Our system detected that your browser is blocking advertisements on our site. Please help support FoxesTalk by disabling any kind of ad blocker while browsing this site. Thank you.
Jump to content
 Share
sylofox

Premier League Thread 2018/19 stuff it in here.

By sylofox, in Leicester City Forum

Recommended Posts

murphy

murphy

Posted
Posted
10 hours ago, StriderHiryu said:

It stinks of going for the paycheck rather than the opportunity, but the player is a good one. Perhaps he wants the opportunity to be guaranteed first team and show what he can do?

 

Regardless of motive, I think it's a good addition to the league. Kind of jealous we missed out, but we have enough players in that position.

Yeah but none anywhere near as good.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Super_horns

Super_horns

Posted
Posted
8 hours ago, gurru991 said:

Jack Wilshere ?

Well even he managed a full season albeit not being selected much.

 

But Carroll just cannot keep for more than 2/3 weeks - and I've seen talk from some that he could have been in the England squad!

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
The Bear

The Bear

Posted
Posted
On 12/07/2018 at 10:53, goose2010 said:

Wolves could be ordered to pay up to 48m for Rui Patricio lol

Sporting have got bob hope. It's just a tactic to try and get as much compensation as possible for him and to scare other clubs off signing the free agents. 

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
MC Prussian

MC Prussian

Posted
Posted

Are Chelsea becoming the new Southampton? Team torn apart by vultures circling around their heads? Costa gone back to Atlético, Batshuayi to Dortmund, Hazard rumoured to leave for Real Madrid, now Kanté to Barcelona. Will Fabregas and Drinkwater want to stay? What about potential offers for Moses and Courtois?

Also, I can't see them clinging onto Caballero for much longer, not after that howler at the World Cup.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
breadandcheese

breadandcheese

Posted
Posted
49 minutes ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

I would have loved to him to stay. But his decision has been justified, another Premier League title & an Fa Cup medal. 

I was only saying it tongue in cheek.

 

Actually, scrub that, if he'd stayed with us we would have won the champions league

Link to comment
Share on other sites
norwichfox

norwichfox

Posted
Posted
14 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

Are Chelsea becoming the new Southampton? Team torn apart by vultures circling around their heads? Costa gone back to Atlético, Batshuayi to Dortmund, Hazard rumoured to leave for Real Madrid, now Kanté to Barcelona. Will Fabregas and Drinkwater want to stay? What about potential offers for Moses and Courtois?

Also, I can't see them clinging onto Caballero for much longer, not after that howler at the World Cup.

Fire sale so Abramovich can get out of any further UK committtments?

Link to comment
Share on other sites
davieG

davieG

Posted
Posted

Posted this in the Mahrez thread but thought it deserved another airing

 

Jonathan Liew Chief Sports Writer - https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/riyad-mahrez-manchester-city-signing-leicester-pep-guardiola-latest-updates-a8445861.html

 

Riyad Mahrez, another talented schmuck scooped up by Manchester City simply for the sake of it
For the Premier League champions, Mahrez is the eighth sports car in your driveway, the gold leaf monogram on your Bottega Veneta suitcase, the extra pepperoni on your triple-pepperoni pizza

A small crowd had gathered outside the main entrance of the Etihad Stadium to watch the unveiling of Riyad Mahrez as a Manchester City player. It consisted of several selfie-hunting kids, roughly the same number of patient parents, a shirtless bloke who wanted Mahrez to autograph his back, and a pair of terrifying-looking furry aliens called Moonchester and Moonbeam dressed neck to toe in box-fresh Nike, who were either City’s official club mascots or the visitations of a particularly lurid cheese nightmare that were visible to me and me alone. It wouldn’t be the first time. For days I’ve been trying to convince friends and family that I saw Harry Maguire playing in central defence for England at the World Cup. “Yes, of course he is,” they replied. Ever get the feeling you’re being gaslit by your loved ones?

 

If the existence of Moonchester and Moonbeam remains largely conjecture, then Mahrez’s arrival at the Etihad feels real enough. A transfer that somehow feels like it has been in gestation since towards the end of the Paleolithic Age – when Mahrez himself was just a glint in Wyscout’s eye – Mahrez to City marks the latest minor milestone in an era where the biggest clubs are not merely giants but predators, not merely bright stars but black holes, with a gravitational field from which not even the world’s 14th-richest club can escape.

