{"id":289812,"date":"2023-09-13T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=289812"},"modified":"2023-09-13T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T23:34:00","slug":"gary-lineker-suggested-emma-hayes-should-take-over-at-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/gary-lineker-suggested-emma-hayes-should-take-over-at-leicester\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Lineker suggested Emma Hayes should take over at Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Gary Lineker suggested Emma Hayes should take over at Leicester after Foxes&#8217; relegation last season&#8230; praising her abilities as well as the &#8216;massive PR opportunity&#8217; of hiring the Chelsea head coach<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lineker lobbied the board but the idea was seen as &#8216;a step too far&#8217; by the Foxes\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The side have enjoyed a fast start in the Championship under Enzo Maresca\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gary Lineker suggested Chelsea Women&#8217;s coach Emma Hayes to the Leicester board to take over the relegated club at the end of last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former player and long-time Foxes fan maintains strong ties to the club, who fell back down to the Championship for the first time since promotion in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leicester sacked Brendan Rodgers after a run of poor results in April, appointing former Aston Villa head coach Dean Smith on an interim basis with the hopes of steering the club to safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Smith was unable to pull off a great escape from the relegation zone, with the Foxes finishing in 18th on just 34 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The club later named former Manchester City assistant coach Enzo Maresca ahead of the start of their 2023\/24 campaign, but Lineker revealed that he lobbied for one candidate in particular before his appointment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/13\/22\/75404681-12515695-image-a-1_1694641945079.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Emma Hayes was named as a potential successor to Brendan Rodgers at Leicester by long-time fan Gary Lineker<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/13\/22\/75404651-12515695-image-a-2_1694641955630.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The pundit played up the added bonus of massive publicity as well as Hayes&#8217; coaching skills<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s interesting, I don&#8217;t know whether I told you before but in the summer, when Leicester were looking for a new manager I actually got in touch with the club with a little idea I had,&#8217; Lineker shared on his Rest is Football podcast, &#8216;which was for them to go for Emma Hayes from Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She&#8217;s great, absolutely legitimate but imagine being the first major football club to have a woman as a coach. It would have brought massive amounts of publicity, particularly at a time when the club had gone down into the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You&#8217;d have sold all your season tickets. It&#8217;s not a stunt at all although it is in a way because it would be a massive PR opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They did come back to me and say it&#8217;s probably a step too far at this stage.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hayes&#8217; towering success with Chelsea &#8211; which has seen her win four consecutive Women&#8217;s Super League titles, and six overall, as well as five FA cups &#8211; has seen her linked to a number of moves into coaching men&#8217;s football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old has previously brushed aside rumoured links to AFC Wimbledon and Queens Park Rangers, and was named by fellow Blue Joe Cole as the women&#8217;s coach most likely to lead a top-flight men&#8217;s team in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Hayes is keen not to see her success with Chelsea reduced to a footnote en route to working with a men&#8217;s side, and has been quick to reiterate her stance that she is interested in only working with elite athletes &#8211; of either gender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Hour in August, the storied manager stated: &#8216;It&#8217;s the constant questioning of when am I going into the men&#8217;s game. The women&#8217;s game is a high level and I work with world-class athletes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t mean to talk negatively about any male team or male club but the reality is I already coach elite players and I think it&#8217;s important to see that in its own right instead of it being a stepping stone to something.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/13\/22\/75404575-12515695-image-a-4_1694641969630.jpg\" height=\"415\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hayes (centre) has coached Chelsea since 2012 and overseen over a decade of success<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/13\/22\/75404653-12515695-image-a-3_1694641964714.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lineker (pictured at a Leicester match in March 2023) is no doubt encouraged by the Foxes&#8217; fast start in the Championship<\/p>\n<p>When linked with AFC Wimbledon in 2021, Hayes claimed that the link was an &#8216;insult&#8217; to women&#8217;s football, and that the club &#8216;couldn&#8217;t afford her&#8217;, before later clarifying her comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I sincerely hope AFC Wimbledon find the right candidate for their football club,&#8217; Hayes said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The whole point about them not being able to afford me is nothing to do with money, but everything to do with the fact that I&#8217;m in the best job in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No amount of money is going to tempt me away from that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12515695\/Gary-Lineker-suggested-Emma-Hayes-Leicester-Foxes-relegation-season-praising-abilities-massive-PR-opportunity-hiring-Chelsea-head-coach.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Lineker suggested Emma Hayes should take over at Leicester after Foxes&#8217; 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