Wesley Fofana: Signs For LCFC

[adam95581 330]

8 hours ago, Leeds Fox said:

He’s been bought to play in a 3. It’s so obvious it’s unreal. 

Yeah I’d agree. It’s going to be a while until we have 3 fit CBs though..

[Sol thewall Bamba 7,340]

11 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Anyone looking forward to a Fofana Soyunchu pairing for years to come can forget it. 

 

We'll be lucky to get more than half a season of them as a pairing.

 

 

That would mean Fofana leaving after 1 season or Cags leaving after a season with a heavy injury, neither of which will happen imo. Reckon we'll get this and 2021/22 out of them as a pair and then we may be struggling.

[lcfc sheff 1,181]

10 hours ago, majaco said:

?  Under is the weak link because we don't know how good  he is  yet

I mean that the defense looks so good on paper I can’t see how we can improve, the rest we can make small tweaks going forward 

[StriderHiryu 15,871]

10 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Before we all go patting Congerton on the back, let’s look at the facts - Nigel finished work at Carlisle at the end of the 1998/99 season, and wasn’t seen back in football again until 2006, where he resurfaced at Newcastle.
Around the same time Steve Walsh mysteriously leaves a good job at Chelsea, goes missing for a few years and then resurfaces at, yes you’ve guessed it Newcastle with Big Nige.

Now what’s this got to do with Little Wes, well around the time both of these blokes are missing a young lad is conceived in France and born in late 2000, funnily enough given the same name at birth as a man Nigel and Steve would later sign and make club captain.

Now these may all be coincidental, but if your telling me 7 years in the wilderness they couldn’t have had a love child and spent the first six years of his life teaching him everything they know, then you need to get with it and look critically at the world.

We know these two are future planners, why else would be turn down AC Milan for us?

Face the facts, this is all the work of Nigel and Steve not Congerton.

 

I actually spat out my coffee this morning laughing at this! You can't question the logic!

[TJB-fox 1,897]

12 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Before we all go patting Congerton on the back, let’s look at the facts - Nigel finished work at Carlisle at the end of the 1998/99 season, and wasn’t seen back in football again until 2006, where he resurfaced at Newcastle.
Around the same time Steve Walsh mysteriously leaves a good job at Chelsea, goes missing for a few years and then resurfaces at, yes you’ve guessed it Newcastle with Big Nige.

Now what’s this got to do with Little Wes, well around the time both of these blokes are missing a young lad is conceived in France and born in late 2000, funnily enough given the same name at birth as a man Nigel and Steve would later sign and make club captain.

Now these may all be coincidental, but if your telling me 7 years in the wilderness they couldn’t have had a love child and spent the first six years of his life teaching him everything they know, then you need to get with it and look critically at the world.

We know these two are future planners, why else would be turn down AC Milan for us?

Face the facts, this is all the work of Nigel and Steve not Congerton.

Brilliant 

[Gerard 6,609]

On 23/10/2020 at 10:08, davieG said:

Wesley Fofana was AC Milan’s number one defensive target over the summer but it is because of Juventus that they missed out, it is claimed.

According to Fabrizio Romano’s latest for Calciomercato.com, the Milan management worked for months on signing Fofana and made several attempts with Saint-Etienne to try and get the player they believe to be one of the best young defenders in Europe.

However, the operation was never going to be easy nor was it ever close to ending, and it is mostly because of Juve’s decision not to part with Merih Demiral.

Fofana is at Leicester now having joined them in a big-money move, but the Foxes made a serious attempt to land Demiral by putting €35million plus bonuses on the table.

Juventus said no immediately as they consider the Turkish international to be untouchable, and so the Demiral operation was ended without it even becoming a proper discussion.

As a result, Leicester turned straight to Fofana and managed to get a deal over the line before Milan could sell Lucas Paqueta and formulate a serious bid.

 

https://sempremilan.com/romano-milan-saw-no-1-summer-target-join-leicester-with-juventus-partly-to-blame

 

LOL, anyone who was about in 1990 if you were to tell them that in 30 years time AC Milan were pissed off because Leicester waltzed in and took their top target off them would think you were taking far too much LSD. 

