Beechey Posted 15 June 2018 Posted 15 June 2018 The agent of Juventus midfielder Stefano Sturaro has confirmed Leicester City’s interest in his client are just rumours. This week Sturaro has been linked with a move to the Premier League side. Speaking to TuttoJuve, Carlo Volpi was asked to clarify the interest Sturaro is reportedly receiving from other clubs: “I’ve not spoken with any team and I have not received any communication from Juventus. It will be hard to sell in our league. Leicester, they are just rumours, like the ones with Wolfsburg. “Stefano is liked abroad but I will not mention the names of the teams looking at him.” http://sportwitness.co.uk/agent-speaks-leicester-city-speculation-following-reports-bid/
Vlad the Fox Posted 15 June 2018 Posted 15 June 2018 30 minutes ago, Beechey said: “Stefano is liked abroad but I will not mention the names of the teams looking at him.” http://sportwitness.co.uk/agent-speaks-leicester-city-speculation-following-reports-bid/ everton and west ham 2
jayfox26 Posted 15 June 2018 Posted 15 June 2018 On 13/06/2018 at 22:37, Mark said: Based simply on this clip (as I've never seen him play) sign him up! 2
FoxOfMelton Posted 15 June 2018 Posted 15 June 2018 6 hours ago, Col city fan said: Same here. I’ve no idea where the ‘superb player’ type comments are coming from. I think he’s solid enough but wouldn’t consider him much of an upgrade on Iborra? Iborra is considerably better.
STUHILL Posted 15 June 2018 Posted 15 June 2018 8 minutes ago, FoxOfMelton said: Iborra is considerably better. Would Iborra have gotten 19 games for the Italian Champs last season? Not so sure. I'm a fan of Iborra, but to say he is considerable better is a stretch.
JayPittardBlueatheart Posted 15 June 2018 Posted 15 June 2018 In this transfer window I do not thing we need midfielders whose strengths are tackling and headers. I think its more important to get players who can actually pass or play through the lines with creativity and speed. The number of times I despaired last season when Iborra, Silva and Wilf gave the ball away with poor forward passes..... Sturaro is not a strong passer and so would be nothing to me but cover for Wilf 1
STUHILL Posted 15 June 2018 Posted 15 June 2018 3 minutes ago, JayPittardBlueatheart said: In this transfer window I do not thing we need midfielders whose strengths are tackling and headers. I think its more important to get players who can actually pass or play through the lines with creativity and speed. The number of times I despaired last season when Iborra, Silva and Wilf gave the ball away with poor forward passes..... Sturaro is not a strong passer and so would be nothing to me but cover for Wilf If Wilf got injured, we would be seriously short of a midfielder who could replace his energy, stamina and tenacity. Iborra has his qualities, but is slow, lacks energy and I doubt he cold play 90+ minutes every week. Silva is a different type of midfielder to N'didi and certainly not strong enough to be a defensive enforcer. That leaves Choudary who has potential but a big ask for him to play such a vital role, especially if we are pushing to be 6th/7th best team. I still think we seriously need to consider adding another CM, who has similar strengths to N'didi in terms of physicality, stamina and energy. Stuaro might not be a good option judging by what Juve fans say, but I still think we need to get someone in with defensive qualities > attacking. Mainly due to the formation we seem likely to play next season, with two sitting DCM's in front of a back four, which allows the full-backs to bomb forward. 1
JayPittardBlueatheart Posted 15 June 2018 Posted 15 June 2018 1 minute ago, STUHILL said: If Wilf got injured, we would be seriously short of a midfielder who could replace his energy, stamina and tenacity. Iborra has his qualities, but is slow, lacks energy and I doubt he cold play 90+ minutes every week. Silva is a different type of midfielder to N'didi and certainly not strong enough to be a defensive enforcer. That leaves Choudary who has potential but a big ask for him to play such a vital role, especially if we are pushing to be 6th/7th best team. I still think we seriously need to consider adding another CM, who has similar strengths to N'didi in terms of physicality, stamina and energy. Stuaro might not be a good option judging by what Juve fans say, but I still think we need to get someone in with defensive qualities > attacking. Mainly due to the formation we seem likely to play next season, with two sitting DCM's in front of a back four, which allows the full-backs to bomb forward. I agree that having backup for Wilf is very important. However if not just one but both of the 2 central midfielders we play have little to no creativity, then you will find those full backs will not be bombing forward as the ball will not get out of our box. The only reason Mahrez was found in the middle of the park so often last year was the need for a creative influence in that area, to drive, to play a cross field ball etc etc and you will see that he offered himself to do this in every game. In half of these games the more tactically inept of our fan base criticised him for this drifting but he was literally doing the job of 2 players for us at times last season. When we won the league, we actually had two creative midfielders playing. Now we have none and it is far more important to address this then to get a player who would do no more than sit on the bench for most of the season
