Leicester City is in the bottom three despite Brendan Rodgers and his players’ recent pronouncements that they were not in a relegation fight, and now the club will conduct a relegation fight without him.
Rodgers’ four seasons in charge of the Foxes came to an end Sunday after the Foxes dipped into the Premier League’s bottom three following a 2-1 loss to Crystal Palace, and the club says it’s reached a ‘mutual agreement’ to go in a new direction.
Rodgers led Leicester to the FA Cup and Community Shield, but the club struggled to address its squad this year in the transfer market and the boss couldn’t get them sorted on the pitch. [ PALACE 2-1 LEICESTER: Recap, player ratings, video highlights ] Leicester’s won just twice since the Premier League returned from World Cup break, besting Aston Villa and Tottenham on Feb.
4 and 11, and has lost five of six while scoring just three goals. Adam Sadler and Mike Stowell will take control of the team, as they did when the club fired Claude Puel in February 2019.