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Gray, Perez threaten Iheanacho’s future at Leicester

The hope of Kelechi Iheanacho playing his first match of the season for Leicester City in the nearest future appears slim if comments made by the Foxes’ assistant manager, Chris Davies are anything to go by.

Perez threatens Iheanacho's future at Leicester
Iheanacho still battling for playing time

Iheanacho is yet to feature in any of the matches played by the Foxes this season despite his fine form during pre-season matches.
He was left out of Brendan Rodgers’ matchday squad against Sheffield United last weekend and in midweek EFL Cup fixture against Newcastle.
According Davies, the manager was trying to balance the quality of players on the bench by replacing the Nigerian international with England international Demarai Gray and he added that summer signing Ayoze Pérez can also be deployed as a striker.
”(There is no) No reason. We try and balance the bench the best we can. Kel has been working well in training, there are no issues at all,” Davies was quoted as saying by Leicester Mercury.
“It’s just a case of recently, we have had Demarai Gray on the bench instead of Kel.
”He (Gray) is a multi-functional attacking player who can play out wide and up front.
“We also have Ayoze (Perez) who can play up front, so we just felt the balance that we have, it was better to stick with what we did on the weekend.”
The former Manchester City striker will hope to be included in the team’s 18-man list when they tackle Bournemouth at the King Power Stadium today.

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