The "do they mean us?" thread pt 3

[UniFox21]

 

Love to see us being forgotten again

 

[bovril]

4 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

 

Love to see us being forgotten again

 

Since 2015 we've been a bit of an inconvenience for the big broadcasters like Sky and BT. I am sure they are happy to see us back where they think we belong.

[Footballwipe]

6 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

 

Love to see us being forgotten again

 

Tend not to get upset about crap like this anymore, but the mental gymnastics from people replying to the correction that he "only took charge of one leg" are absolutely insane.

[ALC Fox]

9 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

 

Love to see us being forgotten again

 

What was the original tweet? Seems it's been deleted now

[UniFox21]

6 minutes ago, ALC Fox said:

What was the original tweet? Seems it's been deleted now

"Graeme potter is the first English coach since 2010 to get to the quarter finals of the champions league " 

 

And BT have been inundated with replies calling them out for forgetting Shakespeare and Leicester completely 

 

Edited 8 March 2023 by UniFox21

[wardyfox86]

4 minutes ago, ALC Fox said:

What was the original tweet? Seems it's been deleted now

I'm guessing first English manager in X amount of years to progress in a Champions League knockout tie (Potter), missing Shakey out.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Potter isn't even the second manager to do it since 2010 given Harry Redknapp took Spurs to the quarters in 2011. How can you get that so wrong?

[filbertway]

4 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Potter isn't even the second manager to do it since 2010 given Harry Redknapp took Spurs to the quarters in 2011. How can you get that so wrong?

@Asha look at the closet cockney over here!

[Out Foxed]

2 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Potter isn't even the second manager to do it since 2010 given Harry Redknapp took Spurs to the quarters in 2011. How can you get that so wrong?

because the person tweeting is a 16 year old dipshit whose football knowledge comes from FIFA

Edited 8 March 2023 by Out Foxed

[MattFox]

2 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Potter isn't even the second manager to do it since 2010 given Harry Redknapp took Spurs to the quarters in 2011. How can you get that so wrong?

An English manager didn’t get to the Quarters in 2010 either,

 

United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool that season didn’t have English managers 

[LCFCJoe96]

Parimatch, one of the billion or so gambling partners we have, have been sanctioned by the Ukrainian government 

[davieG]

 

 

TOM COLLOMOSSE: Leicester don't look like they understand the severity of their situation after a sloppy display against Chelsea... the Foxes lack players who can dig deep to help them escape relegation danger
Leicester City were beaten 3-1 at home by Chelsea on in a sloppy performance 
The club's Chairman gave a rallying call to his team in the pre-match programme 
But the players lack the same urgency and grit to show they can fight relegation 
By TOM COLLOMOSSE FOR THE DAILY MAIL

The problem with assuming you are too good to go down is that when you wake up to reality, it can already be too late.

Leicester supporters have been worried about relegation for some time. They have called for boss Brendan Rodgers to be sacked and booed the team at numerous home games. Foxes fans are a relatively rational bunch yet social media and local radio phone-ins have been flooded by demands for change. King Power Stadium looked half-empty when the whistle blew on Saturday.

The fear is that this urgency does not seem to be matched among the players, the coaching staff or even the club hierarchy. Chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha has remained fiercely loyal to Rodgers, one of the club’s best managers of modern times, and urged the fans to stick with him and the players.

‘Addressing our inconsistencies is our primary objective between now and the end of the season,’ wrote Srivaddhanaprabha – known as Khun Top – in his column in the matchday programme. ‘For us to achieve that, it’s absolutely vital we’re all united, working together to give Brendan and the team every chance of winning matches on the pitch.

‘This season, as with every other before it, we’ve been at our best and most successful when the connection between the players on the pitch and the fans in the stadium is at its strongest and loudest.

Leicester Chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha gave a rally call ahead of Chelsea match

‘That relationship is our most valuable asset. If deployed in the way it can be and combined with the quality and commitment of the team on the pitch, it can elevate the team to the heights of which we know they are capable.’

