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Robert Huth’s Leicester City career looks to be coming to an end, but his contribution to the most remarkable period in the club’s history should never be forgotten.

The big German rejuvenated his own career when he arrived on loan from Stoke in the January transfer window of 2015 having fallen out of favour.

He immediately made a huge impact, helping City achieve the Great Escape under Nigel Pearson before forming the solid platform with Wes Morgan for the in incredible Premier League title triumph the next season.

Huth and Morgan were also influential in City’s march to the Champions League quarter-finals last season before injury ended Huth’s season and wiped out the current campaign.

The timing of his ankle surgery and foot injury could not have been worse as Claude Puel succeeded Craig Shakespeare and the arrivals of Harry Maguire and Aleksandar Dragovic have left Huth with little opportunity to convince Puel he should have his contract renewed this summer.

At 33, Huth is expected to leave City this summer when his contract expires, but former City captain, and fellow centre-back, lynchpin Steve Walsh believes he still has a few years in the tank and can be proud of his contribution to City.

“It is a shame with Huth,” said Walsh. “It did look as though he had one or two years left in him but he has been really unlucky that he has picked up an injury that has kept him out for such a long time.

“That was a shame because that Huth and Morgan combination was unbeatable at that time. A few years have gone by now and it is time for change.

“City have Maguire now and he looked so comfortable for England the other night. He has been a great acquisition.”

Maguire and Dragovic may be the centre-back future for City, Walsh believes, but captain Wes Morgan will still be a pivotal figure for the next couple of years.

Walsh describes the 34-year-old Jamaica international as City’s war horse and feels he has a few years left in the tank.

“He has played a hell of a lot games over the past 10 to 15 years, with Forest as well,” said Walsh. “He doesn’t miss many games. That is fantastic for him, but he has just started to pick up some silly niggles, like the recent hamstring injury.

“He is a big, strapping lad and the older you get you are bound to get a few more injuries. It gets harder to get over them. For me, he has a few good years left at the top level because he reads the game so well. I just think he brings something to the squad that no one has got. That is the organisation and the presence that sometimes you just need.

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“You know when that name is on the team sheet, you feel you have a chance of winning.

“He is a massive player for the team. People knock him for being a little bit slow, but he reads the game so well and reads the quickest players. He is still a tremendous player. He is a war horse.”

Walsh spent 14 years with City and played more than 400 game. He says he knew when his time was coming to an end, but admitted it finished sooner than he expected following the arrival of Peter Taylor as manager in 2000.

“My situation was different to these lads because I had gone through a number of operations on my knees and I was just seeing out the end of my career, but the end came when Peter Taylor came in,” recalls Walsh.

“We all know how that ended. He forced me out, which was wrong, but I felt I still could help the squad and the team.

“I thought I had another season left in me. That was the wrong decision I think from the club and Taylor.

“That is what happened and I was forced out, but you know yourself when you are getting up for training and you are struggling.

“In those days we had injections to play, tablets to help train and play, so it was a lot different to these lads.”

Walsh will be joined by fellow former City favourites Matt Elliott, Muzzy Izzet and Frank Sinclair, who will all captain teams at the Play with a Legend tournament at the King Power Stadium on June 2.

For more details on how to join a City legend’s team or buy spectator tickets, log on to: playwithalegend.com/leicester