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Gylfi Sigurdsson

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hackneyfox

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2 hours ago, Gerard said:

 

Maguire is 24 years old and one of Hull's stand out players and very close to an England call up. There is every chance that he will prove to be a good buy.

 

Sigurdsson is 28 next month and none of the big clubs are interested in him. Anyone who spends £50m on him has to be prepared to write that off. If the top clubs don't want him at 28 they probably won't want him at 30. If Everton buy him for £50m they'll almost certainly never sell him and he will have cost them up to £90m for his five years service.

 

At £37m I'd sell Drinkwater as well as he's another one whose value has almost certainly peaked at that price.

It's not all about making money from players, how many others in our team are at their peak price and should be sold by your criteria?

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Bluetintedspecs

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4 hours ago, shen said:

He's more than a 'good player that takes decent free kicks'. But what do you think he's worth in today's market? How is anyone to say who is worth what these days. Drinkwater rumoured to Chelsea for £37m is just as ridiculous.

 

Seriously...Spending £17m on a defender who played the majority of games for a relegated team seems like questionable value. He'll likely never achieve the success Huth and Morgan (who cost less than £5m combined) have here. Few defenders ever will...

It's all gone mad Shen, I do think Maguire although a steep price represents far more value than Gylfi,I actually would think nearer 20 mil would be fair if we value Riyad at 40-50 mil. Yes I think Riyad is twice the player Gylfi is. That's just my opinion.

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7 hours ago, moseeds said:

Buying Sigurdsson even with the sale of Drinkwater would mean Leicester would be one of the biggest net spenders this summer and probably take us in to the top 6 wage bills league. Most likely a dangerous financial position to be in especially with possible legal action on the horizon against the owners. Just saying...

not sure we would be top 6 

the last figures i can find where in March 17

Leicester 10th £66m

 

 

West Ham £80m 7th

Everton £83m 6th

 

 

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jayfox26

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5 hours ago, BlueBrett said:

In what position and in place of who?

 

He's not fit to lace Mahrez's boots and Albrighton offers far more to the team overall than he would imo. We've got Kelechi to play as second striker/No.10 and you wouldn't put him in centre mid in place of Ndidi/James/Iborra/Drinkwater. Even if you could somehow crowbar him onto the pitch we also already have enough guys who can take a decent set-piece so I can't see what he could possibly have to offer us.

Have you ever seen him play? Everyone is entitled to their opinion and i respect your opinion, however if you'd seen him play regularly, you'd know he'd fit perfectly for us. He could either play cm alongside Ndidi or in other games he could play behind Vardy/Iheanacho. You said he wouldn't displace Albrighton and with that you're right as he doesn't play the same position. But he would certainly start ahead of Iborra, James and Drinky. And you say we have players who can take set pieces? How many did we score from last season? I dont know the stats but i guarantee he scored more set pieces than our whole squad combined. On top of his goals and assists he is also very hard working and covers large areas of the pitch. I dont necessarily feel we should spend £50m on him but your rating of him is way off. Oh and he can take corners too. Something  we were absolutely terrible at last season. 

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Thracian

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I'm a bit surprised byou themail negativity regarding SIG

 

We're not just buying a midfielder if it happened but a vital set piece specialist of the kind that's so badly needed to supply people who are likely to benefit from set piece service. 

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shen

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7 hours ago, leicesterlad1989 said:

Vardy was part of a title winning side when Arsenal showed interest. You could understand why they would look at him. Sigurdsson has been the big fish in a small pond at Swansea and relatively speaking a flop at Spurs.

 

Just out of interest what players would you say were worth £30M but would now cost £60M?

 

I'd happily fork out £50+ million on Lacazette or Morata. No way in a million years is Sigurdsson worth £50M, even in todays market. Don't get me wrong, he could be a good fit with us (unsure where he would fit in) but not for that price.

 

You are correct, it's a growing trend and fee's are getting higher, which it's important for a club our size to spend it wisely.

I cannot tell you the prices of players. All I'm going on are prices being bandied about. That lad Liverpool were linked with from Germany, the price Barcelona are rumoured to bid for Coutinho, the prices paid for De Bruyne, Pogba and Salah who all failed in their initial spells here... £50m for Gylfi is high, but in this market I'd expect his price to be between £35-40m for other PL clubs.

