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Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has dismissed “gossip” linking him with Tottenham Hotspur and has said he is “very happy” at the King Power Stadium.

Rodgers was reported to be on the shortlist to replace Mauricio Pochettino before Jose Mourinho was named as Spurs boss earlier this week.

But Rodgers, who was only appointed to the hotseat at City in February, shrugged off the speculation and said he is focused on his “responsibility” to help his current club develop.

“There’s nothing to talk on it,” Rodgers said at his weekly press conference on Thursday. “This game is full of gossip and speculation.

“The only thing I’ll say is I’m very happy here at Leicester. I’ve literally just joined the club, in February. Everything has been great since we’ve been in. We have a project here that we want to develop and my sole focus, along with my team and my staff, is on that.

“In this game, I’ve learned that you will always be linked with other jobs. What’s most important is the now and I’m very happy here to work and to develop the club.

“What happens in football, when you’re doing well, everyone wants to take you away from that.

“I’m very happy in my professional life. I’m very happy in my life here in Leicestershire, it’s a great place to live and to work. We’ve created a real unity here at the club.

“I came in with a responsibility to help Top (chairman), Susan (Whelan, chief executive), Jon (Rudkin, director of football), and to help all the players to grow. In my time here, that’s what I hope to do.

“How long that will be, you can never tell, but I’m very happy to be here.”

Mourinho has instead taken the job in north London and Rodgers knows the Portuguese boss well from his time at Chelsea, when the City manager was in charge of the academy at Stamford Bridge.

While Rodgers praised the work of Pochettino, he said Spurs have made an excellent appointment in Mourinho.

“In Jose you are bringing in someone who has won throughout his career, throughout his life, as a manager and he will go in there and look to bring his many qualities into a really strong group of players,” Rodgers said.

“Jose is a winner. He brings an intensity.

“The time I worked with Jose he was a big influence for me back then as a young coach. It is his level of detail, his focus, his wonderful quality with people. He was absolutely brilliant for me at the time there.

“Like myself he liked to communicate. He was very open with his ideas and he was a real leader of the squad and the team. He was very clear on how he wanted them to work.

"So for a young coach like me back then I was in pole position to see how he operated and it was absolutely brilliant in that time.”