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Foxello - we don’t have the money to sack him, why do you think he’s making these comments in the first place? Any idea of mutual consent is optimistic, if you’re Rodgers you would keep playing the ‘poor me’ card and hang on for your £30m pay off - why would you sacrifice even part of that? The best scenario is that another club comes in and meets the compensation or Leicester somehow have something in reserve to meet his contract obligations

It’s an unholy mess and one of the clubs making I’m afraid. Rudkin gave him the 5.5 year contract before any top 5 finish, Rudkin hired Congerton and sanctioned the moves for the trash we signed last summer and Rudkin failed to manage the contractual situation so we will lose 2 expensive assets for nothing in Jan.

In summary - Rodgers has been enabled at every turn and the FFP situation is of our own making

comment by Foxello (U6985)
posted 16 minutes ago
I am struggling to see how Rodgers can possibly stay on after his comments last night. It was very akin to what Scott Parker did after their tonking, and he was sacked a couple of days later. You can't just attack the owners and their strategy in dealing with the finances of the club and ensuring we stick to FFP rules and then expect to keep your job, surely? If things are so bad for him, why does he even want to stay? Not to mention his criticism of several of the players, whilst simultaneously defending the guy who has just left the club...

You also have to put his comments into the context of him being an absolute PR machine who will always ensure that whatever the circumstances, he is not tarred. The media gammons love him and happily lap it up. It's clear that he is trying to engineer a narrative where he avoids the blame for our disastrous start to the season by blaming the owners and the players.

My suspicion is he is trying to force a situation where he and the club part on mutual terms. It would be best for all parties if that happened now. He would still depart with some respect for the FA Cup win, he would avoid the stigma of being sacked and we would be able to move forward with someone who actually wants the job for what it is now, not what it was 2 years ago.

Let's be clear - regardless of the financial situation and lack of transfer activity, Leicester City is still a very good club for managers to come into. We are not a bottom 3 side, we have some very good players and, with a new manager coming in and rejuvenating the squad, we can still have a relatively good season under the circumstances.

I just hope that we are not trying to hold out until the World Cup to make a change, as we could be well and truly in a relegation scrap by then and it would make it very difficult for us to stay up if we were significantly cut adrift.
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comment by 99 Problems (U12353)
posted 3 minutes ago
Foxello - we don’t have the money to sack him, why do you think he’s making these comments in the first place? Any idea of mutual consent is optimistic, if you’re Rodgers you would keep playing the ‘poor me’ card and hang on for your £30m pay off - why would you sacrifice even part of that? The best scenario is that another club comes in and meets the compensation or Leicester somehow have something in reserve to meet his contract obligations

It’s an unholy mess and one of the clubs making I’m afraid. Rudkin gave him the 5.5 year contract before any top 5 finish, Rudkin hired Congerton and sanctioned the moves for the trash we signed last summer and Rudkin failed to manage the contractual situation so we will lose 2 expensive assets for nothing in Jan.

In summary - Rodgers has been enabled at every turn and the FFP situation is of our own making
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The club has undoubtedly made some bad business decisions in recent years which are starting to have a real impact on how we operate. We do have some of the money from the Fofana transfer and we have only spent £16m or so on the Faes transfer, so there are some funds available that weren't a few weeks ago. Also, it depends on the terms of the contract, but my understanding is that he could be placed on gardening leave and we would only have to pay him until he gets another job. I can't imagine him wanting to be out of the game for too long and his stock is still relatively high, despite our troubles.

Regarding why he would go for the mutual consent option, it's simple - his ego. He has an over-inflated opinion of himself. Does he want to be involved in a relegation battle? Does he want to potentially sully his brand if the poor results continue and the media start to question him rather than the club now that the transfer window is shut? He has been successfully able to lay the blame at the owners door but that has a short lifespan. He doesn't have a bottom 3 side and that excuse will only last for so long. By staying at the club under continuingly poor results, he is risking tarnishing his PR reputation. Ultimately, I think that matters most to him.

Of course, the best option all around is for Villa to sack Gerrard and then come in for Rodgers whilst he is still here, meaning we get some compo as well. That is the ideal scenario right now.

