Fox hunt

WHICH Premiership outfit signed the most players for the start of the new season? If you shouted ‘Chelsea’, sit and the back and face the wall, Leicester City boss Micky Adams has even outstripped the Londoner’s sugardaddy Roman Abramovich in the recruitment stakes.

Adams has brought in the equivalent of a new team for the club's return to the top flight and still spent less than Russian billionaire Roman manages to get through before breakfast. Adams has added his 11 players for less than £6.5million, and that's including fees and wages. Leicester make no bones about being cash-strapped and the manager admitted: "I have been given a budget for the season and that will be it for the whole campaign, so whatever business I do now will have to last the full term."

But just making the Premiership is a major achievement for Adams and the club after a season in Division One that could have been scripted for a soap opera.