It’s almost nine years since Leicester City achieved the unthinkable by winning the Premier League title in 2016.
The players from Leicester’s title-winning squad have all since gone on completely different paths while Jamie Vardy is the only survivor from that team.
Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kante are playing out in the Saudi Arabia, while just last year midfielder Danny Drinkwater was working on a building site.
Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel is still playing for Celtic at the age of 38 and others, notably Robert Huth, Wes Morgan and Shinji Okazaki have retired altogether.
One former Leicester star, meanwhile, is currently pushing for promotion out of League One with Wrexham.
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Matty James is starring at Wrexham under Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds
That player is Matty James, who signed from Manchester United in 2012 and remained at the King Power Stadium till his departure in 2021.
Across his nine years at the club, James only made 117 appearances in a Leicester jersey as he suffered from multiple career-threatening injuries.
One of those was an ACL injury, sustained in May 2015, which ruled him out of action for nine months and saw him miss the whole title-winning campaign.
It was mixed emotions for the midfielder, who was delighted that his teammates achieved something incredible but was sad that injury denied him the chance to play his part.
“I was going home thinking: ‘What is going on here? The club is going to win the Premier League and I’m nowhere near it’,” James recalled via The Guardian in 2017. “It wasn’t that I didn’t want it to happen. But it was hard because I felt like I was on a rollercoaster going all the way down and the club was going in the opposite direction.”
In the end, the 33-year-old experienced two loans at Barnsley and Coventry City before joining Bristol City on a three-year deal in 2021.
He was then released by the Robins last summer and snapped up by Wrexham on a free transfer, where he’s since made 23 appearances in all competitions.
Leicester City could face James next season
Captured by Hollywood owners Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds, James is part of a project that is following an upward trajectory while Leicester are on a downward spiral.
Wrexham are gunning for a third successive promotion as they’re currently level on points with the automatic promotion places in League One.
Meanwhile, the Foxes are heading in the opposite direction, with a relegation to the Championship seemingly nailed on.
| Position | Team | Played MP | Won W | Drawn D | Lost L | For GF | Against GA | Diff GD | Points Pts |
| 17 |  WolvesWolves | 28 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 38 | 57 | -19 | 23 |
| 18 |  IpswichIpswich | 28 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 58 | -32 | 17 |
| 19 |  LeicesterLeicester | 28 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 25 | 62 | -37 | 17 |
| 20 |  SouthamptonSouthampton | 28 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 20 | 68 | -48 | 9 |
Leicester are currently six points from safety and it would take a miracle to claw back that deficit and retain their Premier League status.
Indeed, should Wrexham achieve promotion and Leicester suffer relegation, James could meet his former club next season in the second tier.