Ranieri also hailed his players’ “determination” and “spirit” after their improbable English Premier League title triumph was confirmed on Monday night.
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From being relegation candidates and 5,000-1 outsiders for the title, Leicester won the biggest prize in its 132-year history.
Sheffield Hallam University’s football finance expert Rob Wilson believes it is “a fair estimate” to expect Leicester will earn an additional £50m from their Champions League campaign, even if they fail to progress beyond the group stage.
He said: “We don’t need the superstars”.
“We considered naming our daughter after one of the players”. You see (in January) we bought Demarai Gray, we bought Daniel Amartey.
Brown, 30, was part of the England team which completed the Six Nations Grand Slam earlier this year and hopes to be heading Down Under next month. If some player doesn’t want to stay with us, I don’t want unhappy people. We see again what the church proclaims – a diverse team working in a diverse community with a common goal can reshape the world. And it left officials, players and staff of the Premier League’s heavyweight clubs embarrassed and perplexed.
They rushed to put a fiver each on the bet, but quickly became the butt of jokes at work when they discovered they had actually bet on the East Midlands team to win the Premier League title. Then maybe you can go anywhere.
Speaking on the red carpet of his latest movie, A Hologram For The King, Tom was asked about his beloved Aston Villa being relegated to the Championship League. He looks very good. If you go away, what happens?
“It is important to chose very well for the lads because now for me as well the lads are my sons. “(Leicester) is a very well-organized team, with very few injuries. “I could tell at the start of the season he was sacked up and wanted more than mere safety”.
Leicester were among the favourites for the drop, with the Italian tipped to be the first manager sacked after he replaced Nigel Pearson last summer.
Leicester were crowned Premier League champions on Monday night when the only club capable of catching them, Tottenham Hotspur, were held to a 2-2 draw by Chelsea. That’s maybe the only negative thing about it.
Masterminded by manager Claudio Ranieri, Leicester’s season of 22 wins out of 36 games and just three defeats was enough to make them champions with two games to spare, with Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool all trailing behind.
“But we want to continue to build. When I came here, the objective was to create a solid foundation and build together”.
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He has the experience of someone who has been in this profession for many years, someone who can win over people’s trust.
