Latest Leicester City news from LeicestershireLive as Premier League champion Danny Simpson admits he was ‘devastated’ to see the club so close to his heart be relegated to the Championship
Leicester City hero Danny Simpson was “devastated” as he watched the club get relegated with some of City’s young players.
Simpson spent the weekend in Hong Kong at the annual Soccer Sevens tournament, where he represented Kowloon Cricket Club in this year’s edition. Also competing were City’s under-21s, and the Premier League winner watched the final day unfold with them.
The full-back, who played over 130 games for City between 2014 and 2019, has spoken about his reaction to “my team” being relegated, as well as what he thinks must happen next as “we have to” bounce back to the Premier League quickly.
“Everything was going great until Everton scored, and it was a bit deflating,” Simpson told the South China Morning Post. “I was devastated. I was watching it in the [Hong Kong Football Club] bar with the Leicester team that came here and played. We were all together because I know them.
“At half-time, everything looked promising, but that’s football. In the last 20 minutes, I was a Bournemouth fan, but it wasn’t meant to be. They played really well but it was too little, too late.
“It’s my good friends, my team. It’s close to my heart. It’s disappointing and a shame for everyone connected to the club that seven years after we won the title we’re in the Championship, but we have to bounce back.
“There will have to be a big reset, I think everyone knows that. It’s not going to be easy. I signed for Newcastle when they came down. It was the same for them, they had a big reset. You’ve got to have the right group of players that want to get out of the league, because the Championship is not easy, and people who think it is will get found out.
“There’s going to be a lot of new players coming in, and a lot left. They still don’t know who the manager is. There’s going to be a lot of newspaper talk with players, and clubs that want them. There are going to have to be decisions made pretty quickly.
“So there’s a lot to do. But if anyone can do it, it’s Leicester, they’ve proved that over the years. I hope things get done quickly and they’re ready to fight and get back into the Premier League where they belong.
“It has to happen straight away. I’ve done it with Newcastle. I did it with QPR. We went down and came straight back up. You have to start the games as you mean to go on and get straight back up. Even just from a finance point of view as well as a football point of view, Leicester should be in the Premier League.”
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