knitro Posted 22 June 2019 Posted 22 June 2019 Interesting examination - shows how we've done a good job of building this squad for the long term: Quote 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. ... Leicester – 182022: 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!
UniFox21 Posted 22 June 2019 Posted 22 June 2019 1 hour ago, knitro said: Leicester – 182022: 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.
knitro Posted 22 June 2019 Author Posted 22 June 2019 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 Posted 22 June 2019 Posted 22 June 2019 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 Posted 23 June 2019 Posted 23 June 2019 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 Posted 23 June 2019 Posted 23 June 2019 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 Posted 24 June 2019 Posted 24 June 2019 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 Posted 24 June 2019 Posted 24 June 2019 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.
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