Popular Post RyCleary Posted 19 July 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 19 July 2023 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MPH Posted 19 July 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 19 July 2023 I’m not sure I understand the criticism of the board on this one… Sure we could hold out for more money but how did that work out for us last year? With funding incomings? How is it going to help maresca reshape the squad? Help us be profitable in the championship? I mean, we don’t have a strong bargaining position and accepting smaller fees is unfortunately necessary right now… 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 Just now, RyCleary said: softens the blow a bit.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 (edited) He’s got 2 years left. His goals would get us out of this league. We don’t have goals in our current team. We need some attacking players to come in. Edited 19 July 2023 by Sly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampson Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 (edited) 45 minutes ago, The_77 said: A lot of people who want Barnes’ output to go along with elite defensive statistics either have never seen an attacking winger play football or need to seriously adjust their expectations for that position. I sort of agree and sort of think Barnes takes it to the extreme though. While there is an extent that attacking wingers are naturally going to do less defensive work, I think when you look at Barnes’ pressing and distance run numbers he still stood out as being really poor. I remember people posting the stats here.2 seasons ago, our other 3 wingers - Lookman, Perez and Albrighton all had over 2 times as many presses as him and way more in terms of total running distance. Was nearly 3 times in Albrighton’s case (I know Albrighton has one of the best engines in the country and can run all day, but still…). None had the attacking talent of Barnes, but it also kind of showed you can’t blame it all on the system or manager or whatever and that Barnes is and probably always will be an exciting but lazy player who doesn’t track back nor press from the front and it’s always what’s held him back reaching his full potential and breaking into the England squad when we were chasing the Champions League places Edited 19 July 2023 by Sampson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les-tah Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 Look at it this way. Barnes alone would not of got us promoted but that £40 million split between 3 quality attacking players probably will. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesta Legend Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, RyCleary said: Let take a look at that 😆 Ben Jacobs is actually a Leicester lad but does seem to have strong connections with Newcastle. Now IMO that seems good. Edited 19 July 2023 by Lesta Legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 36 minutes ago, sdb said: Isn't that Lavia from Soton going for £50m odd? What's he done that makes him 20% better than Barnes? I'm so confused by this. His age - he has a big resale value in four years whereas Barnes doesn’t 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartfox Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 21 minutes ago, hackneyfox said: Clubs weren’t lining up for him so what was Rudkin to do, we need players in now, to achieve that players have to leave first. You really need to move on or stop watching the team. Since when has a club been able to force the sale of a player if they don’t want to go. Comments like your have been answered numerous times, beyond me how it doesn’t sink on with some people that the slave trade is no longer and employees have rights. I think you will find employees (players) force moves when it suits them. We should never have let contracts run down as we have done. Coupled with paying stupid wages for in several cases quite ordinary players has done us. We created this situation through repeated mistakes and shocking recruitment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanefox Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 4 minutes ago, RyCleary said: Bet he's over the moon , he can tweet about another player leaving us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HankMarvin Posted 19 July 2023 Author Share Posted 19 July 2023 2 minutes ago, les-tah said: Look at it this way. Barnes alone would not of got us promoted but that £40 million split between 3 quality attacking players probably will. hmmmm assuming that its spent on players and not used to cover loss of income 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pliskin Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 We can’t realistically expect him to have stayed. Two players that were nailed on to leave were him and Madders. The money they bring in will enable us to hopefully target a few excellent young players. I fully expect Enzo to go knocking on Peps door for a few academy lads. We need to reinvest this money wisely, and what’s good about Enzo is he seems very sure about the player profile he wants… unlike his predecessor….. “Yannick is the player profile we need”. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pliskin Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 Just now, HankMarvin said: hmmmm assuming that its spent on players and not used to cover loss of income Absolutely no chance. Being in the championship harms King Powers plans for the club, they will spend a huge chunk of that money to ensure the mistake is short lived. If anyone actually thinks the club will just chance it with who we have they will be mistaken. And what I like is they actually seem to be working with the manager, which speaks volumes because after Brendan’s little Britain approach to transfers, it’s a surprise they would ever trust a manager again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackneyfox Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 (edited) 7 minutes ago, mozartfox said: I think you will find employees (players) force moves when it suits them. We should never have let contracts run down as we have done. Coupled with paying stupid wages for in several cases quite ordinary players has done us. We created this situation through repeated mistakes and shocking recruitment. Employees (players) can clearly force a move, they have all the power. The club can’t force a player to move because they’re nearing the end of their contract and that was what you were saying the DoF had failed to do. Do you actually read what you post? If it helps, this is what you wrote:’The DoF allowing players to run their contracts down means No Club is going to offer us fair market value.’ Edited 19 July 2023 by hackneyfox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 we had a 70m size hole 20m has gone in released players’ salaries madders has brought in around 35m Barnes brings in around 40m we’ve spent 18m so far we’re ahead by approx 10m I assume we will see players out/in from this point. If we sell Castagne for 15m then we can spend that. Whilst we can see the holes in our squad, the club is not under pressure to sell anyone (unless they feel they have to do so with the one year left on contracts ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les-tah Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 5 minutes ago, HankMarvin said: hmmmm assuming that its spent on players and not used to cover loss of income 1 minute ago, Pliskin said: Absolutely no chance. Being in the championship harms King Powers plans for the club, they will spend a huge chunk of that money to ensure the mistake is short lived. If anyone actually thinks the club will just chance it with who we have they will be mistaken. And what I like is they actually seem to be working with the manager, which speaks volumes because after Brendan’s little Britain approach to transfers, it’s a surprise they would ever trust a manager again. Yeah i agree it should not cover losses and be spent on the starting 11. Top needs to take that L and take that loss out his back pocket. Last season is partially down to him not making the correct decisions so its an expensive lesson to learn. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poznan34 Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 33 minutes ago, hackneyfox said: Clubs weren’t lining up for him so what was Rudkin to do, we need players in now, to achieve that players have to leave first. Strong links to West Ham and Spurs and some noise around Villa, it wasn't just Newcastle. I get your point about funds but he's gone on the cheap imo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaliFOXnia Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, les-tah said: Look at it this way. Barnes alone would not of got us promoted but that £40 million split between 3 quality attacking players probably will. There are also an extreme amount of variables to this.. The main one being that relies on the club being able to identify 3 quality attacking players. We've spent what's felt like an eternity trying to identify 1 RW who wasn't complete and utter b*****ks. Confidence is not through the roof... Edited 19 July 2023 by CaliFOXnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose2010 Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 1 minute ago, st albans fox said: we had a 70m size hole 20m has gone in released players’ salaries madders has brought in around 35m Barnes brings in around 40m we’ve spent 18m so far we’re ahead by approx 10m I assume we will see players out/in from this point. If we sell Castagne for 15m then we can spend that. Whilst we can see the holes in our squad, the club is not under pressure to sell anyone (unless they feel they have to do so with the one year left on contracts ) Can see Thomas, sourmare, vestergard, ward going. Hoping Kel doesn't go but could see it. Probs fees for Thomas and sourmare and some wages released for the other two. We had to massively rebuild and we are probably not half way through yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricey Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 15 minutes ago, RyCleary said: Ben Jacobs is a fraud. He just adds little bits of speculative detail on to other peoples news. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Ricey said: Ben Jacobs is a fraud. He just adds little bits of speculative detail on to other peoples news. Yep 👍 I've always found him to be an irritating throbber Leicester fan "allegedly" who takes delight in us flogging our best players Edited 19 July 2023 by Bob Weasel Fox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bergen fox Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 Overrated and inconsistent see ya 👋🏼 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 1 minute ago, Ricey said: Ben Jacobs is a fraud. He just adds little bits of speculative detail on to other peoples news. Which, in this instance, is just impossible to prove. It'll be an undisclosed fee. Leicester fans will claim it was 40 upfront rising with add ons. Newcastle fans will claim it's 30 up front rising to 38 with add ons that'll never happen. It doesn't matter really. What matters is we're probably one more smaller outgoing (Iheanacho or Soumare look fairly likely) from 100m revenue from player sales. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgfualol Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 We better get some wingers in, if we go into the season with Albrighton and Daka as our wingers then Operation: Piss the League will be in doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 19 July 2023 Share Posted 19 July 2023 Our bargaining power evaporated when West Ham didn’t back up their interest. I hope it goes well for him, young family etc. Quite a change for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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