There is nothing wrong with a rallying call but do Leicester really understand the severity of their situation? They are only one point above the relegation zone and could be in the bottom three heading into the international break. Rodgers’ men are at Brentford on Saturday and on current form there is little to suggest they will take three points.

Leicester did not play badly here and wasted three easy chances. Yet there was a sloppiness and a listlessness to their football that was alarming, and this was the key to their fourth successive league defeat.

Aside from the astonishing misses from Daniel Amartey and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, the Foxes rarely built up a head of steam against a Chelsea side who are still less than the sum of their parts. Too often passes were misplaced and the team lacked shape when they lost the ball.

Leicester have not won in five matches across all competitions and are one point from the drop

MATCH FACTS 
Leicester (3-4-1-2): Ward 6.5; Amartey 4 (Tete 66min, 6), Souttar 5.5, Faes 4.5; Pereira 6, Dewsbury-Hall 5.5, Mendy 7 (Soumare 66, 6), Castagne 6; Maddison 6.5 (Evans 90); Daka 6.5 (Barnes 66, 6) Iheanacho 6 (Vardy 76, 6).

Scorer: Daka 39

Sent off: Faes

Booked: Faes, Pereira

Manager: Brendan Rodgers 6

Chelsea (3-4-3): Kepa 6.5; Fofana 7, Koulibaly 7.5, Cucurella 6.5; Loftus-Cheek 7.5 (Chalobah 73, 6), Fernandez 7.5, Kovacic 7.5, Chilwell 7 (Pulisic 73, 6); *HAVERTZ 8*, Mudryk 6 (Chukwuemeka 82), Joao Felix 6.5 (Gallagher 46, 7.5).

Scorers: Chilwell 11, Havertz 45+6, Kovacic 78

Booked: Fofana, Cucurella

Manager: Graham Potter 6.5

Referee: Andre Marriner 5

Attendance: 32,170

ADVERTISEMENT
Another problem is that this squad was built to compete for a top-four finish and in cup competitions – which Leicester have done for the last three seasons. Look around the squad and there are not too many natural scrappers there.

Goals from Ben Chilwell, Kai Havertz and Mateo Kovacic did the trick for Potter’s men. Patson Daka had Leicester level briefly and the home side saw Wout Faes sent off late on.

Khun Top may look to Chelsea owner Todd Boehly for solace. Boehly stuck with Graham Potter as Chelsea stuttered and stumbled their way through matches and his manager has now delivered three wins in a week and a place in the Champions League quarter-finals.

A run of form like that would save Leicester. Whether they can dig deep enough to find it is another matter altogether.

[ParkerPen]

how in the name of jesus christ himself does soumare warrant a 6

[KingsX]

1 minute ago, ParkerPen said:

how in the name of jesus christ himself does soumare warrant a 6

 

That's the number of minutes all season he's actually given full effort?

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/celtic-leicester-city-transfer-revelation-8250535

 

 

Ex-Celtic man makes Leicester City transfer revelation
Latest Leicester City news as centre-back opens up on how he was close to completing a transfer to the King Power Stadium in January 2017

ByAmie WilsonMidlands football writer
16:04, 14 MAR 2023

Former Celtic centre-back Erik Sviatchenko has revealed how a possible move from the Scottish giants to Leicester City fell through.

The Danish international spent two years at Celtic after joining from FC Midtjylland in January 2016. His performances north of the border in his first year at the club caught the eye of City, who targeted the centre-back in January 2017.

City were then managed by title-winning manager Claudio Ranieri, before he was dismissed just a month later. Celtic, meanwhile, were managed by current City boss Brendan Rodgers.

It seems that Sviatchenko was closing in on making the same move as Rodgers a couple of years before the manager. However, he has now opened up on how a potential £3 million move to the King Power Stadium fell through.

 

“We had an extremely good relationship (Rodgers) with each other, but from one to the other I also felt... I had played every game in the Champions League and had started in every game, and then we go on winter break,” he told Danish outlet Offside.

“There was a lot of talk with Leicester about a possible transfer, because I had done really well in Scottish football. Leicester were ready to pay a three million sum for me at the time, but the move fell through when Celtic demanded more money.”

