As the cumulative total for Premier League transfers continues to rocket skywards, Leicester City have struck a move that does not nudge the dial higher but perhaps represents the most important signing of the summer.
Riyad Mahrez agreeing a new contract is crucial for the champions but also for the division as a whole, a place where over-achieving clubs tend to find their best players picked off like apples from a tree by people with ladders that reach that much further.
Leicester have managed to keep their creative pulse, last season’s PFA Player of the Year, and can look ahead with renewed confidence to achieving their ambitions of cementing a status at the deep end of the top flight.