By Thai Newsroom Reporters
OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER, a former manager of English Premier League football club Manchester United, has emerged as the latest favourite to take the helm of the newly-promoted, Thai-owned football club Leicester City.
The Norwegian international player who had earlier performed as a Manchester United striker and then as a Red Devils manager is reportedly being the most sensational and debatable to many supporters of the Foxes who have returned to the English Premier League, the first tier of the English football system, for 2024/2025 season.
To his lasting credit, Solskjaer had pushed Manchester United to finish second in the Premier League table in one season as well as third in another and barely missed a Europa League title a few years earlier.
Leicester who had been relegated to the Championship, the second tier of the English football system, last season and were just promoted in automatic fashion to the top tier after a successful one-season campaign are yet to pick one of the most reliable, performance-proven managers, given the odds that the Foxes are currently ranked among the teams who might probably plunge into the drop zone again next season.
Many Foxes fans would find such negative forecasts blatantly ironic and hardly unacceptable, given the miraculous phenomenon in which the Foxes grabbed the English Premier League title for the first time in 2015/2016 season.
They would rather take for granted that a football club of calibre as high as their own would literally spend a number of years on the top flight until they might probably be relegated, keeping fingers crossed that Thai owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha would readily provide sizable financial support for the Foxes’ next campaign to be kicked off in August.
Aiyawatt, CEO of Thailand’s duty-free retail chain King Power Group, has been so far given five favourites to pick as the new Foxes manager following the unexpected departure of former Foxes/Italian boss Enzo Maresca for Chelsea where he will take charge of the London-based football club.
Besides Solskjaer, those favourites for Foxes manager include West Bromwich Albion/Spaniard manager Carlos Corberan, former Nottingham Forest/Welsh manager Steve Cooper, former Chelsea/English manager Graham Potter, former West Ham/Scottish manager David Moyes and Real Madrid/Italian manager Carlo Ancelotti’s son Davide Ancelotti.
Meanwhile, famed English striker Jamie Vardy has recently signed a one-year deal to extend his stay with Leicester whilst many of his colleagues will likely follow suit now that they have returned to the top-tier football unless they are decidedly bought out by rival clubs.
Several of Vardy’s teammates could probably leave in the summer transfer market including English defender James Justin, English striker Stephy Mavididi, Ghanaian striker Abdul Fatawu, English midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Nigerian midfielder Wilfred Ndidi whilst English defender Callum Doyle who has played for the Foxes on loan from Manchester City is returning to the latest English Premier League title winners.
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Top and Front Page: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Photos: Getty Images and published by BBC
First insert: Leicester have returned to the Premier League. Photo: Getty Images and published by BBC
Second insert: Leicester City’s Thai owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha. Photo: Kingpower.com
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