After the move fell through, the centre-back saw his game time at Celtic Park reduced. After being a regular in the first half of the season, he was phased out of the starting line up in the second half of the campaign, with Dedryck Boyata preferred in his position, something which took the player by surprise.

“Then we come back from the break after a week and we go to training camp,” the former Celtic man added.

"I'm suspended for the first game after a yellow card and without explanation I just don't play anymore. Then he plays Dedryck Boyata, who is also a fantastically skilled player. He hadn't seen much playing time for nine months, but suddenly I wasn't playing. I didn't play the second match either, and I didn't play the third match either."

The now 31-year-old joined former club FC Midtjylland on loan in January 2018, before making the move permanent six months later. It’s there where he remains to this day, captaining the club.

 

 

Sounds like a typical Rodgers Man Management scenario.

[HybridFox]

4 minutes ago, davieG said:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/celtic-leicester-city-transfer-revelation-8250535

 

 

Ex-Celtic man makes Leicester City transfer revelation
Latest Leicester City news as centre-back opens up on how he was close to completing a transfer to the King Power Stadium in January 2017

ByAmie WilsonMidlands football writer
16:04, 14 MAR 2023

Former Celtic centre-back Erik Sviatchenko has revealed how a possible move from the Scottish giants to Leicester City fell through.

The Danish international spent two years at Celtic after joining from FC Midtjylland in January 2016. His performances north of the border in his first year at the club caught the eye of City, who targeted the centre-back in January 2017.

City were then managed by title-winning manager Claudio Ranieri, before he was dismissed just a month later. Celtic, meanwhile, were managed by current City boss Brendan Rodgers.

It seems that Sviatchenko was closing in on making the same move as Rodgers a couple of years before the manager. However, he has now opened up on how a potential £3 million move to the King Power Stadium fell through.

 

“We had an extremely good relationship (Rodgers) with each other, but from one to the other I also felt... I had played every game in the Champions League and had started in every game, and then we go on winter break,” he told Danish outlet Offside.

“There was a lot of talk with Leicester about a possible transfer, because I had done really well in Scottish football. Leicester were ready to pay a three million sum for me at the time, but the move fell through when Celtic demanded more money.”

After the move fell through, the centre-back saw his game time at Celtic Park reduced. After being a regular in the first half of the season, he was phased out of the starting line up in the second half of the campaign, with Dedryck Boyata preferred in his position, something which took the player by surprise.

“Then we come back from the break after a week and we go to training camp,” the former Celtic man added.

"I'm suspended for the first game after a yellow card and without explanation I just don't play anymore. Then he plays Dedryck Boyata, who is also a fantastically skilled player. He hadn't seen much playing time for nine months, but suddenly I wasn't playing. I didn't play the second match either, and I didn't play the third match either."

The now 31-year-old joined former club FC Midtjylland on loan in January 2018, before making the move permanent six months later. It’s there where he remains to this day, captaining the club.

 

 

Sounds like a typical Rodgers Man Management scenario.

"Right let's try the next great Dane..Jannik it's Brendan here"

[onekeithweller]

 

[davieG]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/leicester-relegation-brendan-rodgers-premier-league-b2301559.html

 

Leicester and Brendan Rodgers are spiralling towards total failure
Following a pattern of disappointment and decline, Leicester are in danger of requiring a very different sort of miracle to beat the drop

Richard Jolly
Senior Football Correspondent
31 minutes ago
Comments

<p>Leicester and Rodgers face a pivotal run - starting with Brentford away on Saturday </p>
Leicester and Rodgers face a pivotal run - starting with Brentford away on Saturday

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Brendan Rodgers probably wasn’t trying to channel Leicester’s other most successful manager since Martin O’Neill when he said that his target for the season was 40 points. It was Claudio Ranieri’s regular refrain in 2015-16, too, even up to the stage when Leicester had 38 before Christmas of what proved a title-winning campaign.

Ranieri’s tongue was increasingly wedged in his cheek but he under-promised and overdelivered to an extraordinary extent. Rodgers’ FA Cup win gives him a case to be ranked as Leicester’s second greatest ever manager, behind only the Italian, but he risks under-promising and still underdelivering.

