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

[Fox85]

2 minutes ago, LCFCbwoi said:

£75 million with add ons included? 
 

I just feel like we’ve lost out on this deal big time. Anything from now until the end of the window will just be bought on impulse and if we don’t get who we want then we may as well have waited until next summer.

 

In the words of Pep Guardiola, “We cannot replace him”

**** it who cares.....

Look the club will find better players in the future and the cycle will happen again.

 

It's kinda like we have loaned a player for a seasons worth of games and gained 55 million for doing so.

 

If we don't sign anyone it's because the board do not trust BR with the funds.

[fazzyfox]

If the add ons are for winning the Premier League and Champions League we’ll only ever get the initial fee 

Edited 27 August 2022 by fazzyfox

[UHDrive]

16 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

L’Equipe mentioning that Saint-Etienne’s cut will be based on profit and not the full fee

 

Will be up to €10m / £8.5m

 

https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Sur-le-transfert-de-fofana-a-leicester-saint-etienne-peut-toucher-jusqu-a-10-millions-d-euros/1350355

Does anyone know whether we had further add ons when we bought Fofana I.e. over and above £36 million? 

[AKCJ]

1 minute ago, Sublime_Coatsworth said:

Given the level of professionalism we've seen from him, they wouldn't need to. He'd politely get out of their way, and would probably even put a couple of them through on goal.

[Babylon]

7 minutes ago, JimJams said:

So if that's correct, it's not a record.

Story broke in France who said it could be record with addons. He says “around”, which means he actually doesn’t know, pinch of salt

Edited 27 August 2022 by Babylon

[AKCJ]

To all the City fans in London today. Make sure you give this snake both barrels. 

[mozartfox]

Paper work done. What about the medical?  That is likely to be seriously comprehensive following that level of injury.  If we did cave in and accept less than 80m, that is just another error of judgement on the part of the people running this Club.  However, Romano is not always correct in his information. 

[LCFCbwoi]

2 minutes ago, Fox85 said:

**** it who cares.....

Look the club will find better players in the future and the cycle will happen again.

 

It's kinda like we have loaned a player for a seasons worth of games and gained 55 million for doing so.

 

If we don't sign anyone it's because the board do not trust BR with the funds.

Which is my point. We’ll find the right signings but not with a week to go.

 

We’ve weakened ourselves and it’s not even like we’ve made more profit than we would of done next summer.

[Nalis]

2 minutes ago, mozartfox said:

Paper work done. What about the medical?  That is likely to be seriously comprehensive following that level of injury.  If we did cave in and accept less than 80m, that is just another error of judgement on the part of the people running this Club.  However, Romano is not always correct in his information. 

He's been a bit off this summer

[Dames]

We need to spend over the next 5 days. If we don’t we are in trouble. 

[Cropwellfox]

5 minutes ago, LCFCbwoi said:

Which is my point. We’ll find the right signings but not with a week to go.

 

We’ve weakened ourselves and it’s not even like we’ve made more profit than we would of done next summer.

Imagine we’ll go for loans if a CB target not fully lined up, then funds in Jan if needed. Not ideal but at least there’s a sense we could add to the squad now 

[mozartfox]

10 minutes ago, fazzyfox said:

If the add ons are for winning the Premier League and Champions League we’ll only ever get the initial fee 

Also if he stays for more than two seasons!

Edited 27 August 2022 by mozartfox

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

Fabrizio does not have a clue on the fee....trust me.

[moore_94]

9 minutes ago, UHDrive said:

Does anyone know whether we had further add ons when we bought Fofana I.e. over and above £36 million? 

That article mentions that we bought him for €40m + €5m in add ons

[UHDrive]

2 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

That article mentions that we bought him for €40m + €5m in add ons

Christ, based on the exchange rate in 2020 that's coming out at £38 million unless my maths is rubbish 

[LCFCbwoi]

4 minutes ago, Cropwellfox said:

Imagine we’ll go for loans if a CB target not fully lined up, then funds in Jan if needed. Not ideal but at least there’s a sense we could add to the squad now 

Yeah you’re probably right, still have no idea how we’ll improve this defence though.

 

We’re one Evans injury from being in the mud. Realistically we could do with 2 new CBs now he’s gone

[BigGibbo]

If we only get the initial 70M our profit will be 34M minus 20% sell on fee to St Etienne so 27M (probably still minus agent fees, etc on that).

 

Very little relative to the market and his improvement under us and easily wastable on 1 or 2 panicked last minute Rodgers signings (a la Bertrand & Vestergaard).

 

Having said that it had to happen as we can't afford another Mahrez situation (where he sulks for a season) going into a potential relegation battle and we could easily have ended up in a perverse situation where we made a loss on a world class young player we had improved when we finally sold him (see Tieleman's) considering the 36M we paid for him.

Edited 27 August 2022 by BigGibbo

[nettle]

We must have someone lined up if we are letting him go 

[Ted Maul]

Wouldn't surprise me if we leaked a lower fee to take a bit of pressure off the process of finding a replacement 

[UHDrive]

4 minutes ago, BigGibbo said:

If we only get the initial 70M our profit will be 34M minus 20% sell on fee to St Etienne so 27M (probably still minus agent fees, etc on that).

 

Very little relative to the market and his improvement under us and easily wastable on 1 or 2 panicked last minute Rodgers signings (a la Bertrand & Vestergaard).

 

Having said that it had to happen as we can't afford another Mahrez situation (where he sulks for a season) going into a potential relegation battle and we could easily have ended up in a perverse situation where we made a loss on a world class young player we had improved when we finally sold him considering the 36M we paid for him.

Another lesson would be the sell on fee we agreed to. I know it was last minute and we were desperate but still.

[whitlock]

10 minutes ago, Chocolate Teapot said:

Fabrizio does not have a clue on the fee....trust me.

Do tell more..

[lcfc_forever]

Thinking about it, better a lower fee is reported, even though it’s probably more like 80m. Said different yesterday but we don’t want other clubs thinking we’ve got even more to spend. 

[Jakemoore]

25 minutes ago, JimJams said:

So if that's correct, it's not a record.

It's not a Prem record, it's not a British record, it's not chelseas record, it's not our record, it's not a record for a CB, it's not a record for a 21 year old.

 

So to reiterate. It's not a record.

You sound like a broken record 😂

[BigGibbo]

12 minutes ago, Dames said:

We need to spend over the next 5 days. If we don’t we are in trouble. 

If we do we might be in more trouble given the track record for last minute signings like Vestergaard.

 

Need a loan with a view to buy for the likes of Levi Colwill or Nat Philips.

[HankMarvin]

8 minutes ago, Ted Maul said:

Wouldn't surprise me if we leaked a lower fee to take a bit of pressure off the process of finding a replacement 

5m odd not really gonna make that much difference on a deal this size