Leicester City legend is right about not sacking Brendan Rodgers

Make no mistake in what is being implied here – the notion of sticking with Brendan Rodgers, for now (and for what’s it’s worth this opinion will change if the club still sits on 1 point after 8 league games), is more about the low concentration of available and realistic managerial prospects than it is about any merits the incumbent manager is clinging on to. And then there’s the added component of managers like Graham Potter and Mauricio Pochettino who might have been interested 18 months ago, now way out of the club’s reach and wholly unrealistic.

The football has been more than bad, it has been dire, but this exact point is not the time to panic. This is the beginning of the first full week where the squad is not having to worry about potential departures, and the coaches can truly begin to settle on a way of working and a playing style going forward without the fear of any of their assets becoming unsettled by bigger clubs.

The Daily Mail reported two separate stories over the weekend about the Foxes’ finances, the first of which outlined that the club is expected to make the biggest annual loss in the Premier League, somewhere just shy of £120 million, and last night that Rodgers would pocket a £10million payout if the club pulled the trigger on him. Given those two situations, and that somewhere less than half of the £69.5 million Wesley Fofana fee was put into the transfer kitty, sacking the manager would leave just £10million of the aforementioned fee.