indierich06

We're coming off the back of a season in the Champ, bad financial mismanagement, there's a points deduction on the horizon - we just need to survive this season, if we do then we can hopefully start to get back to where we were before. It's good that we're cutting our cloth and being a bit more considerate about our transfers, not just spaffing money up the wall left right and centre

Exactly this, Buonanotte signing doesn't mean the door is shut for Alves this season.

Very keen on this. We can't just throw Alves into the starting line up. Even if he wasn't a young lad with no experience of regular football (let alone top flight football) he's still adjusting to life after a serious injury too - we need to take it slow with him. I would expect Alves to make the step up to the squad this season, but we need reinforcements who are ready to start games.

Okoli has clearly been signed for the first team, and De Cordova Reid is clearly an upgrade on Praet/Albrighton. Out of that list of departures, KDH and maybe Iheanacho are the only first team players. There is nothing on this list that remotely worries me at this stage of the season: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/transfers/wettbewerb/GB1/plus/?saison_id=2024&s_w=&leihe=3&intern=0

He's not a downgrade on Cannon though is he? Another player raised to mythical standards by the Leicester fanbase when he's not playing. Cannon couldn't get a look in when we were in the Championship - he got 2 goals in 13 games in the Champ. Fofana has at least got 4 goals in 15 in the prem, only 10 of those were starts too. And while we're at it, it took Daka 30 games to get 4 prem goals the last time we were in the league.

Most clubs have made 2-4 signings, same as us. Some less.

4 goals in 10 starts for Burnley is decent? They had to play United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City during that run too. Cannon's got a bit of a talent for sure, but he could barely get a look in while we were in the Championship.

Does everyone really think this guy will be pony? I reckon he'll be decent.

He was a great prospect before he went to Chelsea - plenty of players look shit when they go there - I would be well up for this.

The only problem being that it's all completely unverifiable - mainstream media, for all it's faults, generally only publishes things that are verified fact. There's plenty of information out there on social, how much truth? If you believed social media last week, the Southport attacker was a boat migrant. That's my big issue with it. Musk has made Twitter (not calling it X) ten times worse by removing verification, and letting anyone pay for a blue tick - if you've got enough followers and a tick, you can really cause trouble.

Absolutely awful. Dreadful, dreadful news.

Academy left backs are always twats unfortunately - Mattock, Chilwell, Bassey, Thomas. It's a cursed position for us.

It's times like this that it really shows how much social media has ruined transfer windows. Back in the day you'd get maybe one or two lines in a newspaper, maybe once a week. Even a few years back you might get BBC sport reporting rumours on their website. Now you've got every virgin with a Twitter account lining up to bring you round the clock bullshit in the hopes of building their weird ITK profile. So depressing.

With all that in mind, it's a big yes from me

I mean there's wanting to cash in, and then there's accepting around 40% lower than your stated asking price. If they're doing it to fund player purchases, how does it benefit them to accept less than they actually need??

I don't believe half the stuff that's been written about this lad so far, it's gone from 'he's open to the move and he's agreed terms' to 'he only wants Roma' for apparently no reason. If Roma don't stump up, but we do, and he has the choice of playing in the PL for Leicester, or for Juve's reserves, then it'll be interesting to see what he picks. But there's no way Juve are accepting £20-£25m when they're asking for £30-£35m, even if the player is crazy keen on playing for Roma.

Maybe NOT sell him for 40% below what they want? Jeez.

Hang on, we're supposed to think that Juve will sell 10m under their valuation because the player would prefer to go to Roma?

That brace honestly, still gives me a semi.

If this is a rustle, it's impressive.

Presume we're signing him to play #10? If we're spending this kind of money on a winger, on top of Fatawu, it's ludicrous.

Has it actually been leaked or whatever yet?

I have no idea why he was such a **** after leaving, I think he had a pretty good relationship with the fans - all that stuff about being desperate to beat us was so bizarre.

Wow they look super cool - thanks for all your hard work Mark.

Get rid of him