Written by Adam. Success for Leicester last season would almost certainly have been qualification for Europe. Any of their directors and players, even Ranieri himself, would have happily taken that on the first day of the season. Yet they won the title and in doing so shamed many other clubs who had spent enormous sums in an effort to do the same thing. LVG blew out at Manchester United basically because he had become something of an erratic parody of himself. Pellegrini suffered from the curious decision to name Guardiola as his successor while there was still the business end of the season to negotiate. It could though have been part of a ploy for him to fail in the light of Pep's...
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