Brendan Rodgers believes he would need to be a 'magician' to put Leicester on the same footing as the Premier League's biggest spenders.
The Foxes boss takes his side to Newcastle in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday chasing the only major domestic trophy that has eluded them since the Srivaddhanaprabha family bought the club in 2010.
Since Rodgers' first transfer window as manager in summer 2019, Leicester's net spend on transfers is about £18.5million. During the same period, Newcastle's is about £300m, fuelled largely by the Saudi-backed takeover in October 2021. Like Leicester, Aston Villa and West Ham are desperate to crack the elite and have racked up net spends of £250m and £270m respectively trying to do so.