Leicester legend predicts Foxes to miss out on Champions League again

Former Leicester City and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey doesn’t believe the Foxes will have quite enough to solidify a top four Premier League place again.

Heskey, who is Leicester Women team’s Ambassador/Coach, has predicted that Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City will be dominant in the EPL again this campaign. And furthermore, the onetime England attacker says the Citizens are the likely Champions in 2021/22.

Although, Heskey asserts that Chelsea and Liverpool will be in a three-horse race with Guardiola’s side. But LCFC fans won’t be best pleased with his guess that their club will probably be fifth behind Manchester United. Read more from him at Metro.

To be fair to the ex-Fox, he did have a difficult time separating the east Midlands outfit from the Red Devils. Leicester are an exceptional side, in Foxes of Leicester’s opinion, but due to the glaring quality of the English top-flight it is less likely that Brendan Rodgers’ team will finish fourth comparatively to 2019/20 and 2020/21.

And now that new signing Jannik Vestergaard has also suffered an injury, presumably in training, Leicester are depleted at the back. This is going to make it even more hard for the aforementioned aspiration to materialise.

Could LCFC venture into the transfer market once more for another cover CB? The extent of the Danish international’s issue will be the deciding influence there, with Jonny Evans and Wesley Fofana also sidelined.

Other Leicester City news

On Monday evening, the Foxes travel to London Stadium to meet West Ham United. David Moyes is currently undertaking excellent work with the Hammers; in fact, the Moyes project mirrors the Rodgers project at King Power Stadium.

Thankfully, to contrast the misfortune I spoke about earlier, Leicester have been boosted by the return and possible selection of James Maddison and Timothy Castagne for the West Ham game.