That’s a fair assessment Foxello. What pains me about all of this is that we’ve given him the excuses on a plate and it would be far more preferable to fail on his own terms but there you go, it is what it is. I still maintain that whoever comes here has a number of problems on there hands particularly from a personnel perspective

While this isn’t a bottom 3 side I don’t think it’s that far off. Much depends on Faes but if he doesn’t work out we have one decent central defender who is 34. Next to Barnes we don’t have any decent wide players. That’s a real problem for any manager to have to contend with because you have to focus everything through the middle of the park - the lack of quality out wide was a massive issue last night. Any manager coming in here would rightly dismayed at the lack of quality out wide, the failure to secure a decent wide player in the last 2 years is criminal

We also have a striker who will be 36 in January and whether the fans want to admit it or not, his powers are waning. We at least have options at front which Rodgers doesn’t want to consider

I really hope we can get rid of him before it’s too late, I really hope this job still appeals to decent managers but I’m afraid the financial messages being sent out by the club aren’t exactly enticing. We could end up with Scott Parker!!!

Rodgers and Soyuncu at open war now, which one is leaving 😂😂😂😂

Need arro’s assessment of the situation.

comment by 99 Problems (U12353)
posted 10 hours ago
That’s a fair assessment Foxello. What pains me about all of this is that we’ve given him the excuses on a plate and it would be far more preferable to fail on his own terms but there you go, it is what it is. I still maintain that whoever comes here has a number of problems on there hands particularly from a personnel perspective

While this isn’t a bottom 3 side I don’t think it’s that far off. Much depends on Faes but if he doesn’t work out we have one decent central defender who is 34. Next to Barnes we don’t have any decent wide players. That’s a real problem for any manager to have to contend with because you have to focus everything through the middle of the park - the lack of quality out wide was a massive issue last night. Any manager coming in here would rightly dismayed at the lack of quality out wide, the failure to secure a decent wide player in the last 2 years is criminal

We also have a striker who will be 36 in January and whether the fans want to admit it or not, his powers are waning. We at least have options at front which Rodgers doesn’t want to consider

I really hope we can get rid of him before it’s too late, I really hope this job still appeals to decent managers but I’m afraid the financial messages being sent out by the club aren’t exactly enticing. We could end up with Scott Parker!!!
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Please no! 😕

Might it be worth trying Daka out wide on the right? Rather than giving him 45 seconds in a match to make an impact- which can't be helping his confidence much.

That’s a good shout. My only concern with that was the way we took a promising striker, Musa, and ruined his confidence by playing hmm him out on the left because Ranieri couldn’t figure out what to do with him. Daka is an excellent player who is going the same way for me, wasted at Leicester currently and has shown how lethal he can be given the service. I’d be up for giving him minutes out wide to see how he does though

comment by 99 Problems (U12353)
posted 15 hours, 56 minutes ago
That’s a fair assessment Foxello. What pains me about all of this is that we’ve given him the excuses on a plate and it would be far more preferable to fail on his own terms but there you go, it is what it is. I still maintain that whoever comes here has a number of problems on there hands particularly from a personnel perspective

While this isn’t a bottom 3 side I don’t think it’s that far off. Much depends on Faes but if he doesn’t work out we have one decent central defender who is 34. Next to Barnes we don’t have any decent wide players. That’s a real problem for any manager to have to contend with because you have to focus everything through the middle of the park - the lack of quality out wide was a massive issue last night. Any manager coming in here would rightly dismayed at the lack of quality out wide, the failure to secure a decent wide player in the last 2 years is criminal

We also have a striker who will be 36 in January and whether the fans want to admit it or not, his powers are waning. We at least have options at front which Rodgers doesn’t want to consider

I really hope we can get rid of him before it’s too late, I really hope this job still appeals to decent managers but I’m afraid the financial messages being sent out by the club aren’t exactly enticing. We could end up with Scott Parker!!!
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No, no, no. I don’t want Scott Parker here, and many others will feel the same way. I refer to Darren Eadie again, and how his career was finished.

I see Oliver Brown from the Telegraph gets it !