City midfielder,Andy King, is looking forward to getting the 2010-2011 npower Championship season underway, as he and his team-mates aim to improve on reaching the play-off semi-finals last season.

King was excellent in his first full campaign in the Championship and after a summer break the Welsh international is keen to pick up where he left off.

"It is nice to be back after a good summer having recharged the batteries. Everyone is raring to go and, hopefully, we will have another good season. If we can carry on the way we left off last year then there is no reason why that can't happen.

"It was a disappointment to lose in the play-offs, no hiding from that, but now we have to put that behind us as all good teams do, and use it as a basis for doing well this season and hopefully go one step further."

King has spent the majority of his City career playing under former manager, Nigel Pearson, but says he is excited by the arrival of new boss Paulo Sousa.

Sousa has changed the way City play since arriving at the Walkers Stadium, and King is excited by the new brand of football.

"I think he is going to get us to play an open, attacking game and that suits us with the players we have got.

We will try to play good football and score goals but ultimately it is about winning games and I am sure everyone wants to do that."

Leicester start the season as one of the favourites for promotion to the Premier League but King insists the Championship will remain an incredibly difficult division to get out of.

"If you look over recent years there have been about fifteen clubs who have been in the Premier League and they see themselves as Premiership clubs.

They have big stadiums and good training facilities and everyone is trying to get back there because that is where the money is and that is where every player wants to play.

That is why it is such a tough league, because so many clubs think they have got a good chance of going up."

City finished fifth in the Championship last season after gaining promotion from League One the previous campaign, and King says the team have the assets to succeed again this term.

"We have got a lot of pace out wide and a lot of players who can score goals and you have only to look at last season to see we don't concede many either so if we can build on that again, we will be a strong side.

Our aim is promotion. We will not rest on last year but push on and, as I said, hopefully go one step further."