....

When King played AM the movement was there...!!!

 

 

Absolutely. Too many judge King on his role late in his career, as a CDM, but that was never his position. Even a world class CAM like Lampard looked shit playing a more defensive role for England. I also have to say that it was really bad taste by the club to force King to give his no10 Jersey to Maddison. I hope he has a very successful time at his next club.