Is it ideal to do a manager rankings piece when there are two Premier League managers who haven’t yet taken charge of a single game for their current clubs? No. Does the international break mean we’re going to do it anyway? Obviously yes.
Mainly because there’s a lot of lads who have done/are doing really quite strikingly poor jobs of it at the moment, and we like to be mean…
23) Brendan Rodgers (Leicester)
How is this still just rumbling on? Sack him, you maniacs. It’s somehow very Brendan that the thing keeping him in the job is that Leicester pay him too much to be able to sack him. Nevertheless, the 6-2 defeat at Spurs has drawn wider attention to a fact Leicester fans have known for some weeks and, in truth, many of them had started to suspect even last season: Rodgers’ race is run.
In a way, it’s faintly ludicrous that it is still only being framed as a debate: is making your team literally the worst team at defending in the history of the Premier League grounds for dismissal?
Even the man himself, shielded as he generally is by bulletproof self-confidence, appeared resigned to his fate at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, reduced to mitigation that included the accurate yet damning self-own that “four of the goals we conceded were from corners and individual errors”. By the end of the press conference you got the impression that Rodgers knew that if he were making the decision in this scenario, he would sack the manager.
Leicester had an awful transfer window, but nothing can excuse Rodgers’ record this year. It’s six straight defeats for what is now the only side without a win, and more goals conceded than anyone else (including the lads who shipped nine in one game).
We’re way past the point where replacing Rodgers represents any kind of risk for Leicester because it literally cannot be worse than this. He’s probably already had at least one game too many and cannot be afforded the possible dead-cat bounce offered by games against Forest and Bournemouth after the international break. The rot has set in and decisive action is required.
22) Scott Parker (Bournemouth)
Has managed to pull off the exceedingly difficult task of being a promoted manager sacked outrageously early in the season yet managing to elicit minimal sympathy. Clearly a load of stuff going on behind the scenes, but if you’re going to be issuing “back me or sack me” ultimatums in the wake of 9-0 defeats you need to be really damn sure of your…
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