Newcastle United’s Ayoze Perez has completed his move to Leicester City.
Newcastle United forward Ayoze Perez has left the club today, joining Premier League rivals Leicester City – and he has explained his move on their official website.
The Magpies served up bad news last week by confirming that Rafael Benitez has left the club, having failed to agree a new deal to stay on as manager.
Now, the situation has got even worse, as the club have confirmed that attacker Perez has now left the club after Leicester activated his release clause.
It’s unclear just how much Leicester have paid for Perez, but they’ve added another attacking option to aid Jamie Vardy in the Foxes attack.
Perez ended the season in stunning form, as the 25-year-old hit eight goals in his final 10 games of the campaign, striking up a great connection with Miguel Almiron and Salomon Rondon.
The Spaniard has followed Benitez in leaving Newcastle though, and his comments about his move to the King Power Stadium are very interesting.
Perez has firstly suggested that he’s happy and pleased, and that he can’t wait to get started; the usual generic comments any player makes.
However, he then went onto say that he likes that Leicester ‘want to keep growing as much as they can’, which many are taking as something of a dig at Newcastle, or rather Mike Ashley, given that the Magpies seemingly have a lack of ambition under the current regime.
“I’m very happy and very pleased. I’m very proud to be part of the Leicester family and I can’t wait to get started,” said Perez. “The Club want to keep growing as much as they can and that’s something I like. I spoke with the manager and that was important. That made me feel very comfortable about the decision to come here,” he added.
Newcastle fans are unlikely to angry at such comments as it’s clear Ashley and co don’t have anywhere near the ambition of Leicester, and Perez’s comments sadly sum up the state of the Magpies right now.
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