Leicester City have parted methods with supervisor Brendan Rodgers by mutual settlement, the Premier League membership stated on Sunday, with the group 18th within the desk and dealing with attainable relegation.
Rodgers’ final sport in cost was a 2-1 loss to Crystal Palace on Saturday, which left Leicester with 25 factors from 28 video games.
They gained the Premier League title in 2015-16 towards all odds however at the moment are liable to relegation after 9 seasons within the prime flight.
Leicester City Football Club has reached a mutual settlement with Brendan Rodgers, below which he’ll go away the membership after 4 years as our Men’s First Team Manager.
– Leicester City (@LCFC) April 2, 2023
“Performances and results during the current season have fallen short of our shared expectations. It was our belief that consistency and consistency will be key to correcting our course,” stated Leicester chairman Ayyavatha Srivaddhanaprabha.
“Sadly, the desired improvement is not taking place and with 10 games left of the season, the Board is forced to take alternative action to protect our Premier League status.”
Rodgers joined Leicester in February, 2019 after a profitable stint with Scottish facet Celtic, the place he gained the Premiership twice in addition to two home trebles.
He guided Leicester to their first FA Cup win in 2021 after they beat Chelsea within the closing.
“The team’s achievements under Brendan’s management speak for themselves,” stated Srivaddhanaprabha.
“We have skilled a few of our greatest footballing moments below his steerage and can at all times be grateful to him and his workers for serving to us attain nice heights on the pitch.
“The activity earlier than us in our final 10 matches is obvious. We now want to come back collectively – followers, gamers and workers – and present poise, high quality and combat to safe our standing as a Premier League membership.
Assistant supervisor Chris Davies has additionally left the membership and coaches Adam Sadler and Mike Stowell will take cost of coaching.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
