Gerard Posted 26 May 2021 Posted 26 May 2021 3 hours ago, MGLCFC said: So what you are saying, there is no point in football, because we will always fail to compete with the big boys, financially. Wonder if Blackpool, Notts County etc thought they would always rule the footy world back in the 1930's. I don't expect to see a sismic change in 5 years, but just maybe, 15 years down the line we may be able to compete. Let's face it, where would Man City and Chelsea be without their oil money. It was only a few years a go when my lofty ambitions for Leicester were to be the "new Stoke". We're now one of the top 20 rated clubs in the world and that was unthinkable when I was growing up. We're ahead of traditional European powerhouses like Celtic, Ajax, Benfica, etc or at least in the sense we would buy their best players not the other way round. Never say never and maybe we can still climb further but almost certainly we're more likely to fall from our lofty position than climb, just enjoy the times we have been blessed with. 2
Gerard Posted 26 May 2021 Posted 26 May 2021 38 minutes ago, Babylon said: Makes no sense, they’d snap his bloody hand off. Yeah sure 4 is better, but at this stage it’s about protecting his value because he WILL be off at some point. You can’t let it get down to one year left,* so you either cash in now or extend a year and cash in next summer. *Our tactic is selling high and reinvesting in a few players. Leaving it to one season means we’d be lucky to get our money back. I've always thought two years on the contract is the pivot point when the power goes from the club to the player, especially if that player is of relative high value to the selling club. If Tielemans won't sign a new deal then anything over £60m should be considered. I've no problem if he does leave as long as we get top money, there is a lot to be said for selling a player when he has hit his probable peak value. I was happy to sell Drinkwater, Maguire and Chilwell for the prices at the time. Less so Mahrez because he was an exceptional player but with him wanting out and being nearly 27.5yo when we sold him for £60m that wasn't a bad deal for us. The only one that annoyed was Kante but we made the best of a bad situation squeezing £10m more than his release clause out of Chelsea when he would have just gone elsewhere for £22m. If you're a club that uses the transfer market to your advantage then it's good business to sell Tielemans for big money and for him to fund the summer transfer business. I hope he stays but if not then that's the game we try to play to buy low, sell high and aim to buy the next best young player. 1
The whole world smiles Posted 26 May 2021 Posted 26 May 2021 3 hours ago, Reginaldo said: Youri is his agents’s biggest asset by A loooooong way. He nsturally would be feeding such stories to Belgian press... People instantly think the agent will be pushing for a big money move but that's not necessarily true. With a big money move the agent only gets paid once. The ideal situation for the agent would be negotiate a new deal for him at Leicester that protects the player and the club (the player from injury the club from his contract winding down) Then sell him next year to a huge club. Much the way Maguires agent played it.
NaijaFox Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 1 hour ago, Gerard said: It was only a few years a go when my lofty ambitions for Leicester were to be the "new Stoke". We're now one of the top 20 rated clubs in the world and that was unthinkable when I was growing up. We're ahead of traditional European powerhouses like Celtic, Ajax, Benfica, etc or at least in the sense we would buy their best players not the other way round. Never say never and maybe we can still climb further but almost certainly we're more likely to fall from our lofty position than climb, just enjoy the times we have been blessed with. LOL! Rest assured you weren't the only one. my, how times (and expectations) have changed! 1
NaijaFox Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 To think that there was a time, particularly during the 2019/20 season, that many FTers would snap your hand off if you offered what we had paid for Youri to take him off our hands. How times do change!
urban.spaceman Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 5 hours ago, foxfanazer said: £40m Yeah he's definitely half of a Maguire Especially now he's won 100% more trophies!
Pliskin Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 Hearing some worrying things this morning.... could actually be leaving. Hope it’s bollocks.
Happy Fox Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 Tielemans is irreplaceable for our champions league aspirations unless we have another diamond up our sleeve transfer target wise. I think missing out on champions league football this season has made his mind up sadly
st albans fox Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 7 hours ago, The whole world smiles said: People instantly think the agent will be pushing for a big money move but that's not necessarily true. With a big money move the agent only gets paid once. The ideal situation for the agent would be negotiate a new deal for him at Leicester that protects the player and the club (the player from injury the club from his contract winding down) Then sell him next year to a huge club. Much the way Maguires agent played it. Place your asset when his price is highest that’s the agent’s job As I said some time ago, a move now gives him another option when he’s 27/28 so that two paydays waiting a year could mean he can only fit one big move in YT may have some very attractive options on the table which might not be there in a years time. He could pick up an injury. And from our perspective we could get 60m now whereas in a years time we would likely just get our money back. if he goes then we just have to get on with it - I felt Brendan prepared us when he said he want leaving but others might.