A pessimistic prediction alone did not send Leicester spiralling downwards but, with 24 points from 26 games, City are on course for just 35. With five straight defeats, including the FA Cup, their momentum is downward. With the exceptions of Kasper Schmeichel and Wesley Fofana, Leicester own all the players who took them to fifth place and 66 points in 2020-21. Perhaps the second miracle of Leicester, the unwanted sequel to Ranieri’s improbable triumph, will be of how an arguably more gifted group contrived to get relegated.

It still feels unlikely but they are the club with the second fewest points at home and the third worst defensive record. The Leicester fans in the corner of the King Power Stadium calling for Rodgers to go are a minority, but they are becoming more vocal and their numbers are growing.

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Logically, the fixture list offers salvation. Leicester have only one more meeting with current top-four sides and seven against the bottom half. Their considerable gifts – in particular, those of James Maddison and Harvey Barnes - give them the priceless ability to win matches but they are the most mercurial of sides, veering between lows and highs. They took one point from their first six league games but won four of five before the World Cup. They lost four in a row immediately after it, before taking seven points from three and then none from the next four. They have scored four goals in four different league games but seem unable to grind out a draw or a 1-0 victory.

All of which suggests Rodgers’ explanation for decline only tells part of the story. “You’ve had a host of clubs who have invested,” he said on Saturday. Leicester were not among them; they were the last club in Europe’s top five leagues to make a summer signing as their financial losses - £92.5m in the last year - and more straitened times for their owners combined. They had been the best of the rest, but then the rest started buying.

<p>Rodgers took Leicester to the verge of the Champions League in 2020 and 2021 </p>
Rodgers took Leicester to the verge of the Champions League in 2020 and 2021

(Getty Images)
Yet their recruitment in recent years may reflect less well on Rodgers. There have been some encouraging signs from the January arrivals, from Harry Souttar and Victor Kristiansen, sadly now injured, even if Tete’s fine debut now looks deceptive. That belated summer arrival, Wout Faes, can be very good or very bad, but at least his best is excellent.

Yet an overly largely squad is a product of different kinds of mistakes. The £18m buy Jannik Vestergaard is now training alone, exiled after a critical interview. Ryan Bertrand has been injured, but if fit would probably be sixth-choice full-back. Patson Daka and Boubakary Soumare are yet to justify sizeable fees. The £30m Ayoze Perez has been loaned out and, after just 15 goals in 114 games for Leicester, is unlikely to play for City again. Torino were allowed to borrow Dennis Praet last season, an indication of his lack of impact. Bertrand was a free transfer, but the other five cost over £100m between them. Leicester have seen too little in return.

It feels as though they both misjudged the market last summer and suffered from a pan-European problem: there were too few clubs, especially on the continent, able to afford the kind of £15 or £20m deals for their squad players. Rodgers may have envisaged a window where perhaps eight players left to raise funds and four came in. There were no such takers for footballers like Praet, Perez and Vestergaard; only for the prize asset Fofana.

Meanwhile, Caglar Soyuncu, named in the PFA Team of the Year for 2019-20 and granted just 79 minutes this season, will leave on a free transfer. So, surely, will Youri Tielemans; instead of a £50m windfall, Leicester will get nothing. They have suffered twice, with Tielemans below his best this season and benched even before he was injured.

Amid a pattern of disappointment and decline, Wilfred Ndidi has also been dropped. Age has finally caught up with Jamie Vardy, scorer of a lone league goal. The valiant Maddison and Barnes feel ever more important.

<p>Maddison can be Leicester’s talisman when fit </p>
Maddison can be Leicester’s talisman when fit

(Getty Images)
Leicester have been luckless with injuries, which are a mitigating factor. Ricardo Pereira, James Justin and Jonny Evans have been sorely missed at times in defence, and the captain’s return to fitness now could assume an importance. Yet that defensive record stems from misjudgement as well as misfortune: Danny Ward, promoted when Schmeichel was sold, has the third worst save percentage in the division this season. Goalkeeping statistics – post-shot expected goals minus goals conceded – suggest he has cost 5.5 goals this season, the fourth most.

