Peter Taylor believes Leicester City have made a mistake in ending his contract at Filbert Street and insists that he is determined to prove them wrong.
Taylor has spoken of his frustration at having been sacked just eight games into the season and believes that the extensive injury list at Filbert Street is largely to blame for The Foxes' poor showing this season.
"My argument is that if I could have put out my best team for
even half of the games then I could have lived with it - the sacking.
"But to have had the injuries we have had - the worst I have known in all my time in football - has made it very difficult, and I even signed off with
two more at Charlton on Saturday!" He said.
"It hasn't come as that much of a surprise. But I am that determined that I will prove them - the people who have sacked me - wrong. I intend to do
that. I really think they have made the wrong decision.
"I'm not angry. I'm frustrated. I know I would have got it right. If
everyone was fit, then this squad is good enough to be at least half-way up
the Premiership - but young players had to come in quicker than I intended."
Taylor insisted that the players were all behind him, as they had been all season, although it was his signing of certain players that had caused some of the criticism that eventually led to his departure.
"No manager alive gets it 100% right with
signings, but I think that most of the players I have signed have been
successful," Taylor declared.
Reports have already surfaced that Taylor has been offered a coaching role at Tottenham Hotspur with former White Hart Lane team-mate Glenn Hoddle but
The former England under-21 boss dismissed as this as "not true."
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