At the start of the campaign Leicester, who had never before won
the league title in their history, were among the favorites to be relegated. It
was possible to get odds of 5000/1 on them winning the title (which a few canny
punters actually backed).
However, Claudio Ranieri's side shocked everyone throughout the
campaign with his consistently and results which upstaged the usual
title contenders like Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United.
Statistically, going by Club value and worth, Leicester city
tend to be no 18 with Leicester - £133million while the
likes of 3. Manchester City - £907million, 2. Arsenal - £1,118million and 1.
Manchester United - £1,848million. Which shows that some teams can
successfully swallow the Leicester city team conveniently. The last time such
upset happened was when Manchester city came into the lime light in 2011/2012
Season, which can be related the amount that was vamped into the square after
the Qatari Billionaire took over the club. Leicester Purchase during
the last transfer window with the total of £35,100,000, the investment in the
club was extremely minimal compared to that of the likes of Manchester United
who spent £88,200,000 while city spent £137,500,000, with both
Manchester clubs fighting for the 4th position. This will go along
way in the Premier league memory lane for years to come as the defending champions were not even in title contention after Mourinho's sack due to bad result
2. Harry
Kane getting his First Golden Boot in England: Last season the England
striker was a surprise sensational striker that took the premier league on
aware, he was introduced by the then Tottenham Hotspur coach after benching Emmanuel
Adebayo, at the end of the season he was able to put some top teams to bed with
his amazing strike, and he made his relevance felt instantly with 21 goals with
just 2 penalties, he was outscored by only Kun Aguero of Manchester City with
26 goals and 5 penalties. Kane through his break out season earned himself an
England call up and he didn’t take him long to register himself in his debby
march for England. Finally, Kane came into the 2015/16 season has a striker to
look out for, while some tagged him as a 1 season striker due to his slow start
of the season. Strikers like
James Valdy, Kun Aguero, Diego Costa, Lukaku took
the Centre stage early but Kane slowly grew into the scene and claimed his well
deserved first golden booth of the season with 24 goals, with Kun Ageuro second
with 23 goals
3. Barcelona left the title race late till the
final day: By January Barcelona was conveniently leading the Spanish League
with like 7 point clear from Real Madrid, with amazing performance that looks
destined to repeat their awesome season of the previous year, it looks so
certain that Barcelona will successfully defend the league title and the
champions league at easy as they remain unbeaten on all tournament, until the April
2nd when Barcelona was shocked by 10 man Real Madrid coming from a
1-1 draw to spring a surprise in the conclusive stage of the match with Cristiano
Ronaldo’s strike. This was their first major loss of the session, which extended
to immediately to other matches, they suddenly lost 3 matches on a role, got bundled out
of the champions league by their arch title rival Atletico Madrid, and the rest
was history as the gap was closed by the 2 Madrid clubs.
Finally they have to conclude their title victory
till the last match, which Luis Suarez came to their rescue.
4. Golden Booth change Hand in La liga:
History was made has the dominance of Messi, Ronaldo was ended. Luis Suarez
became the first player to break into scene as either Ronaldo or Messi has
dominated the past 7/8 years Pichichi award for the top scorer in La Liga Suarez outscored Ronaldo with 5 goals as he ended
the campaign with 40 goals and Messi coming 3rd with 26 goals.
5. Cristiano Ronaldo Surpasses 50 for the Sixth
year in a Row: Cristiano Ronaldo has
become the first player in history to score at least 50 goals in six
consecutive seasons.
The Portugal international scored both goals in the 2-0 win over
Deportivo La Coruna on the final day of the La Liga season to take his tally up
to 51 for the campaign.
In comparison, Lionel Messi netted over 50 goals in three
consecutive seasons between 2010 and 2013. Ronaldo could also add to his total
in this month’s Champions League final as Real Madrid face Atletico Madrid in
Milan.
But despite his overall haul, Ronaldo was beaten to the Pichichi
award for the top scorer in La Liga as Luis Suarez ended the season on 40 goals
- five ahead of the 31-year-old. Ronaldo also lost out on winning this year’s
La Liga trophy as Barcelona secured a 3-0 victory over Granada to seal the
title.
6. Iheanacho Becomes the
Most Prolific Goal Scorer in Europe: He took only two minutes to
opening his goal-scoring account for City. Having failed to net in his
cameo appearance against Watford, he came on to hit the only goal of the
game in a 1-0 win at Crystal Palace in September.
He has scored frequently despite limited game time and ended the campaign with 14 goals
He averages a goal every 81.3 minutes he has played, which is
extremely impressive considering he is still only 19 years of age, but even
more so given the fact that of all players to score at least 10 goals
across the top five European leagues this season, it is the best rate.
