Leicester City willing to help big six's problem as club legends gather for statue unveiling

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 reserve 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.

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." Read more from Rodgers here.

Leicester City have unveiled the statue of late chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in a ceremony outside the King Power Stadium.

On what would have been Srivaddhanaprabha’s 64th birthday, City welcomed his family, including current club chairman Aiyawatt ‘Top’ Srivaddhanapraba, for the inauguration of the statue, built in tribute following the helicopter crash in 2018 that claimed his life and those of four others: staff members Kaveporn Punpare and Nusara Suknamai, and pilots Eric Swaffer and Izabela Lechowicz.

City boss Brendan Rodgers and the current first-team squad were present for the unveiling ceremony, which was led by Buddhist monks who had travelled from Thailand. Former managers Claudio Ranieri, Craig Shakespeare, and Nigel