Well-balanced Leicester have a competitive squad

Top-half finish looks likely

Leicester's Demarai Gray (left) and Everton's Tom DaviesCredit: Shaun Botterill

Leicester showed the Premier League's glass ceiling can be smashed but that freak title-winning campaign of 2015-16 has distorted views of how the Foxes should be judged in future seasons.

Since being crowned champions Leicester have finished 12th and ninth, the highest Premier League placing for the club since they were eighth in 1999-2000, and yet there has been little fanfare.

Almost everything Leicester do from now on will be an anti-climax following the incredible 5,000-1 triumph of a couple of years ago and may help to explain why coaches Claudio Ranieri and Craig Shakespeare were swiftly relieved of their duties.

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Mark LangdonGroup Sports Director

Published on 31 July 2018inThe Big Kick-Off

Last updated 12:41, 31 July 2018

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