[Vacamion]

48 minutes ago, davieG said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/leicester-relegation-brendan-rodgers-premier-league-b2301559.html

 

Leicester and Brendan Rodgers are spiralling towards total failure
Following a pattern of disappointment and decline, Leicester are in danger of requiring a very different sort of miracle to beat the drop

Richard Jolly
Senior Football Correspondent
31 minutes ago
Comments

<p>Leicester and Rodgers face a pivotal run - starting with Brentford away on Saturday </p>
Leicester and Rodgers face a pivotal run - starting with Brentford away on Saturday

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Brendan Rodgers probably wasn’t trying to channel Leicester’s other most successful manager since Martin O’Neill when he said that his target for the season was 40 points. It was Claudio Ranieri’s regular refrain in 2015-16, too, even up to the stage when Leicester had 38 before Christmas of what proved a title-winning campaign.

Ranieri’s tongue was increasingly wedged in his cheek but he under-promised and overdelivered to an extraordinary extent. Rodgers’ FA Cup win gives him a case to be ranked as Leicester’s second greatest ever manager, behind only the Italian, but he risks under-promising and still underdelivering.

A pessimistic prediction alone did not send Leicester spiralling downwards but, with 24 points from 26 games, City are on course for just 35. With five straight defeats, including the FA Cup, their momentum is downward. With the exceptions of Kasper Schmeichel and Wesley Fofana, Leicester own all the players who took them to fifth place and 66 points in 2020-21. Perhaps the second miracle of Leicester, the unwanted sequel to Ranieri’s improbable triumph, will be of how an arguably more gifted group contrived to get relegated.

It still feels unlikely but they are the club with the second fewest points at home and the third worst defensive record. The Leicester fans in the corner of the King Power Stadium calling for Rodgers to go are a minority, but they are becoming more vocal and their numbers are growing.

Recommended

Logically, the fixture list offers salvation. Leicester have only one more meeting with current top-four sides and seven against the bottom half. Their considerable gifts – in particular, those of James Maddison and Harvey Barnes - give them the priceless ability to win matches but they are the most mercurial of sides, veering between lows and highs. They took one point from their first six league games but won four of five before the World Cup. They lost four in a row immediately after it, before taking seven points from three and then none from the next four. They have scored four goals in four different league games but seem unable to grind out a draw or a 1-0 victory.

All of which suggests Rodgers’ explanation for decline only tells part of the story. “You’ve had a host of clubs who have invested,” he said on Saturday. Leicester were not among them; they were the last club in Europe’s top five leagues to make a summer signing as their financial losses - £92.5m in the last year - and more straitened times for their owners combined. They had been the best of the rest, but then the rest started buying.

<p>Rodgers took Leicester to the verge of the Champions League in 2020 and 2021 </p>
Rodgers took Leicester to the verge of the Champions League in 2020 and 2021

(Getty Images)
Yet their recruitment in recent years may reflect less well on Rodgers. There have been some encouraging signs from the January arrivals, from Harry Souttar and Victor Kristiansen, sadly now injured, even if Tete’s fine debut now looks deceptive. That belated summer arrival, Wout Faes, can be very good or very bad, but at least his best is excellent.

Yet an overly largely squad is a product of different kinds of mistakes. The £18m buy Jannik Vestergaard is now training alone, exiled after a critical interview. Ryan Bertrand has been injured, but if fit would probably be sixth-choice full-back. Patson Daka and Boubakary Soumare are yet to justify sizeable fees. The £30m Ayoze Perez has been loaned out and, after just 15 goals in 114 games for Leicester, is unlikely to play for City again. Torino were allowed to borrow Dennis Praet last season, an indication of his lack of impact. Bertrand was a free transfer, but the other five cost over £100m between them. Leicester have seen too little in return.

It feels as though they both misjudged the market last summer and suffered from a pan-European problem: there were too few clubs, especially on the continent, able to afford the kind of £15 or £20m deals for their squad players. Rodgers may have envisaged a window where perhaps eight players left to raise funds and four came in. There were no such takers for footballers like Praet, Perez and Vestergaard; only for the prize asset Fofana.

