Brendan Rodgers' position as Leicester City manager appears to be hanging in the balance following the Foxes' sixth consecutive Premier League defeat.
An impressive first-half performance from Rodgers' men was quickly undone by a catalogue of second-half errors and a sublime 13-minute hat-trick from Heung min Son, resulting in the Foxes falling to an embarrassing 6-2 defeat in the capital.
The club now sit bottom of the Premier League after seven matches, with the opening day draw against Brentford the only point they have to show for their efforts over the last six weeks. And with the Premier League now halting for the first international break of the campaign, a decision will no doubt be made over the future of the Northern Irishman by the club's owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha.
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Speaking after the defeat, the former Liverpool manager refused to be drawn into speculation about his future at the King Power Stadium. “Listen, whatever happens I’ll have a huge amount of respect for them (the owners) because they’ve given me a huge amount of support since I’ve been here,” he said speaking to Sky Sports.
“I understand the game, I understand football. Today, the scoreline, I don’t think reflected the game but the bottom line is we’ve had a heavy defeat and we should have been better. For me, they’ve given me brilliant support and whatever happens for me here at Leicester – whether I stay or whether I continue to fight on – I’ll always respect them.”
But midfielder James Maddison, who restored parity with a fine volley over the head of Spurs' Hugo Lloris late in the first-half, jumped to the defence of Rodgers.
“It’s a collective, it’s not just the manager,” he added. “We’re the 11 out there. It’s painful and it hurts when you see a manager who you’ve got a lot of respect for and you’ve built up a relationship with get so much heat and so much negativity when ultimately we’re the players that have to do the business and we haven’t been of late. That hurts us.”
It was during the October international break in 2015 that Rodgers was dismissed by Liverpool's owners Fenway Sports Group, with the Americans viewing the two-week break as the perfect time to act swiftly and appoint Jurgen Klopp.
Whatever happens between now and the Foxes' match against Nottingham Forest on October 3, Srivaddhanaprabha has a serious decision to make on the future of his current manager. The humbling defeat to Antonio Conte's side could force him to act in the same swift, yet brutal, manager FSG did nearly seven years ago
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