Wesley Fofana - He is no more - finished - forgotten.

[foxinsocks]

2 minutes ago, FoxinNotts said:

NO NO NO

Its not ideal ..but vesty has to ve shown the door 

[Dames]

11 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

We want to move on the deadwood, not sell our best players.

We want too but can't but the article suggests that even if we sell our best players it's not going to do much as we can only afford to replace them with a lesser quality player and not address any other problem areas.

[PAPA LAZAROU]

26 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Why have the club even bothered to hire a new Head of Recruitment when so many of our fans already tell us who we are going to sign. 
 

I think If we do shift the deadwood it’s more likely we will look for decent value additions/players with future sell on potential. I think if players like Praet, Choudhury and Perez leave we will look to replace them with players like James Garner or take a punt on a talented yongster like Alex Scott from the Championship. 
 

if we sell Youri then I think it will be a ready made replacement like Aaour or Kokcu 

Yes, and why have we bothered to hire a new head of recruitment who actually can play no part in this transfer window? He's still at Southampton for christ sake. Who at the club thought that a good idea?

[coolhandfox]

23 minutes ago, Dames said:

We want too but can't but the article suggests that even if we sell our best players it's not going to do much as we can only afford to replace them with a lesser quality player and not address any other problem areas.

It is not about affordability it is about not being willing.

 

"Leicester do not need to sell. Their issues in what has been a frozen transfer window so far have been around squad capacity. They have too many senior players. They have to make room before they can bring in new signings or risk being left with senior players on good wages being left out of the squad and unable to contribute, a prospect that makes no sense in any business model. Selling an asset doesn’t solve a problem."

 

Someone high up has said we aren't having 4 or 5 players unregistered drawing a wage. 

Edited 9 August 2022 by coolhandfox

[Kuredufox]

45 minutes ago, Dames said:

So all in all basically even if we sell for 80 odd million we still don't have enough room in the budget to sign players.

 

We really are up the creek without a paddle aint we. 

Its not about money, we have money just not room in the squad. We need to shift players first.

[Chelmofox]

1 minute ago, PAPA LAZAROU said:

Yes, and why have we bothered to hire a new head of recruitment who actually can play no part in this transfer window? He's still at Southampton for christ sake. Who at the club thought that a good idea?

I presume the club think he’s the best person for the role, but it’s common for there to be notice periods etc in employment. This transfer window isn’t the only one there will ever be.

[Dahnsouff]

Should Fofana go, Ronnie Edwards at Peterboro as the prospect + more experienced loan? Or too raw? Too expensive?

[Dames]

6 minutes ago, Kuredufox said:

Its not about money, we have money just not room in the squad. We need to shift players first.

We can always leave players out of the squad and hope to loan them to a Championship team as a last resort with a % of wage covered if it was purely about squad room.

 

130k pw and a space freed and still no incomings. 

[cruzFOX]

I’m really starting to dislike Southampton now! Feel like this is there sneaky way to get revenge on us for that humiliating defeat several seasons ago.

lurch & berty and now the recruitment guy.

feels disproportionate. Hope we give them another ass whooping this season!

[tylesta]

4 minutes ago, Dames said:

We can always leave players out of the squad and hope to loan them to a Championship team as a last resort with a % of wage covered if it was purely about squad room.

 

130k pw and a space freed and still no incomings. 

It's ok hoping to loan them out but what if they don't want to drop to the championship

[lcfc_forever]

Chelsea are lowballing us in the hope Fofana tries to force a move. 
 

But that could backfire on him hugely with a World Cup approaching. 
 

We’ve got a very strong hand. 
 

So far, we’re playing it well. 

[An Sionnach]

1 minute ago, cruzFOX said:

I’m really starting to dislike Southampton now! Feel like this is there sneaky way to get revenge on us for that humiliating defeat several seasons ago.

lurch & berty and now the recruitment guy.

feels disproportionate. Hope we give them another ass whooping this season!

With our current squad, if all fit , we should beat them eight out of ten.

[PAPA LAZAROU]

15 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

I presume the club think he’s the best person for the role, but it’s common for there to be notice periods etc in employment. This transfer window isn’t the only one there will ever be.

Come off it it's THE most important transfer window of the whole year and we don't have anyone covering it? what kind of business does that?

Edited 9 August 2022 by PAPA LAZAROU

[Grebfromgrebland]

I was shot down for saying that we've ballsed up not having someone in to manage recruitment, which includes outgoings and wheeling and dealing over this crucial transfer window.

 

At the same time Southampton have the old guy in (Glover) and the new guy from man city already working for them sending them loads of talent / ideas

 

 

[coolhandfox]

13 minutes ago, Dames said:

We can always leave players out of the squad and hope to loan them to a Championship team as a last resort with a % of wage covered if it was purely about squad room.

 

130k pw and a space freed and still no incomings. 

It is not about moving out one player even if they are on 130k even without Kasper we still have 29 players we have to register in the squad!

 

Currently, even without signing a single player we will be paid 4 players to do nothing, sign 1 player that becomes 5 being paid for doing nothing!!!!

 

We need to ship out before we sign anyone, it's not rock science. Would you want to be paying 5 people 200k to 300k a week or 15m a year to do nothing? 

