WHAT THE FUCHS

Christian phone 'explodes' as new job stuns Foxes heroes

- BY PHIL BLANCHE

PREMIER League winner Christian Fuchs says Leicester's WhatsApp champions group "exploded" after the Austrian became manager of the EFL's bottom club Newport.

Fuchs has swapped "beautiful" Charlotte in North Carolina and the MLS - where two months ago he was part of a coaching group getting the better of Lionel Messi's Inter Miami for a Welsh winter and a survival scrap.

It is a decision that has brought bewilderment from former teammates, including Kasper Schmeichel (below with Foxes boss Claudio Ranieri and Fuchs) and Jamie Vardy, who were responsible for arguably football's greatest fairy tale when Leicester won the Premier League in 2016.