“Leicester’s Survival Hopes Fading as Club Legend Sounds the Alarm”With just nine games remaining and a string of crushing defeats, a Leicester City icon has admitted the team’s struggles are deeper than expected, raising serious doubts about their Premier League survival.

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With seven consecutive losses, even Leicester’s most hopeful supporters are finding it hard to believe the team can turn things around and pull off one of the Premier League’s most remarkable survival stories.

Club legend Marc Albrighton has now come to share the concerns of many critics, admitting their current predicament “is not looking great.”

The former Premier League winner confessed he’s struggling to see a way out of this slump, pointing to repeated failures in strengthening the squad. He even admitted to being naive for believing they had a real chance of staying up when the season began.

Leicester sit 19th in the table, nine points from safety, after suffering a 13th defeat in 14 matches with their latest loss to Manchester United. With just nine games remaining, Ruud van Nistelrooy remains determined to fight until the very end.

The Dutchman stated: “It’s about the mathematical possibility that is there. As long as that is the case, we are professionals and keep doing our jobs. We can’t and won’t give up until it’s mathematically impossible.”

However, the winger, who was part of some of Leicester’s most successful years, is far less hopeful. When asked if their fate could be sealed by the time they face Wolves and Southampton, he responded: “Yeah, it’s not looking great. The performance today [Sunday] and in recent weeks suggests they’re not going to improve. Watching these coming games, they’re very difficult games against top sides.”

As a player-turned-pundit, Albrighton believes the squad now lacks the confidence to assert themselves in games and make life difficult for their opponents. He elaborated: “Nobody wants to be the one to give it away, so they play the safe pass. Defensively they’re scared to to go and commit to to put a tackle in. People are standing off, standing off the attackers and giving them a free shot and that’s where the goal comes from [on Sunday].”

Despite his initial optimism at the start of the season, Albrighton now feels the failure to bring in game-changing signings was the decisive factor. He argued that any additions to the squad are “either sitting on the bench or they’re sitting at home watching the game.”

He also believes the team never truly recovered from the departure of Enzo Maresca, struggling to adapt after moving away from his short-passing, possession-heavy approach to Steve Cooper’s more direct style of play.

After the match, former Manchester United defender Phil Jones echoed Albrighton’s sentiments, saying: “It’s not quite worked, as Mark said, I don’t really think they’ve strengthened enough, and some of the lads there are lower than a snake’s belly.

“You know, the run of fixtures they’ve got coming up, it’s, it looks almost impossible, but, stranger things have happened, it’s, it’s been done before, but it doesn’t, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that they’re going to get themselves out of the bottom three.”