Losing their best players and getting new players onboard
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A lot of the success of the club this season has been attributed to the brilliant camaraderie within the squad. Ranieri has had a long and illustrious career spanning 3 decades and worked with some of the best players in the world, but he himself admitted that this squad is among the best he has ever coached.
"It is a very good group, one of the best I have had in my entire football career. The camaraderie is very good. This is the secret, the spirit and camaraderie of the players. They fight for each other. They are friends off the pitch as well.”
The problem is he won’t have this same set of players to work with next season. It is no secret that given the breakout season of some of Leicester City stars, the vultures have already started circling over the King Power Stadium.
Midfield engine N’Golo Kante is rumored to have a release clause as little as £20million in his contract and is on the radar of several clubs such as Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Paris Saint-Germain.
Leicester is braced for the exit of Algerian winger Riyad Mahrez, one of the frontrunners for the PFA player of the season, who was purchased at a snip from French side Le Havre in January 2014, thereby landing the Foxes a huge financial gain. And Jamie Vardy, their record goalscorer may well be a target for other top English clubs.
One just needs to take a look at how the squads of surprise league winners in the recent past – Bundesliga winners Wolfsburg in 2009, Ligue 1 champions Montpellier in 2012, La Liga winners Valencia in 2004 – all had their squads taken apart by outgoing transfers just after they won their respective leagues.
So it would be a challenge for Ranieri to hold on to his star performers and add sufficient quality to the squad in case they decide to leave.