STUHILL Posted 15 June 2018 Posted 15 June 2018 5 minutes ago, JayPittardBlueatheart said: I agree that having backup for Wilf is very important. However if not just one but both of the 2 central midfielders we play have little to no creativity, then you will find those full backs will not be bombing forward as the ball will not get out of our box. The only reason Mahrez was found in the middle of the park so often last year was the need for a creative influence in that area, to drive, to play a cross field ball etc etc and you will see that he offered himself to do this in every game. In half of these games the more tactically inept of our fan base criticised him for this drifting but he was literally doing the job of 2 players for us at times last season. When we won the league, we actually had two creative midfielders playing. Now we have none and it is far more important to address this then to get a player who would do no more than sit on the bench for most of the season I'd imagine Silva will be starting alongside Wilf next season, unless we do go spend big on another CM. He struggled last season but we all saw signs of his ability on the ball and he is certainly capable of picking a pass. I also think Iborra although hit a couple stray passes per game last season, actually picked out some decent balls as well and was certainly not a negative side-ways passer. I think he will get better next season too. We are also likely to have a much more creative no.10 coming in, with Maddison looking a real possibility or similar. We have missed a genuine creative no.10 for a while now, so I think that will help a lot in the middle and they will be able to drop deeper when needed to pick up the ball. Mostly depends on the formation Puel will play but I imagine it will be with two sitting DCM's, as he likes his fullbacks to get forward, which is something we obviously lacked last season with Simpson at RB. So we are likely adding a creative no.10 and having fullbacks that can overlap and attack and hopefully a more settled Silva and Iborra, which should all help make us more creative.
sylofox Posted 16 June 2018 Posted 16 June 2018 22 hours ago, Beechey said: The agent of Juventus midfielder Stefano Sturaro has confirmed Leicester City’s interest in his client are just rumours. This week Sturaro has been linked with a move to the Premier League side. Speaking to TuttoJuve, Carlo Volpi was asked to clarify the interest Sturaro is reportedly receiving from other clubs: “I’ve not spoken with any team and I have not received any communication from Juventus. It will be hard to sell in our league. Leicester, they are just rumours, like the ones with Wolfsburg. “Stefano is liked abroad but I will not mention the names of the teams looking at him.” http://sportwitness.co.uk/agent-speaks-leicester-city-speculation-following-reports-bid/ wow if that's true Juve fans all over the world will be slitting there wrists right now
shiv Posted 26 June 2018 Posted 26 June 2018 https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leicester-city-told-pay-175-1713926 In the gossip column on BBC sport website today.
danny2997 Posted 26 June 2018 Posted 26 June 2018 1 hour ago, shiv said: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leicester-city-told-pay-175-1713926 In the gossip column on BBC sport website today. If true I'd imagine it would be the end of our interest, I would have thought we'd only be getting another CM if we could get a decent one on the cheap.
Realist Guy In The Room Posted 26 June 2018 Posted 26 June 2018 This guy looks fvcking crap. If they’re gonna sign him it can only be as a scapegoat. 2 1
FoxinNotts Posted 26 June 2018 Posted 26 June 2018 (edited) I appreciate I’m not going to get any straight answers re this, but why would we spend an amount in the region of what’s being quoted, for a player that no body seems to rate, to strengthen an area of the park we’re already well served, when there are better options out there on the market anyway!? The links to this guy just don’t stack up for me! further more, if we’re thinking of letting Iborra go, then why not go all out and replace Iborra with Wilshere. Free transfer, little risk, mates with Vardy, we don’t need him to play all the games cus we have Silva, Ndidi et al, so we can rotate. Edited 26 June 2018 by FoxinNotts 1
pazzerfox Posted 30 June 2018 Posted 30 June 2018 20 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said: Ndidi replacement Don't be daft.
