Back in September 2019, James Maddison stood in the darkened corner of a vast warehouse and explained what kept him the right side of a thin divide.
‘There is a fine line between confidence and arrogance,' he told Sportsmail. 'I am just a confident guy. It's how I am, it's how I've been raised…. I would never want to come across as arrogant because I wasn't brought up that way and my mum would be the first to give me a clip around the ear if she thought I was being like that.’
By then, the Leicester midfielder was already cementing his reputation as one of English football’s finest young talents.