Bench costing far more than starting eleven ?

[RODNEY FERNIO]

Something not quite right here.

Looks like Slim, Nacho , Mendy , Musa , Iborra are not likely to be starters that must be about £100 million pounds worth.

Not to mention money spent on the likes of Benny , Polish lad on loan , Amartey, Ulloa etc etc.

Compare that to the cost of the current starting eleven.

Bizarre situation

[Sampson]

Not really. Truth is we've just spent horrifically badly past couple of seasons and not been able to properly replace an ageing first team. There's good reason why most of those players are on the bench and are worth nowhere near what we paid for them.

[HighPeakFox]

Obsession with money. Next!

[AKCJ]

But if someone wanted to buy our players the starting 11 would cost more than the bench players.

[Koke]

11 minutes ago, RODNEY FERNIO said:

Something not quite right here.

Looks like Slim, Nacho , Mendy , Musa , Iborra are not likely to be starters that must be about £100 million pounds worth.

Not to mention money spent on the likes of Benny , Polish lad on loan , Amartey, Ulloa etc etc.

Compare that to the cost of the current starting eleven.

Bizarre situation

 

That's because our 2016 spending were atrocious. We've done well to try and rectify it with signings of Ndidi, Maguire, Iborra and Iheanacho. The first 2 are already starters and the latter 2 will be in due time I predict. 

[Bert]

What you are completely forgetting is that a lot of these players were brought when we were in the championship. Their values now are astronomical compared to back then. 

 

Mahrez, Vardy, Schmeichel, Drinkwater all signed for no more then £4m between them would easily command more money than our bench. 

[49er]

 I appreciate that you can't always get in right in terms of the players that are signed, but just look at who we could have had last year:

 

Wanyama - £11m - instead of Mendy

Redmond - £11m - instead of Musa

Dembele (Fulham) - ? - instead of Slimani

Allen - £13m - instead of Mendy

Gueye - £7m - instead of Mendy

Mawson - £5m - instead of Hernandez

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

You can never tell who's going to be a success, and once you've won the league you're paying more for everyone

 

Vardy £1m

Drinky £400k

Mahrez £370k

Albrighton free

 

Doesn't mean they're still worth these prices.

 

Also no idea why you're questioning Iheanacho, Mendy and Iborra being benched, it's well documented by the club that they are returning from injuries. If you rush them back to full appearances you risk aggravating these injuries and putting them out for even longer

 

 

[weller54]

Expensive Bench.... 

[Finnegan]

6 hours ago, RODNEY FERNIO said:

Something not quite right here.

Looks like Slim, Nacho , Mendy , Musa , Iborra are not likely to be starters that must be about £100 million pounds worth.

Not to mention money spent on the likes of Benny , Polish lad on loan , Amartey, Ulloa etc etc.

Compare that to the cost of the current starting eleven.

Bizarre situation

 

Nacho will be a starter. 

 

Once he's fit I think we'll only play Okazaki in games we expect to be under the kosh. 

[Monsell1976]

24 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Nacho will be a starter. 

 

Once he's fit I think we'll only play Okazaki in games we expect to be under the kosh. 

?

[weller54]

1 hour ago, Finnegan said:

 

Nacho will be a starter. 

 

Once he's fit I think we'll only play Okazaki in games we expect to be under the kosh. 

That's pretty much every away game then? 

[ScouseFox]

1 hour ago, Finnegan said:

 

Nacho will be a starter. 

 

Once he's fit I think we'll only play Okazaki in games we expect to be under the kosh. 

literally every game then 

[Finnegan]

7 hours ago, ScouseFox said:

literally every game then 

 

Probably. 

 

I really hope the Brighton game is an indication that we're willing to actually hold on to the ball a bit more this year. Some how they still managed to have over half the ball but in the first half at least we went through phases if linking thirty odd passes quite patiently. Much better. 

[DatfoxesKid23]

13 hours ago, 49er said:

 I appreciate that you can't always get in right in terms of the players that are signed, but just look at who we could have had last year:

 

Wanyama - £11m - instead of Mendy

Redmond - £11m - instead of Musa

Dembele (Fulham) - ? - instead of Slimani

Allen - £13m - instead of Mendy

Gueye - £7m - instead of Mendy

Mawson - £5m - instead of Hernandez

Mendy at the time looked to be the most close to kante ability wise

[Bayfox]

The only thing odd with this situation is just highlights how much money we spent and didn't actually improve the starting 11.

 

Hopefully, wilf, harry and nacho start to change that situation, but it does show our track record was good for a number of years, then someone went a bit mental with the bank balance for a window, so much money wasted, for whatever reason on too many players that without wanting to start a whole debate over, we have enough of those, just aren't good enough or don't fit the way we play.

[Fox92]

16 hours ago, 49er said:

 I appreciate that you can't always get in right in terms of the players that are signed, but just look at who we could have had last year:

 

Wanyama - £11m - instead of Mendy

Redmond - £11m - instead of Musa

Dembele (Fulham) - ? - instead of Slimani

Allen - £13m - instead of Mendy

Gueye - £7m - instead of Mendy

Mawson - £5m - instead of Hernandez

I do agree.

 

Apart from Wanyama, he always had his eyes set on Spurs. It was only a matter of time.

 

Ranieri just seemed to want Mendy. Of course he even wanted him ahead of Kante. Why can't he take him back to France now.

[Captain...]

The only thing it really highlights is how transfer fees increase exponentially with time and success, and our best players are, unsurprisingly, the ones that won the league.

 

(also we have had a few injuries to our new signings delaying their impact on out first 11)

[NotTheMarketLeader]

8 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

Probably. 

 

I really hope the Brighton game is an indication that we're willing to actually hold on to the ball a bit more this year. Some how they still managed to have over half the ball but in the first half at least we went through phases if linking thirty odd passes quite patiently. Much better. 

Was it better though?

 

Passing the ball around and keeping possession against a team you are better than, sounds alright but we don't score goals like that. For me that second half was us having possession and killing the game rather than doing it on the front foot and trying to score more goals. I admit to finding that game a total bore fest. 

 

We have to keep the ball more to a certain extent, but it's what you do with that counts, not how many passes you string together, as we of all people know all too well. 

[Daggers]

30 minutes ago, pmcla26 said:

I have a friend who is an aston villa fan who said at the end of that season we should sign Gueye, I watched him a few times and hoped we would but unfortunately never happened :/ 

Thracian wouldn't be keen.

[Kitchandro]

On 29/08/2017 at 07:13, DatfoxesKid23 said:

Mendy at the time looked to be the most close to kante ability wise

No he didn't, his tackling and interception stats weren't even in the same ball park.

 

He was never even signed to be a Kante replacement so you'd have to question why he was signed at all.

[Jimmy]

On 28/08/2017 at 15:43, RODNEY FERNIO said:

Something not quite right here.

Looks like Slim, Nacho , Mendy , Musa , Iborra are not likely to be starters that must be about £100 million pounds worth.

Not to mention money spent on the likes of Benny , Polish lad on loan , Amartey, Ulloa etc etc.

Compare that to the cost of the current starting eleven.

Bizarre situation

we have a manager that is obsessed with the system and team of 2 years ago, new players aren't given a chance to break into that side