What happened to Leicester City’s 2016 Premier League title winners nearly nine years on
Leicester City’s historic Premier League title triumph is approaching its ninth anniversary, with the squad members who earned the trophy now spread far and wide
It seems like it belongs to a different world, not just a different era, when Claudio Ranieri’s heroes upset the odds to win the Premier League title.
These days winning a Premier League game would be nice.
But as Ruud van Nistelrooy’s team struggles for any kind of positivity and seems destined for an immediate return to the Championship, LeicestershireLive catches up with the Leicester City players who won it all.
Kasper Schmeichel
He’s still City’s first-choice goalkeeper and has now passed a decade at the club, with his tally of 465 appearances the third-highest in the club’s history. During the past few years his reputation has continued to soar, especially because of his heroics with Denmark, helping them to reach the semi-finals at Euro 2020. He is now at Celtic
Hamer, who did not play a single Premier League match during the title-winning campaign, has been turning out in the Championship since leaving City in 2018. He is now at Sheffield Wednesday but has not played this season after joining from Watford.
The Australian, having won back-to-back titles with Chelsea then City, retired in 2016. Now, aged 52, he works as a pundit, and is prominent on British and Australian TV.
Ritchie De Laet
City’s first-choice right-back before Danny Simpson took on the role, De Laet moved on loan to Middlesbrough and ended up winning the Premier League title and earning promotion from the Championship. And he has enjoyed a varied career since leaving City, taking in Aston Villa, Melbourne City, and his hometown club Royal Antwerp. He now plays Masters football.
Danny Simpson
After five years of service, Simpson was released by City in the summer of 2019, with Ricardo Pereira having taken his right-back spot and with James Justin also arriving. He signed for Huddersfield, but left after less than a season, and then teamed up with Nigel Pearson again at Bristol City. He eventually retired last summer and is now trying his hand at boxing.
Wes Morgan
After a superb career, City’s title-winning skipper retired last summer after persistent back trouble, but not before helping the club win the FA Cup, his final touch in professional football a header to clear his lines in the final at Wembley. Now, he’s doing a spot of punditry.
