ZeGuy Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 1 minute ago, HesNotGudjonsonn2 said: Crap to this. I wanted to leave when Taylor was manager, did I? No, so Slimani can man up also and hope for a greater and richer future. lol, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphy Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 1 hour ago, Ian Nacho said: The brass necks on Sporting! Take our trousers down for £29 million and then try to take him back for free!!! Rudkin should send them a dirty protest in the post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark 'expert' Lawrenson Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 I liked him when he played, but he always seemed to be injured, shame but he will go down as an expensive flop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 15 minutes ago, murphy said: The brass necks on Sporting! Take our trousers down for £29 million and then try to take him back for free!!! Rudkin should send them a dirty protest in the post! What pisses me off is they know exactly what they'd be buying but want a year's loan instead. Either buy him or pay a huge loan fee or mandatory buy after a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 It really is one of the most myopic transfers I can remember. What on earth were we thinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 On 22/05/2018 at 17:13, UpTheLeagueFox said: Ranieri wanted to push the boat out on Slimani and we ended up paying about double what he was probably worth. Love Claudio but blimey he didn't half tarnish his legacy in that second season with this and many other things. 5 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said: It really is one of the most myopic transfers I can remember. What on earth were we thinking? According to Uptheleaguefox it appears Ranieri wanted him and sod the cost and I suppose after the season we just had he was obliged. It was doomed to failure from the start, he was never going to replace Vardy and he was no No10. I think we probably got him to replace Okazaki as he was a grafter who could score goals and was a threat in the air but it soon became apparent that he wasn't a No10 and couldn't play alongside Vardy. Awful business by us but Slimani was a casualty in this hair brained thinking too. It has the hallmarks of an impulse buy as IIRC he had a release clause that was about £6m cheaper a few weeks before which we never triggered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col city fan Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 8 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said: It really is one of the most myopic transfers I can remember. What on earth were we thinking? I really have no idea. WE can say we were excited by the signing, but WE aren’t scouts. We don’t work full time for a Premiership football club and get paid very well, to scout players. God knows what the scouting team were doing over the summer after we won the league. In other walks of life, paying the sums of money we did for the rubbish we signed would lead to serious questions being asked. But football is it’s own, closed shop. Stuff is generally kept under wraps and the real issues rarely come out publically. All we can say now is that we spent the arse end of 60 million pounds on Musa, Mendy and Slim and had our pants well and truly pulled down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxyPalace.com Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 NO LOAN. We will get lumbered with a 30 year old, get rid now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post lifted*fox Posted 24 May 2018 Popular Post Share Posted 24 May 2018 i feel bad for Slimani tbh. we bought him here with zero intention of playing him in the way he needs to be played. he's shown some class moments in his time here but was never going to get a prolonged run in the side. injury then added to his woes. another decent but badly scouted player who has wasted a chunk of his career here. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 29 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said: It really is one of the most myopic transfers I can remember. What on earth were we thinking? Remember all the posters who wanted us to sign him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc sheff Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 he gets an awful amount of shet for a player that never got a sustained run in the side, I agree it wasn't the right signing for us but he could have been of use at other teams for definite, Btec Alan shearer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 1 hour ago, Gerard said: According to Uptheleaguefox it appears Ranieri wanted him and sod the cost and I suppose after the season we just had he was obliged. It was doomed to failure from the start, he was never going to replace Vardy and he was no No10. I think we probably got him to replace Okazaki as he was a grafter who could score goals and was a threat in the air but it soon became apparent that he wasn't a No10 and couldn't play alongside Vardy. Awful business by us but Slimani was a casualty in this hair brained thinking too. It has the hallmarks of an impulse buy as IIRC he had a release clause that was about £6m cheaper a few weeks before which we never triggered. Kind of just adds to the logic that Ranieri had no idea how to build for the long term. I wouldn't ever trade what he did obviously but he's no long-term option for anybody with thinking like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldeagle Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 (edited) I will really miss how he comes on as a sub when we’re losing and are building up pressure on our opponents and him just running in to a player after the ball has already gone giving them a free kick and letting them of the hook . Every ****ing time Edited 