Meanwhile, Caglar Soyuncu, named in the PFA Team of the Year for 2019-20 and granted just 79 minutes this season, will leave on a free transfer. So, surely, will Youri Tielemans; instead of a £50m windfall, Leicester will get nothing. They have suffered twice, with Tielemans below his best this season and benched even before he was injured.

Amid a pattern of disappointment and decline, Wilfred Ndidi has also been dropped. Age has finally caught up with Jamie Vardy, scorer of a lone league goal. The valiant Maddison and Barnes feel ever more important.

<p>Maddison can be Leicester’s talisman when fit </p>
Maddison can be Leicester’s talisman when fit

(Getty Images)
Leicester have been luckless with injuries, which are a mitigating factor. Ricardo Pereira, James Justin and Jonny Evans have been sorely missed at times in defence, and the captain’s return to fitness now could assume an importance. Yet that defensive record stems from misjudgement as well as misfortune: Danny Ward, promoted when Schmeichel was sold, has the third worst save percentage in the division this season. Goalkeeping statistics – post-shot expected goals minus goals conceded – suggest he has cost 5.5 goals this season, the fourth most.

 

 

Blimey, the worm has really started to turn amongst the journalists.

 

A loss this weekend and us dropping down further, and the drip drip will become a steady flow against Brendan Rodgers.

 

 

[RonnieTodger]

Feels like Tanner has really backed down since Maddison called him out

[davieG]

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/brentford-leicester-brendan-rodgers-break-up-2218868?ITO=newsnow

 

Leicester should bite the bullet on Brendan Rodgers break-up after lacklustre Brentford draw
ANALYSISThe Foxes’ stagnant performance suggests a change may be needed in the King Power hotseat
BRENTFORD, ENGLAND - MARCH 18: Leicester City manager Brendan Rogers during the Premier League match between Brentford FC and Leicester City at Gtech Community Stadium on March 18, 2023 in Brentford, United Kingdom. (Photo by Rob Newell - CameraSport via Getty Images)
Leicester are now six games without a win in all competitions (Photo: Getty)

By George Simms
March 18, 2023 7:05 pm(Updated March 19, 2023 8:53 am)
Brentford 1-1 Leicester (Jensen 32’| Barnes 52′)

 

 

GTECH COMMUNITY STADIUM — Someone should probably tell Leicester they’re in a relegation scrap. Throughout their 1-1 draw with Brentford, they ambled about with the perfunctory air of 11 men who had returned from a particularly heavy lunch to be reminded they had a Premier League game in 15 minutes.

It was lackadaisical, limp, lifeless, loveless. Yes, they managed not to lose, but that misses the point as spectacularly as they are appearing to.

If anything, this result will only further entrench the Foxes’ apparent belief that they’re not really being hunted, that they’re somehow in control of the freefall, that there’s a parachute tucked somewhere in James Maddison’s shorts.

All it took was the briefest moment of class – Maddison’s scything pass finding Harvey Barnes behind the Bees defence – for Leicester to pick up a point. That goal demonstrated what this side are capable of, yet also how little they’re really trying. Even the attempted kick-off routine to begin the second-half was apathetic, dismissively swatted away by Ethan Pinnock.

Perched one point above the relegation zone, it defies logic why the Foxes don’t appear to be panicking. For the most part, a draw seemed to suit Brendan Rodgers and co – they were just happy their threadbare defence was not tested as much as expected. They appeared comfortable to sleepwalk through their afternoon, as they may continue sleepwalking toward relegation.

Optimists will argue that a point at the Gtech Community Stadium is an achievement. Brentford have only lost one home league game all season, haven’t you heard?

Yet whether it was the midweek trip to Southampton or Leicester’s banality rubbing off on them, Brentford did not look their usually scintillating selves either. With their usual forward trio of Ivan Toney, Yoane Wissa and Bryan Mbeumo seemingly replaced by clones allergic to goalscoring, the burden of excitement fell to Rico Henry.

Henry’s left foot stood out like Harry Souttar in a primary school amidst the drabness, fuelling almost all moments of real class for the Bees. The opener was a direct product of that boot, floating in a pinpoint pass from outside the box to Mbeumo. His cutback was deflected to Mathias Jensen, and as so often this season, the Dane did exactly what was asked of him.