Superstars Luis Suarez, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and
Karim Benzema have all outscored the City youngster but play much more
regularly, and actually score with less frequency.
7. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
becomes a free agent after refusing to renew is contract: After joining the
league 1 club from AC Milan 4 years back, Ibra consistently broke all records
in ligue 1 and won all major tournament there to be won with only the Champions
league eluding him. One will think with the amount of money he earns which
makes him the 4th paid player in the world, the 34 years old is said
to be on his way to another club as he stated he already knows his next club
after making his announcement, information has it that Manchester United is in
the pole position to sign the prolific striker. Lets watch out.
8. 8. Jose Mourinho sack seven months after he led them to the Premier
League title.
The 52-year-old Portuguese had been in his second spell at the
club, taking charge in
June 2013.
Chelsea finished eight points clear last season and won the
League Cup, but have lost nine of their 16 league games so far and are 16th in
the table, one point above the relegation places.
Mourinho's final match was Monday's 2-1 defeat at leaders
Leicester City.
Chelsea
statement
"Chelsea Football Club and Jose Mourinho have today parted
company by mutual consent.
"All at Chelsea thank Jose for his immense contribution
since he returned as manager in the summer of 2013.
"His three league titles, FA Cup, Community Shield and
three League Cup wins over two spells make him the most successful manager in
our 110-year history.
"But both Jose and the board agreed results have not been
good enough this season and believe it is in the best interests of both parties
to go our separate ways.
"The club wishes to make clear Jose leaves us on good terms
and will always remain a much-loved, respected and significant figure at
Chelsea.
"His legacy at Stamford Bridge and in England has long been
guaranteed and he will always be warmly welcomed back to Stamford Bridge.
"The club's focus is now on ensuring our talented squad
reaches its potential.
"There will be no further comment until a new appointment
is made.
We experience key prominent players like Hazard dropping form
drastically, Matic, Fabregas and the Medical team drama all came as a huge
surprise to the football lovers around the world. Mourinho’s second come back
to Chelsea initially looks like a match made from heaven until his 7 month in
office when things went completely sore as Chelsea was just few point from
relegation zone. We still find this puzzling till date, who can ever think that the self acclaimed special one can end a season without a job, or get sacked in the middle of the season? wonders shall never end.
9. Real Madrid Ultimate
Come Back: At the beginning of the 2015 season Anceloti was sacked in a dramatic
way, which till date stands to be one of the major surprise in football
history, going by how the team played and the stability brought to the team
under his stewardship, amazing thing was who the president elected has his
successor, who happen to be Benitez, under Benitez, the players seem unhappy
and less active, while few ones like Bale got more playing time, under him the
team was mistakenly bundle out of the Copa del roy due to fielding a non eligible
player, they got humiliated in the hands of Barcelona in Santiago Bernabue by
heavy thrashing of 4-1 before he was relieved of his position.
Finally the great football legend of the club was told to take
the managerial position, the person of Zindine Zidane aka Zizou. Instantly the
team took a new dimension as his Philosophy and ways of threating the players
tend to please them, he has been able to inspire a team behind Barcelona with 7
point and 3rd on the league to closing the gap to 1 point, with
taking the team to Champions league final with the greatest come back against
Wolfburg in the Quarter final by offsetting 2 goals deficient from Germany by
an amazing Hat trick from Cristiano Ronaldo and beating Barcelona by ending
their unbeaten run in front of Nou Camp audience which cumulated to them ending
the season as 2nd on the table.
Hopefully their season will be made when they take up their
Madrid counterpart at the final stage of Champions league, which tend to be a
repetition of the last champions league they won 3 years ago.
10. Premier league
official becomes the most competitive league in Europe and the world: Premier league over the years has been tagged
the most competitive league in the world, firstly because of its physical and
high fitness level requirement. Secondly, the level of money generated from TV
Broadcasting as its well packaged and sold all over the world. The next season
sure will be a season to watch out for as Top coaches are actively present
there, with the likes of Pep Guardiola coming to Manchester City, Conte to
Chelsea and rumors of Mourinho coming to Manchester united, also with Frank de
Boer tendering his resignation at Ajax with rumors attaching him to Everton
Job. In the league if going by the entire rumors Premier league will have the
most experienced coaches in the world with lot of money to be spent on buying
players. From Arsene wenger, Koeman, Kloop,Van Gaal or Mourinho , Bilic, Conte ,
Mauricio Pochettino, and other fantastic English coaches , one cannot tend to
await the drama and surprises English football will offer next season.
The most exciting of them all will be the awaking of Mourinho and Pep rivalry with the two Manchester Clubs as arch enemy in coaches take it to arch enemy in clubs, then we will really know who the real boss is and who runs the town. Cant wait to have a feel of that.
Written by: Sammie Gee
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