Why Leicester City should sack Brendan Rodgers

If you had not come round to it, it is time for Leicester City to be courageous and sack Brendan Rodgers. Here is why they must desperately act.

I could just point to the league table. However, I think it would be a little disrespectful towards the Northern Irish gaffer to simply dismiss any analysis of his game and just bin him. Rodgers has to be sacked because it is a necessity at this point.

A dreary Leicester City

Four games in, one point gained, bottom of the table. Sounds spiffing if you ask me. Truly this is the worst start the King Power club have had to a campaign in recent memory. Not just do the results look bad, the performances have inspired little as well.

Put it this way, when you play Arsenal and every single time the Foxes score, you immediately concede a goal within two minutes, that is a bad look. When Leicester play a 10-man Chelsea team and can hardly create anything until the final moments, before subbing off a critical progressor and creator, it is a bad look. Leicester is a bad look.

How far can Rodgers be blamed for these is questionable. To be honest, it would be unfair to single out the gaffer: but that is what I am going to do. Despite a lack of transfer activity, a lack of performances from players, there is more Rodgers could have done.

Odd decisions and incessant deflections

When a head coach is under the negative spotlight of the media, they often cave under the pressure and say things to protect themselves. They deflect blame. They deflect from poor decision-making both before and during a fixture.

Let us analyse the Chelsea match: one we were expecting the Foxes to lose anyway, yet seem s dejected about when we actually lost it. We started with an odd line-up which shifted positions frequently during the match.

Some argued it was a 4-3-3, but it most certainly did not play like a 4-3-3. This is because of the inclusion of Dennis Praet alongside three other midfielders and Harvey Barnes who is our recognised left-winger. The belief is that Praet was a makeshift RW. This is not the whole truth.

Watching the game, he stayed much more central during most of the match, offering little threat down the right wing. In practice, we were a 4-4-2 with Barnes and Jamie Vardy up front. The Belgian AM would only mildly drift wide in the channels.

It is not a surprise that this system did not properly function to benefit Leicester. Rodgers had a confused set up when he could have placed an actual RW in the position and allowed Barnes to follow his usual style rather than adapting. Otherwise, Kelechi Iheanacho should have started with Vardy.

So, we started wrong and confused. Conor Gallagher was shown a red card at the 28th minute, but it would be Raheem Sterling who scored first twice before the Foxes replied. By the point of our reply, Iheanacho and Ayoze Perez were brought on, and we looked dangerous. Up until Youri Tielemans was taken off for Wilfred Ndidi.

We started wrong, and during the match, Rodgers chose right only to let it all slip with a foolish substitution of the Belgian ‘Starman’. A similar pattern has characterised every single match thus far, especially with the incessant inclusion of Daniel Amartey over – say- Caglar Soyuncu.

Rodgers must be sacked because he makes poor choices with a good enough squad, deflects responsibility during interviews, and yes there is one more reason. The King Power side must act now to secure a better finish in the league, as well as securing a good coach or caretaker coach.

From Marcelo Bielsa to Sean Dyche, Mauricio Pochettino to the currently employed Graham Potter. There are options, and the Foxes should pounce. Let Foxes of Leicester know who you would want should the gaffer depart.