davieG Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 Leicester City have promised to return for Portugal international and Sporting Lisbon captain Adrien Silva in the January transfer window, according to new reports. The respected Diario de Noticias is reporting that Sporting, who vetoed a deal on transfer deadline day last week, may be prepared to do a deal in the new year. City apparently offered more than £20million (25m euros) plus £4m (5m euros) in add-ons last week, but the Lisbon club were unwilling to accept anything less than the total £37.5m (45m euros) to buy out the 27-year-old's contract. There was also a complication with the deal last week because Sporting only own 80 per cent of the midfielder's contract, with the remaining 20 per cent owned by an outside funding body. It is feared, say the Portuguese media outlet, that this arrangement may also be a problem should the transfer talks resume for a possible January bid. City boss Claudio Ranieri is known to be keen on Silva, who was part of Portugal's Euro 2016-winning squad, and the player himself is keen on the move. image: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276308/binaries/Silvaaction.jpg Adrien Silva in action for Sporting Lisbon In fact, in the days before transfer deadline day he was widely quoted confirming a move to the King Power Stadium saying: "After the past 15 years at Sporting, this opportunity is something exceptional for me and can allow me to express and impose myself in another championship, and also to evolve in the Premier League, which is a stunning league." It is believed that Sporting president Bruno de Carvalho blocked the move with deals going through in August for both the club's star striker Islam Slimani, who of course moved to City in a £30m deal, and Joao Mario to Inter Milan, losing his captain would have been a step too far. However, Sporting did re-sign a central midfielder, Elias from Corinthians, just before the window closed and that may ease any possible Silva deal in January. If Silva was to move to City, it is reported that he would quadruple his wages to more than €4m (£3.4m) a year. Leicester, of course, have a history of going back in following transfer windows for players, as deals for Ahmed Musa, Papy Mendy and Islam Slimani have all shown. All had been targeted by City in previous windows. Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/8203-leicester-city-transfer-rumours-new-25m-bid-for-silva-is-expected-in-january/story-29690326-detail/story.html?#Lv8Dy9WRiOcWKTIq.99
MC Prussian Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 24 minutes ago, StanSP said: who's promised who? I see no official quotes. It's the Mercury, that's standard procedure to lure you with a tasty headline, only to let you down with the article itself.
Dan Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 Wondered how long it would be before Your Dad ended up filling the thread up with puns
Bayfox Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 26 minutes ago, weller54 said: Every claudio has a Silva lining... Fixed
davieG Posted 6 September 2016 Author Posted 6 September 2016 56 minutes ago, StanSP said: who's promised who? I see no official quotes. Does any transfer have official lcfc quotes before it's concluded. It's not stopped all the other ones being written about. Have lcfc even said we tried to sign him in the last window?
Collymore Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 Unsettle player and then go in for the kill at a later date. #Ruthless
thegaffa Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 59 minutes ago, Larry_LCFC said: I heard it was a pinky promise. Done deal then, can't back out of a pinky promise.
MarriedaLeicesterGirl Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 He will be cup tied, if it's true. That would affect any bid we would be willing to make.
SheppyFox Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 Isn't that when he's ineligible to play UCL for anyone but sporting?
Bluetintedspecs Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 January can't come soon enough, the thoughts of that thread
lgfualol Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 2 hours ago, MC Prussian said: It's the Mercury, that's standard procedure to lure you with a tasty headline, only to let you down with the article itself. And if you havent got adblock they absolutely bombard you with ads.
Bluearmyfox28 Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 Even though there is no official quotes I think this will happen. The only reason why this didn't happen is because Sporting didn't have enough time to bring in a like for like replacement. Therefore they signed some young lad with a lot of promise. They hope that in 6 months time he shoulder of gained enough experience of the league & should be ready to step up into Adrien's role. Fingers crossed!
sylofox Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 Not claiming to be itk. But I did put in the Silva thread talks ongoing. And if they are out of the CL he is ours in jan. But no one said anything when I said we were after a Chelsea kid the a week later we got one lol.
sylofox Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 1 hour ago, Bluearmyfox28 said: Even though there is no official quotes I think this will happen. The only reason why this didn't happen is because Sporting didn't have enough time to bring in a like for like replacement. Therefore they signed some young lad with a lot of promise. They hope that in 6 months time he shoulder of gained enough experience of the league & should be ready to step up into Adrien's role. Fingers crossed! if they are waiting 6 month's we will not get Silva in January
theessexfox Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 No wonder he wanted to move if he's on about 17k a week at the moment.
Isopen Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 Amartey at the African Nations (comp is Jan 14th to Feb 5th), so needs to be early Jan based on Amartey playing as he did vs Swansea
sylofox Posted 6 September 2016 Posted 6 September 2016 The only reason we did not get him was we moved to late that left them asking stupid money. He wants out and wants to come to us. They know that and now have till jan to sort it. He has a verbal agreement to leave. Had we moved 2 weeks earlier he would be here now.
TJB-fox Posted 7 September 2016 Posted 7 September 2016 1 hour ago, sylofox said: Not claiming to be itk. But I did put in the Silva thread talks ongoing. And if they are out of the CL he is ours in jan. But no one said anything when I said we were after a Chelsea kid the a week later we got one lol. Well done you hunny xx
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