Wesley Fofana took aim at Brendan Rodgers after sealing his move to Chelsea, accusing the Leicester City manager of looking to expose him in recent weeks.
Fofana completed his long-awaited move to Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, signing a seven-year contract after a deal in the region of £75million was struck.
Leicester rejected multiple bids from Chelsea before their demands were met, and the build-up to the defender s departure was not entirely amicable.
Fofana was made to train with Leicester s under-23 squad after professing his desire to join Chelsea, with Rodgers declaring he was not in the right frame of mind to play for Leicester.
Rodgers also unfavourably compared Fofana s attitude to that of Harry Maguire, who left Leicester for Manchester United in 2019, stating: Harry, in terms of his behaviour and his focus for the club, he was fantastic right until the last minute, then he moved on. It was different.
In a message addressing Leicester s supporters on Wednesday, Fofana hit out at false and misleading comments made by his former club.
During these two seasons here, I have probably experienced the most intense moments of my young football career. I have grown as a player but also as a man, he wrote on Instagram.
Thank you to you, Foxes fans, for your kindness and your constant support, even in the moments you were led to believe I didn t respect the club.
I chose not to communicate during this transfer window despite all the criticism and all the often false and misleading comments, even when they were coming from the club. I understood and I learned.
I didn t want to damage the image of the institution and I chose to take it rather than answer. I thank Top [chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha] for his understanding.
Thanks to the managers, to the coach who has always appreciated me, even if he chose to expose me a lot lately I got it, coach.
There were ups and downs but I never cheated, you can be sure of that.
Fofana could be in line to make his Chelsea debut when they host West Ham on Saturday, with Thomas Tuchel s team having gone down 2-1 to Southampton last time out.
