Claudio Ranieri wants Leicester to keep up their winning ways

By PA Sport

Image: Claudio Ranieri was mobbed as he left the San Carlo Pizzeria in Leicester after a celebratory lunch on Tuesday

Claudio Ranieri wants Leicester City to keep up their winning ways, despite wrapping up the Premier League title earlier this week.

The Foxes host Everton on Saturday and will receive the trophy after the game to cap an astonishing season after they were 5,000-1 to win the league at the start of the campaign.

Leicester finish up at Chelsea, Ranieri's former club, on May 15 and the Italian wants to ensure the Foxes show they deserve their status as champions.

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He said: "Now, I have to come only first! If I want to stay in a place, I want to win.

"Inside me there are two people.

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"One is a very aggressive, 'I want to win, I won the Premier League but now I want to win on Saturday. I want to win next season and is never satisfied.'

Ranieri said on Tuesday that he thought Leicester's Premier League title win can't be replicated

"Another says 'Claudio, how many managers are there in the world? Too many. Not everyone can be Sir Alex Ferguson, (Fabio) Capello, (Carlo) Ancelotti, you are having a very good career."'

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Ranieri replaced Nigel Pearson last summer and first met the Leicester squad on their pre-season training camp in Austria.

He admitted he never spoke to them about qualifying for Europe, despite believing it was possible.

Image: Leicester players celebrate winning the title during Tuesday's training session at Belvoir Drive

He said: "When I was in Austria, I watched what kind of group we had. I am very sensitive to understand the feeling between the players and the dressing room.

"I said to them, 'It is difficult to understand 25 people. It is important you understand only me. If we link very well, we can do something good.'

David Cameron congratulated Leicester on their Premier League win at PMQs on Wednesday

"But never I put the minimum goal, always I put the maximum, always to try to get three points. It was important to save the team.

"Never I said 'we can arrive in Europe'. But it was in my mind. It was the first time I coach this team, it is important to understand in the right moment, in the bad moment, what happened, why the players have good consistency. There were lots of questions but everything was OK."

Back then, Ranieri was one of the favourites to be sacked at the start of the season but joked he should avoid the bookies' tip next year.

Ranieri added: "Maybe the bookmakers don't sack me (first). Maybe the second!"

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