Dahnsouff Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 58 minutes ago, An Sionnach said: The desperation to see him leave on here is bordering on hysteria. Post after post of jumping through hoops to think of any or every reason this should happen. If the thinking that this was a way to help the clubs difficult financial position I could sort of understand it. However if the reasoning is we would then have money to spend on some teenage wide man with two left feet I would suggest that is crazy. If he does leave ,we are going to have to spend big to replace him. Jesus Christ. Nobody on here WANTS to sell him but its possible to see why it may be of benefit. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Sionnach Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 1 minute ago, Paninistickers said: I don't think a good chunk of our fanbase has developed mentally at the same rate of the club. There is a major major inferiority complex in the stands and on the forums which Top, Rodgers, Maddison, Youri, Evans etc simply don't have. They perceive themselves as elite. The chunk of our fans are still submissive, with a self perception of a Norwich/West Brom/Middlesbrough. Fortunately I am old enough to know that Leicester City are a major club in England and when they are not in the top ten of the top league , they are underachieving. I'm sure fans of Sheffield Wednesday think the same. Yes its tough to break down the stranglehold of the big money clubs but we should always be in contention. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Sionnach Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 1 minute ago, Dahnsouff said: Jesus Christ. Nobody on here WANTS to sell him but its possible to see why it may be of benefit. Apart from the financial side , there are no benefits at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dahnsouff Posted 7 August 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 7 August 2022 Just now, An Sionnach said: Apart from the financial side , there are no benefits at all. Gee, being a business that sounds kind of key, especially as we don't have top 6 revenue generation. Let alone this being a model that got us here in the first place. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad the Fox Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 2 minutes ago, An Sionnach said: Fortunately I am old enough to know that Leicester City are a major club in England and when they are not in the top ten of the top league , they are underachieving. I'm sure fans of Sheffield Wednesday think the same. Yes its tough to break down the stranglehold of the big money clubs but we should always be in contention. Yes , this little old Leicester bollocks started when we won the league to try and make our success sound even more miraculous than it already was. We’ve always been one of the bigger clubs sat outside of the obvious big clubs along with the likes of wolves, west ham etc… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Sionnach Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 The overriding principle is winning football matches ,anything that makes that harder unless faced with extreme circumstances is wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudio Fannieri Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, An Sionnach said: Apart from the financial side , there are no benefits at all. There is if it enables us to use the finances to shift deadwood and give us funds to improve the overall squad with the addition of 3 or 4 players. We seem to be in a place where over the next couple of windows we need to bring through the next batch of Maddison’s, Fofana’s, Soyuncu’s etc hopefully sprinkled with the odd gem from the academy. This squad is coming to the end of its cycle and with Martyn Glover onboard its clear we will use the next couple of transfer windows to start the next phase of our development Edited 7 August 2022 by Claudio Fannieri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paninistickers Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 7 minutes ago, An Sionnach said: Fortunately I am old enough to know that Leicester City are a major club in England and when they are not in the top ten of the top league , they are underachieving. I'm sure fans of Sheffield Wednesday think the same. Yes its tough to break down the stranglehold of the big money clubs but we should always be in contention. The entire 1960s we were a major club, along the lines of our level now. Those who didn't know that, read the fictional Shankly book 'red or dead' to get to get ides of how were were perceived Almost all.of the 70s, we were a decent upper mid table side. The 80s til mid 90s we took a dip, and yo-yod Fulham/Norwich style almost equally (in years spent) between top and second tier ....but even so, we were a familiar top tier name. I think much of our fanbase's formative years were the horrendous mid 2000s and have taken that as our baseline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Sionnach Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 5 minutes ago, Paninistickers said: The entire 1960s we were a major club, along the lines of our level now. Those who didn't know that, read the fictional Shankly book 'red or dead' to get to get ides of how were were perceived Almost all.of the 70s, we were a decent upper mid table side. The 80s til mid 90s we took a dip, and yo-yod Fulham/Norwich style almost equally (in years spent) between top and second tier ....but even so, we were a familiar top tier name. I think much of our fanbase's formative years were the horrendous mid 2000s and have taken that as our baseline. I agree and back in the early thirties only Arsenal, who were the best football team in the world, were superior to us. Our history is patchy and if we don't want to go back to that ,we should retain our best players as long as we can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post urban.spaceman Posted 7 August 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 7 August 2022 He's responded to the criticism... 