Arriba Los Zorros Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 This is repeating a point others have made but can't see a thread about it. There were some concerns when Congerton came in over his previous transfer record. Unfortunately it seems to be bearing out a lot of the targets we are linked with. Overpriced and unimaginative - Tarkowski, Vestergaard, David Brooks, Said benrahma. Looking no further than what is right in front of our nose, these are players who won't significantly improve us and we will have to pay well over the odds. What happened to the Leicester way which scouted Mahrez and Kante from obscure leagues abroad for peanuts, gems from abroad at cut prices like Ndidi and Soyuncu, lower league players with potential like Maguire and Vardy, promising youth team players like James and Drinky. Planning for the future buying players with potential and allowing them to grow at LCFC. Instead we seem to have scrapped this and are just going for the flavours of the month and paying through the nose for them like all the other shit mid table clubs. And we will end up like them with a lot of overpaid rubbish on our books the way this is going. Wish he would conga his way right out of this club so we could get somebody in with a bit of imagination who knows what he is doing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Grebfromgrebland Posted 6 August 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 6 August 2020 So being interested in the Barcelona guy, demiral & Bennet doesn't excite you? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxInTheBirstallBox Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 Imagine complaining about congerton when he hasn't actually made any signings yet.... (Bennett is someone Rodgers wanted for a long time) We are looking like we are going for a barca starlet, Brooks who is a easy step up from gray who will be going, the big lad from celtic who is a proven striker We are challenging for top 4 top 6 and in Europe now, we aren't plucky little leicester who scrapes around hoping for 400k bargains!!! I suppose you want Pearson back too? We are a big club now and need to do business like it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Silva Fox Posted 6 August 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 6 August 2020 How about judging him on the signings we actually make rather than random names being banded about, a lot of which will be nothing more than agent talk. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc sheff Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 Are you on crack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffschlupp Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 There is not one single reliable source that links us to any of those players. We never do sign the players that the tabloids link us to, I don't know why anyone bothers getting excited over them. The reason why the tabloids in this country link us to players 'right under our nose' is because they're the only ones they've heard of! The only player linked to us by any reputable source so far this summer is Francisco Trincao, who by all accounts looks a fantastic player and we'd all be delighted to have him. You can't attack a head of recruitment for signings that haven't been made. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachhere Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 This is ever so slightly premature... our recent transfer windows have shown that we are really good at keeping negotiations out of press, and the people that we are linked to by the press never materialise, with suggestions that we were never really interested in the first place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xen Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 1 minute ago, Arriba Los Zorros said: This is repeating a point others have made but can't see a thread about it. There were some concerns when Congerton came in over his previous transfer record. Unfortunately it seems to be bearing out a lot of the targets we are linked with. Overpriced and unimaginative - Tarkowski, Vestergaard, David Brooks, Said benrahma. Looking no further than what is right in front of our nose, these are players who won't significantly improve us and we will have to pay well over the odds. What happened to the Leicester way which scouted Mahrez and Kante from obscure leagues abroad for peanuts, gems from abroad at cut prices like Ndidi and Soyuncu, lower league players with potential like Maguire and Vardy, promising youth team players like James and Drinky. Planning for the future buying players with potential and allowing them to grow at LCFC. Instead we seem to have scrapped this and are just going for the flavours of the month and paying through the nose for them like all the other shit mid table clubs. And we will end up like them with a lot of overpaid rubbish on our books the way this is going. Wish he would conga his way right out of this club so we could get somebody in with a bit of imagination who knows what he is doing. Absolute nonsense. We have no idea what the club's targets are. What comes out in the press is rarely going to be info from the buying clubs - it'll be agents and selling clubs trying to drum up interest in their players, and our position in the league/Europa puts us in a prime spot as the 'higher tier but still realistic' club for a lot of these mid-table players to be linked with. The only link from a solid source so far has been Trincao, who is completely out of left field and a very exciting potential signing - completely against the 'overpriced and unimaginative' tag that you've applied. Besides which, there's nothing wrong with being 'unimaginative' and going for the obvious signing if it'll be an improvement on what we've got - Tielemans, Maddison etc were obvious, unimaginative and overpriced but have still been fantastic for us. You talk about 'the Leicester way' but that also scouted Diabate from an obscure league, cut-price gems like Mendy/Benkovic, promising youth players like Loft, Moore and Pascanu. For every hit there's plenty of misses as well. And last of all, we're only ten days into a 70-day window, FFS. Give the man a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolhandfox Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 Judging someone on random reports in the media, which are all likely made up! Give it a rest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfox Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 You’re moaning now @Arriba Los Zorros Just you wait until we snap up Daniel Sturridge and Fabio Borini on free transfers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoboFox Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 (edited) Let's be honest here... As much as we think we might, none of us know our arse from our elbow when it comes to scouting and transfers at a top-level football club. Lots of the stuff spouted on here is pure pish. We don't