Overview
- Saturday's 2-1 home loss to Oxford left Leicester 14th and six points off the play-offs, with a board meeting later the next day following the chairman’s earlier pre-recorded remark that Cifuentes "needs time."
- Former midfielder Andy King has been placed in temporary charge as the club begins recruiting its seventh permanent manager since 2019.
- Reports and bookmakers’ odds place Russell Martin as an early frontrunner, with Lee Carsley, Mark Robins, Gary Rowett and Robbie Keane also linked to the vacancy.
- Leicester face PSR charges and the risk of a points deduction, and recruitment is expected to be constrained to low-cost or loan deals in the final days of the window.
- Cifuentes departs after roughly 31 matches in all competitions, recording 11 wins, eight draws and 12 defeats.