Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has sympathised with Steven Gerrard after his decision to leave Rangers for Aston Villa.

Rodgers made a similar move back in 2019 when he departed Celtic for Leicester.

And the Northern Irishman is confident that Gerrard, who he coached at Liverpool, will succeed at Villa Park.

"Steven has felt the time to move on," Rodgers said ahead of Saturday's clash with Chelsea.

"It's always a wrench when you leave, and I can only talk from my own experience at Celtic in terms of winning trophies.

"Then you look for the next challenge. He's felt that. It's a league he knows very well and he goes into a fantastic club that will have ambitions to chase European football. I'm sure he'll do really well."