The summer transfer window was open for a total of 2107 hours and all of Leicester City’s outfield signings were agreed in the final three-and-a-half, with two of the trio announced in stoppage time.

It’s not unusual for there to be a mad scramble at the end of the summer to get deals over the line, but it’s not the norm for a club to leave practically all of their incoming business until the death.

There is relief and trepidation. The relief is that City have made signings at all, when, for so long, it looked like veteran free agent goalkeeper Asmir Begovic would be the sole arrival.

In the end, City did get a striker to attempt to fill Jamie Vardy’s boots, one in Julian Carranza who scored in the Champions League knockout stages last season.

They did get an attacking midfielder t

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