Who wants to stay put?
NO WAY RODGERS WILL GAMBLE ON SPURS JOB
DANIEL LEVY really could be forgiven for heading to Leicester on the final day of the season clutching a big fat contract for Brendan Rodgers.
And Rodgers could be forgiven for telling the Tottenham supremo (right) to shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Which would be ironic, because the sun certainly isn’t shining on Spurs right now.
Not too long ago the London club was going places.
Mauricio Pochettino had led them to the Champions League Final and his vibrant side had a spanking new stadium to showcase their talents in.
Life felt good and Spurs seemed genuinely capable of challenging for the game’s biggest prizes.
But unless they can somehow produce a minor miracle this afternoon and beat Manchester City to win the Carabao Cup, Levy will finish another disappointing and fractious campaign looking like Old Mother Hubbard again.
Remember her? She went to the cupboard but it was bare, just like Spurs’ trophy cabinet has been since 2008.
When Levy takes his place in the posh seats at Wembley today, he will do so without a permanent manager following the sacking of Jose Mourinho, an expensive stadium without a sponsor’s name, a rookie in caretaker charge of the team and a talisman in Harry Kane who must be wondering what the hell is going on at his boyhood club.
Things have really unravelled fast since Pochettino left and those who believe that reaching a League Cup Final is progress need to give their heads a shake.
It’s not. Not even close for a club that thinks it deserves to be part of the ‘Big Six’ that saw the doomed European Super League project crash and burn, however arrogant this might be.
Spurs haven’t won the title since the 1960s. Huddersfield have been crowned champions of England more times than them.
Levy, who let’s not forget had furloughed staff in the pandemic while he was negotiating a £4billion cheque from the breakaway league, needs to find a boss to repair the damage and lead Spurs to that next level.
Rodgers ticks all the right boxes, but would be insane to walk out on the Foxes for those basket cases down in London.
They should be in the Champions League next season, have a wonderful new training ground, progressive owners and a squad rammed with fine young talent going places.
Spurs, on the other hand, are going nowhere but backwards fast, so if Levy did the right thing for once and offered the job to Rodgers, he should be wasting his time.
If I was running the show at the Foxes I’d tell Rodgers he’s going nowhere, which is what he’d be doing quite literally if he headed to Spurs.