Leicester are reaching the end of an era

[davieG]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11664551/TOM-COLLOMOSSE-Brendan-Rodgers-make-decision-Leicester-future-soon.html

 

TOM COLLOMOSSE: Leicester are reaching the end of an era and there's no guarantee there'll be success in the next one... Brendan Rodgers will have to make a decision on his future soon
Leicester are coming to the end of an era regarding their current playing squad 
The Foxes will have to begin a rebuild if they are to find success once more 
Brendan Rodgers will have to decide whether he wants to play a part in that 
The head coach has never exceeded four years in charge of a club in his career 

 

As Leicester City reach the end of one era, their ability to make a success of the next one rests on a knife edge.

In the ideal scenario, Leicester stay up and again become the envy of all clubs outside the Premier League’s financial elite.

Brighton, with a talented coach in Roberto De Zerbi and a squad of improving players whose transfer value is rocketing, are now that club.

 

 

While their future looks rosy and De Zerbi is targeting European qualification, Leicester’s is troubled. They have not won in the league since November and are a point above the bottom three.

 

Brendan Rodgers is approaching four years in charge at the King Power Stadium, his longest stint in any job. But Leicester are a different club to the one he joined and both manager and hierarchy must decide whether this is still the right partnership.

Youri Tielemans is one of seven players whose contract expires at the end of the season. James Maddison’s deal is up in 2024. Newcastle await developments after two bids for Maddison last summer. The Magpies also enquired about Harvey Barnes, who has a deal until 2025. Jamie Vardy is 36 and it is clear the magic is fading.

Fans can expect a return to the days when Leicester searched in unusual markets for gems such as Vardy, Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kante for a combined £7million.

Vardy was signed from non-League Fleetwood, Mahrez from Le Havre and Kante from Caen. Vardy is arguably the greatest player in the club’s history while Mahrez and Kante brought in about £90m when they were sold to Manchester City and Chelsea respectively.

The signing of £17m left back Victor Kristiansen from FC Copenhagen shows the road ahead.

Rodgers is one of the best managers Leicester have had. He won the FA Cup and Community Shield in 2021, as well as consecutive fifth-place finishes and the semi-finals of the Europa Conference League last season. He has done a remarkable job, with a net transfer spend of about £3m. 

Chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha has stuck by Rodgers, who is one of the Premier League’s best-paid managers after signing a deal worth close to £10m a year in 2019. But with finances delicate, the prospect of relegation haunts Leicester.

 

The club’s next set of accounts, for 2021-22, will show a significant loss. While they will not include the £75m sale of Wesley Fofana to Chelsea last August, owners King Power are restricted by financial fair play rules and the watchword these days is ‘sustainability’.

Is this what Rodgers wants? Do King Power believe he is the man for the period of consolidation ahead? Rodgers has refused to elaborate on the ‘invisible problems’ that have held the club back and after Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Brighton, he questioned his players’ ability and bemoaned a lack of ‘personality’.

The type of player Rodgers admires usually does not come cheap. He made a point of praising Brighton substitute Evan Ferguson, 18, who scored a late equaliser after strikes from Marc Albrighton and Barnes cancelled out Kaoru Mitoma’s opener.

 

Leicester are chasing a right winger and a centre back, with Lyon’s Tete, on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk, and Harry Souttar of Stoke on the radar. If they were to hit the ground running, and Maddison can find rhythm quickly after injury, then all is not lost. The alternative does not bear thinking about.

 

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Homestead, Coalville, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

The article fails to mention the lengthy injury list that has contributed to a poor season.

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Ajoke2345, Essex, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

I would say just leave it to BR. Surely you can see it's the best way forward by now.

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Milander, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

Not a Leicester fan but live in the County so keen to see them do well. But where has the money gone? The training centre - supposedly 100m? Are they at risk of having one of the best training facilities in the world - while playing in the Championship.

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Stanley Road, The North, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

Leicester are and will always be a small provincial club. What they have achieved is akin to Forest in the 80s and Burnley in the 60s. They will revert back to type like those clubs.

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Bluezoo, Leicester, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago

Rodger's doesn't have a decision to make, the club does. Rodger's tired and predictable style of play was found out 18 months ago. Players are clearly told not to play any pass that has any risk. It is mind-numbing.

