Muzzy_Larsson

I think Leicester are a special case in this scenario, an outlier if you will. One of the very few clubs under foreign ownership who have good owners,who are involved in the club for the right reasons and run the club in an ethical manner and to the correct ends. I do think he 50+1 rule would be a good thing for football in general though if it made the shyster owners, who unfortunately seem to be the rule rather than the exception, clear off.

He'd be wasted at PSG and in France, he shouldn't nor would I think he'd want to go there, My concern is a perfect storm in the summer of him running the show with Belgium at the Euros and not having signed a new contract by that point. It's not cut and dried like you allude to because of the economic situation across football at the moment but it'd become a lottery at that point as he enters the last two years of his deal of gettting his market value and not risk losing him for relative peanuts or worst still nothing further down the line. The key thing is getting him to put pen to paper on a new contract ASAFP as then even if he takes the Euros by storm Leicester still hold all the aces.

Ricardoitis here with Barnes, when everyone was demanding one of the best right back's in the world at the time should have been played as a winger. Barnes is developing nicely as a winger/inside left just leave him be and let him develop in his natural position. Shoe horning him into another position(s) to try and cover a gap in the squad could sabotage his development. It's a completely different ask playing as a striker to a winger in terms of how you receive the ball. Nine times out of 10 you receive the ball with your back to goal or on the half-turn at best. In Barnes position the majority of the time he'll receive the ball on the run and facing goal.

I never once mentiond that big 6, your spinning the narrative here. I said one of Europe's top clubs, that's why I've referenced Bayern and Real Madrid several times. If you notice in the transfer thread I specifically laugh at the prospect of anyone leaving Leicester to join a club like Arsenal. Why would you ever do that. I'm not saying it's a given either, it's not a given a Bayern or Real would even come in for him or in the current climate be able to afford him all I'm saying if they did meet Leicester's valuation he'd find it very hard to turn down and he'd likely want to go, as would any player at any club in that situation. It's not a criticism or a swipe it's just reality but some obviously find it hard accepting that.

Financially that sounds fair but it feels to me like it would open a Pandora's box and make it easier for these clubs and clubs from other leages to try they're ESL type funny business again in the future. I'm happy to stay in Scotland despite the fact it hamstrings us financially, it feels morally the correct position.

I wouldn't want it to happen no.

I've said this before but more even competition would put livelihoods at risk. The game would go part-time overnight as clubs wouldn't generate enough money to remain professional. No visits from 8000 Old Firm fans three times a season, no sponsorship, no TV deals. There are already clubs in the top flight who struggle to get 2000 people through the gate and pay their players £500 per week.

Value is the key. Spending a shed load of money doesn't guarantee a signing will work out or said player is good enough, particularly when your an EPL club and there's a premium added to any player you try and sign. See Perez, Ayoze as one example.

It's a right weird one that given A: the attacking talent at France's disposal and B: the fact he isn't even really a first pick for Lille.

God I'm out!!!

I've said countless times I don't want him to go, you'll see that if you read what I've said. Top players the main thing is playing at the highest level possible and competing for trophies, for the very top players that's as importan as money and that's what sets them apart. Players who care about the money first and foremost are mercenaries.

I've no doubt that's already happened/happening the thing is I think he may be too expensive for them now. What with covid and the fact although they spend a lot of money they don't tend to go much higher than £60m on a single player. It'll take a helluva lot more than that to get Tielemans. Also I think he could do better than the franchise, he can and should go to one of Europe's truly great clubs.

He's a different type of player from Tielemans and Tielemans is also far better on the ball and has a far greater range of passing.

All about opinions of course mate but I can't think of many better successors around at the moment for people like Kroos, Modric, etc.

Yeah like I said in previous posts "if the valuation was met". If it's not it's all a moot point of course.

The new champions league reforms are a joke in all honesty, the ESL talk has taken a lot of the attention away from that but again the latest reforms are a result of pandering to these exact type of clubs.

Always laugh at these stories with respect Arsenal in particular, why would you leave Leicester to go to Arsenal

They've been linked with him a fair few times in the past.

Time to re-enter the real world, if Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or the likes have a bid accepted for any Leicester player they'd want to make that move and that's not any slight on Leicester. Like I said the exact same applies for 99.9% of all players at all clubs throughout the world. Your deluded if you thnk otherwise. It's like me saying there's loads of reasons why a player would want to stay at Celtic rather than go to the premier league. I could delude myself by saying oh we've got a massive stadium that's always full, we win trophies, we regularly play in Europe but I'd be kidding myself on. The very reason pretty much all players come to us is to put themselves in the shop window to get to the premier league and first chance they get they will leave, which is the cold reality. The above logic applies in a relative sense to pretty much all players when Europe's two or three biggest clubs come calling.

I'll never live that down

He's already at the level he could choose any club in Europe, his performances this season make that much obvious.

Yeah I've seen a fair bit of him this season and he's been very poor. Soyuncu and little Wes already far better players than him from what I've saw.

Agree with this. One thing also though is I think Jimenez being out has affected Traore's effectiveness if that makes sense. Wolves plan A for so long was getting Traore to the by line and for him to stand it up to Jimenez.

Enter Newcastle or newly promoted team x.

Exactly this.