Dean Jones has claimed on The Done Deal Show that Leicester City promised Brendan Rodgers a squad overhaul this summer.
Leicester are currently the only side in the Premier League not to have made a signing in any of Europe’s top five leagues this summer, despite having a below-average season last time out.
The Athletic has relayed that Rodgers was expecting five or six new players to arrive at The King Power Stadium this summer, but instead, most of the talk has been about players such as James Maddison, Harvey Barnes and Wesley Fofana leaving the club.
Jones has now revealed that Rodgers was promised a squad overhaul by the Leicester board this summer.
He said: “Leicester are the only team, I think, that haven’t actually signed anyone yet in this transfer window, and this is a transfer window when Brendan Rodgers was looking for an overhaul, so he feels that that squad has gone a bit stale.
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“There’s still enough quality in there that I think Leicester can have a good season, there’s no doubt about that, and it’ll be another test of Brendan Rodgers as a coach to make sure that happens, because he has obvious frustrations last season when it looked like he might even lose his job.
“But he stayed on this season because he was assured about a squad rebuild, basically. It hasn’t happened at all.”
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It’s very bizarre that Leicester haven’t brought any new faces into the club while not exactly seeming desperate to move players on to boost funds, so it remains to be seen as to why Rodgers hasn’t been backed.
If no new signings are made soon, then before the end of the window, the likes of Fofana, Maddison and Barnes may all start to question their own futures at a club that appears to be stagnating amidst interest from other sides.
More rubbish. Leicester have one of the strongest first elevens in the league. The fact that free advert funded sites like this one who promote the interests of the super rich clubs have spent the entire summer trying to sell Leicester players demonstrates this. The financial reality is that in order to compete with the super rich clubs Leicester have to offer high wages. They need to move players on before they can put anyone else on the wage bill.
Leicester have one of the strongest first elevens in the league. The fact that free advert funded sites like this one who promote the interests of the super rich clubs have spent the entire summer trying to sell Leicester players demonstrates this. The financial reality is that in order to compete with the super rich clubs Leicester have to offer high wages. They need to move players on before they can put anyone else on the wage bill.