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Published 14:06 25 Feb 2017 GMT
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Ranieri, who brought two coaches with him to Leicester, inherited Shakespeare, and several other coaches, when he succeeded Nigel Pearson as manager in 2015.
The coaches had worked with Pearson since 2008. Some players are said to want their former manager to be reappointed.
"It (the relationship) had the potential to go two ways," Marcotti writes.
"It would either result in the right kind of creative tension, with the two sets of men effectively learning from each other and pushing their own boundaries. Or it would end up in a classic clash of cultures and mistrust. "Success papers over a lot of cracks and Leicester's wild ride in 2015-16, led the owners to believe it was a case of the former. And maybe it was. But this season, it was clear that things were off."Marcotti also writes that Ranieri was frustrated by the club's transfers last summer, and recruitment suffered when Steve Walsh, who spotted N'Golo Kante and Riyad Mahrez, left for Everton.
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