CONFIRM;Sean Dyche has been announced Leicester City next manager and  Ruud van Nistelrooy replacement

Leicester City are one of the few clubs Sean Dyche would go to watch as an out-of-work manager because of his friendship with the club’s director of football Jon Rudkin.

Dyche is the new favourite to take over from Ruud van Nistelrooy at the King Power Stadium, whose future is in considerable doubt ahead of the Championship campaign.

Earlier this year, Dyche revealed that he has an existing relationship with City director of football Rudkin, who he knows “really well from youth days”.

Before stepping into his current role, Rudkin was City’s academy manager and so may have crossed paths with Dyche when he started his coaching career with Watford’s Under-18s.

Because of that friendship, Dyche said City is one of the few clubs he would go to watch when he wasn’t in a job, having disliked the occasions where out-of-work managers turned up at Vicarage Road when he was under pressure at Watford.

Speaking on Gary Lineker’s The Rest is Football podcast in March, Dyche said: “I have a rule of thumb. At Watford, I’d only been in there for 10 or 12 games but I was under pressure. There were 11 out-of-work managers at one game. I promised myself I’d never do that.

When I came out of Watford and was living in Northampton, I only went to clubs in my area or people I knew, so I went to Leicester because I knew Jon Rudkin really well from the youth days.

“I went to MK Dons because Mick Harford was there at the time and could get me tickets, and I went to Forest because I was there as a kid. They were the only three clubs I used to go around.

“I wouldn’t go to any other clubs because I think it’s bad form when people are hanging in the directors’ room when the manager is under pressure.”