Leicester City’s pre-season is officially under way as players returned to the club’s Seagrave training base on Monday. On the first day of what will be a busy six weeks leading up the opening Premier League fixture against Brentford, here is what we spotted.
As expected, the first group back were those who were not called up to represent their countries in early June, but that did not mean there was a shortage of big names.
James Maddison, Jamie Vardy, Harvey Barnes, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Ricardo Pereira, Marc Albrighton, Hamza Choudhury, Ayoze Perez, and Boubakary Soumare were all there among the senior contingent.
Of those not on international duty, Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho were the two not present, although they attended the wedding of a friend over the weekend.