This is like no other.”While the feats of Jamie Vardy (1 million pounds), Riyad Mahrez (400,000 pounds) and N’Golo Kante (5.6 million pounds) demonstrated a new way of spending, Leicester’s football revealed a different way of winning. While Manchester City and Manchester United’s squads cost a combined estimated total of 800 million pounds ($1.16 billion, 1 billion euros), Leicester’s title-winning squad barely exceeded the 50 million mark. ‘Wake-up call’There is immense anticipation for Pep Guardiola’s first season at Manchester City, while Jurgen Klopp’s first season at Liverpool has also shown promise. West Ham United’s Dimitri Payet, another Team of the Year inclusion, was a relative snip at 10.7 million pounds. This Premier League season’s defining quirk was that with a vast tide of television money set to flood England’s top flight, Leicester City’s triumph showed that wealth isn’t everything.

Source: Hindustan Times May 16, 2016 02:00 UTC