Former Leicester City and Chelsea defender Robert Huth has confirmed his retirement from football.
The German, who won three Premier League titles, had been linked with a move to Derby County during the January transfer window, joining up with former Chelsea team-mate Frank Lampard
Robert Huth confirms retirement: Five key things to know…
- Robert Huth started his professional career with Chelsea, having joined the club as a 17-year-old.
- The German centre-back would go on to win two Premier League titles with the Blues in addition to one with Leicester.
- Huth left the Foxes at the end of last season and has been without a club since.
- The 34-year-old had been linked with a January move to Derby, with some claiming a deal had been agreed.
- But Huth has rubbished the reports, confirming he has in fact retired.
Huth, 34, left Leicester last summer, ending three years with the club in which he was a big part of the Foxes’ 2015/16 Premier League win.
Without a club, the German had been linked with a move to Championship side Derby County with a purported football agent claiming an 18-month deal had been agreed.
To clarify re: @Robert_Huth joining #DCFC. Huth and his agent have agreed an 18 month deal to join the Rams. Frank Lampard and the #DCFC board have informed them they want him signed by the 18th January. #DCFC terms agreed with Huth and the club. The end of Keogh?
— John Harriott (@JHFootballAgent) January 11, 2019
But Huth was quick to dispel these rumours, at the same time confirming his retirement from football.
Replying to the reports on Twitter, Huth wrote: “This literally couldn’t be less true.
This literally couldn't be less true. Ive retired! (I just haven't done an interview and cried about it) https://t.co/tLfHslQH2q
— robert huth (@robert_huth) January 11, 2019
“I’ve retired! I just haven’t done an interview and cried about it.”
Huth played 406 club games throughout his career in total, while also earning 19 caps for the German national team.
Robert Huth calls a 15-year career to an end
Despite being born in Berlin and starting with Union Berlin’s youth teams, Huth played his entire professional career in England.
The centre-back joined Chelsea as an 17-year-old in 2002 and moved into the first team a year later. Huth would play 63 games for the Blues in three seasons, but could not overthrow the defensive partnership of John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho.
Huth left Chelsea in 2006 after two Premier League titles, joining Middlesbrough for £6m. The German spent another three years at the Riverside but did not have the same success as he did with Chelsea playing 24 games in the 2008/09 season as Middlesbrough were relegated to the Championship.
In 2009, Huth returned to the Premier League with Stoke – where he spent six years, his longest spell at a single club.
At the Potters, Huth built a good relationship with fellow centre-back Ryan Shawcross, playing 188 games in total. But his Stoke career was seriously hampered towards its end, as Huth struggled with injury problems and was replaced in the starting XI.
As a result, Huth joined Leicester in 2015 first on loan, before making the move permanent. Signing in the same summer as N’Golo Kante, the German was a key member of the Leicester side to shock the world by winning the Premier League title in his debut season.
Like his team-mates, Huth dropped in the following seasons, finally calling time on his Leicester, and football, career in the summer of 2018.
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