Leicester open for business

[HankMarvin]

Leicester open for business in January transfer window with Leonardo Ulloa and more up for grabs

 

Claudio Ranieri is happy to start the January sales early at Leicester.

Striker Leonardo Ulloa, 30, is wanted by Sunderland and Swansea to help their fight against relegation.

West Brom failed with a £10million bid for utility man Jeffrey Schlupp, 23, in the summer but are still keen.

Little-used Poland midfielder Bartosz Kapustka, 19, has interest from clubs in Europe.

Ranieri declared: “I don’t like to maintain players who are unhappy.”

Midfielder Wilfred Ndidi, 19, is joining the Foxes for £15m in January from Belgian side Genk.

How can Leicester win their Champions League tie if they have been so poor in the Prem

[Beechey]

We should be very healthy financially (was it only a £20m net spend in all of last season?), so I suspect 2 or 3 signings in January, then splashing some real cash in the Summer. I don't think we need another winger (we appear to be getting one), but it might be to replace Schlupp who I would not be surprised to see go. We just need more players that are comfortable with the ball in midfield. Too many hectic hoofing forwards.

[STUHILL]

21 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Leicester open for business in January transfer window with Leonardo Ulloa and more up for grabs

 

Claudio Ranieri is happy to start the January sales early at Leicester.

Striker Leonardo Ulloa, 30, is wanted by Sunderland and Swansea to help their fight against relegation.

West Brom failed with a £10million bid for utility man Jeffrey Schlupp, 23, in the summer but are still keen.

Little-used Poland midfielder Bartosz Kapustka, 19, has interest from clubs in Europe.

Ranieri declared: “I don’t like to maintain players who are unhappy.”

Midfielder Wilfred Ndidi, 19, is joining the Foxes for £15m in January from Belgian side Genk.

How can Leicester win their Champions League tie if they have been so poor in the Prem

This really bugs me. He needs to start learning how to maintain unhappy players because no player is happy sitting on the bench, but we need a full squad and hopefully one full of quality too. He can't keep saying if players want to leave, they can. It is naive and places too much power in the player's hands, knowing that if they sulk at not starting every game, they can potentially push through a transfer due to Claudio wanting everyone happy!

They are under contract and must accept that they can not always start or be involved and there is no easy way out for them, other than working harder in training and taking any chance they can get to force themselves into the team. Give player's an easy way out, and most will probably take it or at least angle for it. 

I am sure it is mostly just words from Claudio, as the evidence suggests otherwise, with only Kante moving due to a release clause and players like Schlupp and Ulloa who wanted to move, essentially being denied that move in the summer. I just wish he would stop declaring it all the time!

[VLC86]

14 minutes ago, STUHILL said:

This really bugs me. He needs to start learning how to maintain unhappy players.

Agreed, lets completely ignore the part where he made us premier league champions by doing exactly that.

[STUHILL]

57 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

Agreed, lets completely ignore the part where he made us premier league champions by doing exactly that.

Lot easier when you are winning every week and the team picks itself from a small squad of players. When the team is performing badly and he has unhappy players who feel they should be starting due to the favoured 11 losing most weeks, then yes he has a bigger job on his hands keeping players focussed on their future with Leicester and not announcing that unhappy players have his blessing to leave. 

[HoustonFox]

3 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

Leicester open for business in January transfer window with Leonardo Ulloa and more up for grabs

 

Claudio Ranieri is happy to start the January sales early at Leicester.

Striker Leonardo Ulloa, 30, is wanted by Sunderland and Swansea to help their fight against relegation.

West Brom failed with a £10million bid for utility man Jeffrey Schlupp, 23, in the summer but are still keen.

Little-used Poland midfielder Bartosz Kapustka, 19, has interest from clubs in Europe.

Ranieri declared: “I don’t like to maintain players who are unhappy.”

Midfielder Wilfred Ndidi, 19, is joining the Foxes for £15m in January from Belgian side Genk.

How can Leicester win their Champions League tie if they have been so poor in the Prem

Where is this from? Or did you just write it? If so, why is the last line a trailing sentence?! 

[MC Prussian]

33 minutes ago, HoustonFox said:

Where is this from? Or did you just write it? If so, why is the last line a trailing sentence?! 

Probably a news site, such as NewsNow.

[NewEnglandFox]

Just now, MC Prussian said:

Probably a news site, such as NewsNow.

Mirror

[Nick]

23 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

Probably a news site, such as NewsNow.

They ceased to be a news site when they started endorsing sites like first4lcfc.

[davieG]

 

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/56015083.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

 

[STUHILL]

5 minutes ago, davieG said:

 

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/56015083.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

 

Really good words spoken from Claudio. Puts into context his words about allowing unhappy players to leave. He is saying all the right things there, I just wish we could see some more fight on the pitch. No good having these warriors if we can't use them now and have to wait for near the end of the battle for them to start reacting!

