Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola and Chelsea’s Antonio Conte are poised for their first taste of English football, while Jose Mourinho is back for more at Manchester United.
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It remains to be seen how quickly they gel with the existing players and if the former Juventus boss can work his magic in west London, but Ranieri, who guided Leicester City to an wonderful Premier League title last term, feels they are in safe hands with his compatriot. I say to them we can repeat the level of performance but not to win.
Regarding a predicted finish for United, Ferdinand added: “It’s unheard of for Manchester United to be saying you want to finish in a Champions League position”.
“They are going insane now – they want to kill now”. “They have new managers, fantastic managers”.
GETTYClaudio Ranieri has fired a warning to his title rivals Antonio Conte is fantastic …everybody knows Jose. Pep Guardiola is an wonderful person, good manager. “Leicester City? People are just curious”. To win is a dream.
“Everything is different now”, said Ranieri, who takes his side to Oxford United tonight for their first pre-season friendly of the summer.
“Champions League football and a trophy would be deemed as a good season I think, right now, but next season you’ve got to be aiming to win it”.
“If we lose then okay, go down, shower then the next match fight again, and again. If at the beginning of last season the bookmakers quoted 5000/1 on our chances of the title, this time it’s 6000/1”.
“But we have to believe this and if we lose, no problem, restart, never give up”.
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Ranieri described star striker Jamie Vardy’s decision to snub Arsenal and stay at Leicester as “huge”, but the champions will defend their title without France midfielder N’Golo Kante, who has joined Conte at Chelsea.
