Wonderful! 😱😱 Russell Martin Has Just Dropped This Unbelievable Quote Before Today’s Match — This Is What He Said That Has Surprised Everyone.

Russell Martin believes Leicester City are beginning to show the standards and intensity needed as preparations for the new season gather pace.

The Foxes have made an encouraging start to pre-season, opening their schedule with a convincing 3-0 victory over Northampton Town at Seagrave.

Attention now turns to Tuesday night’s trip to Bristol Rovers before another test against Burton Albion later in the week, giving Martin further opportunities to assess his squad.

The Leicester manager is pleased with the attitude his players have shown on the training ground and wants those standards to remain high as the fixtures continue.

“We need it to maintain what they’ve set so far,” the 40-year-old explained. “The level of the work they’ve done in terms of the intensity they’ve approached things at and the willingness to learn and work and be coached, they’ve been fantastic.

“We have to keep building energy and building momentum with that and what we’re going to do and what we’re going to be about. Tuesday gives us another chance to do that.”

Martin was equally impressed by the contribution of Leicester’s young players, several of whom featured against Northampton.

Will Alves stole the headlines with two goals after Stephy Mavididi had opened the scoring, underlining the strength of the club’s academy.

“Part of the attraction and excitement for me to come here, amongst many other things, was the amount of young talent that the Football Club has,” he added. “The Academy has done a brilliant job over many years of producing young players.

“One of them has gone, Jeremy [Monga], for a lot of money which helps us be able to move forward and get back to where we want to be. We wish Jeremy all the best but the guys on show today (Saturday) were fantastic.

“Some really exciting young men but also some good people. It’s about instilling behaviours and habits into them that mean they can play for us this season.

“If you are a young player now here, with the situation the Club has found itself in, there’s such an opportunity. They should be so excited and some of them really took that today and they have to continue that.”