They must have someone absolutely exceptional lined up. A miracle worker, really. A man who, in ways we cannot begin to understand even now, pulled off the greatest single achievement in the history of football leadership.
No, they can't have; because that individual is Claudio Ranieri, and Leicester have sacked him.
It is hard to imagine a more pathetic, dispiriting, thoroughly depressing decision has ever been made. Forget the happy clappers, the free rounds of Singha beer.
When it mattered, Leicester's owners were found wanting.