
Since that astonishing season of 2015-2016, Leicester have been obliged to play a difficult game of sale and renewal. He left behind him firm foundations - and a plan of sorts, but it is hard to replicate the man himself. It was to be the end of an era, although that took a while to unfold. When Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha died in 2018 in shocking circumstances a void was naturally left.

There is no starker example of the razor’s edge many Premier League clubs outside the elite walk than Leicester City: once the League's most improbable champions, two fifth-place finishes – one as recently as 2021 and FA Cup winners the same year – and now fighting for their lives against relegation.Ī very private club, previously run by a patriarch who made all the big decisions with the kind of instinct and ruthlessness with which he had built his business empire in Thailand.
