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Leicester's starting XI cost £22 million, the same as all these things

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Incredibly, Claudio Ranieri's title-winning XI cost just £22 million. By comparison, Chelsea's preferred starting lineup for its victorious 2014-15 season cost well over £200 million.

Related - Anatomy of a Champion: How Leicester's squad was built

Rather than this XI engineered by Nigel Pearson, and fuelled by Ranieri, how else could the Leicester City hierarchy spend £22 million?

Heung-Min Son

Tottenham Hotspur's seldom-used forward, Son cost a reported £22 million from Bayer Leverkusen towards the end of the summer transfer window. He's failed to trouble the lineup for much of the campaign, scoring just three goals and showing no serious signs of threatening Harry Kane - or even Erik Lamela - in Mauricio Pochettino's preferred starters. He costs the equivalent of 22 Jamie Vardys.

Pedro

Jose Mourinho apparently gazumped Manchester United to secure the services of £21.1-million Pedro from Barcelona in August. Unfortunately for the Stamford Bridge faithful, the highly decorated Spaniard struggled to inspire many of his colleagues into anything resembling effort as the Blues made an insipid title defence. Leicester's Marc Albrighton had a hand in eight goals - one less than Pedro - and he cost nothing.

Danilo

Brought in to step ahead of the aged Alvaro Arbeloa and offer competition to Daniel Carvajal, Danilo had an underwhelming start to his career on the right-hand side of Real Madrid's defence. It's hard to make reasonable justification for the transfer fee paid to FC Porto, particularly when it's the equivalent of 11 Danny Simpsons.

Jonjo Shelvey and Andros Townsend

Though this pairing has shown they're much more than Tweedledee and Tweedledum with match-winning performances since their January moves to Newcastle United, there's no way Townsend and Shelvey are worth £2 million more than Ranieri's XI. The latter has lost in place in Rafa Benitez's preferred starters lately as the Spaniard seeks personalities who can handle a relegation scrap.

Two years of sulky Eden Hazard

Hazard takes home around £200,000 a week at Chelsea and won the league for Leicester on Monday night, so why not support the brooding Belgian's lifestyle for a couple of years? He could go goalless in the Premier League for almost 12 months, and run around like he's wearing clogs after feasting on countless pork pies from nearby Melton Mowbray. Or, alternatively, you could have the hardest-working midfielder in the division, N'Golo Kante, for the equivalent of 28 weeks of Hazard's wages.

Sign Andrej Kramaric 2-and-a-half times

Leicester's exploits have quite rightly disguised an atrocious piece of business conducted under the watch of Pearson 15-and-a-half months ago. Kramaric was acquired for a club record £9 million from FC Rijeka amid apparent interest from Chelsea, and was expected by then-manager to "add great quality to English football." Two goals in 15 appearances later, Kramaric has since taken his questionable talents on a loan spell with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

Raheem Sterling's legs

When Leicester played out a goalless draw with Manchester City in December, Manuel Pellegrini's XI cost in excess of £280 million. Struggling to get his head working as quickly as his legs that Tuesday was Sterling, who moved across the M62 from Liverpool at a cost of £49 million. The 21-year-old has fallen some way short of expectations at the Etihad Stadium, while Leicester's wing wanderers - Albrighton and Riyad Mahrez - collectively cost £400,000 and pair up for 19 goals and 17 assists. Sterling has three goals and two assists.

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