What Andy King told Ruud van Nistelrooy and Leicester City squad in ‘valuable’ message..
The midfielder, who scored the goal that kicked off the great escape, has been promoted to van Nistelrooy’s first-team coaching staff and has been giving words of wisdom..
Leicester City’s great escape can inspire the current squad in their relegation fight but Ruud van Nistelrooy and Andy King are keen the players know the unlikely success did not “come out of the blue”.
City pulled off a miraculous survival campaign 10 years ago when they overturned a seven-point gap to safety, Nigel Pearson’s side claiming seven wins in their final nine matches.
t’s a season to draw upon as City again fight the drop, heading into Friday’s fixture against Brentford (8pm kick-off) sitting second from bottom, two points off 17th.
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King, who has just been promoted to first-team coach under van Nistelrooy, kicked off the exceptional run of form in 2014-15 with a late winner over West Ham, and has spoken to the current squad about that campaign.
However, he was keen to stress that those wins did not emerge from thin air. Rather, they were the results of months of hard work where City were not getting the reward for their performances.
Asked if he could draw on King’s lessons of the 14-15 season, van Nistelrooy said: “Of course. Those experiences are the things we can use as examples.
You can lose a certain amount of games but there’s always, in football, a turnaround if you keep working and if you keep preparing yourselves.
“That’s also his message. That turnaround didn’t come out of the blue. That turnaround was sticking to the plan, working, believing.
