Maddison explained why he shouldn't have the 'boldness' to criticize his Leicester team-mates for lack of 'hunger'

Simon Jordan has slammed James Maddison after the Leicester star attacked his teammates for their lack of hunger against Fulham on Monday.

In a crucial clash for the Foxes, they conceded five at Craven Cottage to leave them in the relegation zone, two points from safety.

After the match, Maddison - who will almost certainly leave Leicester whether he stays in the Premier League or joins the Championship - made a telling admission.

He told Match of the Day: "It hurts. Big game for us and we weren't there.

"We didn't start the game well enough. We weren't hungry enough to want to win the game. We have to get the basics right."

"Five goals conceded, what do you think?" He said when asked if defense was a concern. We have players who can score goals, we have threat and creativity, we scored three goals today.

"We can't defend like we did, that's why we are where we are, but it's not just the defense, it's the team. You defend as a team. The team must be tight and that also comes from the front.

"We weren't aggressive enough. They played through us. They scored three goals in the first half and that left them with too much to do."

The 26-year-old later provided an explanation for his comments which he said were 'taken out of context'.

But Jordan thinks that explanation didn't change the meaning of what he said and doesn't think Maddison is in a position to criticize his teammates.

Jordan told talkSPORT: "We're talking about appetite and hunger, if you're not ready to win your first battles and you win the duels and you're ahead, then you're not playing for the shirt as you should because those are the default settings.

"Ability and adversity, challengers and mistakes, these are things that happen that you cannot legislate for. But the only thing in life you can control is your own reaction to things in your life. your mind and their approach to the game.

"Talk about the hunger side of things that was extrapolated to a lack of desire and then he turns around and says 'what I meant really was that we weren't competitive enough in our duels, we didn't win our battles, 'well it's the same thing. It's the same thing just dressed up in a more palatable perspective.

“Hunger is extrapolated until there is no craving but the craving that is needed to meet expectations of doing your best is the same thing but in a different form. So he doesn't come out from behind the eight ball.

“He will be one of the first players to take the train away from Leicester elsewhere. gone."

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