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bovril Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 "Scammed" Man United hahahahahaha It's funny because it's true 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TrentFox Posted 7 August 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 7 August 2022 A fan from a club that wanted to form the super league has the audacity to call another club ‘greedy’?!?! 😂😂😂. I suspect he lacks the awareness to see the irony in that. 😞 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 51 minutes ago, An Sionnach said: Apart from the financial side , there are no benefits at all. So apart from the benefits, there aren't any benefits???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Sionnach Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 1 minute ago, Jimbo said: So apart from the benefits, there aren't any benefits???? It puts money in the bank and a hole in the team we can't fill - properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taupe Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 Quote I've never seen a club as greedy as Leicester City. Scammed Manchester United into paying £80m for Maguire now they want to force us into paying a similar amount for Fofana, a player that is yet to play for the French national team. What a singularly insular perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 8 minutes ago, An Sionnach said: It puts money in the bank and a hole in the team we can't fill - properly. I agree he's a generational talent but sooner or later he's going to leave, a club like ours is never going to keep these players and we have to accept that. Whether it's in the next 4 weeks or in 12 months time, he won't be here for long. Right now, Chelsea are desperate and we can ask for any fee we like to test how far they're willing to go. Don't get me wrong, I don't want him to leave, but at this moment in time the ball is in our court 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampson Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Paninistickers said: The entire 1960s we were a major club, along the lines of our level now. Those who didn't know that, read the fictional Shankly book 'red or dead' to get to get ides of how were were perceived Almost all.of the 70s, we were a decent upper mid table side. The 80s til mid 90s we took a dip, and yo-yod Fulham/Norwich style almost equally (in years spent) between top and second tier ....but even so, we were a familiar top tier name. I think much of our fanbase's formative years were the horrendous mid 2000s and have taken that as our baseline. Early 1960s we were a very good side, yes. People have false memories of the reality of that Bloomfield side though, because they enjoyed the football. We weren't a regular upper midtable side, we did finish 7th one season, but definitely not for almost all the decade. Otherwise we were just as likely to be in a relegation scrap as being midtable. We certainly weren’t a decent upper midtable side for “almost all of the 70s”, only really for a season or two. Only periods we’ve ever been regularly in the top quarter of the league are late 1920s, early 1960s and the current era. Those were our 3 greatest sides in terms of league performances. Edited 7 August 2022 by Sampson 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Sionnach Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 Chelsea should have bought Fofana from St.Etienne when they had the chance and not use another PL team as some sort of proving ground. We have to believe we are their footballing equals or we are going nowhere. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Buzzell Posted 7 August 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 7 August 2022 49 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said: He's responded to the criticism... Imagine being a Chelsea fan and then come to the conclusion that Leicester are greedy. Jeeeez 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesta Legend Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 (edited) starting so must be staying then… Edited 7 August 2022 by Lesta Legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimJams Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 Guess we're selling them Cags for £50mill instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 29 minutes ago, Lesta Legend said: starting so must be staying then… Flag in the sand that’s all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Renard Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 2 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: Can't get what you want and he has a paddy, god help his missus when she says she's got a headache. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katieakita Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 2 minutes ago, Le Renard said: Can't get what you want and he has a paddy, god help his missus when she says she's got a headache. Reckon he must be single but will take the job in hand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 7 August 2022 Share Posted 7 August 2022 2 hours ago, bovril said: "Scammed" Man United hahahahahaha It's funny because it's true but it isn’t is it? they came to us with an offer which we accepted. We didn’t give them anything that they didn’t offer for.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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