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Leicester City assistants sign new deals at King Power Stadium

Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh, key members of Leicester City's title-winning coaching staff, pen new deals at the King Power Stadium.

Premier League champions Leicester City have tied down assistant managers Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh to new contracts.

The two backroom staff members played a key part in the Foxes' unlikely run to the title, which led to talk of other clubs potentially swooping in.

Reports emerged earlier this week suggesting that fresh terms had been agreed with Shakespeare and Walsh, however, and Leicester have now confirmed the news on their official website.

"With Craig taking a lead coaching role and Steve applying his knowledge and expertise to the club's player recruitment process, the pair have helped lay the foundations both for the club's unprecedented recent success and for its exciting future," a club statement read.

Title-winning boss Claudio Ranieri added: "When I arrived at Leicester, I could never have expected to find a group of staff so well equipped to take a club forward.

"Craig and Steve have been very important to this and I am very pleased to have had their support in understanding the players and helping them to understand my philosophy.

"They are great men doing fantastic jobs for Leicester City and I am very happy that they have committed further with the football club."

Shakespeare and Walsh returned to the King Power Stadium in 2011 under then-manager Nigel Pearson, helping to develop the squad that would go on to secure promotion from the Championship and later stun the footballing world by winning the English top flight.

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Assistant Manager Craig Shakespeare of Leicester City during the Sky Bet Championship match against Watford on February 8, 2014
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