Former Premier League winners ‘charging own players £80 to sleep at own training ground’ after dramatic slump

LEICESTER CITY are reportedly charging their own players £80 to sleep at their training ground. Just ten years ago, the Foxes were beginning their maiden Champions League campaign. Leicester City’s training ground has a hotel on site Credit: Getty The Foxes players are reportedly being charged £80 per night to stay over Credit: Shutterstock Editorial They went on to reach the quarter-finals of Europe’s elite competition, the year after defying 5,000-1 odds to be crowned Premier League winners. Now, underperforming overpaid players, financial mismanagement, inadequate leadership and outrage from supporters have conspired, with devastating consequences. Sign up for the Football newsletter Thank you! Leicester have been relegated in three of the last four years, including back-to-back drops sending them spiralling from the Premier League to League One. And, in another humiliating blow, a report claims the club are now forcing their own squad members to pay in order to stay over at the training ground. The Foxes spent £100million on their state-of-the-art Seagrave centre, complete with a golf course and on-site hotel. But, according to talkSPORT, Leicester players must stump up cash to make use of the bedrooms. And it is at a nightly rate of £80. The news comes 18 months after former Foxes boss Ruud van Nistelrooy axed Harry Winks when the midfielder refused to spend one night a week at the training ground despite living 100 miles away. Most read in Football CASINO SPECIAL – BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS The Seagrave centre cost £100m to build Credit: Getty Harry Winks refused to stay over at Seagrave when Ruud van Nistelrooy was boss Credit: Getty Leicester find themselves in the mire financially, struggling with debts and borrowing large amounts. The owners – led by chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha – have put the football club up for sale. Russell Martin’s side are 13th in League One with two wins, two draws and two defeats so far in just their second season ever in the third tier. Comment now