Leicester City players Championship teams need to sign this summer

LEICESTER City’s Premier League title triumph will be hard to repeat because the richest teams nearly always succeed, says manager Claudio Ranieri.

“Big money makes big teams and usually big teams win”.

Renata says Ranieri’s time in England has allowed him to forget his disappointing time at hometown club Roma, where he spent 18 months before eventually leaving in 2011.

Karishma Kapoor, a business student at the university, placed a £2 bet on Leicester City to upset the odds and win the title at 5,000/1 – thereby winning a grand total of £10,000.

“How many years after Nottingham Forest and Blackburn have another team won?” said Ranieri. “We have to bring some good players but they must have the same spirit”.

“I think it’s karma because I’ve fought hard to achieve this”, the much-travelled Ranieri, whose managerial career includes stints at Napoli, Fiorentina, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Roma and Monaco, said.

“I want to improve the squad without big stars, but the right players”.

Ranieri’s men won the title as nearest-rivals Spurs were held to a 2-2 draw at Chelsea on Monday night.

Ranieri was applauded on Thursday at his first pre-match press conference since his side were crowned champions, as more than 100 journalists raised glasses of champagne to toast the popular 64-year-old.

Ranieri acknowledged that bids for standout players Riyad Mahrez, N’Golo Kante and Jamie Vardy were likely to be made in the close season but suggested it would take vast sums to prise them away.

Leicester’s Premier League heroes could be in line for a special gift in the weeks ahead.

“It’s unheard of. Three years ago, they were playing in the Championship and last season they were nearly relegated”.

They will lift the Premier League trophy after that game, no matter what the result.

“I feel good, I feel good you can imagine”, Ranieri told Sky Sports News’s Rob Dorsett on arriving at Leicester’s training ground yesterday morning. A player in the Leicester City system since 2014, Barmby joined the Timbers on loan from the Foxes’ U-21 side this March.

Okazaki is only the second Japanese to receive a Premier League winner’s medal after Shinji Kagawa with Manchester United in 2012-13.

The Foxes completed one of sport’s greatest shocks when they won the league with a squad costing £57m. “Why do I have to sign a new contract?”

Alex Donohue, of Ladbrokes, said: “The greatest sporting story of all time is no longer a dream”.