Brendan Rodgers wants Leicester City to end annual summer transfer tradition

[coolhandfox]

2 hours ago, Bryn said:

Yep think we keep them all this summer. Combination of COVID, the clear progress we're making +/- CL football should make it happen.

 

Just trying to map out our squad for next season.

 

Likely to leave
New addition

 

GK: Schmeichel
GK: Ward

GK: Jakupovic

?Iversen

 

FB: Justin
FB: Pereira
FB: Castagne
FB: Thomas
FB: Daley-Campbell
FB: Fuchs

 

CB: Fofana
CB: Soyuncu
CB: Evans
CB/FB: Amartey

CB: Morgan

New signing/Youth step-up

 

CM: Tielemans
CM: Ndidi
CM: Mendy
CM: Praet
CM: Choudhury

?Dewsbury-Hall

 

AM: Maddison
AM: Perez
AM: Tavares

 

WM: Barnes
WM: Albrighton
WM: Leshabela
WM: Under

New signing

 

ST: Vardy
ST: Iheanacho
?Edouard

 

That's how I see it playing out. I've lost track of which players wouldn't need to be named in the 25 - Thomas, Fofana, Tavares, maybe Leshabela? - so that is likely to be the 25 man squad, plus or minus a few going out on loan. We will probably need a CB to cover Morgan leaving but think we're fine at FB if Fuchs goes. So yeah, probably not a super busy summer.

 

 

Pretty sure Under will not be here. 

[Lambert09]

7 hours ago, wattolcfc said:

I think COVID can actually benefit a club like ours. With so many good, young players who will only improve given time and with nobody having £100m to spend on one player, we could keep hold of our best players for a few years and hopefully that will propel us into a consistently top 4 club.

I think this is bang on. This would be the worse time for a club needing to do a whole rebuild. A team thats got a  rot settling in, will likely stay like that for some time. 

[Ric Flair]

9 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Sometimes they just carry on playing wages as normal for the length of the contract.

 

Newcastle paid AP for 5 odd years. 

Yes but that wouldn't account for the increase in 2019/20 would it?

[VLC86]

2 hours ago, Bryn said:

 

That's why he's listed as likely to leave...

Think I’m being a bit thick but I still can’t work that out from the post I quoted.

[Webbo]

Most of our most saleable assets have an injury question mark over them from this season. Other clubs might wait to see how they progress before they put in a bid, or maybe use that to try and squeeze the price. 

[Dr The Singh]

9 hours ago, davieG said:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/brendan-rodgers-wants-leicester-city-5207440?fbclid=IwAR29NEmPtYnq0jNCFuhXzE_h1YBgRT5wWmObKVU4m_m3N0BhGQdjIQ98Ec8

 

The Leicester City boss says that he 'can't see' the club selling any of their key players this summer, despite the significant losses caused in part by the pandemic

ByJordan Blackwell
22:30, 19 MAR 2021

Brendan Rodgers wants to make this the summer Leicester City do not sell a key player, even amid significant losses at the club.

City’s summer spending since their return to the Premier League has always been partly financed by the departure of a star name, with N’Golo Kante, Danny Drinkwater, Riyad Mahrez, Harry Maguire, and Ben Chilwell moving on in big-money deals over the past five summers.

City have reinvested that wisely to improve their squad and rise up the table.

The club will want to break that cycle, and Rodgers hopes it is this year, even though City have just announced losses of £67m for the 19-20 campaign.

New, improved contracts could be a solution to keeping players at the club, but that would cause wage payments to rise further. That may be a concern with the latest accounts showing a wage-to-turnover ratio of 105 per cent, City becoming the first Premier League side to exceed 100 per cent since QPR in 2013.

“You always plan and prepare to keep your players, but you always have to have that pipeline for the ‘what if?’ scenario,” Rodgers said.

“For this summer, as I sit here, I can’t see us losing anyone. But of course, I may have said that about Ben (Chilwell) and he’s gone.

“But certainly we don’t plan to lose anyone. I think as well if there’s a summer where you maybe wouldn’t be looking to lose your players, it would be this summer.

“Our idea is to get to the end of the season, finish as strong as we can, hopefully it will be a great season, keep the players we have, and add to it as opposed to moving any on. That would be the message as for now.

“There will be a level of spending. We’ve already been speaking about that over the past few months. We want to continue improving.

“It won’t be the same as pre-Covid. But there will be investment. We want to strengthen the squad and I’m pretty hopeful we’ll be able to do that.”

Rodgers also said that the investment from the club’s owners King Power into the training ground should ease the fears of any fans concerned about the level of the losses

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“Like most clubs there is a huge impact with Covid, and the pandemic,” he said. “That will hit every club.

“It’s also shown the confidence the club have in managing the figures and the budget that they continue to invest. Looking around at the training ground, you can see the investment that is still ongoing as shown.

“That gives a great reassurance to supporters that despite the pandemic, the club are still pushing on with that long-term vision.

“Hopefully we'll get supporters back in next season and that figure comes down.”

Brendan talks shit.  This is all PR, henknkws the truth

[Royston.]

Great if we don't sell our top players and realistically, we could slap a 100 million price tag on each of them cos I doubt anyone wants to leave at the moment.

 

[Alan Frost]

8 hours ago, Webbo said:

Most of our most saleable assets have an injury question mark over them from this season. Other clubs might wait to see how they progress before they put in a bid, or maybe use that to try and squeeze the price. 

We counter that by showing the amount of tread left on their boot soles  and point out if there is any reduction in top speed or acceleration it will help enable their existing players to keep up with them. Nearly every ones' players will have injury question marks over them from this season. If we get a good finish which looks likely, I hope we don't need  to sell anyone significant and practically all our squad have proved to the PL they can be trusted as squad players to put in a shift and step up when required.

 

Edited 21 March 2021 by Alan Frost

[demon_dog]

I'd imagine after yesterdays performance that Man U, Pool and Man City will be looking to see which of our players they could prise away.

Slap a transfer ban on all of them, alternatively they must give £100 million for each one.

[Hack]

On 20/03/2021 at 20:23, wattolcfc said:

I think COVID can actually benefit a club like ours. With so many good, young players who will only improve given time and with nobody having £100m to spend on one player, we could keep hold of our best players for a few years and hopefully that will propel us into a consistently top 4 club.

The key for us and other top clubs the good players coming off contract will be where we are dealing i am sure rather than big money transfers. 

[Chrysalis]

No question at all there will be links to at least 1 or 2 of our key players, Rodgers is at risk of links as well.

 

Whether or not the club sanction it remains to be seen, I am glad Rodgers has came out with this, puts pressure on the club to try and maintain our squad, but looking at it sensibly, I expect a key player to go.