Henry’s pass came as the result of a short corner, and it was yet again Leicester’s sloppiness from set-pieces that allowed Brentford’s well-worked routine to come to fruition. Six defenders mindlessly charged out of the box at Henry, Tete forgot Mbeumo was next to him, and the ball was in the back of the net once more.

Substitute Shandon Baptiste’s late sending-off for two yellow cards in quick succession was an apt demonstration of the host’s uncharacteristic sloppiness and thoughtlessness.

Maddison showed the only real signs of hope from a Leicester player. Unpopular in west London since he celebrated a 30-yard screamer for Norwich in front of the home crowd five years ago, the captain’s regular remonstrations with the referee and occasionally dangerous through balls did nothing to endear him this time. He’s now either scored or assisted every time he has faced Brentford in the Premier League, and aside from a couple of early Patson Daka chances, looked the only one likely to break the ennui.

The strains of this season have left Rodgers an angry waxwork of his former self, although his dour Northern Irish drawl lends itself to a relegation scrap.

Before the game, he had praised the opposition for “doing the basics really well.” On a sunny afternoon in Brentford, no-one was doing the basics well. Even as Leicester fans unfurled a “Rodgers Out” banner to their once-adored manager at the end of the game, they struggled to get it up quickly enough, to really put their hearts into it.

After an FA Cup, multiple fifth-placed finishes and a European semi-final, no-one wanted it to end this way. Yet now Leicester and Rodgers are displaying toxic traits of a failing relationship where neither side quite has the bottle to end it. Both are just hoping the other does something catastrophic enough that they don’t end up looking like the bad guy.

It may be time to grow up. It’s not that they don’t love each other, but this clearly isn’t working. Maybe they can be friends?

An entire squad (bar Maddison) does not simultaneously regress by coincidence, less than two years from beating a Champions League-winning Chelsea side to win the FA Cup. Rodgers may not believe he’s changed anything, but that becomes a problem in itself. Jamie Vardy’s decline may be excused by age, but the same cannot be said of Wilfried Ndidi, or Youri Tielemans, or Caglar Soyuncu. Ricardo Pereira was once considered among the league’s best right-backs and Timothy Castagne is a regular starter for Belgium.

This is why most managerial reigns don’t make it as far as Rodgers’ four-years at the King Power. It was suspected in years past that the Northern Irishman had a three-year sell-by date of his own, and he certainly has not disproved that this season.

Of the nine-strong potential relegation cohort, only Leicester, West Ham and Nottingham Forest have not changed their manager this season. Patrick Vieira’s sacking at Crystal Palace may have seemed rushed, but it displayed a decisiveness that may be necessary to escape the mire.

Rodgers did at least show some ruthlessness pre-match, axing Danny Ward from the starting line-up, with Daniel Iversen taking his place. The Dane made the game’s only save, which perhaps says more about the match than his performance, and the Leicester boss confirmed after the game that the No 1 spot was now his to lose.

Change is clearly better than a rest for Rodgers’ starting keeper spot. Maybe it’s time to accept the same may be true for him.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

On 17/03/2023 at 10:58, RonnieTodger said:

Feels like Tanner has really backed down since Maddison called him out

Had a call off the club obviously.

[SemperEadem]

On 17/03/2023 at 10:58, RonnieTodger said:

Feels like Tanner has really backed down since Maddison called him out

No doubt had his wings clipped.

[davieG]

https://www.givemesport.com/brendan-rodgers-leicester-city-premier-league-king-power-sacked/

 

Leicester board have 'big fear of going into freefall’ at King Power Stadium
BY
GEORGE CANNON

Leicester City could ‘go into freefall’ if they sack manager Brendan Rodgers and get their next appointment wrong, journalist Dean Jones has told GIVEMESPORT.

The Foxes are enduring a disappointing campaign under the Northern Irishman but relieving him of his duties is certainly not without its risks.

