The final day of the season at Blackburn Rovers allowed Leicester City fans the opportunity to wave goodbye to Ricardo Pereira.
While he will have a Championship relegation on his Foxes CV forevermore, the experienced defender will be remembered more for his Premier League prime for the Midlands outfit, rather than his recently obtained tarnished reputation.
Making 220 appearances for the club, away from the gutting reality of relegation to League One being confirmed, Pereira was visibly emotional at the full-time whistle of the 1-0 Blackburn Rovers win.
While Pereira will be fondly remembered for the most part, Leicester fans will have already forgotten about Dujuan Richards, with the Chelsea loanee hardly ever used by Gary Rowett this season.
Richards will be quickly forgotten about
Leicester fans would likely find it hard to pinpoint the 20-year-old striker if he walked past them down the street.
Indeed, the 14-time Jamaica international - who has scored nine goals for the Chelsea U21s previously - would only feature for a meagre total of 26 minutes for the Foxes, after clinching a late February loan from Stamford Bridge.
He simply didn't gain enough first-team minutes to leave a lasting impression, as he wasn't even named on the substitutes bench for Leicester's final five games of the season.
Amazingly, though, despite Richards blending into the background and offering virtually nothing, there is another loan signing that springs to mind for being even more pointless than swooping in for the Chelsea youngster.
The loan signing who was even more pointless than Richards
Alongside Richards being forgotten about as ever putting pen to paper on a King Power loan switch, Foxes fans would have been hard pressed, at the full-time whistle of the Ewood Park win, to remember anything significant Joe Aribo had offered during this equally unmemorable loan spell.
While Richards' loan acquisition did make sense when it was originally signed off on, as the Foxes could've benefited from an injection of youth up top, instead of relying on the likes of both Patson Daka and Jordan Ayew to come good, adding Aribo to their midfield ranks felt pretty redundant.
Indeed, the 34-time Nigeria international would join a camp already overloaded with central midfield talent when he swapped Southampton for the King Power in January, with faces such as Oliver Skipp, Harry Winks, and Hamza Choudhury already present as experienced Championship performers in the middle of the park, like himself.
We’ve signed Joe Aribo from Southampton on loan until the end of the season, subject to league approval 🤝
— Leicester City (@LCFC) February 2, 2026
On top of those seasoned servants named, making the central midfield spots bloated, the Foxes - by landing Aribo - also put the likes of Louis Page's development on hold in the process, by going after the forgettable signature of the 29-year-old.
It would result in Aribo only being handed 241 minutes of action, with nothing of note to look back on from the ex-Rangers star's short-term detour to the Midlands.
At least Richards looked lively in one cameo against Sheffield Wednesday, if you want to hang onto some positives involving the 20-year-old attacker.
Whereas Aribo really did just take up a space in the Leicester squad for the sake of it, with Leicester needing to utilise the loan market much more effectively now, having dropped down to League One, a division where loan talents are known to flourish before going on to make the grade elsewhere.
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