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Big difference between giving that to a manager rather than a player though. Someone's just gambled on him being another Chilwell and tried to ensure we get a payday. We need to offload him to L1 like Brunt,get a nominal fee and move on.

Foxes Talk in a nutshell 😆 This all depends on the length of the deal. If he takes a 2 year extension we offload him next summer for a relatively small fee. If we give him a 3 or 4 year deal like Vestergaard we're hanging on to an injury prone CDM whose best games may already be behind him.

This is why so little transfer activity happens in Italy these days and why they bring through a lot of homegrown talent even in the top clubs. They'll take players on loan from elsewhere in Europe but as soon as they get a valuation for a permanent deal they back out. Similarly some of the fees discussed for players they want to sell are ridiculously high.

Yeah but it's fine doing it when it's 18 year olds coming through the academy. You show faith early, tie him down to a decent contract and ensure he's not snapped up on the cheap. Occasionally, it doesn't work out and they end up seeing their careers out in the lower leagues like Mattock and Sheehan. There would be more of an issue if we gave him a 2 year deal and he left on a free like so many others last summer.

You actually missed the point here. Someone said Adrien Silva and that was my reply. It's not a last minute deal, it's two months away but feel free to bookmark this reply and ridicule me on Sept 1st

And? This has been an issue at the club for 3 or 4 years now. We can't shift players because of wages. Bertrand, Vesty, Praet, Soumare etc. The last two are classics of being at a European club, doing well but they won't touch the wages. He asks for 80k, they say no, discussion over. Probably had the same discussion with half a dozen clubs. Nacho's got the same agent, probably had the same issue getting a club. My point is, you can't blame him for asking. If they all say no he takes whatever we're offering at a guess, just standard football stuff

Maybe he's this year's redemption player. It's unlikely but no more so than Nacho or Vesty or Simon Grayson (ask your grandad)

We have no idea what, if anything, was offered elsewhere. That's just a football fan mentality where you imagine a rosy world of players in love with the club as much as you are, in reality every single one of them is after a better deal elsewhere. It's the old addage that we'd all do the same in our own jobs. If you work for Pepsi and Coke offer to double your money, you go work for Coke. Personally, I only want Wilf here if he's a) injury free and b) committed. Even last season he missed two big chunks with injury and its always an unspecified injury with an unspecified time frame.

Blue & White Kop definitely in that bracket

I understand Rudkin is incompetent but it's only just July. You'd think we could get it over the line in 8 weeks 😆 We seem to have this thing with player announcements and marketing like we need two days to prepare a video montage for the next guy or Amazon haven't delivered a set of Uno cards for the interview or whatever.

TBH when I see fans heading for the exits at 79 mins middle management making poorly-thought out decisions and the club ripping off fans with a £25 tax, I don't understand it either. But when you see the guy celebrating in the corner with fans at the end of games and asking players to sleep over at Seagrave for team bonding it's tough to think he didn't understand the club somehow or that he was not a big part of the success here. If you didn't like him or his style fair enough but there's no need to make stuff up

It's the people hiring those useless plebs. Just as it's the people advising Top. The board of directors. Aim your criticisms at not just the DOF or Sporting Director, whatever he is but the strategy diector, the finance director, the "general counsel" (Whatever TF that is). These are the people hiring the middle management and advising the owner. Top knows jack all about running a club. The useless plebs are being hired specifically for the fact they aren't football people or fans. That's a choice. And as a result poor decisions are being made.

Looks like an obituary announcement 😆

On the other hand he has a Fofana-esque season and goes for £60m next summer making the £15m look like chicken feed

He's 6 years younger than Vardy tbf We've signed him and Okoli (tbc) that's hardly scattergun and given our financial position we were never going to be fishing in the Champions League pond.

I like it. No frills, simplicity. White pinstripe away shirt for Albrighton 2017 vibes please.

The sponsor doesn't matter. Not a fan of the pacman logo, it's just asking for a meme-fest but I have no more of an issue with a gaming company sponsoring us than I did Benson & Hedges being on F1 cars or at The Crucible. If we were sponsored by Coke, it would be criticised for encouraging obesity, if it was Microsoft then there would be a Bill Gates backlash.

Bit early for this. There's going to be at least 3 or 4 new players yet. No point guessing til at least the week before the season.

Foxes Talk: At least the sponsor will never be worse than SpongeBob LCFC: hold my beer

Yeah they all said that with Doyle too and then went all weepy when he signed with us

I watched two or three people on title day going up & down the stands with them. The only benefit is that it might get a few off the concourses earlier and get an atmosphere going before 2.55 although I don't think our lot can be compared to the Turks or Albanians when it comes to behaviour in the stands.

The panic over kits every pre-season has surpassed the panic over new signings.Which is one massive reason to go back to 2 years per kit cycle. A few basic things always hold this up - they need players back in the country to model it for the various promos online and club shop flashes. A fair few are still on holiday or at tournaments or subject to bids from other clubs - the stock needs to be available - not always the case as we've found in recent years - we need a sponsor which isn't always straightforward - West Ham, Chelsea and Forest have started seasons in recent years without one. If you bear in mind we can't even supply working t-shirt cannons to Debbie, Sally and Tina at half time you can see how difficult co-ordinating those 3 things will be for our ever-incompetent middle management.

Almost forgotten him since Nelson came through. Undisclosed must mean there's some sort of fee but at least we're moving players on.

Fair play to him. It's a buyers market in June so it's a fair fee for a player with no caps.

It was all Enzo I think, the transfer fiasco was one of the "things he didn't like" and probably doesn't interest anyone who's come in since. But may be worth a short term deal on a free.