24 May 2018 by baldeagle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentFox Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 He really has been total doggo. The lack of interest in him by all of our myriad of managers and now by other teams tells its own story. I’d be disappointed in his contribution if he’d only cost £5m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wymsey Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 He's probably one of the highest earners at the club still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudger63 Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 (edited) 36 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said: Kind of just adds to the logic that Ranieri had no idea how to build for the long term. I wouldn't ever trade what he did obviously but he's no long-term option for anybody with thinking like that. Except of course that we had been interested and scouted Slimani long before Ranieri came to the club. Edited 24 May 2018 by smudger63 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 1 hour ago, smudger63 said: Except of course that we had been interested and scouted Slimani long before Ranieri came to the club. Dan's point stands - we didn't buy him despite scouting him pre-Claudio because we didn't think he was worth the value Ranieri slapped on him which seemed to be "at any price." It's not good long term planning to pay the thick end of thirty million quid for a very limited near-30 year old, whom we are now lumbered with. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Nacho Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 We should be able to get £15m from Sporting, excellent bit of business if they did get him for that much. Pretty much sent a player out on loan for two years and charged £15m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HankMarvin Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 4 hours ago, Gerard said: According to Uptheleaguefox it appears Ranieri wanted him and sod the cost and I suppose after the season we just had he was obliged. It was doomed to failure from the start, he was never going to replace Vardy and he was no No10. I think we probably got him to replace Okazaki as he was a grafter who could score goals and was a threat in the air but it soon became apparent that he wasn't a No10 and couldn't play alongside Vardy. Awful business by us but Slimani was a casualty in this hair brained thinking too. It has the hallmarks of an impulse buy as IIRC he had a release clause that was about £6m cheaper a few weeks before which we never triggered. Scouted by Walsh for 2 years prior to him signing. "Slimani’s debut could not have gone any better as the forward produced a formidable performance up front alongside Jamie Vardy and that £29million transfer fee does not appear a gamble on this evidece. The Algeria international was scouted by Leicester for two years – after being recommended by former head of recruitment Steve Walsh – before a protracted deal was finally agreed with Sporting Lisbon the day before the transfer deadline." He was being linked to teams for over 20m so dont think we really paid that much over the going rate at the time for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WigstonWanderer Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 If my memory serves everyone here was quite excited to sign him irrespective of price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl the Llama Posted 24 May 2018 Share Posted 24 May 2018 9 minutes ago, WigstonWanderer said: If my memory serves everyone here was quite excited to sign him irrespective of price. Tbf there were quite a few dissenters but yeah, the majority of posters were keen on the deal, I thought it was going to be a great signing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WigstonWanderer Posted 25 May 2018 Share Posted 25 May 2018 7 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said: Tbf there were quite a few dissenters but yeah, the majority of posters were keen on the deal, I thought it was going to be a great signing. So did I. I’d watched one or two of the Algeria matches (before they turned to shit) and he seemed to link up well with Mahrez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartfox Posted 25 May 2018 Share Posted 25 May 2018 13 hours ago, murphy said: The brass necks on Sporting! Take our trousers down for £29 million and then try to take him back for free!!! Rudkin should send them a dirty protest in the post! Rudkin should go work for Oxfam given his experience of all the charitable donations we have made to other Clubs in recent windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 25 May 2018 Share Posted 25 May 2018 13 hours ago, Dan LCFC said: Kind of just adds to the logic that Ranieri had no idea how to build for the long term. I wouldn't ever trade what he did obviously but he's no long-term option for anybody with thinking like that. Utterly amazing the Ranieri of 2015/16 to the Ranieri a year after. What might have been eh if we could have kept Kante and had a brilliant transfer window? I thought if we could buy three top class players to replace Simpson, Albrighton and Okazaki we could have kicked on. In hindsight we should have bought: Salah from Roma £30m Sidibe from Lille £13.5m Dembele from Rennes for £25m And lined up like this for the Hull away match. Vardy Dembele Salah Mahrez Kante Drinkwater Fuchs Huth Morgan Sidibe Schmeichel But I digress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redouane Posted 25 May 2018 Share Posted 25 May 2018 If I were him, I'd go to China. His height and heading ability would prove unstoppable in the Chinese super league. Plus, he's not getting any younger, so China could be a great last pay check Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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