Simpson happy Leicester have learned from title defence
Danny Simpson is confident that Leicester City will have learned their lessons from the 2016/17 and will come back stronger after the summer.
City embarked on an incredible run to the Champions League quarter-finals, having won the Premier League last season, but it wasn’t enough to save manager Claudio Ranieri’s job.
Ranieri was replaced by Craig Shakespeare who guided the Foxes to a 12th place finish in the league, the worst finish of any returning Premier League winner.
But Simpson is optimistic the club have the necessary building blocks with which to construct a successful campaign come August.
He said: “We’ll reflect on this season now. There’s been a lot of highs and lows, but it’s all experience and I think every single one of us will benefit from this season and take it into next season.
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“I think our goal was to try and finish in the top 10 and get through the group stages of the Champions League.
“We managed to go a step further in the Champions League by getting to the quarter-finals and we just missed out by a few points for the top 10.
“It’s disappointing but we’ll learn from it this season, we’ll build on it and we’ll go again next season.”
