“It has a special flavour, I’m very happy and want to say thank you to all my players, the chairman, staff and fans”.
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However, Ranieri warned his players to be wary of changing the team suddenly, saying that they could underperform at a new club and could slow down if they stay outside the playing 11.
They’re going to have to use all of Ranieri’s experience bringing in players that other people don’t know about and aren’t going for.
Praise poured in around the world for Leicester, who were on the brink of relegation last season.
Claudio Ranieri believes that it will take up to 20 years for an unfancied team to emulate Leicester City’s achievement by winning the English Premier League.
“The richest will win or who can pick up the best players to make a team”.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says “great Italian” Claudio Ranieri deserves an honour.
– Sixty-eight per cent of the games Leicester City and Everton have played in the Premier League have been draws; the highest ratio of any fixture in the history of the competition that has been played more than 10 times.
The magnitiude of what City have been able to achieve still hadn’t sunk in for the 64-year-old Italian, and he admitted never in his wildest dreams could he imagine he would be sat in front of a press conference as a Premier League champion.
From Football League Championship title winners and promotion to the Premier League, to the “greatest escape” during the 2014/15 season, through to winning the biggest league in world football this week. With two games left Leicester are seven points clear at the top of the table with Spurs in second place.
The players can now look forward to another title party when they lift the trophy at their 32,000-seater King Power Stadium following Saturday’s home game with Everton.
“Every position from now until the end of the season matters, it has got huge financial implications, a huge role in the integrity of the league”, the 42-year-old said. “Why do I have to sign a new contract?”
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He said: “I am satisfied, of course, but not in terms of “it is revenge”. I came from non-league, from amateur football, and when I arrived at Cagliari, in the Third Division, and we got to Serie A, that was my first fairytale. “I lost my title to Claudio Ranieri and it is with incredible emotion that I live this magic moment in his career”.
