Cappachoochoo
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Gone !
Brendan Rogers
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TeaCider
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2017/18.
Cardiffdaffs
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Not before time. Leicester should not be in the bottom 3 with that squad so clearly something wrong.
Not as long ago as i thought then
Chutney
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Only thing I can infer from that market is no one has the vaguest clue who the replacement will be.
Cardiffdaffs
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It happens at every club but hasn’t happened for 8 seasons at Leicester. I I can’t recall them being in relegation trouble since the year after they won the league and even then a change of manager sorted it. . It’s the managers job to motivate them and a lot of them are Rogers acquisitions.
Alwaysaborolad
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Just shows how difficult the premier league is, Leicester City 2nd bottom with their squad of players is unbelievable.
r00fie1
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Sources close to the goal-post, suggest that there have been many changes behind the dressing room door at Leicester.
The recruitment department took up residency at Seagrave [Charnwood] in 2020 - a £100,000,000 top class, purpose-built facility. It replaced the two playing-fields the club had at Belvoir Drive, Aylestone. But the club also changed its recruitment structure which brought in players like Maguire, Kante, Mahres, Ben Chillwell, Wesley Fofana and Jamie Vardy. Some fans have suggested the money invested in the new training facility may have been better spent on players?
The recruitment department took up residency at Seagrave [Charnwood] in 2020 - a £100,000,000 top class, purpose-built facility. It replaced the two playing-fields the club had at Belvoir Drive, Aylestone. But the club also changed its recruitment structure which brought in players like Maguire, Kante, Mahres, Ben Chillwell, Wesley Fofana and Jamie Vardy. Some fans have suggested the money invested in the new training facility may have been better spent on players?
In the Boardroom: owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha took over from his Dad, who was killed in a helicopter crash outside the ground in 2018. The owners business "King Power" was reported to have been severely effected by the international covid crisis. King Power is a major player with a chain of International Duty Free outlets across the world.
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Leicester have reportedly been short of funds for investment in new players. But their parent company is reported to have wiped off £194,000,000 of debt to keep the club solvent:
Leicester City FC turn £194m of loans into equity
‘I believe with all my heart in Leicester City and what the club can achieve for our fans, our people and our communities’
www.business-live.co.uk
There has been no real replacement for Jamie Vardy and player recruitment appears to have been piecemeal. The departure of Kasper Schmeichel in July 2022 was a major blow. He was a big figure in the dressing room - a motivator and a leader. It was reported there were issues about his contract when he left to join French Club Nice. His exit [with hindsight] was symptomatic of other issues within the club. He is reported in the Leicester Mercury to have been extremely disappointed at leaving the club:
Kasper Schmeichel makes Leicester City transfer revelation as he opens up on plans to return
Kasper Schmeichel open to Leicester City return after contract admission
Latest Leicester City news from LeicestershireLive as former Foxes captain Kasper Schmeichel speaks about the circumstances under which he left the footbal club and whether he would come back one day
www.leicestermercury.co.uk
Rumours have abounded over the last eighteen months that Foxes couldnt afford to pay off Brendan Rodgers contract. However, that remains a matter of conjecture. During his reign he has overseen Leicester finish 5th in season 19/20, 20/21 and 8th in 21/22. He also lead them to their first ever FA Cup victory in 20/21.
Arguably, it is not really an intelligent move to sack any Manager this late in the season - with only ten games to go, sitting second bottom on 25 points - above Southampton [23].
In Leicester`s favour is the fact that the bottom of the Premiership is one big scrap - including Forest, Everton, Leeds, Bournemouth, West Ham, Wolves and Crystal Palace in 11th place [30 points]. Wolves and Palace have both played a game more than six of the seven teams behind them. The gap from Foxes to Wolves [P-29. Pts-28] is three points and 6 places! The permutations for the Premiership relegation slots are probably more complicated and hair-raising than they have been for many years. Its not just a three-leagues-in-one scenario: more of a "Top 5", plus the rest.
