Pochettino has already promised Spurs will come back stronger next season, where they will be aiming to go one step further and clinch their first ever Premier League title.
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He was playing non-league football only four years ago for Fleetwood Town, is now a Premier League champion and vying for a place in Roy Hodgson’s starting line-up for Euro 2016.
Mr Done said: “I have a number of punters who incredibly backed the Foxes for fivers and tenners at very fancy prices and it will cost me a million pounds”.
And next season? “I’ll be backing City to win the Premiership again – and the Champions League!”
He said he had always denied any championship ambitions until nearly the end of the season because “that’s the way I am made, I have always preferred doing things rather than talking about them”.
One is Nigel Pearson, the man who started the climb with Leicester before being sacked after valiantly surviving the threat of relegation last season – the other is Esteban Cambiasso.
“I think it is normal that if you achieve, you want more”.
“All evidence suggests wages, turnover and net transfer spend are the biggest markers of where a team will finish and Leicester on all those markers are in the bottom half of the league”, Wilson told Press Association Sport.
“I would like to maintain all my players”.
The manager also played down speculation over his own future, with Leicester reportedly prepared to improve terms on the three-year deal he signed when joining the club last July.
Leicester’s first English top-flight title was secured after their only remaining challengers Tottenham Hotspur were held to a 2-2 draw at Chelsea on Monday (Tuesday NZ Time), when needing to win to keep the race alive.
“The journey we have been on is fantastic, it is something which will go down in history definitely”.
“I’m not even a confident lad”. Unbelievable. Maybe when we won there 3-1, maybe my players believed in something: ‘Maybe we can win, maybe we can fight until the end.’ Because I never, never spoke about this.
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“That gives you an idea of how much hard work has gone into this season from every single player and member of staff”.
