Leicester City are hemorrhaging money with this player.
Leicester City didn’t stand a chance in the Premier League last season, finishing their return campaign to the English top flight in 18th, 13 points behind Tottenham Hotspur in the last safe position in the league table.
There were many reasons for Leicester’s failure to achieve their most important goal of safety, but the biggest reason was how badly their most expensive signings and most highly paid players flopped in the 2024/25 season.
No player epitomized this level of disappointment more profoundly than experienced center midfielder Harry Winks. Despite earning £4.68 million last season (or £90,000 per week), Winks played like a sub-professional footballer and seemed to act like one too, falling out with both managers, Steve Cooper and Ruud van Nistelrooy, during the season.
It got so bad with Winks that Van Nistelrooy even chopped the 29-year-old off his squad entirely after his final tussle with the Englishman, as Winks refused to compromise on a very basic request to lodge closer to the facilities so he didn’t have to commute 100 miles to Leicester.
Only Jamie Vardy made more money
Causing problems like that is bad enough, but Winks’s play on the pitch was even worse. In 17 starts last season around more injury woes, Winks was a complete failure and statistically one of the worst midfielders in the Premier League.
