Filling the void left by the departure of N'Golo Kante was never going to be easy.
In fact it was virtually impossible.
Kante was a revelation last season with his almost superhuman ability to cover ground effortless and hunt down the ball like a blood-thirsty predator, albeit a baby-faced assassin.
Steve Walsh, the former head of recruitment who scouted Kante and insisted to manager Claduo Ranieri that he sign the Frenchman, said it was like having two players to play alongside Danny Drinkwater in Leicester City's engine room.
An experienced player would have found taking on such an ominous job daunting, but Danny Amartey has approached it with the freshness of youth, unburdened it seems by the pressure of filling Kante's boots.
It has been a learning curve and the two away defeats at Liverpool and Manchester United showed he still has a lot of learning to do, but his performances against Burnley and on Tuesday night against Porto in the Champions League demonstrated that the 21-year-old could become a real asset for City, given time.
That is the key now for Amartey, he needs time and help to develop into the player he could potentially become.
The Danish reporters were quick to state that he was regarded as the best midfielder in the Superliga with FC Copenhagen, after being converted from being a defender.
He has only been playing first team football for three years and only been playing as a midfielder for half of that time.
He needs looking after by Ranieri and his team-mates. He needs experienced defenders Wes Morgan and Robert Huth to guide him positionally during games, to stop him from leaving his central position and drifting out wide, to be aware of the movement around him.
Juan Mata scored one and set another up last week because he was easily able to elude Amartey, and the Ghanaian will have learned a valuable lesson.
City must accept for the time being that Amartey may be inconsistent. That is inevitable with young players still learning the game, but there certainly seems to be a lot of patience within the City squad and Amartey is already highly-rated within the group.
"He's a good player," said Drinkwater, who himself needed time to develop into one of the best English midfielders in the Premier League.
"He has shown exactly what he's about. He makes it easy to play with him as the other lads do."
Andy King, who has been kept out of the City starting line-up by Amartey, believes Amartey has made a good start to his City career.
"He has done really well," he said recently.
"Losing NG was always obviously going to be tough to fill, no-one else in the league probably plays like him.
"It is about trying to find the balance to try and replace him. That is obviously the manager's job to try and find that, but Daniel has done really well and he is only young and still learning. He has a lot of potential as we can see."
Manager Claudio Ranieri believes Amartey has bags of potential and can only get better.
"I want to improve our young players and Daniel can play in a lot of positons," he said.
"Of course now there is the opportunity for him to show his best positon because he's a central midfielder. In his career he's played right back, winger and central defender. His normal positon is central midfielder.
"He's getting better with every match."