Club will back boss in summer window

LEICESTER City will back new boss Brendan Rodgers in the summer transfer market, writes Rob Tanner.

City will provide considerable funds for Rodgers to strengthen his squad, although reports he will be handed a £200 million war chest for the window seem exaggerated.

City are committed to the new training ground project in Seagrave, which could cost between

£80 million and £100 million, and plan to expand the East Stand at the King Power Stadium.

The club has secured two major loans against the cash due from the club record Riyad Mahrez move to Manchester City and future television deal payments to ensure the projects can go ahead.

However, they have demonstrated by paying the £6 million compensation for Rodgers that the club will still continue to invest in the staff and the squad and Rodgers will be given funds during the summer.

One of the reasons why Rodgers decided to swap Celtic for City was his frustration at a lack of investment, which has prevented them breaking the glass ceiling that European football has become.

Rodgers will not be looking too far ahead over the coming weeks and will be assessing what he has already got at his disposal in his squad, identifying areas that will need strengthening at the end of the season, with right-back, central midfield and in attack seen as priorities, and focusing on a positive end to the campaign that will convince Ben Chilwell, Harry Maguire and James Maddison, who have all previously been linked with big money moves away, that they can fulfil their ambitions with City.

Rodgers told the players during an impassioned speech following the win over Brighton that the main reason he had decided to leave Celtic to return to the Premier League was to work with this young City squad, words that drew a round of applause inside the dressing room that could be heard in the corridors outside.

Rodgers will use such similar inspirational talk to entice the players to the club this summer, with the backing of the City hierarchy.