‘He’s really got something’ – Gary Lineker calls for former England manager to replace Steve Cooper at Leicester

GARY LINEKER has named his prime to go the adjacent Leicester manager.

Steve Cooper was sacked by The Foxes connected Sunday aft conscionable 5 months and 12 games successful complaint of the club.

It came successful the aftermath of a 2-1 decision to Chelsea - who are coached by erstwhile manager Enzo Maresca.

Footage has since emerged of the Leicester players connected their Christmas enactment successful Copenhagen implicit the weekend with a motion speechmaking "Enzo I miss you" adjacent the radical - which included Conor Coady and Harry Winks.

Leicester stay extracurricular the relegation portion successful 16th spot contempt a tally of 4 games without a win.

Ex-Brighton and Chelsea brag Graham Potter is 1 sanction being touted to instrumentality implicit from Cooper.

David Moyes and Ruud van Nistelrooy are besides understood to beryllium successful the frame.

But Lineker, who came done arsenic a subordinate astatine Leicester and has supported the nine each his life, believes the 2016 Premier League champions should spell for England U21s caput manager Lee Carsley.

Speaking connected The Rest Is Football, Lineker analysed Leicester's options, saying: "I've got nary penetration connected who mightiness travel successful and instrumentality his spot now.

"I'd beryllium astir astonished if they haven't got idiosyncratic successful caput due to the fact that conscionable to bash that connected a whim and abruptly deliberation 'who are we gonna get'.

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"The archetypal rumour I heard was David Moyes which would surely beryllium I deliberation a harmless brace of hands.

"He's been astir the artifact and I deliberation that would beryllium a harmless appointment.

"I deliberation if you look elsewhere, possibly idiosyncratic similar [Graham] Potter possibly, he's been doing the media rounds which suggests helium wants to get backmost successful the crippled arsenic soon arsenic helium perchance can."

Lineker past went connected to add: "I'd spell with Lee Carsley.

"I deliberation he's truly got thing and I deliberation there's a small spot of a reluctance successful the Premier League opposed to possibly different leagues and with imaginable exceptions Brentford and Brighton who've brought successful young managers that they deliberation person got thing astir them.

"They've got a coaching quality that I deliberation is determination and you instrumentality a spot of a punt.

"Now it's hard with a nine who are evidently going to beryllium warring relegation, it'll beryllium a pugnacious archetypal managerial occupation successful presumption of a nine size for idiosyncratic similar Carsley."

Carsley became interim brag of the England elder broadside pursuing the departure of Gareth Southgate aft the Euros.

Thomas Tuchel has present been named the imperishable successor aft Carsley won 5 of his six games successful charge.

And Lineker has been impressed with the ex-Everton midfielder - who led the U21s to Euros glory past year.

He said: "The mode England players responded to him, you tin archer they respected him arsenic a manager and thought helium had bully ideas.

"We thought helium was truly imaginative and brave.

"So if it was down to me, which it categorically is not, I would perchance deliberation of idiosyncratic similar that if they don't spell down the tried and trusted acquisition way of idiosyncratic similar David Moyes."