FOX TROT! Leicester face battle to find new manager amid points deduction fears

No fewer than eight players entered the last year of their contracts

Leicester is confronted with a struggle to convince their top management goals to adopt the chaos that the crisis hit club uses.

The Foxes finally separated the company with manager Ruud van Nistelrooy on Friday – 33 days after the end of the season – and no less than 68 days since the relegation was confirmed against Liverpool with five more games.

Sean Dyche and Sheffield came to his departing boss Danny Rohl on Wednesday as the front runners to replace the Dutchman after his marathon period like a dead man.

Former Wolves boss Gary O'Neil and ex-Middlesbrough manager Michael Carrick are also on the Radar of Leicester.

Club heads, however, will find it difficult to convince every potential candidate to accept what increasingly seems to be a poisoned chalice.

The foxes seem to be in free fall and have a potential points deduction that hangs over them in the championship, because Prembazen charged them to violate strict profit and sustainability rules.

In the meantime, the most important donors of the club, King Power, have been deposited in a financial crisis and have been feared to be on the edge of collapse after a dazzling losses of £ 450 million.

The legendary striker Jamie Vardy left the outfit of East Midlands this summer to break the last ties with the club's 5,000-1 title-winning team, which in 2016 the Premier League trophy was abolished.

Wilfred Ndidi, 28, is expected to follow him out the door, with Everton and Manchester United signing the powerful midfielder.

No fewer than eight players went into the last year of their contracts, while Van Nistelrooy forbade Harry Winks and Jannik Vestergaard because they refused to stay in Leicester one night a week.

With little money available to pick up a waffle-thin team that already has little confidence after relegation, the new boss can also have trouble convincing potential goals to participate.

It is a gloomy prospect for Leicester Chiefs club chairman Aiyawatt 'Top' Srivaddhanaprabha and besieged director Jon Rudkin-during while they try to find the 48-year replacement of Van Nistelrooy.

Title winner Marc Albrighton fears for his former club, whose players return on Monday for training for the season.

The 35-year-old former Wideman said to Sunsport: “Most clubs are now prepared for the worst.

“They fire their manager in the morning and by noon they are in charge of someone else.

“But it will be difficult for Leicester to get someone with a potential points deduction that hangs over the club.

“Every new manager will be aware of this and does not want to bind until they know what they are dealing with.

“The fans will expect an early appointment, given the time that the board must have known that Ruud went.

“But I wouldn't be too hasty with a new appointment.

“I would really be thorough because they should get this appointment right.

“They clearly went through two important management changes last season, and they no longer want to go through that.

“They want a manager who will hopefully be a while. So I wouldn't hurry too much if I were them.”

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