Leicester have quality players, but the quick appointment of a new Manager may give them that spark they need to get out of relegation. Much will depend on other results for the bottom nine clubs. Nothing is certain. Rodgers cant be faulted for his achievements [consider if it were Boro!] but its been "time for a change" since the end of last season.
Leicester`s Chairman is left in no doubt about Rodgers achievements :
Leicester chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha said: “The achievements of the team under Brendan’s management speak for themselves – we’ve experienced some of our finest footballing moments under his guidance and will always be grateful to him and his staff for the heights they helped us to reach on the pitch.
“Off the pitch, Brendan embraced the culture of the Club and helped cultivate an outstanding developmental environment, particularly during the transition to Seagrave, and provided strong leadership during the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. His place in Leicester City history is assured.
“However, performances and results during the current season have been below our shared expectations. It had been our belief that continuity and stability would be key to correcting our course, particularly given our previous achievements under Brendan’s management. Regrettably, the desired improvement has not been forthcoming and, with 10 games of the season remaining, the Board is compelled to take alternative action to protect our Premier League status.
[https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/...brendan-rodgers-leaves-leicester-city-8316107]
Whoever comes in has a job on his hands!
LCFC Statement:
Leicester City Football Club has reached a mutual agreement with Brendan Rodgers that will see him leave the Club after four years as our Men’s First Team Manager.
Brendan departs King Power Stadium as one of the most successful managers in the Club’s history, having guided us to our long-awaited first FA Cup triumph in 2021, the FA Community Shield in the same year, two of the Club’s three highest Premier League finishes and consecutive European campaigns, including our first European semi-final in 2022.
Assistant Manager Chris Davies and First Team Fitness Coach Glen Driscoll will also be leaving with the Club’s thanks and best wishes for their future careers.
Immediate responsibility for Men’s First Team training and match preparation will be led by the Club’s long-serving First Team Coaches Adam Sadler and Mike Stowell.
LCFC Statement - Brendan Rodgers
Leicester City Football Club has reached a mutual agreement with Brendan Rodgers that will see him leave the Club after four years as our Men’s First Team Manager.
www.lcfc.com
ForssAwakens
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For me I feel Leicester are more likely to go down now.
r00fie1
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Local Sports Journalist and Foxes Fanatic published the following article after Rodgers departure earlier today>>>>
Why Leicester City took so long over Brendan Rodgers sacking – and why they've made decision now
Leicester City have sacked Brendan Rodgers after the club fell into the Premier League relegation zone with just 10 games to play following a 2-1 defeat to Crystal PalaceEven if Leicester City had not let Jean-Philippe Mateta end his 23-game goal drought with the last kick at Selhurst Park, the performance at Crystal Palace on Saturday was bad enough that it could still have been the final straw for the hierarchy over Brendan Rodgers.
That Mateta’s finish consigned the club to a fifth defeat in six in the Premier League and sent them into the bottom three for the first time since October set the alarm bells ringing loud enough that those in charge felt they had to act.
There have been many, many matches this season, and even a few last term, that were desperately poor enough for there to be concerns over the long-term future of the club under Rodgers.
A good portion of supporters had been calling for Rodgers to be sacked since the humiliating FA Cup exit to Nottingham Forest last February, and while the club’s hierarchy have also been deemed to take fans’ thoughts seriously, the chants for his head have had to become deafening for them to act.
Even at the last home game, a 3-1 defeat to Chelsea, chairman Aiyawatt ‘Top’ Srivaddhanaprabha was calling for supporters to be “united” behind the manager, “working together to give Brendan and the team every chance of winning matches”.
It seems the hierarchy had desperately clung to the highs under Rodgers. Unlike under Claudio Ranieri, Rodgers had managed to sustain the success. Two top-five finishes, the club’s first-ever FA Cup triumph, and even a European semi-final last season had convinced them to keep faith.
There was also an appreciation that they had not dealt him the best hand. They understood that the lack of transfer activity last summer had put Rodgers and the team on the back foot.
