Hamza Choudhury

[JimJams]

The only way Hamza should be first choice anything is if we are lucky enough to have a mass exodus of players we want out the door.  Silver linings.

[Finn Claw II]

All comes down to wages for me (he did sign his new contract when we were in the Championship so hopefully not completely mental wages).

 

Fine as a back up player for various positions and to bring off the bench to help close games out. 
 

Skipp, Winks, Hamza + one other assuming Ndiddi and Soumane go. 

[Jazzy_Jeff]

I would be happy with him starting as inverted RB and using Ricardo more sparingly.

 

Getting 30 mins a game out of Ricardo is safer than overplaying him and him missing large chunks of the season 

[MonarchFox]

I love the fact Leicester fans are on here crying out for the club to bring through the younger players.  Yet once the player establishes themselves as a footballer the same fans spend all their time slagging them off

[Richmondfox]

On 30/05/2025 at 18:15, iancognito said:

Not even sure we can say he's grown up. He had those missed training sessions under Rodgers along with Chilwell and being left out the team for 3 months afterwards would normally wobble your head but there were more rumours of him having other disciplinary problems after that. Just when you think he's getting married, having kids and settling down he's caught DUI and gets a driving ban.

 

He'll do his bit in the dead men division for us but we can't be renewing his contract again. He doesn't have the positional awareness or the quality to go any higher and with so many centre mids and RBs already here he's worth whatever we get for him.

I could look past his behaviour if he was a talent and he lifted us out of the muck every game but he’s shit.  One of many donkeys that just needs another pre season/manager/loan/run in the team before he can start doing the basics, yet never seems to happen.
 

[dmayne7]

8 minutes ago, MonarchFox said:

I love the fact Leicester fans are on here crying out for the club to bring through the younger players.  Yet once the player establishes themselves as a footballer the same fans spend all their time slagging them off

Talk about twisting the narrative. Firstly, Hamza has been involved in the first team for the best part of a decade. In that team he hasn't even reached 100 league appearances and been sent out on loan twice to a lower division.

 

Then the other side is that he has a catalogue of off the field misdemeanors, ranging from the ill judged to utterly reckless (and illegal). 

 

I agree that as a collective, we are shocking at giving young players a bit more leeway, as we probably end up judging them too harshly. But in Hamza's case, people actually cut him too much slack. He's never been good enough for what we have been aspiring to (or at least there's always been someone better), his behaviour has been crap and he earns far too much money.

 

He's ok for now with the role he might play but very odd that anyone would actually defend him.

[Guest]

34 minutes ago, MonarchFox said:

I love the fact Leicester fans are on here crying out for the club to bring through the younger players.  Yet once the player establishes themselves as a footballer the same fans spend all their time slagging them off

It's possible to simultaneously hold the beliefs that bringing academy players into the first team is really important and that Hamza Choudhury is not very good

[Anish]

9 hours ago, MonarchFox said:

I love the fact Leicester fans are on here crying out for the club to bring through the younger players.  Yet once the player establishes themselves as a footballer the same fans spend all their time slagging them off

Hardly. Hamza has been praised when he's deserved it (the WBA home game in the Championship a few years ago for example) but has been slated at other times. His off-field issues do not help his cause either. He's a limited player technically and always has been, so not much has changed in that respect. 

 

Other youngsters who have come through the ranks have also merited criticism at times - Chilwell being a prime example for his defensive lapses and being bang average going forward; Barnes for his lack of tracking back; Schlupp for being a poor decision maker. However they have also been supported plenty of times. Andy King is a prime example of being an academy graduate where your theory is completely discredited because he was always supported. 

Edited 27 July 2025 by Anish

[OntarioFox]

Honestly I don't even have an issue with his ability, I'd rather see him in that DMF position than Skipp on merit, but I dream of the day that he leaves so that our social media is rid of his Bengali fan club. They make me yearn for Mahrez' Algerian sycophants... at least they were doing it for a world-class player. 

[CornwallFox]

12 hours ago, MonarchFox said:

I love the fact Leicester fans are on here crying out for the club to bring through the younger players.  Yet once the player establishes themselves as a footballer the same fans spend all their time slagging them off

He's not good enough. That's not slagging him off. He's a solid player, probably lower champ/upper L1 level, but not good enough to ever be in our first 11. I don't dislike him, maybe the opposite actually, but we should be paying low wages to have him as an occasional option.

