sport news Leicester will hit the reset button after their disastrous relegation trends now
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Just seven years after the greatest day in their history, Leicester suffered one of their worst of modern times.
Despite the unrest last summer, relegation should have been unthinkable for the seventh-best paid squad in the Premier League, coached by a proven top-flight boss in Brendan Rodgers.
Yet a series of errors from the boardroom downwards contributed to this debacle.
Leicester will conduct a review of what went wrong but expectations need to be reset immediately. The club who won the title seven years ago and FA Cup two years ago is no more.
A complete reset is required and everyone at the club must change their mindset. Here Mail Sport looks at three key steps to take.
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Act decisively
There is no benefit to James Maddison and Harvey Barnes reporting for duty at the start of pre-season when everyone knows they want to leave and that Leicester need to sell them.
It will muddy the waters for a new manager trying to build a squad to win immediate promotion, and affect his attempts to forge a strong team spirit within a new group of players.
While transfer negotiations are rarely simple, both players have suitors and crave Premier League football. So this is the time to establish the nature of the market, have pragmatic discussions and get a deal done.
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