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Andy King has been left out of Leicester City’s 25-man Premier League squad.

City’s longest serving player, who became the the first player to win the top three divisions with the same team in the Premier League era having collected the League One, Championship and Premier League titles with City, has been omitted from the squad for this season, but defender Danny Simpson has been included.

Both players have not featured for City this season and were even left out of the squad for the Carabao Cup win over Fleetwood Town.

They were expected to leave City before the transfer window closed as Puel has made it clear he is going in a different direction in both midfield and at right-back, but no deals were done.

Puel’s decision will come as a blow to King, who has been with City since the age of 15 and has made 378 appearances for City, scoring 62 times, although he stated when he joined Swansea City on loan for the second half of last season he felt his time at City was coming to an end.

The Wales international, who is also City’s all-time highest scoring midfielder and all-time most capped international, has fallen behind Wilfred Ndidi, Papy Mendy, Adrien Silva and Vicente Iborra in the pecking order for a starting spot in City’s midfield. Puel also has under-23 captain Hamza Choudhury and Matty James when he returns from injury.

“My time at Leicester had come to an end,” King, who is contracted to City until 2020 and turns 30 next month, said in January.

“I was not really involved and I am not one of those players who wants to train and not be involved on a Saturday.”

Simpson, who won the Premier League title with King in 2016, has made the squad, but that may be because City have few options in defence, after falling behind Daniel Amartey and Ricardo Pereira in the pecking order for the right-back spot.

Simpson has made 123 appearances for City since joining from Queens Park Rangers in 2014.

Callum Elder and Yohan Benalouane have also been left out of the squad.

City Squad

*=Home grown

Albrighton, Marc Kevin*

Amartey, Daniel

Chilwell, Benjamin James*

Diabate, Fousseni

Evans, Jonathan Grant*

Fuchs, Christian

Ghezzal, Rachid

Gray, Demarai Remelle*

Iborra, Vicente

Iheanacho, Kelechi

Jakupovic, Eldin

James, Matthew Lee*

Maddison, James Daniel*

Maguire, Harry*

Mendy, Nampalys

Morgan, Westley Nathan*

Ndidi, Onyinye Wilfred

Okazaki, Shinji

Pereira, Ricardo

Schmeichel, Kasper Peter*

Silva, Adrien Sebastien Perruchet

Simpson, Daniel Peter*

Soyuncu, Caglar

Vardy, Jamie*

Ward, Daniel*

Under-21 players (Contract and Scholars)

Arlott-John, Dempsey Michael Asa

Barnes, Harvey Lewis

Barrett, Connor

Benkovic, Filip

Bolkiah, Faiq Jefri

Bollard, Dylan Jack

Bosworth, Oliver Michael

Bramley, Max

Choudhury, Hamza

Davies, Rhys Paul Richard

Dewsbury-Hall, Kiernan

Edwards-John, Kairo

Elewa-Ikpakwu, Edward

Felix-Eppiah, Joshua

Gbadebo, Camron Israel

Gyamfi, Dennis

Gyamfi, Johnson Adu

Heaven, George William

Hughes, Samuel Joseph

Husek, Lukas

Iversen, Daniel

James, Leon Pitchaya

Johansson, Viktor Tobias

Johnson, Darnell Tobias Jack

Keaveny, Jozsef Phelim

Knight, Joshua Michael

Kranthove, Justen Shelden

Leathers, Adam James

Leshabela, Thakgalo Khanya

Loft, Ryan

Loughlan, Liam

Makanjuola, Habib Abdulfatal

McAteer, Kasey

Meite, Alassane

Moore, Elliott Jordan

Murch, Oliver Edward

Muskwe, Admiral Dalindlela

Myring, Harrison

Ndukwu, Layton Julius

Pascanu, Alexandru Stefan

Ramsay, Louis Mark

Sams, Thomas James

Shade, Tyrese

Sherif, Lamine Kaba

Sowah, Kamal

Stolarczyk, Jakub

Tavares, Sidnei Wilson Vieira David

Tee, Conor

Thomas, George Stanley

Thomas, Luke Jonathan

Uche Rubio, Raul

Ughelumba, Calvin

Williams, Kian

Wright, Callum