{"id":657450,"date":"2025-07-29T14:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=657450"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:39:08","slug":"leicester-city-marti-cifuentes-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/29\/leicester-city-marti-cifuentes-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Marti Cifuentes Plans Leicester Shake-Up Ahead of Championship Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to relegation from the Premier League, Leicester City return to the Championship with a strong squad. International stars, Wonderkids, and much more make up the ranks; therefore, it comes as no surprise that Marti Cifuentes would like to reduce the numbers. Alongside this, it would also allow him to bring in his <\/span>own<\/span> profiles, more suited to his system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leicester City To Reduce Squad To Make Transfers<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Marti Cifuentes: A Deeper Leicester City Squad<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

As reported by<\/span>\u00a0Jordan Blackwell<\/span><\/a>, Leicester need players to make way before bringing in new arrivals.\u00a0<\/span>Bilal El Khannouss<\/span><\/a>, Conor Coady and Mads Hermansen are already players facing links with moves away.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, with the season approaching, Cifuentes wants to trim the squad. He has already used 30 different players over his three pre-season friendlies against ZTE, Zatarby and Koln. Academy players have been at the forefront of this, and could be the reason for removing the experienced players. <\/span>Louis Page, Jeremy Monga and others have put together impressive games this summer<\/span>, <\/span>and are close to the first team.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read More<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0<\/span>Top Five Most Expensive Leicester City Wingers of All Time As Wide-Men Become Focus Under Cifuentes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Although a focus on a smaller squad is clear, the Foxes did still make their first deal of the summer as Asmir Begovic arrived. The Bosnian is the first transfer and <\/span>arrives<\/span> as an experienced backup to Jakub Stolarczyk.<\/span><\/p>\n

How Does This Affect Leicester City<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The need to sell before spending comes as no surprise, especially given the quality the Foxes possess. Even though it wasn’t enough to mount a fight for survival, it’s a squad with players who won the league just two years ago. Therefore, keeping players such as Ricardo Pereira or Harry Winks, who excelled last time, should leave City in <\/span>contention<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read More<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0<\/span>Leicester City Transfer Update Following the Arrival of Marti Cifuentes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Cifuentes will also want his <\/span>own<\/span> profiles to bolster the squad even more. For example, a new striker is necessary due to the departure of Jamie Vardy and poor performances from Patson Daka. A more attacking midfielder is also a priority, as no one possesses the output that Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall provided last time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Time will only tell as to who arrives and departs, but the club need solutions before a ball is kicked. The season opener against\u00a0\u00a0Sheffield Wednesday is just 12 days away, and getting off to a strong start is crucial.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due to relegation from the Premier League, Leicester City return to the Championship with a strong squad. International stars, Wonderkids, and much more make up the ranks; therefore, it comes as no surprise that Marti Cifuentes would like to reduce the numbers. Alongside this, it would also allow him to bring in his own profiles, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5391,"featured_media":629810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,33,32],"tags":[32512,2964,31857],"class_list":["post-657450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leicester-city","category-championship","category-league-football","tag-bilal-el-khannouss","tag-conor-coady","tag-marti-cifuentes"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657460,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657450\/revisions\/657460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}