'Good luck to them,' said Brendan Rodgers when asked about Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United, Romelu Lukaku and Chelsea and the fact their top-four rivals are getting bigger and better.
'If you have got the resources to do it, fair play to them. I wish them all the luck in the world.'
He doesn't, of course. Rodgers would love nothing more than for this to blow up in the faces of the big club directors who sanctioned these signings.
He hopes Lukaku flops, Ronaldo strops and that, somehow, Leicester can worm their way into the top four.