By Thai Newsroom Reporters
FORMER ENGLAND NATIONAL manager Lee Carsley has emerged as a top favourite to become Leicester City manager in place of Ruud van Nistelrooy who would probably part company with the Foxes upon the end of the 2024/2025 season next month.
Leicester owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha has already been given a shortlist of candidates to consider naming as Foxes manager to replace the Dutchman who had performed so poorly the East Midlands football club have been relegated twice from the Premier League to the Championship in three consecutive seasons.
Carsley, a former midfielder who is currently head coach of England National Under-21 squads, appears on top of the list slated for gaffer of the Foxes playing in the second tier of the English football system next season. The Irishman had run a short stint as interim England National manager until former Chelsea and Bayern Munich manager Thomas Tuchel was named a permanent one half year ago.
The other candidates are Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl and former Southampton manager Russell Martin, both being less likely than Carsley to replace van Nistelrooy who had scraped out just eight points in 20 league games so far this season.
Speculation has been rife and rampant over Rohl’s future with Sheffield Wednesday, another Thai-owned football club in England, next season since the German was reportedly approached to leave the Owls for a newly-relegated club such as the Foxes or the Saints where he had previously worked as assistant coach.
Gary Neville, a former defender of Manchester United for whom van Nistelrooy was once a striker, remarked that playing the Premier League football is no longer an easy cinch week in, week out but is literally a painstaking, relentless task for highly-experienced players with shrewd, goal-scoring tactics, given the fact that all six newly-promoted sides have been relegated after a single campaign on top flight in two consecutive seasons, including the current one.
Yet, Aiyawatt alongside Leicester’s long-time football director Jon Rudkin may not make a decision pertaining to van Nistelrooy’s future at King Power stadium and the probable naming of his successor until the end of current season, given a seven-digit cash in compensation to pay him off under the English Football League’s profitability and sustainability rules in case of his ouster before his contract expires in 2027.
No matter who will be eventually named Foxes manager next season and even if the current one may stay put, the Thai owner would undoubtedly anticipate a quick return to the top tier after a single campaign during which the likes of famed, senior strikers, namely skipper Jamie Vardy and Jordan Ayew, would likely be replaced by young, talented signings either from Premier League or Championship sides.
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Top: Lee Carsley. Photo: Matthew Lewis/ BBC
First insert: Leicester owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha. Photo: Kingpower.com
Second insert: Foxes thrilled after scoring a goal. Photo: PremierLeague.com
Third insert: Ruud van Nistelroo. Photo: Sky News
Front Page: Lee Carsley. Photo Sky News
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