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#5 Leonardo Ulloa at Leicester City, 2017
Riyad Mahrez isn’t the first Leicester player to go on strike to seek a move – his teammate Leonardo Ulloa attempted to do the same in January 2017, just months after helping the Foxes to their incredible Premier League title triumph in 2015/16.
In this case, Ulloa felt that he wasn’t receiving a fair chance at first-team football, having fallen behind not just Jamie Vardy and Shinji Okazaki, but new signings Ahmed Musa and Islam Slimani in the pecking order.
Ulloa wanted a move to relegation-threatened Sunderland, but with Leicester going through a patch of poor form and looking likely to be in trouble themselves, manager Claudio Ranieri refused to allow the deal.
Ulloa then stated that he felt “betrayed” by Ranieri, and would never play for Leicester again. That wasn’t exactly the case, though, as Ranieri ended up being fired a few weeks later.
Ulloa returned to the Leicester squad in April under new boss Craig Shakespeare, but unfortunately for the Argentine, he didn’t seem to be any higher up the pecking order.
He played just four more times in 2016/17 and despite signing a new contract in the summer, found himself being sent on loan to former club Brighton when new Leicester boss Claude Puel felt he was surplus to requirements.
