Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha gave Leicester players a dressing down this week (Image: Getty)
Leicester City owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha tore into Foxes players in a crisis meeting at the club’s Seagrave training ground earlier this week, according to reports.
A turbulent weekend at the King Power Stadium saw Leicester lose at home to , resulting in Steve Cooper being sacked just 12 games into his reign. Hours before his dismissal, and in the wake of the defeat, Leicester players were spotted partying in Copenhagen.
The Christmas get-together was signed off by Cooper in advance, but it brought criticism from fans, who were fresh from witnessing a fifth consecutive winless match.
Srivaddhanaprabha was not impressed either. According to , the Thai businessman confronted the whole squad and accused them of letting Cooper down by performing poorly since their promotion back to the top flight.
He is also understood to be ‘bitterly disappointed’ by the footage of their Danish night out on the town, which featured players laughing at a sign reading “ENZO I MISS U”, seemingly in reference to former Leicester manager .
The Foxes owner wants to protect Leicester’s image as a ‘family club’, which was nurtured by his late father Khun Vichai, who tragically died in a 2018 helicopter crash and has a statue outside the King Power Stadium.
Both experienced and young players are said to have accepted the telling-off and listened in silence as Srivaddhanaprabha voiced his concerns in a ‘measured’ way.
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