Premier League: The Leicester drama: From winning the Premier League to being one step away from the second
Leicester rewrote ‘football’ history with the greatest feat ever achieved. The ‘Foxes’, who dodged relegation in 2014-15 with a huge comeback, Defy logic by winning the 2015-16 Premier League A piece of equipment designed from a mixture that is still recited on the run today: Schmeichel. Simpson, Huth; Morgan, Fox; Kant, Drinking Water; Mahrez, Albrighton; Okazaki and Vardy.
Gary Lineker asked: “Claudio Ranieri? Really?” When it was announced that he had signed as coach. Leicester’s title has been paid out 6,000 to 1 in the bets. The rest of the story is known and ends with Lineker showing ‘match of the day’ in his underwear.
There are only two survivors of the hero team
The band gradually fell apart and with the departure of Kasper Schmeichel and Mark Albrighton, There are only two members of the champion team left: Jamie Vardy and a “co-star” like Daniel Amartey. At the start of the season it seemed as unlikely as winning this Premier League, but the truth is The current Leicester is one step away from completing its relegation to the Championship (Second Division): With three days to go, it is penultimate, two points from safety.
Options to go down to Second are 50-50
“They’ve only won one league game since the World Cup and they concede goals easily. This is troubling. They look very tense. Options for going down to Second are 50-50. Whatever happens this season, there is a lot of work to be done,” warned former Leicester fan and former player Gary Lineker a week ago.
Whatever happens this season, there is a lot of work to be done.
The situation has worsened since then. Victory at the hands of Fulham (5-3) It is the drop that fills the glass. Lineker wrote on his Twitter account: “This is embarrassing.” “Oh, my God. Leicester is going to go down,” added
“It’s interesting that another team that stuck with its manager reaped the rewards,” He said pointing directly at The Foxes’ decision to remove Brendan Rodgers, Which Leicester won the FA Cup and the English Super Cup in 2021, He entrusted salvation to Dean Smith.
“Trust is low, we make a lot of mistakes”
The truth is that the season with Rodgers did not start well either: Leicester started bottom after scoring a point from their first 24. “The players fight, they run, they work…but the confidence is low. We make a lot of mistakes. It’s disappointing.”the former coach of the “Foxes” team commented after they crushed Brighton (5-2).
The outlook, from an economic point of view, is no better than that, and a possible relegation to second place could aggravate the wound: they are racking up 319 million debts. Hence, Leicester was the only team in the Premier League that did not spend a single euro on transfers in the summer market:
“We had to make difficult decisions in the short term to protect the future interests of the club. Given the increase in our net spending in recent seasons, it was necessary to take some steps to ensure our sustainability. “We can’t risk being more level-headed,” he defended himself. President Aiwatt Srivaddhanaprabha.
Due to the increase in our net spending in recent seasons, we have had to make difficult decisions in the short term to protect the future interests of the club.
Things look bad. The winner of the 2015-16 Premier title could be relegated to runners-up… after seven years. Lester needs to bring out the hero genes.