In James Maddison and Harvey Barnes, they have lost their two finest and most prized assets by some distance, while the free transfer departure of Youri Tielemans- who soon joined Aston Villa- arrives as an uncompensated blow, too.
Further down the pecking order, various squad players have also left the East Midlands over the summer in the form of Ayoze Perez, Daniel Amartey and Caglar Soyuncu.
On the other hand, Leicester have been proactive under the new management of Enzo Maresca to source replacements and, in turn, successfully send their promotion ambitions into take-off at the very first opportunity.
They have now welcomed six fresh faces to the King Power Stadium, and given that the transfer window closes its doors until January at the end of this month, you can expect further action on both fronts.
Ahead of Leicester’s season opener in the M69 derby showdown at home to Coventry City, Maresca told the Leicester Mercury: “About the market, my situation is like the rest of managers’ situation, until it’s closed, many things can happen.
“In our case, for sure our squad is not close, it’s not finished.
“Players have left, and there’s five new players. It’s a work in progress, for sure, we have too many
“For sure some of them will leave.”
And the first of those could well turn out to be striker Patson Daka, who has recently earned interest from Monaco.
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