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Claude Puel has revealed that Caglar Soyuncu is yet to make his Leicester City debut because the centre-back’s lack of English is making it difficult to communicate with his team-mates.

The Turkey international is yet to feature for the City first-team since joining the club in a £19million move from Bundesliga side Freiburg on deadline day.

Fans were surprised not to see the 22-year-old make his first appearance in the Carabao Cup victory over Wolves as Puel made eight changes but chose to start with Jonny Evans and Wes Morgan in central defence with Soyuncu named on the bench.

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“For the moment, he has some problems communicating with his team-mates because he does not speak a lot with all the good words and sentences,” said Puel. “He needs to make progress.

“Also he is a young player. That is the first thing. The second thing is that I think it was a good opportunity to give more game-time to Jonny and with Wes to work together and play together.”

It is not the first time Soyuncu has taken time to adapt to a new language. He struggled to settle quickly at Freiburg, the club he joined after leaving his home country in 2016, as it took him time to get to grips with German.

However, Soyuncu would go on to be considered one of the best centre-backs in the Bundesliga, making 50 appearances in the German top flight.

City are putting Soyuncu through English lessons — as they do with many of their foreign signings — and Puel hopes it will not be long until Soyuncu is ready to play.

“Yes, of course,” replied Puel when asked if the club helping him learn English. “The club are doing all the necessary to give him lessons and to help him learn quickly and have the possibility to have a good understanding with his team-mates.”

Puel also joked that Soyuncu could learn a few English words from striker Jamie Vardy, although possibly not ones that he will be taught on any accredited language course.

“I think he can learn a lot from Jamie, but I don’t know if they will be good words.”