Ranieri: “Vardy is a fantastic horse”

– Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri speaks about Jamie Vardy and N’Golo Kante

– “This is not a footballer…..”

Claudio Ranieri, the head coach of Leicester, describes Jamie Vardy as a fantastic horse who serves as an inspiration to his team-mates.

The coach said:  “Jamie Vardy, for example. This is not a footballer. This is a fantastic horse. He has a need to be free out there on the pitch. I say to him, ‘You are free to move however you want, but you must help us when we lose the ball. That’s all I ask of you. If you start to press the opposition, all of your team-mates will follow you’.”

Ranieri has also described Kante as player having “a pack full of batteries” driving his displays.

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“When I arrived for my first day of training and I saw the quality of these players, I knew how good they could be. This player Kante, he was running so hard that I thought he must have a pack full of batteries hidden in his shorts. He never stopped running in training. I had to tell him, ‘Hey, N’Golo, slow down. Slow down. Don’t run after the ball every time, okay? He says to me, ‘Yes, boss. Yes. Okay.’ Ten seconds later, I look over and he’s running again,” he said.

It should be noted that soon Leicester’s remarkable 2015-16 campaign  will demonstrate the result as just seven games are to be played.

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