Newly-appointed Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has revealed he’s looking to utilise Jamie Vardy the same way as he did Luis Suarez back in his Liverpool days.
In the 2013-14 season, Suarez’ last for the Reds, he scored 31 Premier League goals as the club were agonisingly denied a first title success by Manchester City and Rodgers will be keen on taking Vardy under his wing to help him improve.
Speaking ahead of taking charge of the Foxes for the first time at Watford on Sunday afternoon, the ex-Celtic boss pin-pointed Suarez’ effective pressing as a style Vardy needs to pick up.
You’ve got one of the best strikers [in Vardy] who can press the game at the top end of the field so that’s where it starts. When I was at Liverpool it was Luis, he started the press so that’s where it begins. If you look at Manchester City, Tottenham and Liverpool, you’re not doing it for 90 minutes. Other times you’re just in and setting up the press to go and exploit the spaces.
Brendan Rodgers spent four years at Anfield after jumping ship from Swansea City in 2012, but failed to win a single trophy during his tenure and was replaced by Borussia Dortmund’s Jurgen Klopp ahead of the 2016-17 campaign.
Since then, his stock has only risen. In Scotland, he led Celtic to back-to-back trebles in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons and his side led Rangers by eight points at the Scottish Premiership summit when he decided to return to England.
It’s going to be very interesting to see how he gets on at the King Power Stadium.
