Babylon Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 Random… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuna Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 Wasn't he the "Italian Vardy" we were linked with in 2016? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tielemans63 Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 We were after him a couple of years ago before he moved to Milan weren't we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGLCFC Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 31 year old striker - surely not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoareyaaa Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 looked at him before.. Claudio Ranieri has confirmed Leicester's interest in Gianluca Lapadula, saying: "We also look to Italy for the market. Lapadula is very good. We've been following him for a while." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasPb Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 In a group chat of Spanish speaking leicester fans doubt this is true given the age but will ask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudFox Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 How odd. We were linked back when Ranieri was here as @whoareyaaasays. No idea why we'd be linked now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buce Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 17 minutes ago, NasPb said: In a group chat of Spanish speaking leicester fans doubt this is true given the age but will ask Do they also speak Italian then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 Maybe a striker is being sold or we’ve sacked off wide men and going for more up top! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jruizc_ Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 22 minutes ago, Buce said: Do they also speak Italian then? No, but Lapadula is Peruvian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strokes Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 23 minutes ago, Nick said: Maybe a striker is being sold or we’ve sacked off wide men and going for more up top! I genuinely think we are going for a 4-3-1-2, with quite a roaming front line. Vardy (interchangeable with Barnes) has always been good at drifting left and coming inside, I think Daka will do the same on the right. Maddison will be much higher up the pitch in a more traditional 10 (interchangeable with Nacho). Then two warriors in Ndidi and Soumare protecting Youri so he can do his thing. The defence is pretty self explanatory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_77 Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 I can’t imagine how anyone who watched him this season would think he’s the man to sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasPb Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 3 hours ago, Buce said: Do they also speak Italian then? hes peruvian the lad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 4 hours ago, NasPb said: In a group chat of Spanish speaking leicester fans doubt this is true given the age but will ask 4 hours ago, Buce said: Do they also speak Italian then? 3 hours ago, jruizc_ said: No, but Lapadula is Peruvian He's both. We're also very obviously not signing him. What is this, 2014? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerbyshireFox Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 “the Peru idol scores and Leicester comes forward for him” Italian born with a Peruvian mother apparently! (Thank you Wikipedia 🤣). Got to be an old story or a mix up, Ranieri was looking at him after the title win!! Nowhere near what we’d be looking for now, especially after Daka. Very odd link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 4 hours ago, Nick said: Maybe a striker is being sold or we’ve sacked off wide men and going for more up top! Rodgers hinted last season we might be in the market for two strikers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasPb Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 27 minutes ago, Finnegan said: He's both. We're also very obviously not signing him. What is this, 2014? point stands that someone from perú will know about a peruvian, just like how an englishman will know about sterling, though he was born in jamaica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesta2014 Posted 4 July 2021 Share Posted 4 July 2021 (edited) 18 minutes ago, MPH said: Rodgers hinted last season we might be in the market for two strikers. Edouard on deadline day when Celtic haven’t sold him and realise he can sign abroad in jan for nothing? Edited 4 July 2021 by Lesta2014 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewquayFox Posted 5 July 2021 Share Posted 5 July 2021 (edited) Sisi (City fan lives in Peru) is all over this on FB, it’s in the National papers in Peru, not sure if he’s a right sided winger or a central striker… Edited 5 July 2021 by NewquayFox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weller54 Posted 5 July 2021 Share Posted 5 July 2021 10 hours ago, NasPb said: hes peruvian the lad! Cheers Yoda. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_77 Posted 5 July 2021 Share Posted 5 July 2021 1 hour ago, NewquayFox said: Sisi (City fan lives in Peru) is all over this on FB, it’s in the National papers in Peru, not sure if he’s a right sided winger or a central striker… He played mostly as a striker last season and sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 5 July 2021 Share Posted 5 July 2021 25 minutes ago, The_77 said: He played mostly as a striker last season and sucked. The whole thing is stupid, the thread just needs locking. @Mark The year we won the league he was in his mid twenties and he scored 27 goals in Serie B. He was likened to Jamie Vardy and it was suggested in 16/17 than Ranieri was interested because he was a similar sort of player and Italian. It was a tenuous link back then. In the years since, he's proven to not be able to really stand out in Serie A managing 8, 6, 1, 11 and 8 again last year. He's now 31, he'll turn 32 this coming season, and at a recently relegated Benevento. His agent no doubt wants to keep him playing top flight football for the last couple years of his career and wants him away from a club that's just gone down in the same way that he jumped from Lecce when he got relegated with them. So they've reminded some idiot journalist somewhere that Leicester City were once interested. We've just signed one of the best striking prospects in world football to add to Jamie Vardy and Kelechi Iheanacho and conventional wisdom seems to be that we'll return to a 1 striker system next year. Lapadula plays almost exclusively as a central striker and doesn't even satisfy the need for a right winger. Nor does he meet Rodgers preference for what he called "broken" players or anything else in the clubs general philosophies of a transfer, either young up and comers or an experienced free signing with rich top flight caliber. He's a crap journeyman on the way out. Even with our inconsistent track record signing attacking players there's categorically no way we're looking at this guy. It's like linking us to Billy Sharpe ffs. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudulike Posted 5 July 2021 Share Posted 5 July 2021 5 minutes ago, Finnegan said: The whole thing is stupid, the thread just needs locking. @Mark The year we won the league he was in his mid twenties and he scored 27 goals in Serie B. He was likened to Jamie Vardy and it was suggested in 16/17 than Ranieri was interested because he was a similar sort of player and Italian. It was a tenuous link back then. In the years since, he's proven to not be able to really stand out in Serie A managing 8, 6, 1, 11 and 8 again last year. He's now 31, he'll turn 32 this coming season, and at a recently relegated Benevento. His agent no doubt wants to keep him playing top flight football for the last couple years of his career and wants him away from a club that's just gone down in the same way that he jumped from Lecce when he got relegated with them. So they've reminded some idiot journalist somewhere that Leicester City were once interested. We've just signed one of the best striking prospects in world football to add to Jamie Vardy and Kelechi Iheanacho and conventional wisdom seems to be that we'll return to a 1 striker system next year. Lapadula plays almost exclusively as a central striker and doesn't even satisfy the need for a right winger. Nor does he meet Rodgers preference for what he called "broken" players or anything else in the clubs general philosophies of a transfer, either young up and comers or an experienced free signing with rich top flight caliber. He's a crap journeyman on the way out. Even with our inconsistent track record signing attacking players there's categorically no way we're looking at this guy. It's like linking us to Billy Sharpe ffs. Why do you keep asking for threads to be locked when you don't like the subject content? Some fans might want to discuss this even if there might not be any truth in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 5 July 2021 Share Posted 5 July 2021 6 minutes ago, Spudulike said: Why do you keep asking for threads to be locked when you don't like the subject content? Some fans might want to discuss this even if there might not be any truth in it. Fvcks you give about whether this thread gets locked: 0 Fvcks you give that your bitch fest post Wales Denmark got cut short whilst you were having fun trolling: Way too many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudulike Posted 5 July 2021 Share Posted 5 July 2021 2 minutes ago, Finnegan said: Fvcks you give about whether this thread gets locked: 0 Fvcks you give that your bitch fest post Wales Denmark got cut short whilst you were having fun trolling: Way too many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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