AKCJ Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 2 minutes ago, filbertway said: What? So we have to sign players that will never be close to first team for 10-15 million and pay them 3-4 million a season. Rather than sign young players for a similar amount on less wages who will develop into 1st choide players. I don't know how you can see how things are now and thing that signing average players with no resale value or little to offer on the pitch is still a good idea Astounding. We're clearly skint. It's why we're barely linked with anyone and the players we are linked with would cost **** all. Evans, Soyuncu, Vestergaard and Amartey are out of contract next summer. Signing a 26 year old with Premier League and International experience for next to nothing is obviously not the complete disaster you want it to be. What young players are you talking about? Fofana cost us £30m, Levi Colwill will cost a similar amount, the lad Wolves signed from Burnley was £20m... Young players aren't cheap nor would they be on low wages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 Southampton fans Here's what some fans have said on social media. Nathan Newington @Newington13: Leicester were actually there for the 9-0 right? #SaintsFC MikeKavs @SFCMikeKavs: Leicester want to play that game again then, eh? #SaintsFC Dean Turner @Turner2Dean: We all know how this turns out #LCFC #SaintsFC Mark @ftbl_mark: We're doing it again and again #SaintsFC That saints girl @DWTheDoctor: They took 2 of our defenders before and look how that turned out Alisha Warwick @AlishaW1709: Why do Leicester want all the defenders who they scored 9 against? Baffling. #SaintsFC #Leicester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iran Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 This signing is NOT GOOD ENOUGH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 The fact of the matter is if the exact same source had said we were close to a deal with Colwill you'd all be creaming yourselves. It's not to do with the source, just more what you hope. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 7 minutes ago, AKCJ said: We're clearly skint. It's why we're barely linked with anyone and the players we are linked with would cost **** all. Evans, Soyuncu, Vestergaard and Amartey are out of contract next summer. Signing a 26 year old with Premier League and International experience for next to nothing is obviously not the complete disaster you want it to be. What young players are you talking about? Fofana cost us £30m, Levi Colwill will cost a similar amount, the lad Wolves signed from Burnley was £20m... Young players aren't cheap nor would they be on low wages. Define 'next to nothing'. It'll be a minimum of £10mil and a wage a minimum of £50k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 8 minutes ago, AKCJ said: We're clearly skint. It's why we're barely linked with anyone and the players we are linked with would cost **** all. Evans, Soyuncu, Vestergaard and Amartey are out of contract next summer. Signing a 26 year old with Premier League and International experience for next to nothing is obviously not the complete disaster you want it to be. What young players are you talking about? Fofana cost us £30m, Levi Colwill will cost a similar amount, the lad Wolves signed from Burnley was £20m... Young players aren't cheap nor would they be on low wages. I take your overall point but the two don't have direct link I can't see us signing Bednarek simply on the basis, he takes up a squad spot and that requires Soyuncu or Amartey to leave pronto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tylesta Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 Leicester saints fc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arriba Los Zorros Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 Unbelievable if true, Rodgers out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee7 Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 I hope to god this is Bullsh*t! An awful defender. How uninspiring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sharpe's Fox Posted 13 July 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 13 July 2022 Get the attacking players confidence up by them winning 9-0 in training every day. 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 (edited) 15 minutes ago, AKCJ said: We're clearly skint. It's why we're barely linked with anyone and the players we are linked with would cost **** all. It's not clear we're "skint", it's clear we have too big a senior squad and can't shift them. It doesn't matter if all 28 or 29 senior players' contracts expire next year, the budget sheet still has to be balanced for this year and in rolling three (I think?) year segments for FFP. But the fact of the matter is plenty of them aren't expiring next year, in fact most of the players we want to ship on have years left and are a burden to the squad. This signing would be another one who's just a "squad player" on a years long contract at a decent rate who would add to the long term problem of bloated squad full of over paid "padding" if we don't see him as a starter long term, which I doubt we do. It doesn't matter how cheap the fee for him might be, what matters is what his wage commitment will be for the next four or five years. You can keep repeating "a bunch of defenders contracts are nearly up so we have to buy defenders" until you're blue in the face, we are hearing you and nobody is misunderstanding you but it misses the point on two fronts: firstly that we have more pressing concerns in the squad THIS season and secondly that squad spaces are not available THIS season. If Soyuncu isn't going and we're doomed to see him go next year for free then we can forget reinforcing at the back this year, any available space in the squad we can use to either replace someone that leaves (assuming Youri) or bring in an actual starting right winger that's a bigger priority. We might be skint, yeah, it's possible. But the current situation isn't necessarily a reflection of that it's a reflection of the state of the squad. There's a difference between the club having money and the club having ENOUGH money that it can afford to have six or so senior squad members sat in the reserves not playing and even potentially completely unregistered for the Premier League. That's Manchester United level wealth and we're obviously not there. If someone's coming in, people have to get off the wage bill because we can't afford to have players sat around collecting a salary that aren't contributing. That's not "skint" that's just running your business properly. And, to come back to Bednarek, that's why this transfer would be alarming. Because if new signings are going to be a rarity because we have too many on the books as it is, then the first guy through the door shouldn't be a centre back regardless of what the squad looks like in 23/24. We're not building for the future when the squad for the present is already unbalanced af. Now I agree with two things you said from the start - 1. let's not panic and 2. this probably isn't happening anyway. But defending the actual transfer on a theoretical level because you can't see why people think it makes poor sense? Come on. Now you're just looking for an argument (I do enough of it, I'd know.) Edited 13 July 2022 by Finnegan 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_77 Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 He’s good in the air and not the worst player— let’s face it, we’re not going to bring in anyone ahead of Fofana and Evans this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Lisemore Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 Sack the recruitment team if this goes through, seriously. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeaMen Tom Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 1 hour ago, Grebfromgrebland said: Be better to not sign anyone and go with what we have. This is probably why Brendan went public with the profile of defender he wanted so the scouting team didn't serve up this kind of shite player. He's probably really annoyed with our scouting right now and director of football who have let him down quite a bit lately. LCFC's margin for error with recruitment is small and it seems like we're in the process of that point being painfully driven home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapero82 Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 10 minutes ago, tylesta said: Leicester saints fc We’ve become their reserve team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vardinio'sCat Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 So it's a no then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapero82 Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 Is Peter Taylor related to BR by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapero82 Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 Just now, Vardinio'sCat said: So it's a no then? Nothing says give up now than signing this guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oadby.fox Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 Well the last Jan we signed from Southampton worked out so why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Earle Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 1 hour ago, surrifox said: Not the only explanation. Another might be that the entire management of the club have totally lost the plot Or that more than one CB is leaving… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 24 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said: The fact of the matter is if the exact same source had said we were close to a deal with Colwill you'd all be creaming yourselves. It's not to do with the source, just more what you hope. And if it said we were close to a deal with Bednarek then you could be forgiven for getting upset, but it doesn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
80footgiraffe Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 Lets get Mustafi in and really go downhill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John rayner Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 28 minutes ago, lee7 said: I hope to god this is Bullsh*t! An awful defender. How uninspiring Do we really need another reject from Southampton, imo stay well clear it seem to me we ate panic buying 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 All of this energy being exerted for a player that is not even being considered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfox Posted 13 July 2022 Share Posted 13 July 2022 1 hour ago, murphy said: Forty-something male, GSOH (arguably) WLTM new Premier League club for fun days out. Forty-something? You mean 49 Dave???!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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