Muzzy_Larsson

Atletico Madrid are being as consistent as you say using the exact same model as Leicester and along the lines of what we've been talking about They typically sell a big player most summers (Griezmann last summer for example) and reinvest the money. The difference is they can do it at a larger scale as they've managed to qualify for the champions league consistently and have the extra money that brings, Leicester are on the same journey just behind them on the same path. Also Atletico are traditionally are a far bigger club in their own country comparatively than Leicester and have a stadium twice the size. The club is in great hands, good owners with a good proven and working model, no need to tear that up due to some ego trip around not selling players to a bigger club.

and if my auntie had balls she could be my uncle. The club is on a very obvious upward trajectory and punching way above its weight, whatever strategy they have to do that it's clearly working.

Yeah not adding credibility to it just passing on what I saw on the bbc gossip column.

This is it and there is no shame in admitting it and it's a clever thing to do. It's the exact same thing with Celtic on a lesser scale. I could get all misty eyed and say players are attracted to us as we sell out 60k every week, regularly play in Europe and win silverware but the reality is nowadays it's not, the main thing that allows us to attract players is the fact we can offer the route to the riches of the EPL if they do well and can point to many examples of this. It's like me sitting here saying, damn it, if we had held onto all our players we'd have guys like Van Dijk, Dembele, Wanyama, etc, etc all in our starting eleven just now and we'd be a great side. It's an absolute fallacy as if it weren't for selling someone like Wanyama, we'd never have got Van Dijk and had we not sold him we wouldn't have been able to go out and get Dembele and pay him what we had to to get him to Scotland and so forth. It's the same for Leicester, you pay guys like Maguire and Chilwell what the Man Utd's and Chelsea's of this world will then how on earth do you expect to have the money to add and improve to the squad overall.

Rags saying this morning Barcelona will sign either him or Gaya.

You aren't a club who finished mid table though so that argument is nonsense. Plenty of clubs follow a similar model in selling a big player every summer and replacing them smartly and do very well, get to latter stages of European competition (often winning it in the case of sides like Sevilla), regularly qualifying and reaching the latter stages of CL (Porto, Ajax, among others). If you think your going to be holding onto all of your top players and go out and spend the same amount of money as top 6 sides and compete with them on the park then your simply living in a fantasy land, the reality is your a smaller club at the moment than these sides, with far less income so you have to find a way of boxing clever and competing with them by alternative means and the best way to do that is to outperform them in the transfer market.

Taht's because traditional top 6 clubs have stadiums typically twice the size of the King Power, play in European football every season and thus generate about £100m extra per year over a season. How do you expect Leicester to try and combat that financial handicap and compete with these sides?

Again I don't agree with that, players won't care about that as long as the club is progressing each season and competing in Europe. I don't think for example selling Harry Maguire last season will be any factor whatsoever in players wanting to sign. The big thing for most players is champions league football.

I think Schalke and a few other Bundesliga clubs are in a sticky spot financially so they may well be looking to bring some money in. Kabak and McKennie would be the two obvious assets they could get good money in the door quickly for.

Usually do at least one European away trip every season but highly doubt that's going to happen this season

Don't mean to be confrontational but I disagree with a lot of this. Selling 1 key asset every summer doesn't make you a selling club imo, nor does it inhibit your ambition to break into the top 6. In fact I'd argue the exact opposite in that selling a player for a lot of money every summer and being clever in how you replace them (Maguire and Soyuncu being the most recent and obvious example) is the only long term strategy that will see a club like Leicester establish themselves as a top 6 side. The main reason for this being the traditional big 6 clubs are typically always going to be able to outspend you so you need to be creative to be able to trade blow for blow with them and compete with them season in season out. Done well this model is pretty effective, look at a club like Sevilla for example. I think the whole notion of a "selling club" is in itself a bit of a fallacy. Going by the definition in the OP it basically means there are only a handful of clubs in world football that aren't selling clubs according to this logic, probably Barcelona, Real Madrid, Juventus and Bayern Munich, I guess you could argue exactly who but you get my drift. Even clubs like Man Utd, Liverpool, etc are at the mercy of these clubs for their best players if they come calling, see Ronaldo in previous years, Hazard last season with Chelsea, etc, etc. Knocking back the £80m you got for Maguire last season or an amount in the same region for Chilwell this summer would be madness and short sighted and would inhibit the ability to improve the squad overall going forward.

FFS sometimes I hate modern football. Sarr is an idiot if he signs there.

That is an absolute steal if true, Leicester should be all over that.

I think they've cooled their interest after signing Jonathan David. He's a liablity at the best of times but I'd worry about any prospective club signing him given he looks about 2 stone overweight and has basically downed tools at Rangers.

I don't think it's time to panic yet, like you say still 3 weeks until the start of the season so hopefully they are working on things in the background. My only concern would be given the window is open 1 month into the season this time that if a poor start happened then there may be more inclination to panic buy and/or pay over the odds.

For a guy who was probably on peanuts at Wigan, a team who got relegated from the Championship it's a lot. To put it into perspective the average wage for an EPL player is 60k per week so by that standards it's high as it's almost average and he's never kicked a ball in the premier league.

50k a week he's on apparently! Looks like Fulham have learned nothing from their last ill fated spell in the top league. The lad is meant to be a good player but come on, 50k per week!

They were awful Only a part time side I believe.

Cha Du Ri! What a guy and like you say had the best football chant ever!

I very much doubt that is the case, did he not cost about £25m, your not making anywhere near that in loan fees. I guess if most of his wages have been paid while out on loan then that's not so bad.

You can have Jack Hendry from us if you really want, a snip at £15m, Congerton is a big fan

The sort of clubs that will be after him will all be skint due to the pandemic, would be amazed if anyone paid any money for him, best scenario as has already been said is someone to cover the last year of his wages.

For the money quoted that would be a great signing.

Yeah we always seem to manage to find decent goalscorers.

We were linked with him a few years ago when he was at I think Ruban Kazan but we got Dembele instead.