Jack Van Poortvliet

Jan McGinity figured it could work out like this, the fortunes of Leicester turning around hugely on the pitch with him no longer beavering away in the background at Oval Park and seeing out to its expiry the three-year deal he had originally inked as head of elite performance recruitment. Such is the hectic nature of life as a fix-it man, a contracts supremo who dives in at the deep end of clubs or governing bodies in dire need of

by Liam Heagney