Maddison 'will be one of the first' to leave Leicester with Jordan unimpressed by comments

The midfielder is a part of the Foxes' side who are currently embroiled in a relegation battle with their 5-3 defeat at Fulham seeing them drop in the bottom three of the Premier League.

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Despite some decent performances on an individual level, Leicester have been accused of lacking hunger and aggression by the England international following their defeat at Craven Cottage on Monday.

He said: "Big game for us and we were not at it. We were not hungry enough to want to win the game. We need to do the basics well. We were not aggressive enough."

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Maddison then clarified his comments on social media, saying: "What is wrong with social media? Say one thing in an interview straight after a game and it gets taken way out of context.

"When I say not hungry enough I mean aggressive and on the front foot in duels, not us wanting to win or realising the importance.

"We were not good enough today and we've only got ourselves to blame and apologise for that.

"But as someone who sees the work we are doing every single day to try and put this right, it's not down to attitude or application. We will keep going until the very end."

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Jordan wasn't impressed with Maddison's comments and suggested that the end is near for the 26-year-old at Leicester.

Speaking on talkSPORT, Jordan said: "He will be one of the first players on the train away from Leicester to somewhere else. Don't you have the audacity to come on and talk about a lack of hunger or not winning duels because you will be gone."

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Pointing out what he saw as hypocrisy in Maddison's post about his quotes being taken out of context, Jordan went on: "It's the same thing, isn't it?

"We're talking about appetite and hunger - if you're not prepared to win your first battles and win the duels and be on the front foot then you're not playing for the shirt in the way you should because those are the default settings: ability, adversity, challenges and mistakes, those are things that happen that you can't legislate for.

"The one thing in life that you can control is your own reaction to things and their approach to the game - talk about the hunger side of things which has been extrapolated to a lack of desire and then he says, 'what I meant to say is that we weren't competitive enough in our duels, we didn't win our battles - that's the same thing.

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"It's the same thing just dressed up in a more palatable perspective. Hunger gets extrapolated up to a lack of desire, but the desire that's required to meet the expectations of winning your duels, winning your battles and putting your best foot forward. It's the same thing in a different guise."