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Ian Nacho

Wesley Fofana

By Ian Nacho, in Transfer Talk

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JamesfromlondonLCFC

JamesfromlondonLCFC

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3 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

On the one hand I never want us to deal with any ESL club again but on the other I also want to bankrupt the *****. 

Literally no way Real ever go bankrupt. Spanish government will just bail them out.

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Nicolo Barella

Nicolo Barella

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3 hours ago, Gerard said:

Take £80m all day long and especially in this market when I believe it hasn't caught up with the fact that three of it's biggest spenders in Real, Barca & PSG are relatively skint.

 

Fofana is a great young talent but he is far from a rock, £80m is rock prices.

I would take it only if it meant we got an incredible RW, someone on Chiesa's level. Fofana would be difficult to replace.

Babylon

Babylon

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2 hours ago, Nicolo Barella said:

I would take it only if it meant we got an incredible RW, someone on Chiesa's level. Fofana would be difficult to replace.

Fofana wouldn’t be that difficult to replace, I mean he was good but he made a lot of mistakes second half of the season, especially when Evans wasn’t holding his hand.

 

Can’t say I’m looking forward to a Fofana Soyuncu partnership.

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gerblod

gerblod

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9 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

I hate these ESL protagonists with a passion 

You and me both. I was brought up loving football - playing it and watching it. From the time we first got a TV I was enthralled by the European Cup final.

Amongst us kids Alfredo di Stefano was the hero. Real Madrid had collected the first set of Galacticos around him - Puskas, Gento, del Sol and Kopa and they dominated European football in a way no other club has.

 

Now I ask just how did they manage to do that and how the other unapologetic clubs, Barca and the Italian three, created their huge reputations and the line of credit that made it and makes it possible.

I suspect the answer is that certain countries or regions remained wholly or relatively unscathed at the end of WW2, while swathes of Western, Central and Eastern Europe were left economically ruined, physically destroyed and politically screwed for decades after. 

Spanish football profited from that and Italian football, in Northern Italy anyway, didn't do so bad either. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

davieG

davieG

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I'd like us to go one close season without selling one of our better players so we lose this reputation we've gained of selling one of our players to a 'bigger' club every year otherwise we're never going to lose our little old Leicester tag even if we are. 

 

I understand we will continue to have to work this way but it doesn't have to be every season also I'm sick of the poor to shit ex-player pundits using it as a reason to put our players up for sale every summer.

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lcfc sheff

lcfc sheff

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18 minutes ago, davieG said:

I'd like us to go one close season without selling one of our better players so we lose this reputation we've gained of selling one of our players to a 'bigger' club every year otherwise we're never going to lose our little old Leicester tag even if we are. 

 

I understand we will continue to have to work this way but it doesn't have to be every season also I'm sick of the poor to shit ex-player pundits using it as a reason to put our players up for sale every summer.

Ex pundits are always gonna think of us as ‘little Leicester’ no matter how well we do. We just have to ignore them and stop giving them the attention they crave 

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Lesterlad

Lesterlad

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I would hate to see him leave, he has the potential to be world class. But if Real Madrid do come in for him with an offer we cant refuse, I doubt he would stay here. They are a team far from their best but still the club most players would jump at joining 

davieG

davieG

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4 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

Ex pundits are always gonna think of us as ‘little Leicester’ no matter how well we do. We just have to ignore them and stop giving them the attention they crave 

Obviously but as least make them work for it at the moment it's become just a prediction exercise as to who will move rather than will someone move.

 

 

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FrankieADZ

FrankieADZ

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80mil, cant imagine the club would accept that price tbf and even then id be surprised if Real have that money, since they are massively in debt

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lcfc sheff

lcfc sheff

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1 minute ago, sheffield_fox said:

I'm actually ITK as to why this won't happen but I definitely can't say why. 

 

Had to tease you like that cos I've never been ITK about anything before. 

Because he loves living in Nottingham so much?

stu

stu

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3 minutes ago, sheffield_fox said:

I'm actually ITK as to why this won't happen but I definitely can't say why. 

 

Had to tease you like that cos I've never been ITK about anything before. 

Little Wes about to become Big Wes on the old contract front.

An Sionnach

An Sionnach

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Fofana doesn't fit our normal pattern as he was an expensive purchase. My assumption was he was bought to keep at least for four years. If the club sell him now after one year , it makes you ask the question are they just looking for a short term profitable business opportunity. If so,  Rodgers is not going to be happy.

Grebfromgrebland

Grebfromgrebland

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4 hours ago, Babylon said:

Fofana wouldn’t be that difficult to replace, I mean he was good but he made a lot of mistakes second half of the season, especially when Evans wasn’t holding his hand.

 

Can’t say I’m looking forward to a Fofana Soyuncu partnership.

That would mean we need 2 centre backs though. I doubt we could replace Evans and fofana in a few weeks

SkidsFox

SkidsFox

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4 hours ago, gerblod said:

You and me both. I was brought up loving football - playing it and watching it. From the time we first got a TV I was enthralled by the European Cup final.

Amongst us kids Alfredo di Stefano was the hero. Real Madrid had collected the first set of Galacticos around him - Puskas, Gento, del Sol and Kopa and they dominated European football in a way no other club has.

 

Now I ask just how did they manage to do that and how the other unapologetic clubs, Barca and the Italian three, created their huge reputations and the line of credit that made it and makes it possible.

I suspect the answer is that certain countries or regions remained wholly or relatively unscathed at the end of WW2, while swathes of Western, Central and Eastern Europe were left economically ruined, physically destroyed and politically screwed for decades after. 

Spanish football profited from that and Italian football, in Northern Italy anyway, didn't do so bad either. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Probably they did it by being open to importing foreign talent - they already had big ties to south America, and Eastern Europe is not so far. Remember it was not really until the 70s that we started seeing big imports into the English game - we thought we had enough talent here, and to be honest, since we also had sons of Empire immigrants, and the Scottish talent pool to draw upon, they had a point.

As to the idea that Spain (a certain matter of the Spanish Civil War, and UN sanctions after the war) and Italy (a major battlefield during the war) were "unscathed" afterwards, is a bit of a leap in the imagination.

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