Admitting to trying – and failing – to “be strong without emotion” during a pre-match performance from tenor Andrea Bocelli, this title win has restored Ranieri’s reputation among his peers and banished the ghosts of his ill-fated spell with Greece.
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“They run all the year and then I hope we can find good players and make some replacements because next season there will be three cups and the Premier League”.
“There are very few players who we’ve got who are out of contract, so the ones who did it this season will be given the opportunity to see if they can duplicate that form and do it again”.
Left-back Fuchs feels the key players must stay, and believes they will. I held them back and lifted it up. “I don’t know”, he said.
Jamie Vardy, who signed a lucrative new contract with the Foxes in February, scored a brace on his return from suspension which bookended a neat Andy King strike as the Foxes swept Everton aside at a raucous King Power Stadium.
A spokeswoman for Leicester Royal Infirmary said its A&E unit was “incredibly busy” treating patients with mostly alcohol-related minor injuries.
The added demands of Champions League football means Leicester City will have to strengthen in the off-season, says Steve Walsh.
“But I have said so many times if one player comes to me and says ‘Gaffer, I want to go, ‘ then I leave him to go because it is okay”.
In Bangkok, cheers, spilt beers and confetti met the awarding of the Premier League trophy to Leicester at a lively party laid on by the club’s Thai owners on Saturday.
Arsenal is enduring a 12-year title drought despite significantly outspending Leicester, which has completed a seven-year rise from the third tier to win its first championship. “We are underdogs but we are risky”. So why not stay?
“I was very, very, concentrated on being calm and of course I am very, very happy”.
“Now, let me think only of this last match [against Chelsea], let me go to the sea, recharge my batteries and we restart next season with the same ambition, with the same humility, with the same feeling”. “It’s been a very long and hard process to get where I am today”. Hopefully everyone wants to keep going and grow as a group and as a club.
“It is a scandal how we all are together”. Whatever the lads decide to do is up to them.
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“It’s not just upon me because I’ve got people working for me, bringing information and we’ve got to act on it”.
