Leicester City’s Young Player of the Year for 2019-20 is an extremely competitive category.



For starters, 10 of Brendan Rodgers’s squad were aged 23 or under at the start of the season and of those Ben Chilwell, Caglar Soyuncu, Youri Tielemans, James Maddison and Harvey Barnes have featured regularly for a side that has been in the top four for almost the entire season.



However, they say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone and the importance of Wilfred Ndidi’s contribution was highlighted when he was missing for six games because of a knee injury. Leicester failed to win any of them.



He only turned 23 in December but Ndidi, who joined Leicester in January 2017 in a £17 million move from Genk in Belgium, has made 111 Premier League appearances in his three and a half seasons, starting all but four.



He won the club’s official young player of the year award in his first two seasons, is eligible...