Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri will earn a five million pound bonus if his team win the English Premier League soccer title, the Times reported yesterday.
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Due to Arsenal’s slip in form, The Red Devils have an outside chance of getting into the top four.
The Foxes have been the Premier League’s standout performers all season and head into Sunday’s game on the back of their stunning 4-0 win over Swansea City at the King Power Stadium last weekend.
Manchester United manager Louis Van Gaal has revealed that he is still in the planning for next season despite rumours of his exit at the end of the current campaign.
“So that is not a question for us”. If your strength was to concentrate and be solid we have to continue that.
“We have played many more matches and in spite of all the injuries we are still there”.
Van Gaal bristled at the suggestion his players would find it chastening to play in a match where the visiting team were the ones chasing the title.
“We were one of the latest clubs in three competitions”.
“I think we have to beat Leicester because we are still in the race for the first positions so we have to beat them”, Van Gaal said.
Leicester City, pronounced “Less-ter” and known by fans as the Foxes, has never won the title, and doing so would represent one of the greatest sporting upsets of all time.
Van Gaal also claimed that the team was in a transitional phase and their main aim now is to qualify for the Champions League.
He praised the job done by Ranieri and his players but argued in some ways Leicester have an advantage over their bigger rivals. “They play like a team and get results”. You have to pay the agent and also the bigger clubs have a say on the transfer so it is not so easy. Now, for the first time in their lives, my players must work with the pressure of being able to win something.
It is regarded as the most unlikely challenge since Brian Clough led fellow Midlands club Nottingham Forest to the English championship and European Cup in successive seasons after winning promotion to the top flight, then known as the First Division, back in 1977.
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The Foxes could secure the Premier League title with a win at Old Trafford.
