

French former player Marcel Desailly was part of Arsenal's 'invincible' team back in the 2003-2004 season, at that time Claudio Ranieri was managing Chelsea right before Jose Mourinho arrived. During that invincible season, Ranieri finished the Premier League in second place and gave a good battle to the gunners throughout the whole tournament. Desailly doesn't forget that and talking to the English press, he expressed that he is happy for the Italian's amazing run with Leicester City.
But Desailly knows that the players at Leicester, might be struggling to cope with their manager who is very tough according to Marcel: "He's not an easy coach, Claudio. If the players behave correctly, fine, otherwise he's ready for the fight. He doesn't care who is who, he will be on your shoulder. He's a strong man. In life he's an amazing man, but as a coach he's hard. I was captain at the time at Chelsea so I had some good meetings [with him]."
"I'm happy for him with this end of career, because he's not going to coach for the next 10 years. He's not been a winning coach. [In] 2004 we were supposed to win the league, but unfortunately Arsenal were 'The Invincibles' and he got sacked while he was building something good. You can see from how he talks he's calm, but I'm happy at least to get Leicester to the Champions League qualifiers. Now we are all expecting to see when is going to be the announcement that Leicester, like Blackburn, have won the Premier League, because we are tired of it being the same."
Then the Frenchman agreed that the Foxes' success is a good thing for the Premier League: "I'm surprised. It's good because it's proved that some of the clubs have invested correctly on players and it has lifted the level of the Premier League. Even if there aren't many in the finals of the Champions League, we are happy about how it has brought some curiosity. Even if you don't have individually top-class players, they've been able to stick together until the end."
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