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Leaving Leicester City Could Harm Stars’ Careers – Claudio Ranieri

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: May 9, 2016
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Claudio Ranieri has urged Leicester’s stars to stay for another season and warned it could harm their careers if they leave the Premier League champions now.

Tottenham’s inability to beat Chelsea last Monday handed the Foxes their first-ever top-flight league title.

The city of Leicester has partied ever since, yet there were no signs of a hangover on Saturday, with Everton picked off 3-1 before the Premier League trophy was presented.

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A packed King Power Stadium celebrated the greatest day in the club’s 132-year history, and Ranieri loved every second of it, from world-famous tenor Andrea Bocelli singing next to him before the match, to being doused in champagne in the news conference after it.

The Italian will keep his winner’s medal at home to look at on a rainy day and say to himself “Heh, come on man, balance” — something that may be needed at times next term.

Bookmakers have the champions as seventh favourites for the 2016-17 title and, while accepting it will be a different proposition, Ranieri hopes to still be able to call upon the likes of Riyad Mahrez, N’Golo Kante and Jamie Vardy.

“I want to enjoy but I feel it is possible maybe to keep all the players,” Ranieri said.

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“It is important for us but it is important also for them because they don’t know the Champions League.

“If they go away, it is not good for them. It is much better if they improve another year here and then go wherever they want.

“But I have said so many times if one player comes to me and says ‘Gaffer, I want to go,’ then I leave him to go because it is okay.”

Ranieri speaks about his players like a proud father and has clearly cultivated a special atmosphere at the King Power Stadium.

The City boss wants to keep the same attitude, spirit and concentration next term — attributes that will be vital when they play Champions League football for the first time.

Early exits from the Capital One Cup and FA Cup helped pave their way to Premier League glory, so balancing European and domestic exertions will be a tough new challenge for Leicester.

“I am confident because this team two years ago won the Championship and the Championship is very, very tough,” Ranieri said.

“They run all the year and then I hope we can find good players and make some replacements because next season there will be three cups and the Premier League.

“It will be very important to be able to make good changes and give some rest to the players.

“I believe when there will be the draw for the [Champions League] group, other teams will want to play against us because we are in Europe for the first time and they think we are underdogs.

“We are underdogs but we are dangerous. Underdogs can be dangerous teams.”

Similarly, left-back Christian Fuchs has questioned why any of Leicester’s stars would want to quit, and and believes they will stay in the end.

“We’re playing Champions League football next season,” the 30-year-old Austrian said. “Leicester City are playing Champions League football. Isn’t that a good enough reason to stay at this club?

“I think all the lads know what this team is all about. So why not stay? I believe that.

“Bringing in other players is not in my hands but it’s going to be a tough challenge and I think everybody should simply look forward to it. I played in [the Champions League] for three years [with former club Schalke] and I’m happy to be back.”

Fellow defender Danny Simpson agreed, adding: “I want everyone to stay because it is a special group. Hopefully they stay and we can kick on because we are going places.

“I’ve played in a lot of teams now and that is not easy to get. Hopefully everyone wants to keep going and grow as a group and as a club. I think if we can stay together we are going places.

“We all have a bit of banter [about transfer speculation] but at the end of the day we have had a job to do and been concentrating on the games. Whatever the lads decide to do is up to them. We just hope we can keep this group together because for me it has so much potential to do even more things than what we have.”

Ritchie de Laet, who had been on loan at Middlesbrough since February, rushed down from the north-east after helping Boro earn promotion from the Sky Bet Championship just hours before Leicester lifted the title.

“The lads saw me at half-time and said congratulations on the achievement for Middlesbrough but for them it is party time now,” he said.

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