I think people need to put things into perspective. If Leicester don’t win the league 5 or so seasons ago he’s a legend who in 2 years has taken them to two 5th place finishes and won them an FA Cup… fans are saying give him money and see what he can do.
After winning the league league Leicester have finished
9th
8th
12th
Season before winning the league 14th.
Since Rodgers joined 5th and 5th finishes plus an FA cup medal. How is that not progress. Will a replacement take them into the CL or more likely take them back to 8-12th or possibly even back to battling relegation if they get an Ole level of manager.
Really need perspective Rodgers is making Leicester battle way above their weight.
Its not that simple.
Brendan is one of the highest paid managers in the EPL, we dont pay that amount of salary to finish lower mid table, and be uncompetitive in the majority of games.
He is our first manager to be given a 100 million pound training complex to train the players.
He has our most expensively assembled squad in history.
He clearly had a remit of which he accepted to be a top 6 club.
Now for me if the performances are there, and the issues are just bad luck in games, I can tolerate it, but the problem is we have been regressing under him. When he first joined the way we was playing was world class, teams were fearful of us. The turning point seemed to be when we got battered by Manchester City and Liverpool in succession, that led to the collapse in the season you guys stole CL from us. The season after we somehow stayed top 4 most of season but the performances were nowhere near as good, and then again we collapsed, and during that collapse he publicly berated the players for been 3-0 up half time against West Brom.
However the FA cup performances were good and it was great we won that.
Now this season we have just collapsed in most of our play, we are relegation level for defending (this is confirmed by compiled statistics), and I think the only reason we have the points we got is some good performances by our forward players.
To make it worse he is now attacking the supporters, and saying we are over ambitious, that message may well be rubbing on the players as well, and given those comments I think he now needs to go. Not to mention the defending this season should be fixable by proper coaching and he cannot sort it out.
Rodgers is basically a confidence manager, he thrives when everyone is high on confidence, but when that ends, it seems he cannot sort it out and get out the rut.
We also have multiple players who seemingly don't want to sign new contracts, that may be because those players see their future at higher levels, but it also could be a lack of faith in the manager.
Jimmy is also 100% on the injury situation, at Leicester City prior to Rodgers we were used to one of the best injury records in the sport, now we have constant injuries week in and week out and multiple players out with long term injuries. This has got to be related to Rodgers and his approach to fitness.