While the 2016 champions have regained some stability since Rodgers’ arrival in 2019, the 2022-2023 season quickly turns into a nightmare. While some English clubs spend tens or even hundreds of millions of euros on the transfer window, Leicester is very discreet with the most expensive transfer being a certain Wout Faes (17M), arrived on the gong from Reims.
An incoming transfer window far too calm for the taste of the British coach. “It’s quite obvious that we are weaker than last season“, he had railed at the start of the season. And Rodgers had been right. Orphans of Wesley Fofanasold for 80 million to Chelsea and their goalkeeper Kasper SchmeichelTHE Foxes are struggling and make their worst start to the season since 1983-1984 (1/21).
Whose fault is it ? Difficult to point to a single person responsible. An impoverished squad, a picky defense (3rd worst defense in the Premier League despite the presence of Faes and Timothy Castagne), executives less decisive than in previous seasons (one thinks in particular of Jamie Vardyauthor of a small goal, and Tielemans, less prominent and currently injured): the reasons for this failure are numerous.
This Sunday, the day following Leicester’s new defeat on the lawn of Crystal Palace (2-1) which plunged them into the red zone, Brendan Rodgers, the one who had managed to revive this breathless team in 2019, quit his job”by mutual consent“.
With only 7 wins for 17 losses in 28 matches, Leicester, 19th, has 25 points, one unit behind the first non-relegation player. There are now 10 matches left. Foxes, 10 finals, to reverse the trend and save their place among the English elite. First final this Tuesday evening once morest Aston Villa.
