‘He sees himself as Liverpool or Tottenham manager’: Michael Owen says PL boss ‘isn’t happy’

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Michael Owen has claimed that Brendan Rodgers ‘sees himself as a Liverpool, Arsenal or Tottenham manager’, as his struggles at Leicester City continue.

The Foxes are sitting bottom of the Premier League table, with zero wins to their name, and Owen thinks Rodgers ‘isn’t happy’ at the Midlands club.

The former Liverpool boss was only allowed to bring in one senior player this summer, after also losing Wesley Fofana to Chelsea and Kasper Schmeichel joining Nice.

Rodgers hasn’t been shy to express his opinion on Leicester’s situation and how other teams around them spent big, whilst they stood still and are now going backwards.

That included Chelsea splashing over £200 million on players and the likes of West Ham, Tottenham, Arsenal and Nottingham Forest all going above £100 million+ in the market.

Nonetheless, this is what Owen had to say about Rodgers’ situation at the King Power and how the time is seemingly up for the Northern Irishman, as he told Premier League Productions (04/09/22 at 7:25 pm).

“I think this isn’t what is set on the tin for Brendan Rodgers,” said Owen. “He came to a football club that had ambition and was going to spend money.

“He is a successful coach that nearly won the Premier League with Liverpool. He went up to Scotland and won trophies. I don’t think he saw himself managing down the bottom end of the table.

“I think he sees himself as an Arsenal manager, a Liverpool manager or a Tottenham manager. I don’t think he is too happy. I feel he is resigned to ‘well, no-one’s spent anything and we aren’t investing’.

“I don’t think he is happy with the ambition of the club and it will be interesting to see during these next few weeks how all of this goes.”

RODGERS TO BE SACKED OR TO WALK?

It’s only a matter of time, either those at the top pull the trigger and sack Rodgers, who won the FA Cup during his time at the Midlands club, or he walks.

Now, given that he is on a big contract, it doesn’t seem as though he is going to do walk out of the door himself.

Either way, it will be interesting to see where Rodgers lands next in his managerial career because he certainly won’t be warming Liverpool’s seat again, or getting a job from Daniel Levy or replacing Mikel Arteta, even if things go wrong for the former midfielder at the Emirates.