Daniel James

[HighPeakFox]

52 minutes ago, DANGEROUS TIGER said:

Completelyt dissagree. My reason is

I cannot be the only person wondering what the reason might be.

[Jakemoore]

2 hours ago, scinnell said:

No end product from James is the biggest FoxesTalk myth since people turned their noses up at the prospect of signing Lingard due to simular reasons.

 

Some of his deliveries for Wales and his assist last game of the season for United spring to mind.. a 23 year old can be coached to become more consistent with this

You didn’t see him race through on goal yesterday, and then completely over hit the cross which would have made it 2-0? His end product is poor. 

[ScrumpyJack]

55 minutes ago, DANGEROUS TIGER said:

Completelyt dissagree. My reason is

Controversial point, but a point well made. I hadn’t considered that it would tie-in so closely to the situation in Gaza.

[Finnegan]

12 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

You are probably right about 40m, but given the fact he was bought for 16m (10m + addons) 2 years ago, and he is having a decent Euro's, I am unsure how much cheaper he will be.

 

Clubs like United who are financially irresponsible tend to not bother milking massive fees out of players when they are deemed to have failed. They just want them off the books and off the wage bill. 

 

Last year alone they sold:

Smalling - about 15m

Fosu Mensah - less than 2m

Rojo - nominal fee / possibly free transfer 

 

Before that:

Matteo Darmian - 1.5m ish 

Daley Blind - about 15m

Fellaini - approx 10m

Januzaj - interesting one because of obvious James comparison, about 8m

Memphis Depay - likewise above, 13m

Di Maria - bit different because they sold him to PSG for 44m but worth noting that was a 15m+ loss 

Jonny Evans - 8m

 

So I think it's fair to imagine that when James eventually leaves United it will probably be for a pretty low fee and it wouldn't surprise anyone if they make a loss. 

[Kuredufox]

20 minutes ago, Jakemoore said:

You didn’t see him race through on goal yesterday, and then completely over hit the cross which would have made it 2-0? His end product is poor. 

Was that after a 60 yard run with the ball in the 90th minute? not surprised as he must have been blowing out his ar$e after the work Wales players had done all game.

[Finnegan]

30 minutes ago, Jakemoore said:

You didn’t see him race through on goal yesterday, and then completely over hit the cross which would have made it 2-0? His end product is poor. 

 

You didn't see him land one perfectly on Keiffer Moore's head in the first half, with his weak foot, then? 

 

He was a constant threat yesterday and played well. You'd have to be an idiot to try and use yesterday's game as an example of why you think he's poor. 

 

I know I've posted a lot in this thread over the last 24hrs so I should iterate, I think he's inconsistent and we should be looking for better. He wouldn't be anywhere near to my first choice for a transfer this summer. 

 

But honestly, some of the opinions on here are ridiculous. Yes, he wasn't really ready or good enough to move to Manchester United and be a starter but that's their fault not his. 

[splinterdream]

He looked like a possible rough diamond to me, but so did Gray, so it's a gamble 

[turtmcfly]

5 hours ago, gurru991 said:

I feel that Leicesters scouting & evaluation team will not be drawn in by the flash of Daniel James. Man U won't sell cheap & like all Man U players he will be on top dollar wages. 

I feel that we can do way way better than Dan James .

 

The what of Daniel James?

 

Feels like you're you just trying to make up more reasons not to buy him, because you know your 'no end product' one looks daftly binary. Your financial points also seem like a play from the 'multiple bad reasons equals one good one' school of reason.

 

Man U operate almost the opposite model to us. Throw money at too many players at an inflated price, wonder why hardly any of them work out, and then sell them on for a fraction of the original price they paid. A 'get rinsed, repeat' model, if you like.

 

If they broke with this and did want top dollar for him, or James refused to move without being offered silly wages, we wouldn't see him in a Leicester shirt anyway.

 

[Trelleh]

1 hour ago, DANGEROUS TIGER said:

Completelyt dissagree. My reason is

It’s ............Rebekah Vardy’s account.

