Blaming Leicester’s chairman won’t end well for Rodgers

In recent times, Brendan Rodgers’ unjustifiably and annoyingly positive outlook has turned to evasive behaviour. Blaming Leicester City’s chairman for his own shortcomings certainly won’t end well for the Northern Irishman.

Some Leicester supporters have rightly pointed out that the Foxes boss is probably at fault for the mess which lead to an almost club-imposed transfer embargo. In actuality, LCFC did sign a couple of players, one for free, Alex Smithies, and one for a reported £15million, Wout Faes. I actually like the look of Faes and his capacity as a centreback. We’ll have to wait and see how he develops. Though the latest Belgian arrival will likely outlive the former Liverpool boss on Filbert Way.

Rodgers is known to have had a say or given the green light to commission the poor Leicester signings in previous windows: Jannik Vestergaard, Ryan Bertrand, Boubakary Soumare and Ayoze Perez standout. Meanwhile the jury remains in deep deliberation with respect to striker Patson Daka, whatever any Blue Army members happen to tell you.

These mediocre players – maybe some were once performing at higher levels – are all ‘Rodgers acquisitions’. Until this summer, incomings came through his guy, Lee Congerton. Yet Congerton left for Atalanta in Italy prior to the now closed 2022 summer market opening.

In my view, these failings and errors in recruitment by Rodgers and his staff partially caused LCFC’s hierarchy to be reluctant to splash more cash. While backing a manager is essential and ‘BR’ has a solid reputation as a coach in elite football, you only judge a horse by the races it has run.

Leicester also wanted to balance their books due to relatively radical spending, for them, anyway. Not to mention the outfit is being ‘monitored‘ over financial fair play, meaning a cautious approach was determined in-house.

Certain pundits and supporters viewed the failure to qualify twice for Champions League in similar, painful circumstances as a blunder from the wonderful position the team were in. Whilst others adjudged Europa League qualification as an illustration of how much Leicester City Football Club had grown. Essentially, the truth is somewhat intermediate: Rodgers did accelerate and finesse the squad in general, attaining silverware in the process.

Nonetheless, the 49-year-old is essentially now causing his own downfall: criticising your boss is a risky business, especially when you are the one mostly to blame for regression. Following defeat to Manchester United, Rodgers said the following, directed in less cryptic fashion, at LCFC chairman Top Srivaddhanaprabha.

"“With the greatest respect, we have not had the help in the market this team needed [from ownership].”Daily Mail"

Airing dirty laundry in public is the antipode of the Srivaddhanaprabha family’s manner. Ex-Fulham gaffer Scott Parker and Rodgers considering this behaviour normal, is curious. After his revelations, loss to Brighton & Hove Albion could seal the latter’s fate. Let’s just hope the departure is mutual so Leicester avoid some of the apparent £23m payoff the manager would receive. Otherwise, his team must show more fight and quality to survive Premier League relegation.