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Victorian fox, Melbourne, Australia, 5 hours ago

Born in Leicester and season ticket holder before moving to Australia. When asked where I'm from people talk about the prem win, before that who had heard of Leicester

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Robuk1960, Leicester, United Kingdom, 10 hours ago

There is no guarantee that Brighton will stay at the top end of the table. All clubs outside the super rich 7 have to sell their best players. Replacing them is fraught with risk as Leicester, Everton and Villa, among others, have found. Lets not pretend that the Premier League is particularly competitive. It really isnt. Financial inequality will ultimately destroy it.

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jonnnnn, manchester, United Kingdom, 11 hours ago

The only guarantee is that there won't be success after what's happened past few years.

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Lyndale Farrant, Waterford, United Kingdom, 11 hours ago

The last 10yrs at the club has been nothing short of miraculous. But if we lost Rogers I genuinely know who we could turn to, the club needs to get back into the light & exposure of the media circus. It's been too quiet for too long (the last 3 windows we've lost a big name/big player with a personality to match) but I struggle to see what will happen over the next couple of yrs. I've been there for the good times & also the bad of losing Vichai. Let the good times come back again, I hate to see my beloved Fosse struggle. 1 Love, 1 Family #LCFCiBELIEVE

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forwhatitsworth, Leicester, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago

Rodgers has a history of buying players and not playing them. Who would want to sign for Leicester and sit on the bench?

[ian__marshall]

Yet another journo blowing smoke up BRs backside and falling for the net spend narrative he's thrown out there. 

 

I'm genuinely starting to wonder if some of these so called journo's are being incentivised to consistently roll out these pro Rodgers messages because they clearly haven't been watching us play. 

 

Edited 23 January 2023 by ian__marshall

[Gazza M]

It's not Rodgers choice if he wants to carry on. It's just a case of as and when we can't sink any lower we get rid of him. 

[RoboFox]

An unmotivated squad? Dogshit clueless tactics? Fvcking woeful football? The inability to score goals? A fragile, weak mentality? The wasting of millions on utter garbage? Unprecedented regression of our star players? Injuries?

 

Nah, little Leicester haven't given elite Brendan Rodgers enough money and we're reverting back to type.

[Sharpe's Fox]

[Sampson]

We’ve already reached it.

 

After being knocked out by Roma in the Conference League semi-final last season, it very much felt like the club’s golden era was over.
 

The Conference League run last season always felt a bit like one last throw of the dice while we were clearly in terminal decline.

[StanSP]

It is the end of an era. The big/rich six/seven are absolutely delighted we've effectively disappeared. 

 

 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

What a nonsense article and exactly the sort of crap you could write if you looked at the facts without any understanding of context and what’s actually gone on.

[Paninistickers]

9 minutes ago, Sampson said:

We’ve already reached it.

 

After being knocked out by Roma in the Conference League semi-final last season, it very much felt like the club’s golden era was over.
 

The Conference League run last season always felt a bit like one last throw of the dice while we were clearly in terminal decline.

Great post. 

 

I loved the mini conference league run last season but it did feel a bit like Andy Murray having an unlikely one last run at the Aussie open. 

 

I'm ready for a reset. The Souttar Kristensen, Faes type activity gives me some encouragement.  But we desperately desperately need to reboot as a PL club, not in the championship. It'll be a long Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday way back otherwise 

[Stadt]

I hate football journalists 

[Leicesterpool]

I think people have said the same thing before, but every time we still come back with answer. If you remember after the league winning campaign we had two years of nothing under Shakespeare and Puel, where the football was dry and bland. Midtable table at best and everyone felt this best it was going to get. Rodgers came in, suddenly we become european chasing side again two top six finishes and a Fa Cup winners medal. Just maybe it's not a case of Leicester's golden era ending, more Rodgers era is ending. 

 

Media need to focus more on the likes of Spurs and Chelsea who are more in decline, Spurs 15 years without a major cup. Chelsea looking more like a midtable finish.

 

Press just like undermine us, to them we are that fluke side that won the premier league out of nowhere, the Fa Cup win and Champions League Quarter Finals means nothing to them.

Edited 23 January 2023 by Leicesterpool

[KFS]

19 minutes ago, StanSP said:

It is the end of an era. The big/rich six/seven are absolutely delighted we've effectively disappeared. 

