acoreof
players either
rejected or overlooked
by other clubs – was all
the more remarkable given
their form of the previous
season and the departure
of manager Nigel Pearson.
At the start of the campaign,
Leicester had been many people’s
favourites to be relegated. Pearson
had been sacked and replaced by
Claudio Ranieri, whose most recentemployment had been with the
Greek national team, where he
had been dismissed after four
months following a Euro 2016
qualifying defeat to Faroe
Islands. But Ranieri is an
experienced campaigner,
having come close to
winning league titles in
England (Chelsea), Italy
(Internazionale, Fiorentina,
Roma), France (Monaco) and
Spain (Atletico Madrid, Valencia).THE STORIES