Adrien Silva - Terms Agreed

[Bert]

5 minutes ago, jonny_wright said:

 

All looks pretty final now.... What a shambles, on Leicester hey!  now we have gotta contend with a championship quality midfield until January

Think you're the only person in the world that classes N'Didi & Iborra as "championship quality"  

[Bert]

3 minutes ago, Swan Lesta said:

That'll be the basis of the appeal - computer error rather than human error...

Didn't work with De Gea to Madrid. 

[jonny_wright]

Just now, Bert said:

Think you're the only person in the world that classes N'Didi & Iborra as "championship quality"  

Well.... Creative midfield at least... who's going to pick a pass and drive it forward when we have got a midfield full of holding players?

[davieG]

As reported by Simon Johnson of the Evening Standard yesterday, Chelsea ended up making a total of four bids - £18m, £25m, £27+5m, and £35m — the last two on Transfer Deadline Day itself in order to finally agree a deal for Danny Drinkwater and then still had to sweat in the final hours of the window as Leicester tried to get their replacement signing, Adrien Silva from Sporting Lisbon over the line.

Everything seemed to finally fall into place just in the nick of time, with Chelsea announcing at 1:30am on September 1st after being granted an extension. Leicester announced Silva several hours later, but now it looks like they’re having problems with his international clearance. The local media are pointing the finger at Portugal while they are reciprocating in kind, but until the two parties sort out the mess with FIFA, the 28-year-old midfielder cannot play. So that’s a bit unlucky for Leicester.

[somebum]

2 minutes ago, Bert said:

Think you're the only person in the world that classes N'Didi & Iborra as "championship quality"  

Think he was referring to us being an injury away from championship midfield 

[mozartfox]

Probably the attachments were to big to send on 1 e-mail slowing down the transmission speed.  We have all been there.

[somebum]

Just now, mozartfox said:

Probably the attachments were to big to send on 1 e-mail slowing down the transmission speed.  We have all been there.

It's all done by fax machine isn't it

[sly1]

Missed out on silva by 16 seconds to late . unbelievable geoff

[The Guvnor]

What a monumental fcuk up, the individuals responsible should be subjected to the 'Walk of Shame' Game of Thrones style.

[Wrighty22]

Absolute joke. We had all summer, we wanted him last summer. Why wait until the last day, and still miss the deadline. What a shambles. RUDKIN OUT! 

[CockneyFox]

Not sure Rudkin and co. can be fully blamed here, there are at least two parties involved in any negotiation and Sporting may well have been playing a game of brinksmanship to secure the best price for the player so close to the deadline.

 

In short we don't know nearly enough about what happens behind the scenes to apportion blame anywhere, and I doubt we ever will...

[somebum]

17 hours ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

Think you're the only person enjoying this 'hilarious joke'. Sad.

Clearly not a joke now is it 'mate'

[Fox 4 Life]

Silva will be buzzing in a world cup year to have 4 months off

[Stadt]

Miss, I've not done my homework because the printer broke.

[mozartfox]

9 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

ROFL!!! This is incredible! 

Briillant.  I hope Vichai clocks this!

[whitlock]

Where does this leave Silva?

 

He hasn't officially left Sporting has he, will he not just play there until January?

[Guest]

14 minutes ago, jonny_wright said:

 

All looks pretty final now.... What a shambles, on Leicester hey!  now we have gotta contend with a championship quality midfield until January

It does and it doesn't, we own the player, he signed with us in time, we have named him in the 25 man squad, yet he can't play....Surely FIFA should be sticking to their guns regarding transfers not player registration....I can personally see FIFA backing down but in a few months during the appeal process.

[dbtcity]

 

[Buzzell]

14 fvcking seconds?! Fvck me. 

[EnderbyFox]

1 minute ago, whitlock said:

Where does this leave Silva?

 

He hasn't officially left Sporting has he, will he not just play there until January?

He's our player, just wasn't registered to play in time if i'm understanding correctly?

 

Feel for Silva to be honest, finally gets the move that should've happened last season but might have to wait 4 months to play. 

 

[Nick]

51 minutes ago, shen said:

http://captiongenerator.com/679152/Meeting-in-the-LCFC-Chairmans-office

 

[HighPeakFox]

14 minutes ago, somebum said:

I think all you appeasers to Rudkin are seriously missing the point... which is why the **** did we leave it til last minute dot com to sign the Cnut ? All this shit the guy only cost 22m why not bring him in regardless of the DD situation we needed cover for DD anyway it's just a cop out to say oh well we were waiting for the DD situation before we could do owt? It's complete incompetence by the club, disgrace

You make a fair point, but why do you refer to Silva as a Cnut?

[somebum]

2 minutes ago, dbtcity said:

 

We are all wondering how they could be so petty over 13 seconds or whatever it is but the bottom line is wtf did we leave it until the final seconds before the deadline to send the paperwork through? Rudkin is a ****ing clown

[somebum]

Just now, HighPeakFox said:

You make a fair point, but why do you refer to Silva as a Cnut?

He isn't just a figure of speech .. guess I'm annoyed 

[Wortho]

Apparently the papers arrived 14 seconds late!!

I don't know what happens now. I can't imagine a Neymar transfer being treated like this.