Ruud van Nistelrooy, Supervisor of Leicester Metropolis, reacts in the direction of Samuel Barrott in the course of the Premier League match towards Arsenal on February 15, 2025. (Photograph by Michael Regan/Getty Photographs)
Leicester Metropolis misplaced one other recreation, this time on Friday evening towards Brentford, and that meant that the Foxes set a brand new all-time report.
It’s not been the perfect season for the Midlands-based facet and that might go some technique to explaining why Jamie Vardy might signal for an additional Premier League membership and why Wilfred Ndidi might find yourself at Atletico Madrid.
Van Nistelrooy’s undesirable report
In truth, ought to Leicester fall via the relegation lure door, there’s prone to be a mass exodus of gamers who gained’t wish to should play a troublesome Championship season in 25/26.
Ruud van Nistelrooy and Bryan Robson (Photograph by Christopher Furlong/Getty Photographs)
If the Foxes do go down, that’s prone to be the tip of van Nistelrooy as properly, except the membership hierarchy determine to sack him earlier than then.
The Dutchman has endured what must be one of many worst runs of any supervisor wherever since taking up from Steve Cooper.
Since beating West Ham in his opening recreation on December 3 final 12 months, and drawing towards Brighton in van Nistelrooy’s second recreation in cost, Leicester have solely overwhelmed Queens Park Rangers within the FA Cup and Tottenham within the Premier League.
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They’ve misplaced the opposite 11 video games, and after the 4-0 defeat towards the Bees, a match through which Yoane Wissa, Bryan Mbeumo, Christian Norgaard and Fabio Carvalho all scored, Leicester stay in nineteenth place.
Leicester prone to be relegated below Ruud van Nistelrooy
Wolves are two factors and two locations above them, however there’s then an eight level hole to West Ham, so the chances are the three that go down will come from the groups which are presently within the backside 4.
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If van Nistelrooy didn’t have sufficient to fret about over the following few video games, he has additionally set a brand new all-time report of getting misplaced six dwelling video games in a row with out scoring.
That’s by no means occurred earlier than in English top-flight soccer historical past and will properly be the ultimate nail in van Nistelrooy’s coffin.