Leicester City will take advantage of big clubs' impossible problem in transfer window

Leicester City could provide a new home for the players at top clubs that are unhappy with their lack of game-time, manager Brendan Rodgers has said.

City are planning for a busy summer transfer window as Rodgers and the recruitment team oversee a revamp of the squad, and the manager has revealed they will look at the Premier League’s elite to see if they have players who are not currently satisfied.

Rodgers said he knows from his time at Chelsea, when he was reverse team manager during Jose Mourinho’s first spell at Stamford Bridge, that it’s “impossible” to keep a squad of 25 first-class players happy, even when clubs are competing across multiple fronts.

Rodgers also values the winning mentality that is cultivated at top clubs, and that he says is present in players like Jonny Evans, who came through during Sir Alex Ferguson's reign at Manchester United.

Asked if it was a market City could tap into, Rodgers said: “Yeah, that’s the natural path for some players at big clubs. I heard Jurgen (Klopp, Liverpool manager) talk the other week about the squad, how they’ve got so many good players and it’s really difficult to keep so many good players happy.

“I saw that at Chelsea as a young coach with Jose. There was a squad of 25, and they are 25 top international players. It’s impossible to keep them all happy.

“Eventually they want to play football because that’s why they love the game. They love the game when the stands are full and they’re performing.

“That’s always a market for a club like ourselves, looking at some of those clubs. But again, it always has to be players who have the hunger, and still want to learn. But that’s clearly a market, yeah.”

Rodgers has said that, ideally, his “healthy shake-up” will see City