Harry Winks

[Pita]

He does not seem to want to play for Leicester so just get rid asap

[ourla]

3 minutes ago, Pita said:

He does not seem to want to play for Leicester so just get rid asap

Is he the only one though?

 

We should be looking at why he (and others) don't want to play for Leicester.

[kenny]

16 minutes ago, BlueApple said:

I don't quite understand what he's so upset about, unless I've missed something. He made the squad / club look daft when he held up that sign for Enzo and he had a pretty public falling out with Ruud, yet I've not heard Leicester fans turn on him or anything along those lines, if anything, he's got away with a lot! 

Yet he's moping around like we've been trying to hound him out the club, really don't understand it, particularly how popular he was in the promotion season, unless he's fallen out with Marti Cifuentes as well. 

 

Also factoring in that he is almost certainly on the biggest contract of his career so far and will not get anything like this salary again. He hasn't shown to the sort of clubs he believes he should play for that he is worth signing.

 

It's weird that Leicester are effectively the pinnacle of his financial earnings yet he treats the club with such disdain. He could easily get another 2-3 years at £90k pw out of the idiots in charge as vesty has done, but just can't see it.

 

He is probably dim as well as having delusions of grandeur.

[Happy Fox]

1 minute ago, ourla said:

Is he the only one though?

 

We should be looking at why he (and others) don't want to play for Leicester.

 

All our "best players" are leaving? why stick around? we will be hit with a points deduction which would make it difficult to be in the playoff picture. Players are ambitious they don't want to stick around in the championship if the club is lacking ambition which is the case with us atm.

[em9999]

4 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

 

All our "best players" are leaving? why stick around? we will be hit with a points deduction which would make it difficult to be in the playoff picture. Players are ambitious they don't want to stick around in the championship if the club is lacking ambition which is the case with us atm.

This is true but it would be nice if the players didn't act like spoilt children 

 

Isak of Newcastle is a case in point 

 

Absolutely disgusting the way players act these days 

Edited 19 August 2025 by em9999

[Happy Fox]

Just now, em9999 said:

This is true but it would be nice if the players didn't act like spoilt children 

 

Isak of Newcastle is a case in point 

 

Absolutely disgusting the way players act these days 

 

Don't disagree with you but it comes with the territory, our disdain should be at the ownership for allowing this culture of entitlement to foster and also complete negligence.

[em9999]

Just now, Happy Fox said:

 

Don't disagree with you but it comes with the territory, our disdain should be at the ownership for allowing this culture of entitlement to foster and also complete negligence.

Absolutely it doesn't help 

[inckley fox]

19 hours ago, st albans fox said:

I thought the problem atm is with the fans who criticised him over last season ??  Not aware he has a problem with marti.  He may have an issue with the club if they’ve blocked a move …..

I don't know what his problem is this time. Is he angry with the fans for giving him some stick? The club for failing to support him in the argument with Ruud? Or even the club for reprimanding those players who were pictured on the night of Cooper's sacking? We could speculate all day long.

 

But, to reiterate, his attitude is evidently a problem right now, unless we take the view that all this sullen behaviour is totally normal and not at all emblematic of the wider negative mood around the club. Maybe it is indeed important not to jump the gun - if we hear that he's had personal issues which explain this apparent negativity, then that would change everything. But equally it would be an almighty surprise and very hard to believe if we were to hear that the manager is untroubled by his demeanour right now. The overwhelmingly obvious conclusion to draw is that he's unhappy at the club and is letting everyone know.

 

So that constitutes a Harry Winks-shaped problem for the manager. And in that regard, Cifuentes is the third consecutive manager - almost certainly - to have had one. That stands even if the two of them get on wonderfully, because lots of managers have friendly relationships with players whose behaviour nonetheless causes them serious issues.

 

To watch and follow City at the moment, three things strike you most: the inactivity of the board, the growing hostility of the fans, and the poor attitude/application of the players. Winks is the most visible example of the latter, and it's very hard to defend someone for whom you could say exactly the same under the last manager, and the one before him. Still being better than Skipp or Soumare doesn't change that, nor do the exact rights and wrongs of Winks' displeasure with the club now, six months ago, or a few months before that. Personally, I don't think that the positive contribution on the pitch of these unhappy players is a counterbalance to the negative impact.

[Mapperleyfox]

24 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

 

All our "best players" are leaving? why stick around? we will be hit with a points deduction which would make it difficult to be in the playoff picture. Players are ambitious they don't want to stick around in the championship if the club is lacking ambition which is the case with us atm.

I hate to break this to you but these arsewipes got us into this mess...

[Tommy G]

35 minutes ago, Pita said:

He does not seem to want to play for Leicester so just get rid asap

If you applied that logic you'd be getting rid of the majority of the first team squad.