[sheffield_fox 629]

On 24/10/2020 at 00:01, Aus Fox said:

Before we all go patting Congerton on the back, let’s look at the facts - Nigel finished work at Carlisle at the end of the 1998/99 season, and wasn’t seen back in football again until 2006, where he resurfaced at Newcastle.
Around the same time Steve Walsh mysteriously leaves a good job at Chelsea, goes missing for a few years and then resurfaces at, yes you’ve guessed it Newcastle with Big Nige.

Now what’s this got to do with Little Wes, well around the time both of these blokes are missing a young lad is conceived in France and born in late 2000, funnily enough given the same name at birth as a man Nigel and Steve would later sign and make club captain.

Now these may all be coincidental, but if your telling me 7 years in the wilderness they couldn’t have had a love child and spent the first six years of his life teaching him everything they know, then you need to get with it and look critically at the world.

We know these two are future planners, why else would be turn down AC Milan for us?

Face the facts, this is all the work of Nigel and Steve not Congerton.

This is the best thing I've ever read on FT! 

[richardsfoxes 578]

I honestly cannot believe how good he is, 19 years old completely bossed it all game AGAIN. We have a potential world class player on our hands. 

 

What 

 

a

 

Player

[Ely fox 31]

I’m glad we didn’t sign Tarkowski now !! 

[Dames 749]

This lad will be the best CB in the world within the next 5 years. Unreal how good he is already. 
 

He’s on par with Soyuncu with a higher ceiling. 

[Corky 12,100]

5 Live were raving about him.

[StriderHiryu 15,871]

Totally agree with all the praise on here for him. If you told me he was a 28 year old international with 50+ caps for France, I would believe it. He's that good!

 

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[Countryfox 8,133]

Just now, Dames said:
 

He’s on par with Soyuncu with a higher ceiling. 

Better imo. 

[Blanchflower78 421]

We all get it now but I really fear a "Kante" style love in from the media now. 

[Ely fox 31]

He is very quick and that run with the ball deep into the Arsenal half in the second half .... wow !! 

[Dahnsouff 4,748]

This boy is going for a world record. He is one scarily goof player.

[Chester Dontlie 1,644]

Simply fontastic. Fingers crossed he stays with us for at least a couple of seasons. I'd hate to see him go to any of the big, filthy rich from the Prem

 

[Gav_LCFC14 272]

It was at this moment little Wes decided he would pocket Aubameyang.

 

[Angus Scott 303]

On 23/10/2020 at 22:02, Grebfromgrebland said:

Anyone looking forward to a Fofana Soyunchu pairing for years to come can forget it. 

 

We'll be lucky to get more than half a season of them as a pairing.

 

 

You could well be right, remember how excited we were by Heskey/Collymore & it lasted about 2 games

[Pliskin 1,922]

The guys pure gravy. And not the instant kind, the kind you make with the chicken bollocks. 

[simon789us 160]

come on lads he was poor no positional sense, carnt pass and maguire is quicker than him  

[adam95581 330]

On 23/10/2020 at 07:52, adam95581 said:

I’m going to put it out there so that it’s not a shock when it happens on Sunday - he needs to work on his positioning as he tends to wander off, leaving space in between him and Evans. Against poorer teams this has been ok, but against Arsenal they will take advantage of it. 
 

That being said, he does look classy on the ball, aggressive in the tackle and strong in the air. The positioning thing is a pretty normal weakness in someone so young and inexperienced. 

Told you so 👀

[FrankieADZ 616]

the way its going, that £30mi we paid for him looks like a bargain, having Evans next to him will teach him no end too

[Haywood_6 940]

Some player isn't he. Thrilled to bits we've got him

[Cadno'r Cymoedd 1,448]

The lad is 19. But he played like a seasoned International. His awareness, timing, his maturity in winning challenges and free kicks is stupendous already. A really class act. What a signing.