Lovejoy Posted 23 July 2018 Posted 23 July 2018 Sky Sports running with this again. Doesn't make sense to me, but who knows.
YesNdidi Posted 23 July 2018 Posted 23 July 2018 This guy’s agent is claiming Juve have received “big offers” from us and West Ham for Sturaro. I find this weird because we are stacked in this position, so perhaps we are playing a formation without wingers next year? This would explain why we haven’t bought a Riyad replacement yet.
Superpants82 Posted 23 July 2018 Posted 23 July 2018 Just now, YesNdidi said: This guy’s agent is claiming Juve have received “big offers” from us and West Ham for Sturaro. I find this weird because we are stacked in this position, so perhaps we are playing a formation without wingers next year? This would explain why we haven’t bought a Riyad replacement yet. And also why Gray said in his interview that Puel has been getting him to play at no 10, could be right
weller54 Posted 23 July 2018 Posted 23 July 2018 On 26/06/2018 at 12:47, Realist Guy In The Room said: This guy looks fvcking crap. If they’re gonna sign him it can only be as a scapegoat. Stefano Wellens!
st albans fox Posted 23 July 2018 Posted 23 July 2018 On 30/06/2018 at 19:02, Grebfromgrebland said: Ndidi replacement The fact is that all clubs have to make plans for all eventualities - we could see a top six big club come in with a ridiculousl bid late on and the players head turned - so we need to have a plan - Stuaro is probably that
Will1981 Posted 23 July 2018 Posted 23 July 2018 1 minute ago, YesNdidi said: This guy’s agent is claiming Juve have received “big offers” from us and West Ham for Sturaro. I find this weird because we are stacked in this position, so perhaps we are playing a formation without wingers next year? This would explain why we haven’t bought a Riyad replacement yet. Maybe we are planning on playing Puel's prefered narrow diamond formation: Schmeichel Pereira --- Evans --- Maguire -- Chilwell Ndidi Sturaro --- Silva Maddison Vardy -- Nacho.
AjcW Posted 23 July 2018 Posted 23 July 2018 3 minutes ago, YesNdidi said: This guy’s agent is claiming Juve have received “big offers” from us and West Ham for Sturaro. I find this weird because we are stacked in this position, so perhaps we are playing a formation without wingers next year? This would explain why we haven’t bought a Riyad replacement yet. We played 4-3-2-1 at the weekend To keep everyone happy though that would mean Gray agreeing to play roaming AMC or using him as a striker a lot It was Diabate and Maddison in those positions first half on Saturday, with Elder and Diabate pushing out to the wings to create more of a 4-4-1-1 when defending.
MC Prussian Posted 23 July 2018 Posted 23 July 2018 7 minutes ago, YesNdidi said: This guy’s agent is claiming Juve have received “big offers” from us and West Ham for Sturaro. I find this weird because we are stacked in this position, so perhaps we are playing a formation without wingers next year? This would explain why we haven’t bought a Riyad replacement yet. First of all, we may be "stacked" in central midfield now, but we ought to talk about that situation again once the transfer window is closed. I can see a few midfielders leaving soon. Also, we will definitely play with wingers. Reason why we reverted to a 4-2-3-1 formation with no recognized striker on the weekend was in parts due to the injury to Albrighton and the absence of Musa and the departure of Mahrez. We also don't know how fit Ulloa and Slimani really are or whether they were intentionally used as subs in order not to force any potential injury concerns (both could be out of the club, as well). Plus the rumours surrounding a new right winger or two. Why we haven't brought in a new "Riyad replacement?"That is also down to many other factors, one of them being negotiations taking longer than expected, some players being sought after by several teams at once, then the World Cup situation and with that, the shifted transfer window period this summer. We missed the deadline with the Silva deal last summer by 14 seconds, how much do you think we can accomplish in the remaining two weeks? And don't believe "agent talk" you see in the media. Either they're not the agent or they do it because they want to generate more fuss and a higher transfer fee in the process, linking their clients to all sorts of Premier League clubs mostly.
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