 

Manager needs to do a job here to get him back on side and firing on all cylinders. 

[Happy Fox]

Just now, Mapperleyfox said:

I hate to break this to you but these arsewipes got us into this mess...

 

The likes of Ndidi? Hermansen? come on man!, it's our ownership that have got us into this mess, with their hiring of Cooper / RVN.. to replace Maresca, and previously for allowing Brendan to stay longer than he should have.

[Mapperleyfox]

...agree it's not just the players but they've played a significant part and to let them off the hook is ridiculous, especially given the way some of them are behaving.

 

I will concede it's not all the players too, however the bad apples can have a big influence. If 2-3 players in the team don't put it in the rest all suffer. It's the same formula from Sunday league all the way up....

[BeaumontFox]

50 minutes ago, Pita said:

He does not seem to want to play for Leicester so just get rid asap

He’s an arrogant arsewipe that thinks he’s better than he is. Still w@nking over memories of Enzo, who probably doesn’t miss him at all.

Edited 19 August 2025 by BeaumontFox

[Arriba Los Zorros]

The best thing is for Marti to do his job, placate Harry and get him playing. If an offer comes in then take it and replace him but assuming it doesn't we need him playing and putting in a shift for the rest of the season or January at least.

[Pita]

57 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

If you applied that logic you'd be getting rid of the majority of the first team squad.

 

Manager needs to do a job here to get him back on side and firing on all cylinders. 

Can’t see that happening with his attitude 

[PhillippaT]

Do we think Harry needs-more-than-forty Winks?

[Tomo260]

He's obviously unhappy, either with fans, board, staff, or a mixture of it all.

 

He's our best midfielder so I want him to stay and perform. However there's no need to publicly sulk like he does.

 

When you're paid 90k a week 99.9% of us could only dream of, at least be professional and civil for the odd 90 mins, not fair on the majority of fans who don't boo or slate you on media

[Dan]

Has he gone yet?

[Dan]

4 hours ago, Tommy G said:

If you applied that logic you'd be getting rid of the majority of the first team squad.

 

Manager needs to do a job here to get him back on side and firing on all cylinders. 

I'd agree with this if it was September but with a year left on his deal it suits us to move him on. Fed up of players going for nothing.

[TheLittleBigMan]

3 hours ago, PhillippaT said:

Do we think Harry needs-more-than-forty Winks? Wanks? 

Fixed.

[dayday]

I would sooner play somebody that actually cares 

 

Sick of these players being unprofessional 

 

Saturdays game will tell us a lot with body language after what’s gone on since the Preston game 

[Tommy G]

1 hour ago, Dan said:

I'd agree with this if it was September but with a year left on his deal it suits us to move him on. Fed up of players going for nothing.

A good analogy if we could replace him with something better for the kind of butters fee we would get for him, a few million max - and Rudkin would have to be capable of getting said replacement 

[Matt_Lcfc]

Bin this fake tanning waster off. There is such a persistent narrative on him that is not aligned with his contribution. Minus a good spell between August 23 and March 24, and the occasional isolated moment, his impact has been limited. He isn’t alone in this department. However, he is only rated so highly because Soumare and Skipp are completely useless. I have no doubt that he is a good footballer at this level, but he underpins everything wrong with us as a club right now. Spent all summer (unsuccessfully) pushing for a move and struts off at full time and fails to show any recognition to the travelling support. He is symptomatic of Seagrave Spa. I am anticipating the departure of these players and hope that they will encounter the level of accountability that is clearly absent at Leicester City. We might be one of the only institutions where consistent underperformance and lack of effort is actually met with reward, not tangible consequences.

Edited 19 August 2025 by Matt_Lcfc

[apollo4joe]

We are back in 22/23 territory with Winks. I think (i could be wrong) he's a player who doesnt want to be here anymore, but instead of offering him out for a cut price this club's management will go to their graves asking for the exact money they want (which usually is over-inlfated, hence we we rarely sell anyone other than 'key' players).

 

And you know what, if Winks doesn't want to be that's FINE, but we're the dumb s**ts who insists he stays around for another season.

 

How many players are out of contract this summer? Similar number to 22/23 i assume and in the same position (Ambivilent to playing for Leicester City)???

 

In 3 years with 2 relegation, the club has quite literally not learnt one lesson from their mistakes. It's sad, but nothing will change until either Top wakes up or he sells

Edited 19 August 2025 by apollo4joe

[Gamble92]

Him and his agent will be doing all they can to make clubs believe the fall out with Ruud meant he had little to do with our relegation. 

 

He won't be doing himself any favours sulking around like he is. Not a chance he finds a club willing to pay him anything like what we are.