Why The future looks uncertain for Thomas at Leicester 

Tuesday night’s resounding 5-0 victory over Southampton has left Leicester City on the brink of an immediate return to the Premier League, with just one victory in their final two matches enough to secure them automatic promotion.

The Foxes have stuttered in their promotion push of late, but have regained form at exactly the right time to get themselves within a whisker of getting over the line, and secure top flight football after just one year away.

With just two weekends remaining in the Championship season, Enzo Maresca’s side will have to make some key decision over the next few weeks about the future of a number of players at the club, with a handful of names set to leave in the summer.

One of those looks likely to be Luke Thomas, with the defender failing to impress while on loan at fellow second division side Middlesbrough over the course of the current campaign.

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The 23/24 season hasn’t been one to particularly remember for Thomas, with a spell on loan at Premier League basement side Sheffield United followed by an underwhelming stint on Teesside in 2024.

After featuring 12 times in the top flight for a Blades side that looked destined to be playing in the Championship next season, the 22-year-old made the move to The Riverside and has featured just ten times since that January switch.

With his contract set to expire at the end of June and no signs of a new deal being handed to the defender, it looks as if he will be on the search for a new club in the summer; leaving his boyhood club behind as he searches for pastures new.

Thomas made his debut for the club back in 2020 – just a month after his 19th birthday – as he was thrown in from the start against Sheffield United in the COVID-19 hit season that was played behind closed doors.

The young defender soon became something of a regular in the Foxes side over the following seasons, with regular appearances in domestic and European competitions, as he netted his first goal for the club in a 3-3 Europa League draw with Braga.