Brendan Rodgers: Leicester boss only focused on Foxes following Tottenham link
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Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers said he has never considered leaving the club following reports he was wanted by Tottenham to replace Mauricio Pochettino.
Spurs appointed Jose Mourinho as Pochettino's successor on Wednesday.
However, it had been claimed that Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy had first made an enquiry about Rodgers' availability.
"There is nothing to talk about on it," the ex-Liverpool manager said.
"The only thing I will say is I was very happy here at Leicester, I've literally just joined the club in February.
"Everything has been great since we've been in. We have a project here that we want to develop over the next number of years."
Rodgers has had an impressive impact on the Foxes since arriving from Celtic, with the club currently sat second in the Premier League.
He added: "What happens in football now is that if you go through times when you're doing well and you work well, everyone wants to take you away from that.
"I'm very happy in my professional life. I'm very happy in my life personally in Leicestershire, it's a great place to live and work and we have created a real unity here at the club.
"In my time here that is what I'll aim to do. How long that will be you can never tell but I am very happy to be here."
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I'm gonna take a wild guess and say it was Sky Sports. And nearly all of their links are complete horse manure made purely to drive traffic onto their very own gambling site. Wake up!
Obviously year 10 work experience children acting as sub-editors this week.
CLUE: the fact someone last worked in Scotland does not make them Scottish. Eg Jose Mourinho is not a Mancunian
No doubt they will edit the story to change Rogers nationality shortly and this will make no sense.
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Hasn't he won 7 club trophies and some personal awards too, including the LMA Manager Of The Year? Back to the drawing board for you.
In most ways, Spurs are a bigger club than us, but we're probably as close to them now as we've ever been. Not surprised if Rodgers was sounded out, that's the way the World works. I'd be mightily disappointed to lose a manager to Spurs though, which shows how much we've grown under our Thai owners. Anyway, glad we retain BR, he has been a breathe of fresh air after Puel.
Leicester are not and wont ever be at tottenhams level, much smaller club
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Tottenham are not and wont ever be Premier League Champions.
I expected him to say "absolutely gutted,i had my heart set on the Spurs job,i've been a fan of the club since i saw Danny Blanchflower tell Eamonn Andrews to stick his big red book where the sun don't shine"