Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers slams European Super League as ‘purely a business proposal’

Brendan Rodgers believes Leicester’s shock Premier League title win helped worry ‘the dirty dozen’ into trying to form a European Super League.

The Foxes stunned the football world by lifting the league trophy five years ago and have been hugely competitive under Rodgers, reaching this season’s FA Cup Final while also pushing to finish in the top four.

Rodgers, who was also Liverpool manager from 2012-15, fears the business aspect of football will be more important than the competitive one if the Super League proceeds in this form.

Brendan Rodgers called plans for a European Super League ‘purely a business proposal’

The Leicester boss said the Foxes’ title win in 2016 is proof that anything can happen 

‘[Leicester’s success] will have played a part,’ said Rodgers. ‘Throughout Europe [the Leicester story] is maybe not what is wanted.

‘It feels an attack on people’s opportunity to go and support. The game is for the supporters and in turn the players.

‘There has been a line drawn in the sand here and it’s moved into what looks a purely business proposal. The merits of teams and rewards in sporting competition, it looks from the outside like that isn’t really taken into account.

Rodgers admitted that his players had been unsettled by what they had heard about the plans

‘The Leicester story shows what can happen in sport. Our job was to disrupt the market in a footballing sense. What defines whether you’re in the self-appointed top six? Clearly it must be money.’

Rodgers revealed he would held talks with club captain Wes Morgan and chief executive Susan Whelan on Tuesday, and admitted that his players had been unsettled by what they had heard since the weekend.

Leicester reached their first FA Cup Final since 1969 by beating Southampton at Wembley on Sunday but the news agenda was dominated by the Super League.