The clanking of pots from the kitchen is usurped at the next turn by the voice of manager Claude Puel in the corridor, before Drake’s ‘Nice For What,’ thundering out from the astro-turfed gym, mutes all else.

Following an unsparing mid-morning session, Leicester City’s training ground is fizzing: a blur of players, physios, analysts, coaches and non-football staff going about their post-workout business with a genial tone blanketing the place.

In the boot room of the Belvoir Drive complex, meanwhile, a photographer is quietly struggling to move his equipment out of the compact space to an embankment flanking the main entrance.

As Wilfred Ndidi so effectively executes on the pitch, he identifies a potential problem without prompting, and averts it. The 21-year-old lifts up one of the tripods before it crashes and transports it to the required location.

“That’s typical Ndidi,” remarks a club official. “It’s always about how he can help.” Often, it is the moments before and after pressing record that prove most illuminating about an interviewee; their actions uncloaking much more than their answers do.

It is no different here at the facility Leicester have used since 1964 - plans for a new state-of-the-art centre were unveiled in February - where it is discernible that the player described as their “most important” by Puel also tops the table for affability, which explains his popularity around the place.

Ndidi speeds up to hold a door open for a member of staff carting a bunch of boxes, greets everyone that passes by with an in-joke and is the focus of fuss for his teammates: Kasper Schmeichel jogs over to video parts of his shoot to share on social, with a group that are out of view shouting at him from the rear of the room.

“I came here and found another family,” the Nigeria international, understated in a yellow and black Nike track combo, tells JOE. “I’m very blessed that from the strong relationship I have with my parents, I then went to Nath Boys where I had friends who were like brothers to me and the chairman (Yemi Idowu) who was always there when I needed him.