[jmono84]

I’ve not seen him perform yet because I’ve not managed to catch any of the Wales games but International football is nothing like the premier League.

 

Ill look forward to watching a game where he doesn’t dive all the time and see if there’s actually a good player there.

[FoxOnWheels]

Would take him for the right fee, people saying his end product can’t be improved? Sterling had much worse end product at one point and a good coach improved it massively so why couldn’t Rodgers?

Edited 17 June 2021 by FoxOnWheels

[mazarron fox]

I was a wing/wing back coach at Bayer Belgravekrusen and crossing was an easy skill to get right. If they hit it to hard I said don’t and if they under-hit the cross I said hit harder, problem solved. 
you’re welcome 😊  

[Blue ROI]

We've done quite well out of the Man Utd cast offs so we might strike gold with James.

 

The only issue is that we're solid on the left side with Harvey. It's more a certain player at Le Havre that we're trying to replace on the right.

[murphy]

47 minutes ago, mazarron fox said:

I was a wing/wing back coach at Bayer Belgravekrusen and crossing was an easy skill to get right. If they hit it to hard I said don’t and if they under-hit the cross I said hit harder, problem solved. 
you’re welcome 😊  

Brilliant!  I think we should sign you on to the first team staff.  You could start by telling Perez to run faster and telling Barnes to stop being injured.

 

 

Edited 17 June 2021 by murphy

[Frank Large's Black Book]

2 hours ago, ScrumpyJack said:

Controversial point, but a point well made. I hadn’t considered that it would tie-in so closely to the situation in Gaza.

Nor me. And from an article the other day in that esteemed daily -The Sun - Paul Gascoigne's situation is he's living the high life in Australia

Edited 17 June 2021 by Frank Large's Black Book

[scinnell]

2 hours ago, Jakemoore said:

You didn’t see him race through on goal yesterday, and then completely over hit the cross which would have made it 2-0? His end product is poor. 

I didn't watch the second half unfortunately. Can only comment on a few quality deliveries from the first half! But there again, I am sure I have watched Harvey Barnes overhit crosses before.

Edited 17 June 2021 by scinnell

[dobbylcfc]

If it was for less than 20 mill I’d take him Rogers loves a young player to improve and he can’t be worse than gray or under

[MGLCFC]

I know he plays on the left for Wales, but I could sweat that he operates on the right wing for Man U on the odd occasion when I have seen them play. I may be totally incorrect of course.

[RowlattsFox]

I think there is a player who could be great for us in there somewhere. He's a bit like Barnes before his improvement. Problem is there isn't any value given the price he'd probably cost.

[Deeg67]

James has played almost as many games on the right as the left, and his scoring record is about the same.  Why is everyone talking as if he’s strictly a left winger?  There are plenty of outstanding right-footed RW out there.

Edited 17 June 2021 by Deeg67

[Dahnsouff]

2 hours ago, Deeg67 said:

James has played almost as many games on the right as the left, and his scoring record is about the same.  Why is everyone talking as if he’s strictly a left winger?  There are plenty of outstanding right-footed RW out there.

Because people still have a hard on for Mahrez

[Arriba Los Zorros]

No thank you. He looks like a Welsh Ahmed Musa, all pace, and no technique. Lets not go there again and get in actual footballers for this club.

[Iran]

Going based off the original report, given that Sancho to Manchester United became official today I'm assuming that should increase the chances of James joining Leicester as Paul Swinson initially reported.

Edited 1 July 2021 by Iran

[turlo]

5 minutes ago, Iran said:

Going based off the original report, given that Sancho to Manchester United became official today I'm assuming that should increase the chances of James joining Leicester as Paul Swinson initially reported.

they have 7 players across the front 3 now if you include Amad Diallo, so would think either James or Diallo would go out on loan. 

[An Sionnach]

James is not good enough for Man.Utd. so nothing more to say.