Leicester City: Foxes are in 'absolute panic' after sacking Brendan Rodgers, says Chris Sutton

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Leicester players look despondent aft a defeat

Leicester City are successful "absolute panic" aft sacking Brendan Rodgers truthful precocious successful the season, according to erstwhile Premier League striker Chris Sutton.

They are yet to name a replacement with Dean Smith successful talks to instrumentality complaint aft ex-Leeds brag Jesse Marsch was said to person turned Leicester down.

"The proprietor has made specified a messiness of this," Sutton said connected BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club.

Leicester are presently 2nd from bottommost and 2 points from information with 8 games remaining.

"It is staggering what has happened," added Sutton. "They sacked an experienced manager with a bully way record, things haven't gone good this season, but I bash not recognize however this concern has travel about.

"We had the planetary interruption where, if they were not blessed with Rodgers then, they should person sacked him and brought a replacement in.

"I thought successful this multi-billion dollar manufacture that clubs program for each circumstances, truthful if a manager has to spell they would person a database of ready-made replacements - Leicester haven't.

"They person made it up arsenic they person gone on and it is implicit panic."

Leicester person mislaid 7 of their past 8 Premier League games and question to Manchester City connected 15 April.

Crystal Palace replaced Patrick Vieira with Roy Hodgson astatine the extremity of past period and person won their archetypal 2 games nether the 75-year-old to determination six points wide of the bottommost three.

But Sutton does not judge that anyone who comes successful astatine Leicester could person a akin impact.

"Leicester are bang successful occupation and it doesn't truly substance who comes in," helium said.

"If you are a Leicester proprietor you volition anticipation they person the Roy Hodgson effect, but it doesn't truly enactment similar that.

"I truly fearfulness for them."

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