You're the city boss with £3m to spend. Who would you buy?
Leicester City fans the world over remain in limbo. The silence emanating from the corridors of power at Filbert Way is almost deafening. Whatever "due diligence" involves, I wish they'd pull their fingers out and get a move on. by GARY SILKE
The current version of LCFC plc has only been around for three years. How complicated can their accounts be? They'll hardly be having to fetch dusty old box files from top shelves.
So while we are waiting for the fumata bianca to appear through the West Stand chimney announcing our new leader, let's play a game.
You are Robert Kelly and you have £3million to spend . . . quickly.
We have to be realistic about this. A club in our current position of 18th in the Championship is not going to attract any Premiership players except, perhaps, very old ones.
Even those Premiership players sitting on the benches of their reserve teams are earning enough to buy a Jaguar S-type saloon, every week of the year.
The £3m includes wages so let's peruse the charter of the great unwanted, otherwise known as the PFA's available players list, whose club's are prepared to part with them for no money.
There are a couple of promising young goalkeepers on there - Kevin Poole and Mark Crossley, but we don't really need a keeper.
There's a Robert Ullathorne at Notts County who sounds familiar. This was the man who had the brass nerve to sit in Martin O'Neill's office at Belvoir Drive and hold out for a better new contract . . . while his leg was in plaster. Perhaps not.
A few famous names, but not famous players - Alan Lamb, Alex Higgins, Chris Evans, William Thacker (Hugh Grant's character in the film Notting Hill).
There are a few players whose names suggest they haven't quite got what it takes to follow in Dad's footsteps - John Lukic, Ian Snodin, Gavin Strachan and Nathan Kamara.
Incidentally, according to this list, any boy born in the late-'80s had to be called either Lee, Kyle, Danny, Jamie or Adam.
This is football's equivalent of the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and it is all a bit depressing, so let's move on.
How about trying to persuade members of Martin O'Neill's magnificent squad back to Leicester?
We are looking for a Neil Lennon figure in midfield, so who better than Neil Lennon to fill this role. Although he might be tempted back at some stage, he would be unlikely to leave Celtic now they have qualified for the next stage of the Champions League. And there is the saying 'Never Go Back'.
Remember Steve Guppy's brief return to Leicester in the 2003/04 season? No, neither do I.
So how about players at this level that we have been impressed with? Unfortunately, anyone half decent in the Championship is soon vacuumed up by the Premiership to boost their squads. Remember Theo Walcott?
Graham Kavanagh produced one of the best performances for the opposition at Filbert Way when he visited with Premiership-bound Wigan a couple of seasons ago and ran the show. But Sunderland signed him in the summer and he is now a regular in a winning team.
I'm afraid my knowledge of lower league players is virtually nil. I usually turn The Championship off after Leicester's game has been on. Any Championship Manager player out there with any hot prospects?
That leaves us with players who have parted company with their clubs for reasons other than they aren't very good at football. It worked with Stan Collymore, for a while.
Steven Pressley appears to have been released by Hearts for the crime of speaking out against owner Vladimir Romanov's methods and is highly thought of by Hearts fans.
He could be a valuable and experienced addition to the City side. He wouldn't command a transfer fee, but best of all we would then have both an Elvis and a Pressley in the team.
Think of the marketing possibilities - black plastic wigs and white jump suits all round.
