4. New Owners With A 3-Year Plan
The Foxes chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha (previously Raksriaksorn) is a self-made billionaire, much like the steel magnate who bankrolled Blackburn's only Premier League title. Vichai purchased Leicester City in 2010 and began ploughing the money into a club who, just a season earlier, had been playing third-tier football. Upon their promotion back to the top flight at the end of the 2014 season,
he pledged to spend £180m in order to make the Foxes a top five team within three years. Similarly, Rovers were languishing near the relegation zone in Division Two when Jack Walker bought the club in 1991. He acquired the services of Kenny Dalglish and financed deals to bring Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton to Ewood Park, breaking two British transfer records in the process. Three years after their promotion to the Premier League, Blackburn Rovers won the biggest prize in English football. Both clubs have real rags to riches tales, while Leicester have never had a better chance to finally win the league.