Debunking 5 ridiculous media statements about Brendan Rodgers

Myth 4: He deserved more time

The simple fact was that he was given way too much time. At the start of the 2022-23 season, his attitude was obvious, not that the media even acknowledged it. On the opening game of the season with the team comfortably 2-0 up at home to Brentford in a sweltering stadium he stubbornly made only one substitution out of five because the team limped to a 2-2 draw against a resurgent Bees team buoyed by all available fresh legs off the bench. Rodgers knew the point he was making to the board: he was unhappy with the squad and refused to pick some decent players off the bench. It was a pig-headed move and would cost him as he went on to have to wait till October before the foxes registered their first Premier League victory of the season.

This season has been a shambles! Foxes fans have enjoyed only three home victories all season and have seen the team lose 20 times in all competitions. Late collapses are common and losing games when conceding first have become the norm. The cup victories have seen the team scrape victories against Stockport County on penalties and Gillingham and Walsall by lucky goals before crashing out to Championship Blackburn Rovers. The squad now lacks character, confidence as well as craft as they find themselves facing the very real prospect of relegation from the Premier League for the first time since they faced it in 2014/2015 before a spectacular escape.