Leicester City begin their Premier League campaign at home to Brentford at the King Power Stadium on Sunday – and that is roughly where the certainty ends for the Foxes.
In many respects, Leicester have been a picture of consistency over the past few seasons. They have finished in the top half of the Premier League for five successive years. Brendan Rodgers is the fifth longest-serving top-flight manager, having been in the job for three years and 158 days – a total bettered only by Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Thomas Frank and Ralph Hasenhuttl. They won the FA Cup in 2021 and reached the semi-finals of the Europa Conference League this year.
Yet that façade of solidity and calm is gradually being eroded, with the summer proving to be “very difficult” in the words of Rodgers. The biggest, most obvious and unusual element that has come to define the Foxes’ rocky off-season is recruitment.
