He led Leicester City to last season’s Premier League title with an nearly never-changing starting lineup, and while he’s lost N’Golo Kanté already from that group, he’s been desperately hoping to keep both Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez.
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“The Foxes are in the Champions League this season and Ranieri knows coping with the dual demands of Premier League and Europe will be hard but he does hope to progress past the group stage”.
His new deal doubles his salary to £3 million, contains a very modest buy-out clause and gives him the option of extending his stay at the King Power Stadium by another two years.
“If the results are a little lucky we can do something special also this year”.
Manchester United and Manchester City have each spent around 150 million pounds ($194.4 million, 174 million euros) on new players.
‘It is more hard than last season.
The team from central England produced one of the greatest-ever underdog stories in sports by winning the league, at pre-season odds of 5,000-1.
“I’m very curious about this season”, Ranieri told reporters on Thursday.
“The big teams are used to it and they can play and come back and it is the same, but for us it will be different and the Tinkerman will come back!” I think now we have less pressure than last season.
I’m sure Phelan would be more than happy with a point from his first game in charge, yet with so many issues I just can’t see that happening.
The Foxes, beaten 2-1 by FA Cup-holders Manchester United in the Charity Shield at Wembley last weekend, begin the defence of their Premier League title away to Hull on Saturday.
“Could I know who is interested in Mahrez?”
“But Riyad does not have the clause and he will stay with us”.
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– And because they all enjoyed the pizza so much, Claudio took them out again after they became Premier League champions.
