Matchday With The Manager: Reinforcing Ambitions On Filbert Way

Sunday's Emirates FA Cup tie against Manchester United at King Power Stadium will be Brendan Rodgers' 100th game as Leicester City's manager – and the Northern Irishman is eager to continue the Club's recent rise.

2021-03-21T07:00:00.000Z

Sunday's Emirates FA Cup tie against Manchester United at King Power Stadium will be Brendan Rodgers' 100th game as Leicester City's manager – and the Northern Irishman is eager to continue the Club's recent rise.

2021-03-21T07:00:00.000Z

Matchday With The Manager: Reinforcing Ambitions On Filbert Way

Sunday's Emirates FA Cup tie against Manchester United at King Power Stadium will be Brendan Rodgers' 100th game as Leicester City's manager – and the Northern Irishman is eager to continue the Club's recent rise.

2021-03-21T07:00:00.000Z

Matchday With The Manager: Reinforcing Ambitions On Filbert Way

Sunday's Emirates FA Cup tie against Manchester United at King Power Stadium will be Brendan Rodgers' 100th game as Leicester City's manager – and the Northern Irishman is eager to continue the Club's recent rise.

2021-03-21T07:00:00.000Z

Matchday With The Manager: Reinforcing Ambitions On Filbert Way

Sunday's Emirates FA Cup tie against Manchester United at King Power Stadium will be Brendan Rodgers' 100th game as Leicester City's manager – and the Northern Irishman is eager to continue the Club's recent rise.

2021-03-21T07:00:00.000Z

Since his maiden match in charge of the Foxes in March 2019, Rodgers has not only established a better win ratio than any of his other tenures in English football – at Watford, Reading, Swansea City and Liverpool – but also the strongest record of any full-time Leicester manager.

The 48-year-old has always been transparent in his ambitions for the Football Club. While regularly emphasising the importance of dedication to the cause, the result of a multifaceted set of objectives created two years ago, he is nonetheless eager to achieve real success at King Power Stadium.

At the conclusion of his maiden campaign in the East Midlands, the former Celtic manager guided the Foxes to their second-best ever standing in the Premier League and his side currently sit third in the table. However, attention shifts to the Emirates FA Cup this weekend.

Manchester United are the visitors to Filbert Way on Sunday in the quarter-finals of the only major competition in England yet to be added to Leicester City's honours list. For Rodgers, that offers his players an opportunity to make history – one they should embrace wholeheartedly.

"I’ve certainly been educated on it, that’s for sure!" he said, on City's FA Cup record. "That’s the job. When we came in, I said we wanted to create our own history here. The Club has obviously got to so many finals before and not been able to get over the line.

"Of course, you’d always love to be the first. This is a quarter-final and we want to take the next step. It’ll be a difficult step for us, but if we can play our game with the mentality, attitude and ethic that we have, it’s an opportunity.

"You do always have to have an eye on the history of a club and understand that, but it’s always about creating your own history and that’s what this team is looking to do."

Back in his first week as Leicester's 40th full-time manager, Rodgers delivered a wide-ranging presentation not only to his new players, but also to members of staff, concerning the direction in which he wanted to take the Club. Among other things, it detailed the mentality which would be required from everyone at King Power Stadium and now at LCFC Training Ground if City were to fulfil their objectives and regularly challenge.

More recently, meanwhile, he revisited that presentation with his squad in Seagrave, to evaluate the progress which has already been made and to plot a path into the future over the coming seasons.

"When I came in, I presented to the players the overall vision of the team and where I saw us developing over the next period of time," he explained. "Ultimately, it was where we wanted to get to, what that model of success would look like, and how we were going to get there.

"Part of what we established in that period, in terms of our environment, was our vision, the philosophy and how we would play, and the identity of the team.

"There are many factors within that. It was just a case of, having been here for two years, bringing it back to the players, because I’d have thought most of them would have forgotten what was said on that first day, and just reinforce what we said we would look to the deliver.

"I just asked them to have a think as I was speaking about whether we had delivered what we said we would do and then mapping out, going forward, what the future holds for us.

"It was as simple as that, just reinforcing a lot of what we said when we first came in, establishing the success we’ve had in these first couple of seasons, in terms of creating the culture and environment, and then the real exciting prospect for the squad, the team and the Club."

The steps already taken have enabled Leicester to occupy a place in the top six places in the Premier League almost through the entirety of Rodgers' tenure in charge at King Power Stadium.

However, he says there will be no complacency, with much to fight for between now and the end of the 2020/21 campaign: "It’s a huge testament to the outstanding players that we have and the quality and the open-mindedness of the players.

"We came in here to establish a working environment and create a working mentality, a standard, every single day of our life, to be the best we could be.

"That has been our aim from the very first day. The players were able to take that into their games. We’ve had some fantastic results, some great performances, and we’ve had some bumps along the way as well, but I’m very satisfied with where we’re at after two years.

"I’m really excited about the continuation of that and the growth of the Club. Fundamentally, when we came in here, we said we wanted to win titles.

"Even though we may not be the fashionable club that was going to be spoken about to win, we want to win. That’s something that we would love to able to show for the other successes we’ve had.

"We want to always do it in a way that was creative and attacking, a style that excites our supporters, and obviously try to do with some young players, as well as our senior players.

"For that, I’m satisfied, but if there’s one thing you can never be in this game, it’s complacent, and we always have to be looking for improvement.

"The best time to improve is when you’re doing okay, so that’s our continuing mindset."

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