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Then he clutched hope - now he clutched a bottle of EFL champagne.

But on the plus side, the club are currently operating with a model most EFL clubs will envy.

If he is handed one of the most powerful roles in the English game, Kogan will be tasked with resolving a long-running disagreement between the Premier League and the EFL over controversial parachute payments to relegated clubs and financial redistribution.

It may therefore concern the EFL that he was the Premier League's media rights advisor from 1998 to 2015.

Leicester escaped a points deduction after successfully arguing they were not a top-flight club at the time of the charge, but the EFL could move, once they are officially a Championship club and transfer their Premier League share to one of the promoted sides.