Football365: Which PL clubs have planned most and least for the long-term

[knitro]

Interesting examination - shows how we've done a good job of building this squad for the long term:

 

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As we approach July 1, when contracts expire or tick over into another year, we’ve looked at which Premier League clubs have got their long-term planning in place. 

Below are listed all the players with more than two years remaining on their deals. Watford have most players on long-term deals, while Premier League revenues will surely see Sheffield United begin to think beyond the next season or two.

 

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Leicester – 18
2022: Jamie Vardy, Kelechi Iheanacho, Marc Albrighton, Rachid Ghezzal, Danny Ward, Daniel Amartey, Hamza Choudhury, Fousseni Diabate, Matty James.
2023: Harry Maguire, James Maddison, Ricardo Pereira, Caglar Söyüncü, Kasper Schmeichel, Filip Benkovic.
2024: Wilfred Ndidi, Ben Chilwell, Harvey Barnes

Future's bright!

Edited 22 June 2019 by knitro

[UniFox21]

 

1 hour ago, knitro said:

Leicester – 18
2022: Jamie Vardy, Kelechi Iheanacho, Marc Albrighton, Rachid Ghezzal, Danny Ward, Daniel Amartey, Hamza Choudhury, Fousseni Diabate, Matty James.
2023: Harry Maguire, James Maddison, Ricardo Pereira, Caglar Söyüncü, Kasper Schmeichel, Filip Benkovic.
2024: Wilfred Ndidi, Ben Chilwell, Harvey Barnes

This can be taken a few different ways.

 

On the plus side 2023-24 players are huge for us and all on long term contracts is good for us, increases any potential value as well.

 

However; the names I've bolded in 2022 are of some concern. Firstly Matty James, he's had huge amounts of bad luck with injury, unless there's a clause related to games, it's not great to have him till then.  Alternatively, I can't see him being on a huge salary and it supports our "family club" ethos.

 

Ghezzal on a deal till 2022 is quite worrying given the ability we've seen so far. Once again you'd hope he's on a smaller wage, but we shall see. Him having played with YT at Monaco  may help swing a permanent deal.

 

I'd like to see Hamza given a new deal and secure him to Leicester till 2024 as well, he has a bright future for me.

Edited 22 June 2019 by UniFox21

[knitro]

28 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

 

This can be taken a few different ways.

 

On the plus side 2023-24 players are huge for us and all on long term contracts is good for us, increases any potential value as well.

 

However; the names I've bolded in 2022 are of some concern. Firstly Matty James, he's had huge amounts of bad luck with injury, unless there's a clause related to games, it's not great to have him till then.  Alternatively, I can't see him being on a huge salary and it supports our "family club" ethos.

 

Ghezzal on a deal till 2022 is quite worrying given the ability we've seen so far. Once again you'd hope he's on a smaller wage, but we shall see. Him having played with YT at Monaco  may help swing a permanent deal.

 

I'd like to see Hamza given a new deal and secure him to Leicester till 2024 as well, he has a bright future for me.

I think that's fair - though if Matty James and Ghezzal are our two biggest albatrosses, we aren't doing so badly.

[urban.spaceman]

2 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

This can be taken a few different ways.

 

On the plus side 2023-24 players are huge for us and all on long term contracts is good for us, increases any potential value as well.

 

However; the names I've bolded in 2022 are of some concern. Firstly Matty James, he's had huge amounts of bad luck with injury, unless there's a clause related to games, it's not great to have him till then.  Alternatively, I can't see him being on a huge salary and it supports our "family club" ethos.

Giving him a 5 year contract was a bit insane with his injury record. I suppose if he’s not on an absurd wage it’s mainly to give him the support he needs to recover, train and puts him in a stronger position to find another club. 

 

2 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

Ghezzal on a deal till 2022 is quite worrying given the ability we've seen so far. Once again you'd hope he's on a smaller wage, but we shall see. Him having played with YT at Monaco  may help swing a permanent deal.

That just means he got a standard 4 year deal when we signed him - I doubt we’ll be renewing it or giving him a pay rise any time soon and when we try to move him on next summer (I hope), we should be able to get some sort of fee. 

 

2 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

I'd like to see Hamza given a new deal and secure him to Leicester till 2024 as well, he has a bright future for me.

Completely agree. His last one was in November 2018 so hopefully he gets a long term one soon. Though he’ll want to earn a regular starting spot first!

[Wolfox]

11 hours ago, knitro said:

I think that's fair - though if Matty James and Ghezzal are our two biggest albatrosses, we aren't doing so badly.

2 misses and whole host of hits looks pretty good to me 

 

No Gray though…

[Dan LCFC]

No squad's going to be perfectly built but you've got to question how James has got another three years. As much as I sympathise with him the bloke is unlikely to ever kick a ball for us again.

 

Ghezzal's got more years than he ought to have done but then again I suppose we didn't sign him with the pretence that he'd be rubbish so I can understand it a bit more. Would like to see Ghezzal come good here but in truth I reckon he probably spends another year doing what he did this season before being sold to someone like Nantes for a fraction of what we paid.

[Stadt]

17 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

No squad's going to be perfectly built but you've got to question how James has got another three years. As much as I sympathise with him the bloke is unlikely to ever kick a ball for us again.

 

Ghezzal's got more years than he ought to have done but then again I suppose we didn't sign him with the pretence that he'd be rubbish so I can understand it a bit more. Would like to see Ghezzal come good here but in truth I reckon he probably spends another year doing what he did this season before being sold to someone like Nantes for a fraction of what we paid.

Ghezzal’s stats p90 are reasonable but he’s not played that many minutes so it’s hard to tell if it’s an accurate reflection. I think he’s alright as a player and is definitely creative enough as a squad player 

[Poznan34]

Think they have Matty James wrong as club site says he signed a deal until 2021: https://www.lcfc.com/news/460136/matty-james-commits-future-to-leicester-city/press-release

 

At the time, the new deal didn't seem that ridiculous as he has started most of the league games up to that point.