Club captain Wes Morgan and injured winger Harvey Barnes were among the Leicester City players who violated COVID-19 protocols by attending a party at teammate Ayoze Perez’s home following their loss to Manchester City last weekend, The Athletic has said. understood.
James Maddison, Perez and Hamza Choudhury were dropped from Brendan Rodgers’ squad this week and were absent for today’s 3-2 defeat at West Ham United, while the injured pair Barnes and Morgan also attended the meeting.
It is clear that the day before the Manchester City game last Saturday, April 3, Rodgers met his side and asked them to be extra cautious and professional in the final weeks of the season with Champions League qualification at stake, after defender Caglar Soyuncu was ruled out with COVID-19 contracted while on international service with Turkey.