"Leicester have had a lot of changes, and even since I left on Wednesday Gary Megson has gone. It is too much. Maybe supporters suffer from so many changes, too.
"I said to my agent 'If someone wants me on loan, I do not want to go. Unless it is Leeds'.
"I will tell you a secret, in the summer, I was very, very close to joining Leeds, but for some reason it did not happen. We negotiated, but at the time there was big trouble. It was June and July.
"Maybe my family and myself were a bit scared about the future and what would happen."