By Thai Newsroom Reporters
FORMER MANCHESTER UNITED striker/now Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy has been unavoidably assigned painstaking tasks of salvaging the Foxes from the probability of relegation at the end of 2024/2025 season.
Now that Leicester have embarrassedly slipped into the relegation zone after an away defeat to Liverpool in Thursday’s Boxing Day game, van Nistelrooy is facing the vital challenges to rescue the Foxes with only one point away from the safe zone of the Premier League, the top tier of the English football system.
A surprise away win scored by Wolverhampton against Manchester United has consequently pulled down Leicester into the relegation zone whilst the Foxes were defeated as earlier anticipated in their home game, refueling the 50:50 odds of their survival in the top-flight genre, according to news reports.
But the salvage of the Foxes who have just been automatically promoted last season from the Championship, the second tier of the English football system, could probably mean an uphill task for the Dutch manager week in, week out until the end of current season whilst the likes of Ipswich, Southampton and Wolves, among a few others, are most certainly struggling to avoid relegation as well.
Results of tomorrow’s (Dec. 29) midseason match in which Leicester are playing Manchester City at King Power stadium might probably constitute enough groundwork for Leicester’s Thai owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha to calculate how much funding he would necessarily inject into his reeling squads to strengthen them up to survive in the Premier League at the end of current season.
In particular, van Nistelrooy would likely demand the signing in the January transfer market of a high-quality striker to rotate with Leicester captain Jamie Vardy and Jordan Ayew, among a few others, plus one centre-back defender or two to keep their outfit from conceding too many goals and yet scoring too few. The Foxes have conceded 40 goals and scored 22 goals so far over the last 18 League games with 20 more to go.
The Dutch manager has not only been desperately anticipated by Leicester fans and supporters to keep the Foxes in the top-flight league, albeit given three wins, five draws and 10 defeats so far, but been hard pressed week in, week out to prove himself of practically deserving a future return to Old Trafford as a Manchester United manager, beginning with the home game against Manchester City tomorrow, according to news reports.
Despite his being a former Manchester United striker and former assistant to Erik ten Hag, the sacked Red Devils manager, van Nistelrooy was bluntly denied even a mediocre role of a staff coach by current manager Ruben Amorim, thus prompting him to take the helm of King Power stadium where the Foxes manager’s seat had been left vacant following the sacking of Steve Cooper.
Yet, van Nistelrooy has made no secret from the public of his utmost ambition to become Red Devils boss in the future.
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Top and Front Page: Ruud van Nistelrooy. Photos: Sky Sports
First insert: An image of the Boxing Day match between Liverpool and Leicester City with the former beating the latter 3-1. Photo: Liverpool FC and published by Sky Sports
Second insert: Leicester City’s Thai owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha. Photo: Sky Sports
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