Claudio Ranieri has ruled out his interest in coaching Italy to replace Antonio Conte after Euro 2016.

Ranieri would like a long-term deal with Leicester City and would like to remain the club until he retires.

“No team can change my mind,” he said on Thursday. “Definitely no. Of course I am very proud if they are thinking of me in Italy or anywhere else. But this is my club.”

When it was put to Ranieri that there is a clause which enables him to leave for £1m, he said: “I want to stay here. If my owner is happy I stay here. There isn’t another team – there is nothing who can change my mind. I am so happy here there is so much to do – we are just starting to build. If owner is happy with me, I’m happy with him. I’d like this to be last job – yes – if it’s possible I’d like to be here a long time.”

Ranieri has two years remaining on his contract. In a separate interview with the Spanish newspaper Marca, he said: “I hope they give me a long contract, six or seven years, and I retire here.

“When I joined Leicester last summer, the chairman told me that my job was to keep us up for the first two seasons of my contract. The chairman is an ambitious but down-to-earth guy. He knows that you can only reach for big things if you put the foundations in place first.

“After those two years to establish ourselves, then the idea would have been to think about Europe. But everything has changed this season.”