While it may seem like little is happening at Leicester City right now amid the silence over the managerial situation and the future of Ruud van Nistelrooy, it won’t be the case that everybody is sitting around twiddling their thumbs.
There will be planning for the summer, for next season, and for the long-term future of the club taking place, even if it doesn’t directly relate to the matter of who will be leading the team in the Championship.
There are players to dispose of, players to scout and, hopefully sooner rather than later, players to sign.
Here’s a look at some of the business that is being done around City.
Dyke leaves to join QPR
The club’s released list last week only took in players from the senior and development squads, but there will have been further departures from the under-18s.
That rundown, which is due to be released early next week at the latest as the Premier League’s full retained lists are published, will include midfielder Kaleb Dyke, who is leaving to join QPR.
The 18-year-old midfielder played 19 matches for the club’s under-18s this season, scoring three goals and providing two assists, only missing the final five fixtures, perhaps after it was made clear he would not be offered a deal at City, where he has been since the age of seven.
After a month’s trial, he’s now signed a professional contract at Loftus Road and will join QPR’s development team.
“This is exciting,” Dyke told QPR. “It’s a new opportunity, something I can really dig into, something I can just attack and basically try to make my mark. I have really enjoyed my short time here already. It's been fantastic.”
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It was certainly a fairytale ending to Jamie Vardy's Leicester City career - netting his 200th goal in his final match for the club.
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We also revisit the trophy-winning campaigns - the 2021 FA Cup and, of course, the 2016 Premier League title.
And there are plenty of tributes from those who played with him, against him and worked with him.
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Grist quickly gets new club
Centre-back Ben Grist was one of the eight development squad players to be let go by City, but he has quickly found himself a new home with National League side Boston United.
Grist, who was signed from Grimsby’s academy four years ago, played four games for City’s under-21s this season but then spent the second half of the campaign on loan at seventh-tier Worksop Town, helping them to achieve promotion through the play-offs.
The 20-year-old impressed enough in those few months, winning young player of the year, to get a move to the fifth tier with Boston.
Pre-season friendly on cards
None of City’s pre-season fixtures nor plans have so far been announced, but the schedule is coming together behind the scenes.
In one of their early fixtures, they look set to take on sister club OH Leuven. Neither City nor Leuven have yet confirmed the game is happening, so it’s not known if City will be fielding a senior side and whether it will be available for fans to attend, but Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad say it’s happening.
Two summers ago, when City hosted OH Leuven at Seagrave, it was a behind-closed-doors affair. A year earlier, in 2022, the two King Power clubs met at Leuven's Den Dreef stadium in front of a good-sized crowd.
City ninth for academy minutes
With the emergence of wonderkids Jeremy Monga and Jake Evans, the former becoming the second-youngest player in Premier League history, and with the potential for a foundation of academy talents in the squad next season, the progress of City’s homegrown contingent has been one of the few positives of late.
But where did they rank in the Premier League this season for minutes given to academy graduates? Research by the Press Association puts City in ninth place with 2,526 minutes.
They didn’t actually include Jakub Stolarczyk in their calculations, the Polish goalkeeper joining City aged 16, but even if they had added in his 900 minutes, the club still would have been ninth, 54 minutes behind Southampton.
Luke Thomas and Kasey McAteer were the two players pulling City’s total upwards, both getting more than 1,000 minutes of Premier League game-time over the season thanks to runs in the team towards the end of the campaign.
At the top of the leader board were title-winners Liverpool, the likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold and Curtis Jones taking them up to 6,922 minutes. Wolves were bottom, not handing a single minute to an academy graduate.
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