Leicester City news – Brendan Rodgers
Rodgers has guided Leicester to two consecutive fifth-placed finishes in the Premier League, the FA Cup, and the Community Shield during his time at the King Power Stadium.

However, the Midlands outfit have struggled over the last 18 months and are firmly involved in a relegation battle at this moment in time.

Rodgers was asked in his latest pre-match press conference if his Leicester players are still fighting and running for him, and he gave a defiant answer.

"I don't think that is in question,” replied the 50-year-old tactician. “The players have given everything and clearly not at the height of our confidence.

"Our objective now is very clear, to ensure we get enough points to stay in the league. There is no tip-toeing around it with 12 games to go. We haven't been consistent enough and have not taken enough points and not been good enough to do that."

What has Jones said about Leicester?
When asked for an update on Rodgers’ situation, Jones told GMS Leicester’s ‘biggest fear right now’ is what the repercussions of hiring the wrong successor would be.

He said: “It feels like we really are at the end of a cycle here under Brendan Rodgers. The problem is, who knows what happens after him, who knows if you can step back up again.

“You could disappear for a while if you get it wrong, and that's Leicester’s biggest fear right now. I think that after Brendan Rodgers, if it's the wrong appointment, they could go into freefall.”

Who could Leicester hire?
Sacking Rodgers would be a big call for the Leicester hierarchy to make, but there are currently some potentially intriguing candidates to replace him out of work.

The likes of Steven Gerrard, Ralph Hasenhuttl, Frank Lampard, Rafael Benitez, Bruno Lage, and Marcelo Bielsa are unemployed and all have Premier League experience.

Bar Benitez, though, the aforementioned managers have not been able to replicate Rodgers’ success in the English top-flight.

It’s set to be one of the most fiercely contested relegation battles of recent times and deciding whether to stick with Rodgers or not is likely to be debated in the Leicester boardroom over the coming weeks.

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Leicester board have 'big fear of going into freefall’ at King Power Stadium
BY
GEORGE CANNON

Leicester City could ‘go into freefall’ if they sack manager Brendan Rodgers and get their next appointment wrong, journalist Dean Jones has told GIVEMESPORT.

The Foxes are enduring a disappointing campaign under the Northern Irishman but relieving him of his duties is certainly not without its risks.

Leicester City news – Brendan Rodgers
Rodgers has guided Leicester to two consecutive fifth-placed finishes in the Premier League, the FA Cup, and the Community Shield during his time at the King Power Stadium.

However, the Midlands outfit have struggled over the last 18 months and are firmly involved in a relegation battle at this moment in time.

Rodgers was asked in his latest pre-match press conference if his Leicester players are still fighting and running for him, and he gave a defiant answer.

"I don't think that is in question,” replied the 50-year-old tactician. “The players have given everything and clearly not at the height of our confidence.

"Our objective now is very clear, to ensure we get enough points to stay in the league. There is no tip-toeing around it with 12 games to go. We haven't been consistent enough and have not taken enough points and not been good enough to do that."

What has Jones said about Leicester?
When asked for an update on Rodgers’ situation, Jones told GMS Leicester’s ‘biggest fear right now’ is what the repercussions of hiring the wrong successor would be.

He said: “It feels like we really are at the end of a cycle here under Brendan Rodgers. The problem is, who knows what happens after him, who knows if you can step back up again.

“You could disappear for a while if you get it wrong, and that's Leicester’s biggest fear right now. I think that after Brendan Rodgers, if it's the wrong appointment, they could go into freefall.”

Who could Leicester hire?
Sacking Rodgers would be a big call for the Leicester hierarchy to make, but there are currently some potentially intriguing candidates to replace him out of work.

The likes of Steven Gerrard, Ralph Hasenhuttl, Frank Lampard, Rafael Benitez, Bruno Lage, and Marcelo Bielsa are unemployed and all have Premier League experience.

Bar Benitez, though, the aforementioned managers have not been able to replicate Rodgers’ success in the English top-flight.

It’s set to be one of the most fiercely contested relegation battles of recent times and deciding whether to stick with Rodgers or not is likely to be debated in the Leicester boardroom over the coming weeks.

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Edited 20 March 2023 by ARTY_FOX