Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson is delighted so many of his promotion heroes have signed new deals.
Pearson said it was important all the squad-building work he and his staff have done during the past two-and-a-half years was not undone.
"Just from a football point of view it was important to get those contracts done," Pearson told the Leicester Mercury.
"It has taken a long time to get the squad together in the sort of shape we are in.
"Sometimes that as an exercise is lost on people, how difficult it is and complex it is to try to get the squad how you want it. It is also important to us on a business level to protect our assets.
"I think we have a squad now that has a residual value. That is important.
"We have tried to protect those assets in a fair way."