st albans fox Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 6 minutes ago, shailen said: Hopefully we get £80m+ if he wants to go. in a market where Kane is being talked about @ 100m, I really don’t see more than 60m
splinterdream Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 9 hours ago, Pliskin said: We simply wouldn’t let him go unless we had a ready replacement. Soumare is another piece in our armoury he’s no replacement..... I can’t see this happening in a million years, not this season anyway. And the figure would be obscene. £100+million. It wouldn't be anywhere near £100m unless he was on at least a 3 year contract and he hadn't handed in a transfer request
splinterdream Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 11 minutes ago, Happy Fox said: Tielemans is irreplaceable for our champions league aspirations unless we have another diamond up our sleeve transfer target wise. I think missing out on champions league football this season has made his mind up sadly I think champions league aspirations looks further away than ever, there is deffo a glass ceiling and we've hit it, perhaps we should have strengthened in January. 1
UniFox21 Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 22 minutes ago, Pliskin said: Hearing some worrying things this morning.... could actually be leaving. Hope it’s bollocks. Well this will thoroughly ruin my morning 3 minutes ago, splinterdream said: It wouldn't be anywhere near £100m unless he was on at least a 3 year contract and he hadn't handed in a transfer request Has he handed in a transfer request?
splinterdream Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 1 minute ago, UniFox21 said: Well this will thoroughly ruin my morning Has he handed in a transfer request? No, not to my knowledge, buy if a certain club comes in for him he fancies, he might
UniFox21 Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 Just now, splinterdream said: No, not to my knowledge, buy if a certain club comes in for him he fancies, he might He'd lose any loyalty bonus then, so I'd assume he wouldn't.
shailen Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 9 minutes ago, st albans fox said: in a market where Kane is being talked about @ 100m, I really don’t see more than 60m In which case I'd rather we run down his contract and let him have two more years here, as long as he is willing to do so. In the meantime we can sign his replacement and coach him to come in when Youri leaves.
Pliskin Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, UniFox21 said: Well this will thoroughly ruin my morning Has he handed in a transfer request? Nothing more other than he’s allegedly open to a move to a cub who have CL football..... nothing more than that.... so I’d say there’s potentially a 60% chance he could be gone. Which isn’t clever for us. Id be fuming if he goes to Liverpool though. They’ve done my ****ing tree on this season, then and their cheese grater voiced fans. Edited 27 May 2021 by Pliskin
Guest Chocolate Teapot Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 10 minutes ago, UniFox21 said: He'd lose any loyalty bonus then, so I'd assume he wouldn't. He won't hand in a transfer request. Doesn't mean he might not force a move.
UniFox21 Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 7 minutes ago, Pliskin said: Nothing more other than he’s allegedly open to a move to a cub who have CL football..... nothing more than that.... so I’d say there’s potentially a 60% chance he could be gone. Which isn’t clever for us. Id be fuming if he goes to Liverpool though. They’ve done my ****ing tree on this season, then and their cheese grater voiced fans. I'd be gutted if it truly wasn't a massive club. I don't think he'd fit the Liverpool system, it'll be Fabinho, Thiago and Henderson. Youri plays that Thiago role and well you wouldn't drop him. 1 minute ago, Chocolate Teapot said: He won't hand in a transfer request. Doesn't mean he might not force a move. For sure, I was just saying he wouldn't likely hand in a transfer request.
Shane Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 8 hours ago, MPH said: nice ‘ press release’ by the agent. That’s another 10 grand a week on his extension. Its not even a press release. Its a made up article by teamtalk, one of the worst sources out there.
Popular Post Rusko187 Posted 27 May 2021 Popular Post Posted 27 May 2021 11 hours ago, MGLCFC said: A bit patronising. I support Leicester because I dream of them being the best. Having watched the highs and lows, it's just frustrated to lose players who make a difference. I can assure I'm neither frackers or rude to other posters. I can only think of maybe 5 teams on the planet that doesn't fear of losing players. Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern, Juventus and I'd probably throw Man City into that mix now. Nearly everyone else I think can expect some level of fear that they lose players. I'll tell you another thing though, there are 100's of teams across Europe that don't have a Youri Tielemans in their squad and some of them perform just as well as us, if not better. If he goes, he goes... but I have the faith in our scouting department to identify someone else who could take up that position. Think Klopp said it best, a team has about 3 years life in it, if you don't freshen and changes things up, it will decline. If Youri were to leave, I'd be sad, but it's an opportunity to look at who else we can bring up. 8
Rusko187 Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 4 minutes ago, UniFox21 said: I'd be gutted if it truly wasn't a massive club. I don't think he'd fit the Liverpool system, it'll be Fabinho, Thiago and Henderson. Youri plays that Thiago role and well you wouldn't drop him. For sure, I was just saying he wouldn't likely hand in a transfer request. £60m and Thiago? I could live with that.
UniFox21 Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 3 minutes ago, Rusko187 said: £60m and Thiago? I could live with that. No way, Thiago is on a ridiculous wage and wouldn't drop to us.
splinterdream Posted 27 May 2021 Posted 27 May 2021 25 minutes ago, UniFox21 said: He'd lose any loyalty bonus then, so I'd assume he wouldn't. I don't think youri seems the type driven by money, he has much of his career still ahead of him, seems very switched on and unless we can outmatch Liverpool, Man utd or another club in wages, what he loses on loyalty bonus he'd make up in wages, but it wouldn't come to that, he has 2 years left, all he has to do is say he's not signing a new contract and that's as good as a transfer request, because we can't afford to let his contract run down to 1 year left.
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