Blanchflower78 Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 We do like a smokescreen.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMELcfc Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 22 minutes ago, jonthefox said: He was always the player I papped myself over the most when stood over the ball tbh. Not terrible with free kicks, but my spurs supporting mates hated him taking corners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Oxlong Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 (edited) Coming to us will probably give him his best chance of ever winning a PL title medal Edited 21 January 2021 by Mike Oxlong 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bovril Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 Just now, lcfceaves said: Not terrible with free kicks, but my spurs supporting mates hated him taking corners Will fit in well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 24 minutes ago, Pliskin said: See, options more than normal are limited at the moment. Losing Praet is massive, that’s a reliable player gone for a few moments, Youri is a booking away from being suspended which means he will be suspended at some point, so we need some depth there. I suppose the thinking is he is a high calibre player with experience in Europe too, wouldn’t need any real settling in and in the right frame of mind he is still a quality player. We unfortunately don’t have the luxury of cherry picking this season, if an opportunity arises to sign a suitable player, then we will probably have to go for it. Tielemans bookings are now wiped, unless he collects 6 more between now and game week 30 or something like that and then he'd get a 2 game ban. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StriderHiryu Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 We don't need a player for our first team, we need a back up for Youri Tielemans, which was typically carried out by Dennis Praet, even if Praet often played in a slightly different position even when Tielemans was rested. Praet is out for 3 months which given that it's January might as well mean the rest of the season. Maybe he will get fit by the end, but he will be in no shape to handle a title / champions league qualification push. Eriksen is a shadow of the player he was, but that doesn't mean he can't be decent or good. He also knows the Premier League so in theory can fit straight into the team. For a loan signing, he's more than adequate. Regardless of if we get him or not, I find this news to be pure sauce! Last season our failure to sign anyone in January IMO cost us the Champions League places as injuries and loss of form decimated our squad and confidence. So to sign someone on loan for 6 months who's not a Ryan Bennet but a Robert Huth or Youri Tielemans level of player to give us the best possible chance is great news for me. I quite like Ric Flair's idea to bring in Otavio instead, but thinking purely about having a player that would know the league immediately, I think there is something to be said for Eriksen, especially as he was one of the best runners on the pitch when Pochetinno was in charge during our title winning season. More likely we probably see another player come in on loan instead, but regardless it's super exciting news. We've been great in the last few games so let's not fall apart again please! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pliskin Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 1 minute ago, Ric Flair said: Tielemans bookings are now wiped, unless he collects 6 more between now and game week 30 or something like that and then he'd get a 2 game ban. Yea I didn’t realise! Still if he gets injured, we’re buggered! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 Is it just me or does this feel much like the Coutinho rumours? Quality attacker who’s achieved nothing at squalid English club while Leicester City win the Premier League. He forces his way out to a bigger European rival. Said player on massive wages and struggling at new team. Leicester don’t really need the player anyway. Next January it’ll be Bale. Not happening IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 The wages he'd be on might upset the rest of the team, not sure he's worth the risk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecretPro Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 **** paying him £300,000 a week when Vards is on half of that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 Not that Spurs would let us, but I'd much rather get Alli on loan. Would fit our system so well. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGLCFC Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 2 minutes ago, SecretPro said: **** paying him £300,000 a week when Vards is on half of that. If it helps us get Champions League football, he'll have paid it back with interest. Sometimes you have to speculate to accumulate. Perhaps we wouldn't have to pay all of his wages. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusko187 Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 If we were linked like 2-3 years ago, I'd be absolutely hyped for this... but it doesn't make sense. A lot of money to fork out for a loan, and where does he fit? He won't want to play 2nd fiddle to anyone and would demand he comes straight in, is he worthy of this? Are any of our players deserving to be dropped? Odd transfer, no doubt potential but I think it's a no from me. I'd rather not get his wages in and upset the apple cart. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 An anti-Leicester signing, fooling no-one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambert09 Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 8 minutes ago, SecretPro said: **** paying him £300,000 a week when Vards is on half of that. Hes not ont a 300k week contract with us though. He has one with Inter. Players would understand that its a bit different when there's no transfer fee involved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 1 minute ago, Ric Flair said: Not that Spurs would let us, but I'd much rather get Alli on loan. Would fit our system so well. "Not sure"? I am, they won't. We're joint 4th favourites to get a CL place this season. At the moment they are our biggest rivals this season. As for Eriksen and Inter wanting his £300k a week wages covered, no one is likely to consider that so Inter will find themselves in the next 10 days either keeping him as a squad player for the rest of the season or getting real and lower their expectations towards what the market sees as value. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox85 Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 There is nothing in this we are using this story to blindside another signing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casablancas Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 I’ve never seen the words ‘blindside’ and ‘smokescreen’ used on here so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesta2014 Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 I mean if he was on 150k a week I’d bet we’d be all over trying to sign him on loan for rest of the season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pliskin Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 To be fair..... it’s top banter from the club. Just one to piss the spuds fans off. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Earle Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 26 minutes ago, SecretPro said: **** paying him £300,000 a week when Vards is on half of that. Except it wouldn’t work like that. He’d be paid a big signing on fee, plus ‘acceptable’ wages. Broad as it’s long, but helps with squad politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeman's Wharfer Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 There’s something going on there. You never usually read about failed pursuits and the club are pretty good at keeping deals quiet. Feels like the club have used a journalist with genuine sources to try and show that they will walk away if they can’t get the sort of deal they are looking for. Would love to have him at Leicester given he’s only 28. If he comes he knows he has to do the business as there is only really one way following a failed loan at Leicester and it’s not the level he’s played at his whole career thus far... Get it done and negotiate in an optional transfer fee for the summer. If we’ve managed to get Champions League football then maybe it could turn into something more permanent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weller54 Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.. .. .. No! Contaminated and we don't need him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifted*fox Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 quality player and if rodgers can get a tune out of him it's a no brainer 28, intelligent reader of the game, can put the ball in the path of others and find the net himself, about as proven as you'll get he may well be happy to come here for 6 months, play a bit-part role and get back into the PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heymister2015 Posted 21 January 2021 Share Posted 21 January 2021 Toooo much for a back up player! No space for him in the starting 11 and heavy salary! Also hasn’t played well for 3 years. Just doesn’t make sense or excite me at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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