really know the day-to-day of this this guy's role at the club. Seems a little unfair that he gets unwarranted stick on here considering they've done pretty much done **** all in terms of transfers since his arrival. If it goes tits up next season with a boatload of minging signings, then maybe we can ask questions. Until then, let's give the bloke a chance, eh? Edited 6 August 2020 by RoboFox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raw Dykes Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 In a usual window, I end up saying things like, "Give them a chance," "They haven't even put the shirt on yet," etc., but this is new. We haven't even made a signing yet. Have some patience. We don't really have any idea who we're signing yet. Even if it does end up being underwhelming names who people turn their noses up at, I think you've got to at least give them a game or two. It might be that this is the right club for certain players who failed to impress elsewhere. You don't know until you've seen them play in our colours. No point worrying about imagined problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox seen in Norwich Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 Conga conga congratulations on believing the media and social media but 99% of it is made up drizzle to attract more interest to their site / pages We have no idea whether Congerton and the club are Changing strategy or what talks actually are happening. patience and have faith in the club.. they’ve done amazing in nearly all aspects in the last 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 18 minutes ago, Arriba Los Zorros said: This is repeating a point others have made but can't see a thread about it. There were some concerns when Congerton came in over his previous transfer record. Unfortunately it seems to be bearing out a lot of the targets we are linked with. Overpriced and unimaginative - Tarkowski, Vestergaard, David Brooks, Said benrahma. Looking no further than what is right in front of our nose, these are players who won't significantly improve us and we will have to pay well over the odds. What happened to the Leicester way which scouted Mahrez and Kante from obscure leagues abroad for peanuts, gems from abroad at cut prices like Ndidi and Soyuncu, lower league players with potential like Maguire and Vardy, promising youth team players like James and Drinky. Planning for the future buying players with potential and allowing them to grow at LCFC. Instead we seem to have scrapped this and are just going for the flavours of the month and paying through the nose for them like all the other shit mid table clubs. And we will end up like them with a lot of overpaid rubbish on our books the way this is going. Wish he would conga his way right out of this club so we could get somebody in with a bit of imagination who knows what he is doing. When we signed Vardy, Mahrez, James, Drinky, we were a championship team. When we signed Kante we were relegation favourites. We are NOT going to be able to pick up these little steals anywhere near as much for two reasons, 1. We are a top 5 EPL team and we are expected to pay a premium. 2. We play at a much higher level now. We are not the same club that we were, why should our business model be the same? I also find it very strange that you use Maguire as an example of us buying well and Brooks as an example of us buying poorly, they are very similar in many ways as potential signings. Both one of the better players in a relegated team and looking for a return to the EPL and both much cheaper than they would have been a year previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldeagle Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 Someone’s been in isolation too long 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HighPeakFox Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 I refer the honourable gentleman to all the above posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphericalfox Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 FFS. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Oxlong Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 Shit thread Shit thread title Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adster Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 What a stupid thread. Please can it be removed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaspa Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 Not even Rudkin used to get threads made about him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 I am not sure that is true @Jaspa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 Can we just delete this @Mark @Bert I'm as skeptical about Congerton as everyone else but it's way too early for this. They're not even players we're actually definitely trying to sign, it's just players we're linked to in papers and they're the same players we've been linked to in papers since like 1983 or something. If you're judging our heads of recruitment by who the press think we're signing then Walsh should have been sacked for paying 120m on Troy Deeney or whatever and Congerton should be given the keys to the city for getting Coutinho to come to Leicester. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UHDrive Posted 6 August 2020 Share Posted 6 August 2020 44 minutes ago, Arriba Los Zorros said: This is repeating a point others have made but can't see a thread about it. There were some concerns when Congerton came in over his previous transfer record. Unfortunately it seems to be bearing out a lot of the targets we are linked with. Overpriced and unimaginative - Tarkowski, Vestergaard, David Brooks, Said benrahma. Looking no further than what is right in front of our nose, these are players who won't significantly improve us and we will have to pay well over the odds. What happened to the Leicester way which scouted Mahrez and Kante from obscure leagues abroad for peanuts, gems from abroad at cut prices like Ndidi and Soyuncu, lower league players with potential like Maguire and Vardy, promising youth team players like James and Drinky. Planning for the future buying players with potential and allowing them to grow at LCFC. Instead we seem to have scrapped this and are just going for the flavours of the month and paying through the nose for them like all the other shit mid table clubs. And we will end up like them with a lot of overpaid rubbish on our books the way this is going. Wish he would conga his way right out of this club so we could get somebody in with a bit of imagination who knows what he is doing. Read Jordan Blackwell in the Merc today about net spend. If £30 million net spend is correct then you can write next season off. As for BR preferring a small squad it is ludicrous unless the fringe squad players are good enough to challenge the first team players which currently they are well off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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