Rating Leicester city’s summer transfer business so far

Not surprisingly, given the need to strengthen after promotion back to the Premier League was confirmed and the need to replace the outgoing management team, Leicester City have been busy adding to the personnel at the King Power Stadium.

Leicester City Departures

A number of players left the club at the end of last season, including Dennis Praet, Kelechi Iheanacho and Marc Albrighton, but the biggest departures were, of course, the manager and star midfielder. Enzo Maresca’s unexpected, and (as far as most Leicester fans were concerned) unwanted, departure to Stamford Bridge with the bulk of his coaching staff, left a big hole to be filled. As I wrote in a previous post, I think the appointment of Steve Cooper is, particularly given the circumstances the club finds itself in, a good one. The appointment of four new backroom staff profiled by Jordan Blackwell in the Leicester Mercury – Alan Tate, Danny Alcock, Andrew Hughes and Steve Rands – also looks promising. Only time will tell, of course, if I am right.

As widely predicted, too, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall has been sold although not many thought he would end up with his old boss in West London. We can quibble about the lowish fee the club has received for the midfielder but most fans realise that the Foxes had little choice but to sell the player because of the requirements of the Premier League Profit and Sustainability Regulations. In the past, players have left the King Power Stadium either because – as with, for instance, Riyad Mahrez, Harry Maguire and Ben Chilwell – they wanted to leave or because Leicester needed the transfer fee to remain solvent.

KDH's sale does not fit into either category. The player didn’t want to leave and the club didn’t want to sell. It is faintly ridiculous that the rules forced the Foxes to sell the home-grown talent, but yet they can still spend the proceeds on new signings because the outlay can be spread over the course of players’ contracts.