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Leicester City: The best team to ever suffer Premier League relegation?

Things can change very quickly in the Premier League. On Sunday, Leicester City were relegated from the Premier League. Two years earlier, they were flying high, sitting pretty in third with a five-point lead over fifth-placed Chelsea with only eight games left to play.

Although they would eventually fall at the last hurdle when they failed to secure Champions League football on the final day, the nucleus of that squad - widely regarded as the best the club have ever possessed, with more depth than even the 2015-16 Premier League winning side - remains this season.

Wesley Fofana and Kasper Schmeichel are the only regulars who have left since then, and Leicester have also invested since, bringing in the likes of Patson Daka, Wout Faes and Harry Souttar.

With James Maddison, Youri Tielemans, Harvey Barnes and others at their disposal, the Foxes should have been nowhere near the bottom three and Brendan Rodgers paid for this with his sacking in April. Dean Smith was brought in as a firefighter for the final few games of the season, but he failed to get a tune out of the squad, with Leicester tasting victory just twice during his brief spell in charge.

The fault does not solely lie with the managers, though. The players should shoulder a significant portion of the blame - and they will surely go down as one of the most talented groups to ever drop out of the Premier League.

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