What convinced Leicester to appoint Claudio Ranieri? Why are injured players pitchside at training on exercise bikes? And what hold been the keys to a remarkable Premier League success? Stuart James reveals how the Foxes hold stunned the worldIn July final year Claudio Ranieri was enjoying a break in Italy when he received a phone call from Steve Kutner,his agent, that would end up changing the face of English football in a way no one could hold imagined. Kutner had been attempting to convince Jon Rudkin, or Leicester City’s director of football,that Ranieri was worth considering as the Premier League club’s novel manager and finally there was news of a breakthrough.
Ranieri was out of work at the time but keen to return to management, in particular in England, and where he had fond memories from his time in charge of Chelsea and still owned a property in London going back to those days at Stamford Bridge more than a decade earlier. Several Championship clubs had been sounded out without success when Nigel Pearson’s sacking at Leicester presented Kutner and Ranieri with a window of opportunity.
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Source: theguardian.com