 

 

Came to post this when I saw the thread title. Spot on. They won. Congrats 

[Chelmofox]

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Rodgers is one of the best managers Leicester have had. He won the FA Cup and Community Shield in 2021, as well as consecutive fifth-place finishes and the semi-finals of the Europa Conference League last season. He has done a remarkable job, with a net transfer spend of about £3m. 

Literally Rodgers writing his own sh1t for the Journo. 

[UHDrive]

I stopped reading when it stated that FFP was restricting our spending. Only takes one false sentence.

[Winchesterfox]

'Rodgers has a decision to make'. As if him leaving is a consequence of our decline rather than a major cause of it.  

[Matt]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

Brendan Rodgers will have to make a decision on his future soon

 

1 hour ago, davieG said:

Brendan Rodgers will have to decide whether he wants to play a part in that 

 

1 hour ago, davieG said:

Brendan Rodgers is approaching four years in charge at the King Power Stadium, his longest stint in any job. But Leicester are a different club to the one he joined and both manager and hierarchy must decide whether this is still the right partnership.

 

1 hour ago, davieG said:

He has done a remarkable job

 

1 hour ago, davieG said:

Is this what Rodgers wants?

Ha! Wow.

 

Edited 23 January 2023 by Matt

[lgfualol]

Rodgers deffo gets a draft of all these articles for his approval. 

[PAPA LAZAROU]

38 minutes ago, StanSP said:

It is the end of an era. The big/rich six/seven are absolutely delighted we've effectively disappeared. 

 

 

I don't think the so-called big 6 were ever bothered by us. They knew it was a one off as most of us did if we are truthful. It would take an owner with much more wealth than the one we have got to ever challenge those clubs on a long term basis. As it stands we have those wonderful memories to keep and be thankful for. Having now won all the domestic trophies we have a history to be proud of at last. 

 

For a club our size the best we can hope for is premier league football every year to look forward to with perhaps a good cup win now and again.challenging the top six was never going to be sustainable so lets just be happy we have what we have.

Edited 23 January 2023 by PAPA LAZAROU

[Hammo]

A risible piece of worthless, superficial Rodgers-rimming journalism.

 

It is probably the end of an era, yes, but the key factor that the writer failed to address is that it didn’t have to be. It was not inevitable.

 

The owner, directors, the players and especially the manager are all complicit in having allowed Leicester City to go in a very short time from being the envy of every other club of our stature to something of a laughing stock.

 

Vichai had a dream. I don’t imagine he ever thought it would turn out like this.

[Kilworthfox]

Expectations are being eroded away whilst BR doesn't catch any heat for his woefully inept role in all of it. 

 

Even our fan base is complicit for accepting his version of events. 

 

Who are we anymore? I loved upsetting the applecart, by Lcfc doing a better job pound for pound job than the rest, there is no excuse for, the incompetence we have witnessed over the last 2-3 seasons. 

 

 

 

 

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[MattFox]

Another Leicester piece in the National media that defends Rodgers and doesn’t say anything about the way the clubs run/ownership.

 

🥱

 

Edited 23 January 2023 by MattFox

[SemperEadem]

Just now, MattFox said:

Another Leicester piece in the National media that defends Rodgers and doesn’t say anything about the way the clubs run/ownership.

 

🥱

 

I don’t think you will see any media outlet go after our ownership.

[kingkisnorbo]

Published in the Daily Mail. The indelible watermark of gutter level bilge. 

[Happy Fox]

Maybe this is his letter to the Everton board? 

 

[hackneyfox]

2 hours ago, PAPA LAZAROU said:

I don't think the so-called big 6 were ever bothered by us. They knew it was a one off as most of us did if we are truthful. It would take an owner with much more wealth than the one we have got to ever challenge those clubs on a long term basis. As it stands we have those wonderful memories to keep and be thankful for. Having now won all the domestic trophies we have a history to be proud of at last. 

 

For a club our size the best we can hope for is premier league football every year to look forward to with perhaps a good cup win now and again.challenging the top six was never going to be sustainable so lets just be happy we have what we have.

I reckon those two seasons we were in the top 4 before finishing 5th may have worried them, one of the big 6 failed to make Europe and almost failed to make the CL which would have been a huge hit to whoever it was.