If Leicester City were a well-oiled machine last season, a few key components have rusted over since May.
One, N’Golo Kante, has been taken and is making one of 2015-16’s lumbering beasts tick over again.
There is Riyad Mahrez, who has been malfunctioning in a way that can only suggest his head has been turned.
More importantly, Jamie Vardy, the fairytale story within a fairytale story of last season, has been below par, regularly dropped and shown that the second album is often more difficult than the first.