Babylon Posted 24 July 2015 Author Share Posted 24 July 2015 I'm happy our club isn't just throwing money aroundI am to a point, but if you want good players you have to pay to compete with others. If we aren't going to we need to set our sites lower! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 One of the main hopes of Ranieri being in charge after a failed transfer window last summer is that he may help us attract bigger names to sign. I really hope this to be the case. All these years we have never had the money and now we do, nobody wants it who we are interested in playing for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 If you're at Tottenham's level you can compete for these type of players. To get to Tottenham's level you have to sign players like these. It's a vicious circle that's hard to break. I think our best strategy would be to say sign him for £10m and have a £20m minimum release clause so he can showcase his talent in the world's most popular league and if he shows his worth he can go to a big club. It's unlikely he'll want to spend the best years of his career at Leicester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 If you're at Tottenham's level you can compete for these type of players. To get to Tottenham's level you have to sign players like these. It's a vicious circle that's hard to break. I think our best strategy would be to say sign him for £10m and have a £20m minimum release clause so he can showcase his talent in the world's most popular league and if he shows his worth he can go to a big club. It's unlikely he'll want to spend the best years of his career at Leicester. Looking for bargains is the way forward, players who can be sold for more than they're signed for. Mahrez being a perfect example. If he gets sold he'll go for about 30 times what we paid for him. We've not sold a player for decent money for absolutely ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian_marshall Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 If you're at Tottenham's level you can compete for these type of players. To get to Tottenham's level you have to sign players like these. It's a vicious circle that's hard to break. I think our best strategy would be to say sign him for £10m and have a £20m minimum release clause so he can showcase his talent in the world's most popular league and if he shows his worth he can go to a big club. It's unlikely he'll want to spend the best years of his career at Leicester. I think that if you want to elevate your profile and put yourselves on the radar you really do have to splash the cash and make a couple of marquee signings to demonstrate to other players that you mean business. If you think back to Man City's turning point it was when they signed Robinho that people started to take them seriously. Despite the fact that he proved to be useless and a complete waste of money I think that was what they needed at the time to show their ambitious intent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 Looking for bargains is the way forward, players who can be sold for more than they're signed for. Mahrez being a perfect example. If he gets sold he'll go for about 30 times what we paid for him. We've not sold a player for decent money for absolutely ages. The less you pay the more risk there is though. You can't keep expecting to pick up a Mahrez. Even if he turned out to be a decent Championship player he would have been a success and we could have sold him for a couple of million. I'd rather be looking at 5m-10m and they end up being worth 10m-20m. This is the way forward and to try and bed ourselves in the top 10, even some Stoke & Swansea targets are completely out of our range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM1968 Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 If you want a player like this you've got to turn his head with stupid wages and that has its own repercussions in a tight squad. Looks a good prospect but maybe too early in the revolution and would destabilise things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 If you want a player like this you've got to turn his head with stupid wages and that has its own repercussions in a tight squad. Looks a good prospect but maybe too early in the revolution and would destabilise things. Got to risk something at some point as the greater destabiliser would be kicking off on August 8th with our current midfield options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowlattsFox Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 Cardiff managed to get Gary medel. Didn't turn out very well but they got him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueJoe Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 I'm happy our club isn't just throwing money around That's all well and good but the premier league is taking a huge step forward in the money being invested by clubs. The extra TV money means we need to spend bigger to stay competitive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM1968 Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 Yes I agree we have got to take risks but I'd hope they be calculated. He might be a step too far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thracian Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 If we're going to have any chance of attracting people such as Arunguiz we'll have to be much sharper in getting complimentary players signed up, especially given that we don't play in European football as yet and therefore have limited bait to offer. We're talking European-Cup-type players here and from a position where, as it stands, we'll still be among those thought most likely to be fighting to avoid relegation. If we really can't attract people like Kante or Austin then we're defining the word "optimistic" in going for Arunguiz and even in failing with the first two mentioned or anyone of similar calibre, we'd be far better showing the genuineness of our intent by bidding the sort of money that would land them if the player agreed. Anyone can bid prices they know won't win the battle - if happens in auction rooms every day - but to table bids which would win as far as the selling club's concerned would show everyone we mean business and might even make some of our rivals a little nervous of getting involved and getting their fingers burned. Not that I'd be especially happy with a "Europe or Bust" approach. I honestly think that building ever-firmer foundations year by year is the best way forward - and much less risky. But that might reflect my own limitations and the reasons why I've got a solid rather than spectacular business and why people like our owners make millions by not just seeing the broader picture but having the nerve to compete whatever the cost or risk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapero82 Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 He rejected us so not much point talking about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxymcoxy Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 He rejected us so not much point talking about it No the club rejected our bid. We can bid more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les-tah Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 He rejected us so not much point talking about it lol yeah I'm thinking this he's rejected us lock post hahaAnyway on another note not sure whether it's happened yet but is it not time we bit the bullett and started offering people a bit more money to sign for us?? Like I said could of possibly happened.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 No the club rejected our bid. We can bid more. Same journalist cited Aranguiz has no interest in joining us. Shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bamba's Babes Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 Elation to depression within moments of opening this thread. Deano it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickyblueeyes Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 The amount of apparent bids going in for players whereby the player turns it down is slightly worrying. Surely at some point we "feel out" the likelihood of player wanting to sign before making a bid?otherwise we seem to be going down a list hoping one will say yes. It just seems very amateurish. Critical I know - but Watford have made more in roads in 2 months then we've made in two entire transfer windows. But that could also be due to there feeder club. Just frustrated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 This is the sort of player you build your team around... And Marseille wouldn't bid more than 5 million for Kante so they are having a laugh surely.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halfsy Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 Bayer, Marseille and Chelsea reportedly interested - http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/charles-aranguiz-chilean-needed-complete-your-clubs-midfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 Bayer, Marseille and Chelsea reportedly interested - http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/charles-aranguiz-chilean-needed-complete-your-clubs-midfieldWe are best placed, this is getting ridiculous ... so unrealistic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_77 Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 We are best placed, this is getting ridiculous ... so unrealisticHey, we beat Chelsea for Kramaric... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 Elation to depression within moments of opening this thread. Deano it is. The split second when you see the thread and it's three pages with thousands of views and you ask yourself, have we just signed him? Then you open it up and it's the usual bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 The split second when you see the thread and it's three pages with thousands of views and you ask yourself, have we just signed him? Then you open it up and it's the usual bullshit. Welcome to Foxestalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted 24 July 2015 Share Posted 24 July 2015 I hope Chelsea get him. We'll take Ake and Romeu off their hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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