Club captain Wes Morgan and injured winger Harvey Barnes were among the Leicester City players who violated COVID-19 by attending a party at teammate Ayoze Perez’s home after losing to Manchester City last weekend, The Athletic understands .
James Maddison, Perez and Hamza Choudhury were taken out of Brendan Rodgers’ team this week and missed out on today’s 3-2 defeat at West Ham United, while the injured Barnes and Morgan pair also attended the meeting .
It is understood that Rodgers had a meeting with his team the day before the Manchester City match on Saturday, April 3, asking them to be extremely careful and professional in the last weeks of the season, with the Champions League qualification on the line, after defender Caglar Soyuncu was ruled out with COVID-19 contracted during international service with Turkey.