What Sean Dyche told Gary Lineker about Jon Rudkin relationship and Leicester City manager job.
Sean Dyche is the new favourite to take over as Leicester City manager, with Ruud van Nistelrooy’s future in serious doubt as the club prepare to return to the Championship.
Leicester City are one of the few clubs Sean Dyche would go to watch as an out-of-work manager because of his friendship with the club’s director of football Jon Rudkin.
Dyche is the new favourite to take over from Ruud van Nistelrooy at the King Power Stadium, whose future is in considerable doubt ahead of the Championship campaign.
Speaking on Gary Lineker’s The Rest is Football podcast in March, Dyche said: “I have a rule of thumb. At Watford, I’d only been in there for 10 or 12 games but I was under pressure. There were 11 out-of-work managers at one game. I promised myself I’d never do that.
“When I came out of Watford and was living in Northampton, I only went to clubs in my area or people I knew, so I went to Leicester because I knew Jon Rudkin really well from the youth days.
“I went to MK Dons because Mick Harford was there at the time and could get me tickets, and I went to Forest because I was there as a kid. They were the only three clubs I used to go around.
“I wouldn’t go to any other clubs because I think it’s bad form when people are hanging in the directors’ room when the manager is under pressure.”
Lineker then said, with a smile: “Talking of those three clubs, I’ve got a feeling the Leicester job might come available.”
Dyche replied: “It’s been a tough season so far, there’s a lot of work to do.”
Speaking in May, Dyche said he wasn’t looking to get back into work at that moment because he said clubs needed time to work out the direction they wanted to take. His feelings may now be different with the new season approaching.
Dyche was last in work at Everton, where he was sacked in January.
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