So why now? That the decision has come after a two-week international break when they could have had more time to find a replacement suggests the 90 minutes at Selhurst Park were integral to their decision. It was the most concerning performance of a disastrous season.
At Brighton in September and at home to Newcastle on Boxing Day, City were dreadful. They perhaps remain the worst two performances of the campaign. However, their opponents were two of the better sides in the division, and both were in excellent form.
At Selhurst Park, City faced a side that had not won in any competition this calendar year, a side that were in the relegation dogfight alongside them. Yet this was as one-sided a match as any in the Premier League this term, and the scoreline only fairly reflected Palace’s domination once that last-gasp goal went in.
On account of only letting their point slip in the 94th minute, Rodgers said his side didn’t deserve to lose. That is ignorant of how the match transpired. Palace were quicker, more determined in the 50-50s, more adventurous in possession, sharper in their ball control, and put all of that to good use to create a bucketful of chances.
In the recent defeats to Southampton and Chelsea, despite the performances feeling like they lacked an acknowledgement of the predicament City are in, it was reasonable to suggest they didn’t deserve to lose. On the balance of chances, they could have come away from those games with at least a point.
Jean-Philippe Mateta scores a last-gasp winner for Crystal Palace against Leicester City (Image: PA)
To make such a claim after Saturday’s fixture was laughable. The Eagles had 31 shots to City’s three, the biggest gulf between two sides in any game this season. Even when Liverpool thumped Bournemouth 9-0, they only had 14 shots more than the Cherries. The difference between Palace and City was double that.
These were not pot-shots from range either. Twenty of Palace’s 31 efforts came from inside City’s penalty area.
Rodgers also said that City defended well, but that was a strange claim too. Given he often points out that all 11 players join in the defending, just because Wout Faes made a few good blocks and Daniel Iversen a handful of smart saves does not mean the team defended well. Palace had 43 touches inside City’s box, the most they have conceded in a game this season.
Rodgers was right that the cause was, in part, the club’s inability to keep the ball well, their mindless launches forward to Patson Daka only putting them on the back foot again. Other clubs have had worse than the 77 per cent pass completion than City had this term and not looked so vulnerable, but where they have organisation to get themselves out of trouble, City practically waved Palace through into their own penalty area.
The fragility and lack of concentration also came to the fore too. It was the first time in 2023 that City had scored first in a Premier League game and they still managed to lose by giving Palace their biggest chance of the match in the final minute. It means they are the only club in England’s top four divisions who have lost more times than they won when netting the opening goal.
But again, this was not Kevin De Bruyne threading the eye of the needle for Erling Haaland. City were undone by Jordan Ayew and Mateta. That’s why it was so concerning.
This is the first of a run of six-pointers that the club have before the end of May. One of the last hopes of City saving themselves was that they had the fixtures to get out of trouble, and had shown in the autumn, when they similarly faced a run of games against those around them, that they could pick up results.
The nature of the performance at Palace led to fear. If this is how City are going to perform in the first of their six-pointers, how were they going to get on against their other relegation rivals, when the situation was potentially even more desperate and the pressure ramped up even higher?
Although they are in the relegation zone, there is still time and the fixtures for City to survive. If the club do still succumb to the drop, the problem won’t be that they sacked Rodgers, it will be that they waited too long to do so.
* https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/...ll-news/leicester-city-took-long-over-8316484
That Mateta’s finish consigned the club to a fifth defeat in six in the Premier League and sent them into the bottom three for the first time since October set the alarm bells ringing loud enough that those in charge felt they had to act.
There have been many, many matches this season, and even a few last term, that were desperately poor enough for there to be concerns over the long-term future of the club under Rodgers.
A good portion of supporters had been calling for Rodgers to be sacked since the humiliating FA Cup exit to Nottingham Forest last February, and while the club’s hierarchy have also been deemed to take fans’ thoughts seriously, the chants for his head have had to become deafening for them to act.
