Celtic: Michael Brown backs Edouard to Leicester rumours

Football FanCast

By Billy Meyers

Published Mar 12, 2020

Michael Brown has tipped Brendan Rodgers to bring Celtic star Odsonne Edouard to Leicester.

Pundit Michael Brown has backed the idea of a Brendan Rodgers and Odsonne Edouard reunion at Leicester City.

Rodgers - who left Celtic Park to become manager of Leicester midway through last season - was in charge when the Hoops completed their club-record signing of the French striker in a deal worth £9m.

Since the former Paris Saint-Germain attacker arrived at the club, he has scored an eye-catching 60 goals along with 31 assists in 126 appearances for the Bhoys - a quite excellent record.

27 of those goals and 19 of those assists have come this season, and 43-year-old Brown believes that a move to the King Power Stadium would be an attractive one, both for Edouard - who Goal describe as "unstoppable" - and also for Rodgers.

What did he say?

Brown told Football Insider: "Edouard has got his backing and Brendan really likes him. He could go to another, maybe slightly more wealthy club, but Leicester can pay now financially, they can put him in the system.

"I reckon that young, hungry group at Leicester that’s very settled, would be very attractive to him rather than a club that’s trying to grow to come back and that’s like: ‘Who’s going to be there, what sort of system are they, what players, who’s going, who’s not?’

"Leicester certainly would be a fit and an attractive one to further his career. You’d say Leicester would be a good next step with a manager that he knows well."

Rodgers would become even more hated

When the ex-Liverpool and Swansea manager left the Bhoys for Leicester, it wasn't taken well by the Celtic Park faithful - in fact, that is a severe understatement.

A banner emerged shortly after the Northern Irishman's departure which read: "You traded immortality for mediocrity. Never a Celt. Always a fraud".

In general, his exit was met with a vicious backlash and he is now regarded as a hated figure at the club.

So, if Rodgers returned to his former club, only to pinch their best player from them and run off back to Leicester with him, you can only imagine how that situation would go down with the Celtic Park faithful.