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Claude Puel believes his critics have quickly forgotten the trauma Leicester City are still recovering from and says he doesn’t need a show of support from owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha.

Puel has come under pressure from a section of the City fans and within the media after the FA Cup exit at Newport County and more recently the back-to-back home defeats to Cardiff City and Southampton, two clubs fighting for their Premier League survival.

Some supporters may be questioning the direction of the team under Puel, despite their eighth place position in the Premier League, but Puel believes many people have quickly forgotten what the club has been through this season following the shock death of chairman and Khun Aiyawatt’s father Khun Vichai in October.

Puel said the club showed strength in the aftermath of the helicopter tragedy and will continue to do so during a tough time on the pitch now and he believes Khun Aiyawatt, who is yet to be confirmed as his father’ successor as chairman as the club’s parent company King Power, continues to adjust and recover from the death of Khun Vichai, understands the difficulties around the club.

Khun Aiyawatt, known affectionately as Top, has stated publicly he is determined to carry on and fulfil his father’s vision, but it has still only been less than three months since the loss of his father.

“I don't need support like this,” Puel said before the Saints defeat.

“We discuss things before games with freedom and we discuss different aspects rather than the noise and speculation.

“We know the atmosphere around the club, I think we cannot change anything for my part.

“No, I don't need support like this.

“He (Khun Aiyawatt) knows the difficulties, or the normality for me and him.

“Top has a lot of ambition. If he wants to build and re-evaluate the stadium with a new training ground and to develop the club, it’s because he has a lot of big ambitions.

“He wants to put in the foundations and a good structure to continue step by step all the time to try to make progress.

“It’s the most important thing for him. He would like to give to the fans and all people.

“We know the dreams of Vichai. We have a responsibility.

“I think it is important to share the vision. The first thing is the vision from Vichai and after it is up to us to put in place with Jon (Rudkin) and all the staff the process of the project and put in place the right things and we will see.

“I think also people forgot also what we have been through in the first half of the season.

“Around the club in this moment and period, journalists, people don’t know what can happen in the future, if we can have the solidity and strength to continue this way, what the objective of the club is, to continue to look forward and to move on.

“It was a difficult period but the strength we showed is fantastic inside the club, from Top to the last player.

“It was fantastic feeling to move on and respect the memory of Vichai and his dream.

“Now we have some things and words about finishing seventh or eighth, it is crazy.

“People forget quickly.”