[MC Prussian]

21 minutes ago, STUHILL said:

Really good words spoken from Claudio. Puts into context his words about allowing unhappy players to leave. He is saying all the right things there, I just wish we could see some more fight on the pitch. No good having these warriors if we can't use them now and have to wait for near the end of the battle for them to start reacting!

Quote

"My players are working very well in the training session. I'm not worried. We are in battle and I have very good warriors." 

I really like Claudio Ranieri, but he's somewhat testing my patience.

 

He's using positive language despite the fact that he's clearly unhappy. Doesn't sit too well with me. Working well in training is one thing - it's what you do on the pitch comes matchday what matters.

[lgfualol]

Ranieri needs to assert dominance again. Needs to batter one of the players if they're moaning. 

 

Schlupp can go though. Waste of space. 

[Tuna]

7 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

Leicester open for business in January transfer window with Leonardo Ulloa and more up for grabs

 

Claudio Ranieri is happy to start the January sales early at Leicester.

Striker Leonardo Ulloa, 30, is wanted by Sunderland and Swansea to help their fight against relegation.

West Brom failed with a £10million bid for utility man Jeffrey Schlupp, 23, in the summer but are still keen.

Little-used Poland midfielder Bartosz Kapustka, 19, has interest from clubs in Europe.

Ranieri declared: “I don’t like to maintain players who are unhappy.”

Midfielder Wilfred Ndidi, 19, is joining the Foxes for £15m in January from Belgian side Genk.

How can Leicester win their Champions League tie if they have been so poor in the Prem

Never used more like it!

[Tanya]

1 hour ago, lgfualol said:

Ranieri needs to assert dominance again. Needs to batter one of the players if they're moaning. 

 

Schlupp can go though. Waste of space. 

I really, really hope we never see this plonker in a LCFC shirt again.

[Long Eaton Fox]

The problem with the players that may be leaving is that they are not good enough to seriously challenge for a first team spot. This means that we cannot rotate the team selection and the 1st team almost picks itself hence leading to tired and lethargic displays. Champions league games are seen by the players as an exciting bonus but leaves them drained for the following premier league games.

 

All of the recently purchased players are not good enough to make any difference(Slimani excepted) The way I see it is that players should be bought to fight for a 1st team spot not just to fill the squad. Are they investments for the future or just bad buys? (Gray, Kapustka, Musa, Hernandes, Mendy

[Captain...]

14 hours ago, STUHILL said:

This really bugs me. He needs to start learning how to maintain unhappy players because no player is happy sitting on the bench, but we need a full squad and hopefully one full of quality too. He can't keep saying if players want to leave, they can. It is naive and places too much power in the player's hands, knowing that if they sulk at not starting every game, they can potentially push through a transfer due to Claudio wanting everyone happy!

They are under contract and must accept that they can not always start or be involved and there is no easy way out for them, other than working harder in training and taking any chance they can get to force themselves into the team. Give player's an easy way out, and most will probably take it or at least angle for it. 

I am sure it is mostly just words from Claudio, as the evidence suggests otherwise, with only Kante moving due to a release clause and players like Schlupp and Ulloa who wanted to move, essentially being denied that move in the summer. I just wish he would stop declaring it all the time!

You're reading too much into it, the manager has very little control over whether a player goes or not, he can try and convince them to stay and give them more game time, but if the right bid comes in and the player wants to go the club will sell and there is nothing Ranieri can do about it.

 

I would rather he was happy for them to leave than to cause an issue in the dressing room or in the press and get into a fight with the board over sales.

[Guest]

So we lose Kaputska in Jan, Mahrez goes in summer. Gray goes either in Jan or summer and we are left with Albrighton

[sylofox]

I understand a need to move players on. Freeing up wages the main reason. But Ulloa to blunderland or Swansea. Right now we are in a battle with them.

 

That's a bad idea for me. That and with slim gone in January we could end up short.

[sdb]

Leo can't go before late Jan, and is worth more now than we bought him for. 

 

A regularly starting Schlupp is worth over £10mill in today's climate. 

 

Kaputska surely cant go permanently?! What a mess that'd look. 

 

 

[UPinCarolina]

Leonardo Ulloa has been a tidy piece of business and a good servant to the club, hasn't he?

[turtmcfly]

6 hours ago, Shaneb said:

So we lose Kaputska in Jan, Mahrez goes in summer. Gray goes either in Jan or summer and we are left with Albrighton

Three assumptions, followed by another even bigger one - that if they did all leave we wouldn't spend any of the 60+ million on replacements. I think we might...

[EnglishOxide]

I know Ranieris track record of signings so far has been poor, but at Monaco he brought and developed Falcao, Martial, Moutinho, James Rodriguez, etc.

 

I'm happy to give him January and the summer to shake up the squad now that he's done his bit and shown loyalty even to our squad players for their efforts last season. The likes of Ulloa and Schluup have had their chances to impress and now aren't worth the money we pay them as we know they can't improve.

[Guest]

11 hours ago, turtmcfly said:

Three assumptions, followed by another even bigger one - that if they did all leave we wouldn't spend any of the 60+ million on replacements. I think we might...

I was merely going on rumors and gossip on here