Barclays Premier League: Pearson enlist a player that caused his problems last season
After getting Leicester back in the top flight for the first time in ten years, Leicester manager Nigel Pearson sets his focus on staying in the Barclays Premier League and is positively seeking inspiration from the success that Crystal Palace and Hull City had last season after promotion.
"It is about finding the right way for your own players, in the circumstances you are working in", Pearson said. "Clearly we can't compete, as most sides who are newly promoted, with the big boys in terms of the types of players we recruit. It's an ongoing process."
He added: "We have worked exceptionally hard to get where we are, and that is not last season in terms of getting promotion. The squad has been built over a period of time. How we recruit is vitally important to our success."
Pearson has brought in a number of great players to aid Leicester's cause; and the most recent is striker Leonardo Ulloa, who scored flawlessly 16 goals for Brighton & Hove Albion in the Championship last season. The manager was delighted to enlist a player who "certainly caused us problems last season" as what he declared.
"He is a good finisher...but the important thing is he gives us a different type of option", he said. "We have better balance now. It's nice to have players with strengths that complement each other, and he adds a different dimension to our attacking options."
Ulloa has the potential to make his competitive debut against Everton while Leicester also face Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United in a challenging opening six matches, but ones that the Foxes are relishing.
"Talking to the players, they are looking forward to it," Pearson said. "These are the fixtures that we have been striving hard to play in so I don't see any reason for us to be anything other than positive about them."
He added: "Clearly there are going to be some very tough games but hopefully we will be a bit of an unknown quantity as well."
Morgan believes that Everton will be a different proposition to the side they beat 1-0 in a warm-up match in Thailand only last month.
"We have to remember that half their team was missing," Morgan said. "They have had their international commitments and they have an extended break, so we can't take too much from that game and I'm sure this time round my first game is going to be a different proposition, in Everton, that we face."
The Barclays Premier League season opener between Leicester City and Everton is on Saturday 16th of August.
(Source: Barclays Premier League official website)