Ranieri signs new Leicester contract, to stay until 2020

Published on: Aug 11, 2016 07:02 am IST

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LONDON: Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has signed a new contract that will keep him at the club until 2020, the Premier League champions said on Wednesday.

Appointed in July, 2015, the 64-year-old Italian helped the club defy pre-season odds of 5000/1 to win the league, the first top-flight title in Leicester’s 132-year history.

“Claudio’s qualities, both as a man and as a coach, have been very clear since the moment he arrived — qualities that have helped Leicester City to progress on every level,” club vice chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha said.

Key players, including goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, defender Wes Morgan and prolific striker Jamie Vardy, have also extended their contracts with the club who begin their title defence with a trip to promoted Hull City on Saturday.

WENGER REGRETS LEICESTER TRIUMPH

LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has expressed “regret and guilt” at his side’s failure to beat shock champions Leicester City to last season’s Premier League title.

“Who expected Leicester to be champion last season? Nobody,” Wenger said.

“(There is) guilt because you would not have predicted Leicester win the league, so all the other teams would say ‘We should have come in front of Leicester’.”

BOATENG RETURNS TO BAYERN TRAINING

BERLIN: Germany defender Jerome Boateng took part in Bayern Munich training on Wednesday for the first time since tearing his right thigh against France in the semi-final defeat of Euro 2016. The centreback managed some light running at Bayern’s training ground.

There is no date as to when he can return to full team training having suffered the injury in Germany’s 2-0 defeat to the French in Marseille on July 7.

DORTMUND SUFFER DEFEAT TO BILBAO

BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel admitted there was ‘room for improvement’ after his team lost 1-0 to Athletic Bilbao in their German Super Cup warm-up before facing Bayern Munich.

Bundesliga champions Bayern are Dortmund’s next opponents at Signal Iduna Park on Sunday for the German Super Cup in the traditional pre-season opener.

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