Brendan Rodgers is relieved competition is still alive after the threat of a European Super League was brought to a swift conclusion.
Little more than 48 hours passed between the announcement of the Super League project and its collapse.
Fans almost universally rejected the idea, while parliamentary interference and negative media coverage proved too much for the six English clubs involved to navigate.
Within hours of each other, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool and Chelsea were forced into swift U-turns to appease their supporters.
The Premier League clubs’ cold feet brought the who project crashing down and although Real Madrid president Florentino Perez remains committed to the idea, the formation of a European Super League looks dead in the water.
Rodgers’ Leicester City side had looked to be the main beneficiaries of the departure of the Big Six, with bookies pricing them up as favourites to win the Premier League in their absence.
However, the Foxes boss said a closed-shop Super League would have been to the detriment of the game.
Speaking after the Foxes’ 3-0 win over West Bromwich Albion strengthened their top-four bid, Rodgers referenced the outpouring of anger from football fans across the country. And he said it was a wake-up call to those who wield the power at the top of the game.
“Thankfully the voices of the supporters, in the main, have been heard,” said Rodgers when asked about the Super League by Sky Sports.
“Like I said, in this country, it’s a competition and sport is a competition for us.
“Football has become a huge industry, so there is a business aspect to it. But that can never be at the cost of supporters because it’s their game as well as the players and everyone that works for the football clubs.
“We’re only custodians to look after the clubs for the supporters and do our very, very best so yeah happy that that was curtailed very, very quickly.”
Goals from Jamie Vardy, Jonny Evans and Kelechi Iheanacho eased City past Albion on Thursday evening.
The Foxes sit in third with six matches remaining, four points clear of West Ham in fifth.
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