Foxes' demise 'sad to see' says title-winning captain Morgan

Wes Morgan said he is "sad and hurt" to see Leicester City drop into League One just a decade after he captained the club to the Premier League title. The 42-year-old former defender retired as a player after helping the Foxes claim the FA Cup in 2021. Just five years later, the club has tumbled into the third tier for just the second time in its 142-year history after suffering successive relegations .

Leicester's fate was sealed just 12 days before the 10-year anniversary of the 5,000-1 title success of 2016. "I'm sad to see where we were as a club when I left, to where it is now," Morgan told BBC East Midlands Today . "I just don't want to see the team in that position and I can understand the fans and how they feel angry about the position they are in.

"It hurts to see where the club is, but at the same time I know football, know that things change and it goes full-circle sometimes. I know the club will be back. " Leicester fans demand change as Rowett urges decisive action Leicester relegated to League One after Hull draw Former Jamaica international Morgan made 324 appearances in his near decade-long stay with the club, having joined the Foxes from East Midlands rivals Nottingham Forest in 2012.

He was part of the team that won promotion as Championship title-winners in 2014, led them in the 'great escape' as they narrowly avoided relegation a year later and then went on to skipper them to the famous Premier League title win. In his time at the club, he featured for the Foxes in the Champions League quarter-finals and played in the Europa League before finally calling it quits after they claimed the FA Cup for the first time. Morgan says he treasures those years of success and feels they "need to be enjoyed" - even now, when the club is at one of the lowest points in its existence.