Kasper Schmeichel has been linked with a shock return to former club Leicester City
after frustrating some of his team-mates 📉 at Nice despite joining just a year ago
Kasper
Schmeichel could be set to leave Nice this summer after one year 📉 at the Ligue 1
outfit.
Schmeichel, 36, left Leicester at the end of last season and made the switch to
the 📉 Sir Jim Ratcliffe-owned side in search of a new experience and challenge. The
Denmark international made over 400 appearances for 📉 the Foxes and helped them win the
Premier League and FA Cup during his time in charge.
However, it is safe 📉 to say
Schmeichel's time at Nice hasn't gone to plan. Despite their spending spree last
summer, Nice currently sit ninth 📉 and have nothing to play for. They crashed out of the
Europa Conference League in the quarter-final and are nine 📉 points off the European
places with two games to go.
Schmeichel's adaptation to life in France has not been
straightforward and 📉 his team-mates have grown frustrated with his training methods. The
ex-Foxes goalkeeper manages himself and prefers to run his own 📉 sessions, rather than
join in with the rest of the squad, as he did at Leicester.
According to L'Equipe, his
training 📉 schedule, coupled with a lack of leadership, are raising tensions at the club.
His freedom has annoyed some of his 📉 team-mates, who are having to follow a strict
routine. It is understood Schmeichel also fails to motivate the group despite 📉 his
invaluable experience in the game.
This is despite Schmeichel performing well all
season in between the sticks. The Danish stopper 📉 has conceded a respectable 32 goals in
34 league appearances, keeping 11 clean sheets in the process. They have the
📉 second-meanest defensive record in Ligue 1, behind Lens and better than Paris
Saint-Germain.
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But Schmeichel's future is 📉 firmly in
doubt. His relationship with second-choice 'keeper Marcin Bulka has fractured, and one
will not stay beyond the end 📉 of the season. Bulka has been absent since the end of
October but is set to return to full fitness 📉 in pre-season.
Schmeichel has been linked
with a shock return to Leicester. The Foxes have had their struggles in goal so 📉 far
this season, with Danny Ward struggling after being handed the no.1 shirt by Brendan
Rodgers. Meanwhile, Daniel Iversen has 📉 improved the defence since his introduction, but
it may not be enough to save them.
Leicester head to Newcastle on Monday 📉 night in a
critical game at both ends of the Premier League table. The Foxes sit three points from
safety 📉 but a win will pull them out of the relegation zone on goal difference ahead of
their final day home 📉 game against West Ham.
Speaking on Monday Night Football earlier
this month, Schmeichel said: "I don’t think my chapter with Leicester 📉 will ever end. I
still say we, the club will always be a part [of me].
"I came to Leicester as 📉 a young
man needing a home and needing somewhere to be accepted for who I was and not for what
📉 everyone else thought I should be. Leicester gave me that, and even after 11 years
there’s still something unwritten for 📉 me there."
