Harry Winks Axed

[kingpower]

 

[WoodyFox]

First good decision Ruud! 

[HankMarvin]

Little divas.

 

The blokes a gimp get rid.

 

Bit late for RVN dead man walking hopefully 

[FrankieADZ]

Ruud van Nistelrooy has axed Harry Winks from his Leicester City squad after the midfielder refused to compromise on his 100-mile commute.

Van Nistelrooy was involved in a confrontation with Winks over the international break after he declined a request to stay overnight one day a week at Leicester’s training ground.

It is understood that the former England international is one of three senior players to travel over 90 miles a day to the Seagrave complex in North Leicestershire.

With Van Nistelrooy battling to instil discipline at the Premier League strugglers, his plea for Winks to stay overnight at the training ground fell flat.

Winks, a £10 million signing from Tottenham in July 2023, is understood to have his own private reasons for commuting every day to training.

Former Leicester manager Enzo Maresca also allowed the midfielder to travel from his Hertfordshire base without any issues.

Yet Van Nistelrooy reacted angrily to what he perceived as indiscipline and excluded Winks from his squad for Wednesday night’s match at Manchester City.

It is uncertain whether the 29 year old will be available for Monday night’s game against Newcastle, but sources have suggested the row with Van Nistelrooy was heated.

Leicester’s £100 million training ground is renowned as one of the best in the country, with outstanding facilities, a nine-hole golf course and hotel accommodation.

This latest development will raise further scrutiny on Leicester’s squad after it emerged defender Jannik Vestergaard recently brought his dog to the training ground.

Telegraph Sport revealed that the Denmark international was given permission to bring in his pet on this one occasion because his family in London were away and there was no one to care for it.

Vestergaard has not appeared in any of the Leicester squads since the 2-0 defeat at West Ham on February 27.

Van Nistelrooy is coming under increasing pressure after suffering 14 defeats in the last 15 league matches.

The 2-0 defeat at Manchester City leaves Leicester second-bottom and 12 points adrift of safety with a poor goal difference.

Before the row with Winks emerged, he had spoken of his determination to set high standards at the club.

He said: “One of the first things I looked at when I arrived was to see how things are done here, and then apply my standards in this environment.

“In general, I’ve tried to increase the standards over the past three months. You have to take full advantage of these facilities. That is where the standards come in.

“It’s a perfect place to increase the standards as high as I feel is possible to run a club that wants to be in the Premier League. People have to get used to it. In the short term, you won’t see the effects of it, but in the long term it will pay off.”

[AKCJ]

About time the club stood up to players treating the City as a nuisance. 

 

I say you either live here and take in the culture of Leicester/Leicestershire and it's people or **** off if it's not up to scratch.

 

Sick of people commuting from London or Manchester. People wonder why players look like they don't care or don't want to be here and it's because the simple fact of the matter is they don't care and they don't want to be here.

[AjcW]

You can all look at the positives but at the end of the day this is man baby falls out with man baby. Simple as that 

[ClaphamFox]

I’m with Ruud on this one.

[HankMarvin]

Stick them in a travel lodge then they would really have something to whinge about. Not a state of the art training ground.

 

RVN pissing in the wind 4 months on 

[GrobyLCFC31]

Interesting 

Edited 3 April by GrobyLCFC31

[Sol thewall Bamba]

With Ruud here, Winks is an overpaid softy, exactly what's wrong with us.

[HankMarvin]

Full story is he didn’t want the room because, Vestergards dog only checked out that morning 

[Mike Oxlong]

With all the pampering that goes on at Seagrave if the headline had been Harry Winks Waxed I wouldn’t have been surprised at all 

[winteriscoming]

Agree completely with Ruud but this will ultimately cost him as player power always wins. 

[teblin]

Didn’t cooper have issues with him too? 

[don_danbury]

meh. they're both shit

[kingpower]

Winks’ performances have in no way justified any special privileges…soft Spursy t*at

 

we can only hope that one of the promoted teams takes him off us in the next window 

[jonny_wright]

Winks & Skipp can p*ss off back to north London, hate the pair of them 

[st albans fox]

If winks has always been allowed to commute (as has been the case case with many players over the years) then I wonder why ruud felt the need to change that?  Unless he’d been late for training on more than one occasion or refused to be involved in some group bonding sessions I can’t really see why ???

[StanSP]

Would love to know the reasons why Winks couldn't stay just one night a week. 

 

I wonder if Winks has been late to training sometimes because of the commute. 

 

On the face of it it's a fair request. Hardly earth-shattering to be asked to stay overnight somewhere for 1 night a week. 

 

About time the prima donnas are brought down a peg or two. 

[Aleksz]

2 minutes ago, jonny_wright said:

Winks & Skipp can p*ss off back to north London, hate the pair of them 

Skipp’s literally done nothing wrong Just a victim of his price tag.

[RYM]

Why we hammering Winks?

 

Maybe he just misses Enzo y'know....

[HankMarvin]

1 minute ago, Aleksz said:

Skipp’s literally done nothing

 

[AKCJ]

1 minute ago, Aleksz said:

Skipp’s literally done nothing wrong Just a victim of his price tag.

He's dogshit.

[MattFox]

Should have been doing this day one not 6 months into the job 

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

Would love to know the reasons why Winks couldn't stay just one night a week. 

 

I wonder if Winks has been late to training sometimes because of the commute. 

 

On the face of it it's a fair request. Hardly earth-shattering to be asked to stay overnight somewhere for 1 night a week. 

 

About time the prima donnas are brought down a peg or two. 

Players will stay away with the team for a night before away games. 
the article seems to hint that winks has a specific reason for wanting to be at home in south Herts whenever possible.