Even at the last home game, a 3-1 defeat to Chelsea, chairman Aiyawatt ‘Top’ Srivaddhanaprabha was calling for supporters to be “united” behind the manager, “working together to give Brendan and the team every chance of winning matches”.
It seems the hierarchy had desperately clung to the highs under Rodgers. Unlike under Claudio Ranieri, Rodgers had managed to sustain the success. Two top-five finishes, the club’s first-ever FA Cup triumph, and even a European semi-final last season had convinced them to keep faith.
There was also an appreciation that they had not dealt him the best hand. They understood that the lack of transfer activity last summer had put Rodgers and the team on the back foot.
So why now? That the decision has come after a two-week international break when they could have had more time to find a replacement suggests the 90 minutes at Selhurst Park were integral to their decision. It was the most concerning performance of a disastrous season.
At Brighton in September and at home to Newcastle on Boxing Day, City were dreadful. They perhaps remain the worst two performances of the campaign. However, their opponents were two of the better sides in the division, and both were in excellent form.
At Selhurst Park, City faced a side that had not won in any competition this calendar year, a side that were in the relegation dogfight alongside them. Yet this was as one-sided a match as any in the Premier League this term, and the scoreline only fairly reflected Palace’s domination once that last-gasp goal went in.
On account of only letting their point slip in the 94th minute, Rodgers said his side didn’t deserve to lose. That is ignorant of how the match transpired. Palace were quicker, more determined in the 50-50s, more adventurous in possession, sharper in their ball control, and put all of that to good use to create a bucketful of chances.
In the recent defeats to Southampton and Chelsea, despite the performances feeling like they lacked an acknowledgement of the predicament City are in, it was reasonable to suggest they didn’t deserve to lose. On the balance of chances, they could have come away from those games with at least a point.
Jean-Philippe Mateta scores a last-gasp winner for Crystal Palace against Leicester City (Image: PA)
To make such a claim after Saturday’s fixture was laughable. The Eagles had 31 shots to City’s three, the biggest gulf between two sides in any game this season. Even when Liverpool thumped Bournemouth 9-0, they only had 14 shots more than the Cherries. The difference between Palace and City was double that.
These were not pot-shots from range either. Twenty of Palace’s 31 efforts came from inside City’s penalty area.
Rodgers also said that City defended well, but that was a strange claim too. Given he often points out that all 11 players join in the defending, just because Wout Faes made a few good blocks and Daniel Iversen a handful of smart saves does not mean the team defended well. Palace had 43 touches inside City’s box, the most they have conceded in a game this season.
Rodgers was right that the cause was, in part, the club’s inability to keep the ball well, their mindless launches forward to Patson Daka only putting them on the back foot again. Other clubs have had worse than the 77 per cent pass completion than City had this term and not looked so vulnerable, but where they have organisation to get themselves out of trouble, City practically waved Palace through into their own penalty area.
The fragility and lack of concentration also came to the fore too. It was the first time in 2023 that City had scored first in a Premier League game and they still managed to lose by giving Palace their biggest chance of the match in the final minute. It means they are the only club in England’s top four divisions who have lost more times than they won when netting the opening goal.
But again, this was not Kevin De Bruyne threading the eye of the needle for Erling Haaland. City were undone by Jordan Ayew and Mateta. That’s why it was so concerning.
This is the first of a run of six-pointers that the club have before the end of May. One of the last hopes of City saving themselves was that they had the fixtures to get out of trouble, and had shown in the autumn, when they similarly faced a run of games against those around them, that they could pick up results.
The nature of the performance at Palace led to fear. If this is how City are going to perform in the first of their six-pointers, how were they going to get on against their other relegation rivals, when the situation was potentially even more desperate and the pressure ramped up even higher?
Although they are in the relegation zone, there is still time and the fixtures for City to survive. If the club do still succumb to the drop, the problem won’t be that they sacked Rodgers, it will be that they waited too long to do so.
* https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/...ll-news/leicester-city-took-long-over-8316484