Gary Neville makes claim on Ruud Van Nistelrooy's Leicester City future | OneFootball

The Dutchman's former teammate has spoken about the Leicester boss' situation on his podcast.

Gary Neville doesn't see a world in which his former Manchester United teammate, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, stays on as Leicester City manager for next season.

It looks increasingly unlikely that Van Nistelrooy will be in the home dugout at the King Power Stadium for the start of next season, when Leicester will be back playing Championship football after one season back in the Premier League.

The club's relegation was confirmed by a 1-0 home defeat to champions Liverpool, in which there was more negativity on top of the sealing of their fate.

Harry Winks was omitted from the squad following a reported altercation between him and the boss in which the midfielder refused to stay one night per week at the club's training ground, instead opting to continue with his 100-mile commute to the club's training ground in north Leicestershire.

The manager's relationship with Jannik Vestergaard has also appeared to have taken a hit. The promotion-winning defender hasn't played a game for the Foxes since the end of February. He's not said to have fallen foul of the travel issue that Winks has, but he did bring his dog to training at one point this season because nobody was at his home, in London, to look after it.

Gary Neville makes Ruud Van Nistelrooy Leicester prediction

On the Stick to Football podcast, Neville, alongside Jamie Carragher, Roy Keane, Jill Scott and Ian Wright, lambasted those Leicester players that weren't willing to meet the manager's travelling wishes.

Neville "completely" agrees with the former Man United striker's decision to drop Winks from the squad and believes that the situation means Van Nistelrooy probably won't stick around with the Foxes.

"I'd be surprised if Ruud stayed looking at a couple of situations a couple of weeks ago with Winks and Vestergaard," said the Sky Sports pundit.

"When you go for two players like that, and I suspect that there were other players also living away, and some of them have obviously complied with it and started to stay near, and some of them have said 'No, I'm not moving.' I think that he was calling out the professionalism in the squad.

"And rightly so," Carragher responded. "It's a joke."

Keane also backed the decision of the Dutchman, who he also played alongside at Old Trafford. "I would rather Ruud do that and sometimes lose players than hand it to them all the time, and that's part of management.

"Obviously if these lads were doing the business every week, you live where you want; live in f***ing Scotland. But if you're losing, Gary, you know you're losing every week, you do have to start looking and going 'Lads!'

"We spoke here a few months ago or a couple of weeks ago about players not being professional. If you're a manager, that's your job (to sort it out)...

"If you're a manager, if these players are at the club and Ruud comes in, new manager and they're up against it, and you say 'Lads you might have to stay up.' You're not saying to live in Leicester and uproot your family, but could you stay up one, two nights a week?

"If you're a player you'd be going 'Yeah, of course I will. I'm embarrassed you're asking me. I'm embarrassed that you've had to come to that stage.'"

Leicester must have their full attention on the manager situation

With Van Nistelrooy seemingly unlikely to keep his job, a list of candidates have been drawn up by the club, according to Sky Sports' Rob Dorsett. They include England under-21s boss Lee Carsley, Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl and Championship promotion-winner Russell Martin.

Rohl, who has openly cast doubt over his Wednesday future, would reportedly be willing to take the job at the King Power stadium, according to Football Insider, although Leicester would have to pay a compensation fee in order to get him.