With Leicester proving that nearly anyone can come out of nowhere to mount a title bid, it will be extremely hard for Ranieri’s men to repeat their success next season, especially as they will also have a Champions League campaign to look forward to which will stretch the squad.
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However, Forest were crowned champions in 1977-78 after having scraped promotion to the top flight a year earlier, and they then won back-to-back European Cups in the two seasons that followed. “I’m happy here”, he said.
And Ranieri admits Leicester have some way to go to match that – but hopes that they can continue to build on their incredible success.
He has scored 24 goals this season, including a brace in Saturday’s 3-1 win over Everton, to help the Foxes claim a shock Barclays Premier League title and complete his own fairytale. “It was there to relax with family and that’s all we did until we got back to training”, Vardy said.
“And because we weren’t in the week after because we’d been knocked out of the FA Cup he gave us a week off to completely forget about everything and recharge the batteries”.
“We will sit down together and when we talk about something, it’s long term, not just until September”.
Jamie Vardy at the launch of his V9 Academy on Tuesday (NZT).
England global Vardy, 29, signed a contract with Leicester in February running through to June 2019. It is not only Leicester’s players who are in demand.
I always told them: ‘I don’t ask of you that you win, but that you always give everything you’ve got. That was my reason. That was my reason, probably hundreds were told the same and had to drop down as well. We have got ourselves into this situation playing that way, why change it?’ he said.
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I see four ways in which investors can get exposure to the seemingly inexorable increase in the global popularity of the English Premier League. We are not just once you leave the training ground that’s it, you’re not going to see them until the next day. “It has worked for us, hopefully it will work for us again”.
