Where did it go wrong? - Lineker on Leicester relegation | BBC Sport

to Leicester Alan, what happened? Where did it go

wrong

? Well, they got off to a decent start but didn't replace goalkeeper Schmeichel. I think that was the first problem. And having so many players out under contract, I mean, we've heard a lot of people say it. Over the years the team is too good to fail when you look at some of the skills of that Leicester team. I think it's a genuine case this year to say exactly what they acquired before the World Cup, but when you have so many players out of contract I don't think it's healthy for your football club.

I'm not saying a lot of them don't care, but I just don't think it's a healthy situation when we have one of your best players and he also has one year left in Madison. Oh, I have to say that Madison is excellent this season. Yes, it's remarkably consistent. A team that has difficulties. What I would also see is that when you look at success. Lester has had two, there are 12 or 13 clubs in the Premier League

where

that could happen in the near future because the system is designed to make upward mobility very, very difficult, so be careful what you wish for, I was gonna say.

You're obviously a Leicester fan, what do you think? Well, I think a lot of what Alan said is true. I think the last two years, I think Brendan Rogers made it clear that he wanted more recruiting and that wasn't the case. what he wanted happened um obviously, I felt it personally. I know a lot of Leicester fans will disagree that I thought Brendan Rogers had done a good enough job to at least earn the right to try and keep Leicester up and if you look at the teams that actually stayed maybe against all odds at the time Bournemouth kept their manager.

I know they traded him in the first few games of the season. Nottingham Forest kept his coach there. West Ham kept David Moyes. They trusted him and now they were rewarded for it. I'm not saying Lester would have stayed up without it, but I think it was too little, too late in that regard. I think when you listen to James Madison also at this stage of the season knowing exactly whatever Lester needed to do, having to say about hunger and struggle, you know that locker room doesn't exist anymore, yeah, it really does. sums it up, that they face each other in the bottom six, but I have to say that Leicester are obviously at the bottom of that. leads the three clubs that were relegated I want to say one thing about Leicester if you had told me eight ten years ago that Lester would win the Premier League, win the FA Cup when the community protected itself and then be relegated a few years later.

It would have been necessary for him to remove your hand and it would have been a miracle, so let's keep a full glass.