Dean Smith named new Leicester City manager

Dean Smith has been named as the new Leicester City manager until the end of the 2022-23 season as he tries to save the Foxes from relegation.

The former Walsall, Brentford, Aston Villa and Norwich boss was fired by the latter earlier this season and has been tasked with keeping Leicester in the top-flight. They sit two points from safety with eight games of the Premier League season to go and are currently on a run of seven defeats from their last eight.

Former Leicester assistant coach and manager Craig Shakespeare, plus Chelsea legend John Terry (who was Smith’s assistant coach at Aston Villa) have also joined Smith’s coaching staff at Leicester.

Speaking about his arrival at the King Power Stadium, Smith was positive about Leicester getting out of trouble.

“If it was something that I thought was unsurmountable, I wouldn’t have come – and Shakey and JT wouldn’t have come also,” Smith said. “We’re looking forward to the challenge, but we know it’s going to be tough. We’ll be putting demands on the players and on ourselves. We’ll be spending every minute of every day making sure we work hard to keep this football club in the Premier League.”

Jesse Marsch was in talks to be the next manager of Leicester City but they were not successful and whether that was his call or Leicester’s is a point of contention in the media.

The Telegraph reported Sunday afternoon that Marsch had withdrawn his name from consideration for the vacant Leicester City job, but other Sunday reports made it seem like Jesse Marsch’s status was in question with the Foxes.

According to our own David Ornstein (video above), Leicester doubts were inspired by fan and even alumni reaction as Gary Lineker expressed concerns over the potential hiring. Maybe