[Jattdogg]

Think it's fine to have him as a squad player whilst in the championship. Odd start against lower champ teams to rest other players but mainly used for cups games and as a defensive sub.

[Joe90]

Can’t stand the bloke tbf

[two8two]

16 hours ago, dmayne7 said:

Talk about twisting the narrative. Firstly, Hamza has been involved in the first team for the best part of a decade. In that team he hasn't even reached 100 league appearances and been sent out on loan twice to a lower division.

 

Then the other side is that he has a catalogue of off the field misdemeanors, ranging from the ill judged to utterly reckless (and illegal). 

 

I agree that as a collective, we are shocking at giving young players a bit more leeway, as we probably end up judging them too harshly. But in Hamza's case, people actually cut him too much slack. He's never been good enough for what we have been aspiring to (or at least there's always been someone better), his behaviour has been crap and he earns far too much money.

 

He's ok for now with the role he might play but very odd that anyone would actually defend him.

I will always defend a local lad who will give everything on the pitch. Hamza does this.

[LCFCJohn]

17 hours ago, jv1 said:

Bar the obvious West Brom heroics 2 years ago the best game I ever seen him have was actually at centre half - have a feeling it was a cup game under Rodgers at home to someone 

 

second choice right back iv no issues but no chance he starts games in centre mid 

I think it was this game at home to Liverpool, https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59736888.amp

 

We were missing a few, possibly Covid outbreak. Also the game Luke Thomas has Salah in his pocket.

[ALC Fox]

Hamza is a local lad who does give everything on the pitch. He was also a big squad player in our last Championship season and a big part of Sheffield United's squad in the second half of last season in which they accumulated 90 points and were just unfortunate enough that two other teams in the league managed to get 100.

 

We're in the strange position where both Hamza and the club as a whole are good enough for the top end of the Championship but not good enough in the Premier League. It's been often referred to as the Huckerby Zone, but there are a number of clubs and players who have occupied this territory over the years.

 

Choudhury does get found out in the Premier League. If we get back there and want to stay there, his availability will surely be limited.

 

But, whatever we think of his off-field exploits, he'll be a good squad player for us this year and maybe next season depending on how potential points deductions affect us.

[Ed 1]

I’d sooner have a team full of very good premier league players from around the world than a team of football league standard players from Leicester and Leicestershire. 
 

“Local lads” often get a wide berth and another problem the club has created is giving massively inflated contracts to football league standard players like Choudhury, Thomas etc

[Winstonthedog]

Reasonably okay as a squad player ..... he has been out on loan twice recently with no takers ... says everything for me 

[teblin]

9 minutes ago, Winstonthedog said:

Reasonably okay as a squad player ..... he has been out on loan twice recently with no takers ... says everything for me 

I think if Sheff Utd had gone up, they would've signed him.

[st albans fox]

Will do a job for us this season, especially when winks or skipp look like they’d struggle physically with the opposition in that cdm area (assuming we no longer have wilf and bouba ) 

[Chelmofox]

48 minutes ago, Ed 1 said:

I’d sooner have a team full of very good premier league players from around the world than a team of football league standard players from Leicester and Leicestershire. 
 

“Local lads” often get a wide berth and another problem the club has created is giving massively inflated contracts to football league standard players like Choudhury, Thomas etc

Ah - here comes the academy bashing.

[ThorpeAstleyFox]

He's a decent squad player who can fill in a variety of positions. A great option to have on the bench. I dislike him due to his off-field antics but the biggest issue for me (and any interested clubs) is the obscene contract that he was awarded (rumoured to be ~£50k per week).

[alanf0x]

Champ squad player at absolute best. Would personally move on. Loves a smash but can't play a simple 5 yard pass.

 

But another that's on a ridiculous contract as one of the favourites internally. Sigh. 

[Will1981]

He and Monga have been our best players in pre season, Hamza seems like a perfect fit for the way Marti wants to set up as he is by far the best presser of the ball in the squad and the inverted RB role seems made for him in this formation.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

All the "ridiculous contract" comments, how much is he earning now after the relegation pay cut?

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

3 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

All the "ridiculous contract" comments, how much is he earning now after the relegation pay cut?

Not sure but it’s a ridiculous contract.