Leicester should try to sign this star to send out a statement to League One

Leicester City supporters will be hoping their team wakes up from their ongoing nightmare in League One.

Indeed, the Foxes succumbing to back-to-back relegations is very much a nightmare situation, but with talk that £10m could be injected into the transfer kitty, positive times might well be on the horizon.

Hopefully, the current Leicester side can take some inspiration from Nigel Pearson's 2009 camp, who won the League One title in style.

Leicester will be aiming to replicate the heroics of 2009

The Midlands giants would only be in League One for one sorry season, and the 2008/09 campaign would go down as one to remember, despite all the agony before it.

Pearson would guide the Foxes to the third-tier title with ease, accumulating a hefty 96 points by the end of the 46-game marathon.

Only losing four games all season long, Leicester would then go on to cement themselves as a Championship regular in the seasons after this triumphant title-winning campaign.

Scoring a league best at 84 goals, too, the hope will be that the present mirrors the past, as the Foxes storm to promotion comfortably.

During that particular season, Pearson would regularly fall back on Matty Fryatt to power home some decisive goals, with the modern Leicester great finishing as the club's top scorer, by some distance, with a hefty 27 goals in league action.

Leicester, when falling to League One under Gary Rowett, didn't have a focal attacking point like Fryatt they could rely on, with a goal-shy Patson Daka set to leave this summer.

The Foxes, if they're serious about clinching promotion, could send shockwaves through the division by clinching a deal for this lethal marksman.

Leicester can send a statement out by signing this star

Leicester will know, if they want to replicate the past heroics of Pearson's title-winning camp, that they will need a deadly striker leading the line, who can score the pivotal goals to ensure the wins keep coming.

Tremors would be felt in League One if the Foxes were successful in landing Dom Ballard from Leyton Orient, with the former Southampton youngster just fresh off a golden boot winning season in the division with Leyton Orient.

Powering home 23 goals from 40 games for the O's, Ballard will surely be setting his sights on a big move, now, away from Brisbane Road, and he might well relish the opportunity to be Leicester's brand-new star striker, if an audacious move whirs into motion.

He is allegedly on the Wrexham summer shopping list, though, so Leicester's chances of winning the six-time England U20 international might be deemed as slim.

But, there is no guarantee that he will be viewed as a starter when moving to the Red Dragons, as the Championship is a hard league to immediately adjust to.

Whereas, Ballard knows the third tier inside out, now, with a stunning second gold boot perhaps falling into his lap if he were to join Leicester, as the Foxes immediately break out of their League One malaise in emphatic fashion.

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