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Gylfi Sigurdsson

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Babylon

Babylon

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55 minutes ago, Red Squirrel said:

Whoooooa there. Unless I'm a in Bobby Ewing dream.........didn't we win the Premier League recently without spending outrageous money??

We're not talking about one off seasons, we're talking about being there over a sustained period.

WigstonWanderer

WigstonWanderer

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3 hours ago, FIF said:

I just think that £50m could be better spent on other players. Smalling, Gibson, an RB could all be had for less than £50m total.

 

Having watched the first half or so of Everton's europa match against Slovakian no-hopers last night, they need him much more than we do. Why Keane has gone there I don't understand. A front line led by Rooney and Williams in a back 3, I can see them flirting with relegation.

For some reason I'd really like that

WigstonWanderer

WigstonWanderer

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2 hours ago, Gerard said:

 

I think £500m would be needed.

 

Even last season as Champions and seeded in the Champions League players who had options still regarded us as a flash in the pan. It needs a few years of sustained success for people to start believing you're a big club as Man City have shown.

 

If the owners were serious about us competing for Champions League qualification season in season out then upgrading the shirt sponsorship would have been an ideal thing to do as we'd need that money sooner rather than later.

 

I'm certainly not knocking our owners because they've been brilliant but if you're really serious at challenging at the higher echelons of the game you need to spend a serious amount of cash like Man City or PSG. Our owners don't have that kind of cash to be able to afford to write that kind of money off without seriously affecting their personal net worth.

By all accounts Chelsea technically owe Abramovich 1billion pounds. I imagine much more would be required now due to the general inflation in costs, though offset to some extent by the increase in TV revenue.

WigstonWanderer

WigstonWanderer

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2 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

The point I was making is to get us top in the top 4, I wasn't talking about maintaining it as that money you talked about could be over the next 20 years.

 

Investment needed to break into the top 4 

Problem is it's no good just breaking into the top 4. We already done that, it's staying there consistently that's difficult. Not impossible (FFP permitting), but requires owners that are prepared to risk losing a lot of cash.

m4DD0gg

m4DD0gg

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2 hours ago, Red Squirrel said:

I am in a dream! I'm sure Vichai committed to spend £180M to get us competing for top 6. 

Problem is 180m does not get you competing in the top 6 these days. One club has just spent 200m on one player and still wont win the champions league.

MPH

MPH

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18 minutes ago, m4DD0gg said:

Problem is 180m does not get you competing in the top 6 these days. One club has just spent 200m on one player and still wont win the champions league.

 

 

 

Not trying to be a boblet put competing for a top 6 prem place and winning champions league are different things....

m4DD0gg

m4DD0gg

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19 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

 

 

Not trying to be a boblet put competing for a top 6 prem place and winning champions league are different things....

What's a boblet? 

4everfox

4everfox

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3 hours ago, cc_star said:

Not necessary, dodgy Russians sit on cash piles, as do the Arabs - The Chinese are shaping up a bit like the Russians, with mining/mineral wealth rather than a couple of shops

 

King Power will lose exclusivity in Thai airports on the next few years, any wealth in Thailand could be confiscated at the drop of a hat

 

Our owners are on record of not being interested in spending big & are happy with just being in top half of the table - The leap to being at the top table on a near permanent basis is what? A billion or so? No chance is that happening here, especially after blowing our chance of a good run near the top after Ranieri's disastrous summer

If that is true then they would probably be best to sell up to someone who will. I want Leicester to be the best team in the world and want the owners to share my ambition no matter how much it costs them. That's what football is all about, being the best. If that's not what you aspire to be then what's the point? 

Livid

Livid

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It takes a Man City/Chelsea level of investment to make that breakthrough. 

 

You get some sustained success and those worldwide revenues start to roll in. Then you're up against it every year to maintain those levels of investment and not fall away.

 

There are two leagues in the PL. really those with their army of Far East shirt buying fans and the rest of us.

Raw Dykes

Raw Dykes

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11 minutes ago, Red Squirrel said:

Same as a Klingon then. "Its crap Jim but not as we know it"

What do Andrex and Captain Kirk have in common?

 

 

 

They both wipe the Klingons off Uranus.

Gerard

Gerard

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56 minutes ago, 4everfox said:

If that is true then they would probably be best to sell up to someone who will. I want Leicester to be the best team in the world and want the owners to share my ambition no matter how much it costs them. That's what football is all about, being the best. If that's not what you aspire to be then what's the point? 

 

We all aspire to being the best but a bit of realism here please. 

 

It's not realistic to demand to be the best when we pay £25m for a striker and PSG pay £200m. I'm sure the owners would happily sell up if Bill Gates wanted to buy us and he was hell bent on making us the best team in the world.

4everfox

4everfox

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Just now, Gerard said:

 

We all aspire to being the best but a bit of realism here please. 

 

It's not realistic to demand to be the best when we pay £25m for a striker and PSG pay £200m. I'm sure the owners would happily sell up if Bill Gates wanted to buy us and he was hell bent on making us the best team in the world.

Of course, I know that the owners simply don't have the financial clout to compete with that and the point I was making is that I simply cannot and will not believe that the owners are happy to only be a top half side. As long as I feel the owners ambition matches my own, I will never want them gone and currently it does so I'm happy. 

Guest Col city fan

Guest Col city fan

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Bollox to the money!

Gerrrrrrriiiiimmmmmin!

 

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Tuna

Tuna

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7 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Bollox to the money!

Gerrrrrrriiiiimmmmmin!

 

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:D

Countryfox

Countryfox

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45 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Bollox to the money!

Gerrrrrrriiiiimmmmmin!

 

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37 minutes ago, Tuna said:

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:D

 

Enough !! ...    I'm trying to eat my breakfast ! ...

Tielemans63

Tielemans63

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17 hours ago, m4DD0gg said:

What's a boblet? 

 

17 hours ago, MPH said:

A Piece of poo that hangs on to your bum hairs

Thought that was called a cherry dangle?

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