Filip Benkovic Leaves Permanently

[Guest StevieLynex]

1 hour ago, KFS said:

Good observation. None of them kicked on for us

Dragovic, Mandaric, Nish

 

Edited 12 January 2022 by StevieLynex

[kingfox]

31 minutes ago, scinnell said:

Christmas forgot about Leon Crncic😂

I’m no conspiracy theorist, but I thoroughly believe he’s locked in a closet somewhere inside the King Power.

 

The only time we ever saw him was for his squad photo.

Edited 12 January 2022 by kingfox

[Duquesne Whistle]

2 hours ago, Sly said:

£13,000,000

67 minutes in the FA Cup. 

27 minutes in the EFL Cup. 
 

That’s about £138,000 per minute for every first team game he played for us. 

If you've had that calculator less than a month, you can probably return it for a refund mate 

[Sly]

1 minute ago, Duquesne Whistle said:

If you've had that calculator less than a month, you can probably return it for a refund mate 

Eh? 
 

13,000,000 / 94 =134,020.619! I wasn’t that far out. 

[Supergray22]

Strange one. I thought he looked decent in that Wigan game and after the praise he received at Celtic. If it was for personal reasons I don’t know why we didn’t follow this course of action sooner. Likewise if he wanted to be close to home then I don’t see how the Celtic loan would have helped things. 
We are all speculating but it is odd and disappointing for all sides. 
The players side of the story are normally revealed in a few months time in a tabloid somewhere. Brace yourselves though as they are usually not complimentary to the club in some way. 

[Duquesne Whistle]

Just now, Sly said:

Eh? 
 

13,000,000 / 94 =134,020.619! I wasn’t that far out. 

If you did it in your head, it wasn't a bad effort. I assumed you'd used technology, in which case it was terrible.

I'm guessing my assumption was wrong and you should be commended for your mental arithmetic  Apologies for any offence caused..

[TJB-fox]

Shame, came across as a fairly nice, quiet lad. 
 

Terrible transfer business though. Really disappointing.

[Supergray22]

2 hours ago, Gravel said:

Panic

Frantic

Chronic

Septic 

Tiny Dic

 

 

 

Tiny Dic? I thought we weren’t allowed to talk about Dennis Wise any more. 

[Silverfox14]

Hope that nothing seriously wrong at back of this

[HankMarvin]

Ironically on the same day Big Bens Refurb was revealed.

[Stadt]

Ultimately hasn’t worked out but this is the sort of signing we should continue to make, low-ish risk but plenty of upside. He was a full Croatia international at at 20, cost about £12m iirc abd foukd have been a fantastic signing. 
 

 

Vestergaard was a “prem proven” player and given his age won’t be much of a better signing despite playing 30x more minutes. 
 

Calculated risks like Benkovic will pay off in the long run.

[WigstonWanderer]

Wish the lad well, shame it didn’t work out. Also a shame that he cost us 12m without any return at all.

[CrispinLA in Texas]

There should be some sort of enquiry headed by a senior figure into why signing like Benkovic and Vestergaard have failed.

It shouldn't be swept under the carpet, the results would be beneficial for Leicester in future signings

 

[sacreblueits442]

31 minutes ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

There should be some sort of enquiry headed by a senior figure into why signing like Benkovic and Vestergaard have failed.

It shouldn't be swept under the carpet, the results would be beneficial for Leicester in future signings

 

...I would say either Rudkin or a member of his team would have done an analysis on things like this, evaluating what went wrong!!!

Commercial enterprises do these things as a matter of course, and the bigger you get, the more they will accept losses as an inevitable part of the business, and will attempt to mitigate as best as they can, with procedures and structures put in place.

  Vestergaard is not yet for me, to be written off, he is slowly coming into his own as we have adjusted our backline recently, by dropping deeper and having someone with pace in the backline to cover him.

  We all know about Benkovic, circumstances has caused his career at this club to stall. It is sad that it has come to this, but this is not about company failure just an unfortunate situation that took too long to address, and that will be mostly down to the support given to him by the club, as it seems whatever the problems he was going through, it was not to be solved by continuously sending him out, instead of addressing the real issues that was going on.

  What ever the "personal reasons" are, (we may never know) but it has been obvious, that this was not a footballing problem.

[MPH]

5 hours ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

We made the mistake of not playing him straight after he came from Celtic, thinking he's not ready for the EPL. We should of just thrown him in the games. Think it must of effected him from being sensational at Celtic and then being asked to go on loan to Championship sides.

 

Not his fault he wasn’t ready for that step up in his career  

[JR99]

5 hours ago, kingfox said:

We should stop signing players ending in Ic.

 

Benkovic

Ajdarevic

Crncic

Jakupovic

Kramaric

 

Terrible record 

Signing players with a that name ending... just an 'ic' we need to scratch I suppose 😉

[Aus Fox]

2 hours ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

There should be some sort of enquiry headed by a senior figure into why signing like Benkovic and Vestergaard have failed.

It shouldn't be swept under the carpet, the results would be beneficial for Leicester in future signings

 

Not sure if this is serious, but for a variety of reason every club has players who just don’t work out. Every single club has Benkovic and Vestergaard, not sure it needs an inquiry. Have a look at some of Alex Ferguson’s signings, not sure there was an inquiry into Vernon, Djemba Djemba, Kleberson etc.

[volpeazzurro]

6 hours ago, sacreblueits442 said:

...I would say either Rudkin or a member of his team would have done an analysis on things like this, evaluating what went wrong!!!

Commercial enterprises do these things as a matter of course, and the bigger you get, the more they will accept losses as an inevitable part of the business, and will attempt to mitigate as best as they can, with procedures and structures put in place.

  Vestergaard is not yet for me, to be written off, he is slowly coming into his own as we have adjusted our backline recently, by dropping deeper and having someone with pace in the backline to cover him.

  We all know about Benkovic, circumstances has caused his career at this club to stall. It is sad that it has come to this, but this is not about company failure just an unfortunate situation that took too long to address, and that will be mostly down to the support given to him by the club, as it seems whatever the problems he was going through, it was not to be solved by continuously sending him out, instead of addressing the real issues that was going on.

  What ever the "personal reasons" are, (we may never know) but it has been obvious, that this was not a footballing problem.

I don't think loans spells at clubs who don't have much intention of using you regularly can have helped much, particularly Leuven. At the very least it must be confidence sapping. On a more human side however, I hope his personal problems subside and he has a good career. 

[NaijaFox]

12 hours ago, moore_94 said:

 

Should have been done ages ago. GOOD LUCK LAD! 

[RumbleFox]

Took a punt, didn’t work out. No big deal. Good luck to him. X 

[Spudulike]

12 hours ago, Sly said:

£13,000,000

67 minutes in the FA Cup. 

27 minutes in the EFL Cup. 
 

That’s about £138,000 per minute for every first team game he played for us. 

Probably not as simple as that. Transfers are structured in all sorts of mysterious ways and his deal may be based on appearances, international call ups, loyalty bonus' etc. LCFC have probably not paid anywhere near the quoted figures. 

[gerblod]

What was the injury that's been mentioned?

 

[Aus Fox]

23 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

Probably not as simple as that. Transfers are structured in all sorts of mysterious ways and his deal may be based on appearances, international call ups, loyalty bonus' etc. LCFC have probably not paid anywhere near the quoted figures. 

Plus we would have received some small loan fees along the way.

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

Good luck to him. His career in the UK other than a brief time at Celtic has been a disaster. Let's hope he realises his potential elsewhere and we move on. 

[weller54]

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