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Jordan slams Leicester midfielder Maddison: He'll soon leave

Former Crystal Palace owner and pundit Simon Jordan has hit out at Leicester City star James Maddison.

The attacker had a go at his teammates after their 5-3 loss to Fulham in the Premier League on Monday.

Maddison said his teammates were not hungry enough to get the result they needed to push themselves clear of the relegation zone.

Jordan told talkSPORT: "We're talking about appetite and hunger, if you're not prepared to win your first battles and you win the duels and be on the front foot then you're not playing for the shirt the way you should because those are the default settings.

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

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

"Hunger gets extrapolated up to there's no desire but the desire that is required to meet the expectations of putting your best foot forward, it's the same thing just in a different guise. So he does not get himself out from behind the eight ball.

"He will be one of the first players on the train away from Leicester somewhere else. So don't you have the audacity to come on and have a lack of hunger and not winning duels because you will be gone."

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