Revealed: The price of Brendan Rodgers for Leicester City
Leicester City recently sacked team boss Claude Puel and hired Brendan Rodgers from Celtic. Because the Northern Irishman was still contracted to the Scottish champions, the Foxes had to pay compensation for the appointment.
Brendan Rodgers begun his Leicester City tenure with a disappointing last-minute loss at Watford. Then won his first King Power Stadium outing versus lowly Fulham. It’ll take a little longer to fully implement his Foxes plan; another transitional period – yippee!
To be fair this experimental input on to the team should garner more positive results than previous City boss Claude Puel managed. Although, as Rodgers recently explained, the Frenchman deserves credit for making some necessary alterations on Filbert Way before the Northern Irishman’s arrival.
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The successful luring of the 46-year-old by the East Midlands club was viewed as surprising by many onlookers, professional and amateur alike. However, us Foxes are aware owner Top Srivaddhanaprabha aspires for Leicester to break into the top-six Premier League standings.
In fact, Leicester City had to pay an enormous amount of compensation to Celtic in order to prise away their managerial target. Media outlet FourFourTwo state the fee in an article on Thursday:
"“The Foxes could have paid much less in the summer but chose to land their man immediately after Claude Puel’s sacking.”Going on to reveal the money paid:“Leicester paid Celtic a cool £9 million to make Brendan Rodgers their new manager last month.”"
Wow, £9 million, that’s nine, nine, million. Looks like Leicester are a significant or ‘big’ club after all.
Telegraph say this on the matter of the fee, which includes obtaining the services of Rodgers staff from their time in Glasgow:
"“With Rodgers also taking assistant manager Chris Davies, first-team coach Kolo Toure and head of performance Glen Driscoll to the King Power Stadium, the total cost of the deal for Leicester was £9m.”"
Naturally, in order to get the best from the new gaffer it’s best to have his preferred coaches around him. Potentially these appointments will be the corrections needed to achieve European qualification next campaign.
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Leicester travel to Burnley on Saturday for their latest premiership fixture. Sean Dyche’s Clarets are hovering very close to the relegation zone and will be no pushovers. Yet they’ll have to stop inform Jamie Vardy to win.