Leicester City great Emile Heskey is backing the club to be a Premier League title contender this season.
The Foxes meet defending champions Liverpool on Sunday.
"They are true title contenders and I don't really see them falling away too much, unlike last season," Heskey told the PA news agency.
"Brendan will understand why they fell away last season and how to rectify it.
"They dropped out of the top four then so they would love to stay in there and that's going to be their aim. They're in a better place than last year. Even the manager is in a better place to understand the players in the long term.
"Results are all over the place so it's difficult to say who is going to challenge. I still think Manchester City but Leicester have got the best chance to win the league because you would have thought others, like Arsenal and Manchester United, would be challenging."