 

And I don't think Lacazette would have cost much more than £30m two years ago. 

Morata moved to Juventus for £20m three years ago.

Last year Real took him back, albeit for a previously agreed price of £30m.

Lukaku went for £28m three years ago and £75m now.

 

8 hours ago, Gerard said:

 

Morata

24 years old

63 games for Real Madrid

63 games for Juventus

20 games for Spain

 

Sigurdsson is 28 and plays for Swansea after being sold by Tottenham because he wasn't good enough.

 

I certainly wouldn't object to us buying a player of Morata's age and pedigree for £50m especially if we somehow managed to get him even although Chelsea were interested.

 

Buying a player of Sigurdsson age and pedigree and making him in the top 25 transfers paid of all time is beyond ridiculous and further highlighted by the fact that none of the big clubs are remotely interested. 

 

I'd be interested to hear what you think the price you would be prepared to pay on Sigurdsson, £60m, £70m or even £100m?

 

See above and one of my previous replies to you. All PL prices seem bonkers, but reality is that this league is far and away the richest league in the world. Prices we pay WILL be inflated.

 

I was simply making an off hand comment about Arsenal and Chelsea not even spending 50m+ on players when they have.

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17 hours ago, Gerard said:

 

Morata

24 years old

63 games for Real Madrid

63 games for Juventus

20 games for Spain

 

Sigurdsson is 28 and plays for Swansea after being sold by Tottenham because he wasn't good enough.

 

I certainly wouldn't object to us buying a player of Morata's age and pedigree for £50m especially if we somehow managed to get him even although Chelsea were interested.

 

Buying a player of Sigurdsson age and pedigree and making him in the top 25 transfers paid of all time is beyond ridiculous and further highlighted by the fact that none of the big clubs are remotely interested. 

 

I'd be interested to hear what you think the price you would be prepared to pay on Sigurdsson, £60m, £70m or even £100m?

 

Not saying you are wrong completely or that we should buy him but this was an interesting article...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/dec/02/gylfi-sigurdsson-perfect-tottenham-pochettino

 

Who knows how good he might have been for Spurs had he stayed.  If you look at his record he certainly played OK for them, was definitely not a failure.  I feel that he probably is good enough for a top 6 side and I like him a lot, both as a player and he seems to have a good attitude.  My only issue, apart from the price, is that I am not 100% sure we NEED him now we have signed Iheanacho.  I think a more creative central midfielder (Silva) would be more useful but that has no bearing on my feeling towards Sigurdsson as a player who I do think is very, very good and has proved it for a number of years in the Premier League.

 

Anyway, we will see.

 

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49 minutes ago, foxinsocks said:

I have known this for some time.... they are nickle and diming swansea.... is it kenwright?

Yes I recon you're right. Makes me laugh as they're always making out they're a 'big club' but then act like they've not got a pot to piss in.

 

Everyone in the press are bigging them up this year, yet they've sold their best player. I'm sure we'll finish above them!

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3 minutes ago, Sublime_Coatsworth said:

Yes I recon you're right. Makes me laugh as they're always making out they're a 'big club' but then act like they've not got a pot to piss in.

 

Everyone in the press are bigging them up this year, yet they've sold their best player. I'm sure we'll finish above them!

And trying to sell their most creative! We have the third highest net spend in the Prem. I bet they are in profit on transfers this summer.

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14 hours ago, Thracian said:

We're not just buying a midfielder if it happened but a vital set piece specialist of the kind that's so badly needed to supply people who are likely to benefit from set piece service. 

But if the rest of his general play is subpar, he's no use to us unless we can sub him on every time we have a set piece and then sub him off again

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leicesterlad1989

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1 minute ago, brucey said:

But if the rest of his general play is subpar, he's no use to us unless we can sub him on every time we have a set piece and then sub him off again

Following on from that, we don't appear to have a team that can attack set-pieces very well. I don't think Slimani is necessarily going to be a starter. Maybe now we have Maguire we may score a few more. Sigurdsson got the assists he did because of the players in the Swansea system.

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25 minutes ago, brucey said:

But if the rest of his general play is subpar, he's no use to us unless we can sub him on every time we have a set piece and then sub him off again

But it isn't. Anyone who has seen him play regularly will tell you this guy is a hardworking footballer with good vision and skills.

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