20 July,2016 08:31 AM IST | | AFP
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri believes English sides, which failed last season are under pressure to perform better for the upcoming 2016-17 English Premier League season
Claudio Ranieri led Leicester City to English Premier League title glory last season. Pic/Getty Images
London: Claudio Ranieri, manager of shock Premier League champions Leicester, believes sides like Chelsea and Liverpool who failed to even make the Champions League will be prepared to kill all opposition in the forthcoming season.
Claudio Ranieri led Leicester City to English Premier League title glory last season. Pic/Getty Images
Pressure on rivals
The 64-year-old Italian added the pressure was not on him but his rivals like old foe Jose Mourinho at Manchester United and Antonio Conte at one of his former clubs Chelsea.
Both of them like Manchester City's Pep Guardiola have taken on new challenges although Mourinho and Conte like Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool don't have Champions League campaigns to be concerned about.
"Everything's different now. You imagine the big teams who didn't win last season, who didn't make the Champions League," Ranieri told The Sun.
'Clubs going crazy'
"They are going crazy now. They want to kill now - not just us but all the other teams," added Ranieri.
The Italian said the managerial talent, coming into the Premier League was fantastic but only one could emerge a
"Antonio Conte is fantastic, Jose (Mourinho), everybody knows Jose," said Ranieri. "Pep Guardiola is an amazing person and a good manager. I'm laughing because at the end of the season only one will win and the pressure is not on me, it's on them!"