 

1    Kasper Schmeichel

2    Danny Ward

3    James Justin

4    Wesley Fofana

5    Caglar Soyuncu 

6    Ryan Bertrand

7    Jonny Evans

8    Daniel Amartey

9    Ricardo Pereira

10    Jannik Vestergaard

11    Timothy Castagne

12    Luke Thomas (UNDER 21)

13    Lewis Brunt

14    Harvey Barnes

15    Youri Tielemans

16    James Maddison

17    Marc Albrighton

18    Hamza Choudhury

19    Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall

20    Nampalys Mendy

21    Wilfred Ndidi

22    Dennis Praet

23    Boubakary Soumare

24    Thanawat Suengchitthawon

25    Jamie Vardy

26    Kelechi Iheanacho

27    Ayoze Perez

28    Khanya Leshabela (LOAN)

29    Callum Wright

30    Daniel Iversen

31    George Hirst

32    Josh Eppiah

33    Jakub Stolarczyk

Edited 9 August 2022 by coolhandfox

[cruzFOX]

I’m sure folks at the high levels of the club know this is not a good situation we are in. They just don’t say much to the public of us the fans. If there busy trying to fix it then let them get in with it. Just hope they learn big time from this mess.

[jayfox26]

Probably a good job I'm not DOF as I'd probably risk the finances of the club out of spite and not sell Fofana cos Chelsea are a scummy club and their fans are entitled c*nts. Seen so many saying Fofana is average and not worth more than £40m. Really does show how so many fans of "big clubs" have no idea about any players other than the ones that play for their club! 

[PAPA LAZAROU]

3 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

I was shot down for saying that we've ballsed up not having someone in to manage recruitment, which includes outgoings and wheeling and dealing over this crucial transfer window.

 

At the same time Southampton have the old guy in (Glover) and the new guy from man city already working for them sending them loads of talent / ideas

 

 

Not on your own mate. Quite a few Ostriches on here who don't like the sound of the truth. It is farcical that our new head of recruitment is still at a rival club during what should be his most important time of the season. Someone needs sacking for it.

[fox_up_north]

I thought he'd moved already? So are we paying him to stay at Southampton? 

[PAPA LAZAROU]

6 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

It is not about moving out one player even if they are on 130k even without Kasper we still have 29 players we have to register in the squad!

 

Currently, even without signing a single player we will be paid 4 players to do nothing, sign 1 player that becomes 5 being paid for doing nothing!!!!

 

We need to ship out before we sign anyone, it's not rock science. Would you want to be paying 5 people 200k to 300k a week or 15m a year to do nothing? 

 

1    Kasper Schmeichel

2    Danny Ward

3    James Justin

4    Wesley Fofana

5    Caglar Soyuncu 

6    Ryan Bertrand

7    Jonny Evans

8    Daniel Amartey

9    Ricardo Pereira

10    Jannik Vestergaard

11    Timothy Castagne

12    Luke Thomas (UNDER 21)

13    Lewis Brunt

14    Harvey Barnes

15    Youri Tielemans

16    James Maddison

17    Marc Albrighton

18    Hamza Choudhury

19    Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall

20    Nampalys Mendy

21    Wilfred Ndidi

22    Dennis Praet

23    Boubakary Soumare

24    Thanawat Suengchitthawon

25    Jamie Vardy

26    Kelechi Iheanacho

27    Ayoze Perez

28    Khanya Leshabela (LOAN)

29    Callum Wright

30    Daniel Iversen

31    George Hirst

32    Josh Eppiah

33    Jakub Stolarczyk

What we actually need is to find out who is it at the club that has cockked this up to such an extent that we have to sell before we can buy? I can't see any other club with this problem why just us?

[PAPA LAZAROU]

Just now, fox_up_north said:

I thought he'd moved already? So are we paying him to stay at Southampton? 

He's still on their books.

[jayfox26]

2 minutes ago, PAPA LAZAROU said:

Not on your own mate. Quite a few Ostriches on here who don't like the sound of the truth. It is farcical that our new head of recruitment is still at a rival club during what should be his most important time of the season. Someone needs sacking for it.

Sack everyone. Top, Rudkin, Whelan, Rodgers, filbert the fox, Doris the tea lady! Get them all gone! 

[Dahnsouff]

Just now, PAPA LAZAROU said:

Not on your own mate. Quite a few Ostriches on here who don't like the sound of the truth. It is farcical that our new head of recruitment is still at a rival club during what should be his most important time of the season. Someone needs sacking for it.

The working world in football is as the working world at large, the best people often come with such strictures and conditions, the fault lies in the timing, not the person necessarily. Even the timing we have no idea then steps invoived to gain access to said person, the conditons of his current contract. 

[PAPA LAZAROU]

Just now, jayfox26 said:

Sack everyone. Top, Rudkin, Whelan, Rodgers, filbert the fox, Doris the tea lady! Get them all gone! 

No just the individual or individuals who have got us into this mess will do.

[Leicester_Loyal]

With those 4 players being paid to do nothing, we've simply got to get through this season and go again next summer sadly. We can't afford new players, we can't afford to pay Rodgers off, so hopefully we can just stay up, bank the cash, improve the turnover and then re-build next summer. We'll have to sell a star player next summer for sure, let all the dross who are out of contract go, all whilst giving new contracts this season to players like Maddison, Ndidi and Vardy.

 

Not a great time to be a fan, but the main thing is the club is sustainable and we stay in the PL.