 

The first thing to be said here is that City don’t need Mahrez. They might think they do, but they don’t really. They might argue that he fills some essential, gaping flaw in their collective front-five skillset that somehow Raheem Sterling, Bernardo Silva, Leroy Sane, Kevin de Bruyne, Gabriel Jesus, David Silva, Sergio Aguero and Ilkay Gundogan don’t already address. They might even, at a boardroom level, explain how the signing of the club’s first Arabic-speaking superstar (and it’s telling that his first interview with the club website was shown with Arabic subtitles) is a perfect synergy with the brand’s MENA marketing strategy, and produce the graphs to prove it.


But when you boil it down, the only reason City are really signing Mahrez is because they can. It’s the eighth sports car in your driveway, it’s the gold leaf monogram on your Bottega Veneta suitcase, it’s ordering extra pepperoni on your triple-pepperoni pizza. And that’s why, even if this is just one of hundreds of examples of big clubs picking off the best talent from lower down the chain, this transfer feels particularly wanton, particularly gratuitous, the footballing equivalent of raising both middle fingers to the neighbours, just so they can see the rose gold rings you’re wearing on each.

For his part, Mahrez might think he needs City, but even then: not that much. He may try and rationalise it as ambition, upward mobility, self-improvement, the chance to help the team and win trophies, the things your agent tells you to say in press conferences. And there’s no question that the view of Pep Guardiola’s high-pressing amusement park from beyond its gilded gates must look terribly alluring. Presumably this is why he agitated so hard for a move in January: if you can’t beat them, go on strike until the club to which you are contracted for another two years lets you join them.


But whatever he goes on to win at City won’t remotely compare to the scale and the satisfaction of what he achieved at Leicester, where he was a major part of the most unlikely title-winning campaign in the history of English football. His legacy there is already secure. And for all the rancour over his departure, the reaction among Leicester fans has been impressively mature, although his comments about Maguire in his opening press conference (“He deserves to play higher, but Leicester is a good club as well”) may not have been the best start. Mahrez was a god at Leicester. Now he’s just another talented schmuck warming the padded car seats of the superclub subs bench, hoping people notice him.

Of course, you will argue, this is just the way football is these days, and naturally you’re right. Nobody seriously expects a player of Mahrez’s talent to spurn a big move to a big club, a hefty pay rise, the opportunity to work with the most dynamic coach in the world. Nobody seriously expects a club of City’s ambition to pass up an opportunity to cement their dominance of English football, to weaken a rival, to supplement their already enviable array of attacking options. It would just be nice every once in a while if this wasn’t the case. But then, maybe that’s just the cheese talking.

 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Wymsey

Wymsey

Posted
Posted (edited)

Wolves fans should be cautious about how much they've spent considering their presumably high expectations for next season.

Clubs like Brighton and Huddersfield have gained success via minimal spending in recent, whilst others like Aston Villa and Stoke have struggled despite spending a good amount on certain players and thinking it's the only way a team can succeed.

 

Money does help, but only to a certain extent - as other factors such as the quality of coaching, team spirit etc also need to be concentrating to make a successful team.

Fear the money bubble may burst if clubs spend an excessive amount that they don't need really.

 

Feels like a weaker league next season for some reason imo, but think the race for the title and relegation could go to the wire.

Edited by Wymeswold fox
Link to comment
Share on other sites
fuchsntf

fuchsntf

Posted
Posted
3 minutes ago, Wymeswold fox said:

Wolves fans should be cautious about how much they've spent considering their presumably high expectations for next season.

Clubs like Brighton and Huddersfield have gained success via minimal spending in recent, whilst others like Aston Villa and Stoke have struggled despite spending a good amount on certain players and thinking it's the only way a team can succeed.

 

Money does help, but only to a certain extent - as other factors such as the quality of coaching, team spirit etc also need to be concentrating to make a successful team.

Fear the money bubble may burst if clubs spend an excessive amount that they don't need really.

 

Feels like a weaker league next season for some reason imo, but think the race for the title and relegation could go to the wire.

 

Wcup..Post trauma feelings.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...