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The Champions League, the Premier League, the League Cup and the FA Cup. All of those are competitions that Leicester City will have to cover next season, they are going to need a deep roster in order to not get many injured or weary players who will be playing one game every three or four days throughout the whole next season. This is the main reason why manager Claudio Ranieri has already set his sights on a few really good players, who aren't world class stars but have huge potential. His main target is Serie B's top scorer this season, Pesacara's Italian striker Gianluca Lapadula.
Ranieri said: “We are watching all the players in the world. He [Lapadula] is a good striker, he scores goals, he’s good in the air. I’m excited when I see him play and how he works without the ball. If I can bring him here I will be very happy. But we are watching a lot of players. The market is always difficult. When you ask something now and you are Leicester City, suddenly the price goes up. Yes, of course, that is happening. Before, we go in and can get players for a little money. But now everyone knows it’s Leicester, the price, it rises. That is normal in football.”
The Italian manager also spoke about the time when he was managing Chelsea FC and the new ownership arrived. Back then, he knew right from the start that both him and the then sporting director would be the first ones to leave the institution. He has no had feelings with owner Roman Abramovich. This Sunday, Ranieri will be facing Chelsea again, but now as the Premier League champion, with a club that has one fifth of the budget that the Blues have.
“If a new owner arrives, he changes the sporting director, the economist, everything. He wanted to bring his manager and I wasn’t Roman’s. He wanted to bring in Sven Goran Eriksson – and when he didn’t, he said: ‘Okay, Claudio make a decision on the players you want’. We got some good ones but I knew from the beginning I would go home. I said to Trevor Birch, my sporting director, when he told me there was a new owner with money: ‘You and me will be the first to go.’ He went first and I was second. I knew about Jose. But of course I wasn’t happy. However, Roman spoke so well when I went to Monaco. The Monaco owner was Russian and I know that Roman spoke very well about myself before I went there.”
Ranieri added: “We have a good relationship. I have a very good relationship with all my old owners.”
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