Leicester City face a race against time to have their new training ground ready for the start of next season after the owners wanted to bless the steel being used via a Buddhist ceremony.
In addition too, the high-flying Premier League side have had to re-home hundreds of great crested newts – a European protected species.
The Foxes are building a new state-of-the-art facility on the site of a former golf course in the borough of Charnwood in rural Leicestershire.
Costing £95million, it will feature 11 full-size training pitches including one under a steel roof, eight smaller pitches, five training grids and two goalkeeping areas.
However, there are concerns now that it won't be ready in time for it's June 29, 2020 deadline; according to Construction News.
Initially given a 77-week timeframe, there was a fortnight delay as the main building was anointed by Buddhist monks.
Leicester's owners, the Srivaddhanaprabha family, are strong Buddhists - with their beliefs having been reflected around the club throughout their time in charge.
They had initially hoped for a six-week delay for the blessing ceremony but finally agreed to two with main contractor McLaren. Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers and senior squad members Jamie Vardy and Wes Morgan were among those present for part of the ceremony.
Speaking about it McLaren project director Martin Burge, who is a Leicester fan, said: 'Buddhism is very spiritual. They said it had to be done on a certain day, as some days are luckier than others and in that building it had to be a certain [element of the] steel [structure], as certain areas of the building are lucky and others aren't.
'It went to and fro for weeks about what the date was going to be and then we had to make a compromise in the end because we knew where we wanted to make a start in the steelwork.
'It was a really good ceremony. They blessed the steel – tied ribbons round it, and showered it with flowers and coins – and it was cracking to be part of that,' Mr Burge says.
'It had to be done at exactly 10.20am, that morning. It was orchestrated to the second.
'We had the crane there with the steel basically hanging from the steel erectors, and we had a countdown from five to one then had to drop it down onto the holding down bolts, tighten it up and release it.'
On top of the ceremony, Leicester had been hit with the complication of re-homing 348 newts which were dotted over the various ponds of the old golf course.
Due to regulations, the amphibians could only be moved under license from Natural England, and only when the temperature is above five degrees celsius.