May’s 1-1 draw at United all but sealed their shock title and Ranieri insisted his reigning champions should not be scared with Jose Mourinho’s new-look side suddenly stuttering after successive league defeats, despite Wednesday’s 3-1 EFL Cup win at Northampton.
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United will get a chance to run the rule over Drinkwater’s qualities on Saturday, when Leicester will be travelling to Old Trafford for the sixth Premier League matchday of the season.
Leicester now sit 11th in the table after two wins, a draw and two losses at the start of the season, and Ranieri admits the challenge faced by his team this campaign is a lot different to the one they faced last term. “I don’t want to go where there is just me and you!”
Simpson went on to spend four years as a professional at Old Trafford before being sold to Newcastle United in 2010 after a series of loan moves.
“Today he’ll have a training session, tomorrow I will check. I don’t know his [Rashford’s] character, but his quality is wonderful”. “At that moment I said, “oh, there’s something good we could do here”. I am not a doctor but the concussion is OK.
“Let me check tomorrow”. If it is nothing serious, he will come and play.
Ranieri likened his Leicester side to the Royal Air Force last season given the speed and movement of his players, while the Midlands outfit smashed their transfer record on three separate occasions during the summer.
“It’s speculation. I’m surprised, because it’s usually a month before the window opens that this sort of speculation starts”.
‘When you play against these big teams, you don’t have an advantage. He wants us to grow up slowly, to make a solid basement. Now they must be proud, but continue in this way.
The Sun understands Jose Mourinho is plotting a £30m ($39m) move for the England global, leaving Ranieri fuming.
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“He [Drinkwater] has signed a new contract, he doesn’t have a [release] clause”.
