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

[ARM1968]

16 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Have I missed something or has the city of Leicester been subjected to a marvel type incident? All of sudden we have a lot of people who can predict our gloomy future…… we may as well sell the training ground to the almighty Newcastle, let the stadium out and pull our pants down.

Pretty much doing the last one aren’t we. Lubed ourselves up as well and signposted the entrance. ?

[Clever Fox]

1 hour ago, Col city fan said:

Reports this am that Chelsea have bid 75 mill…

Well that buys the good Leg. How much for the other.?

[HankMarvin]

They have opened talks with De Jong 71m

plus Brighton left back 50m

Do they have another 80m after Sterling and koudibaly?

 

[Guest Col city fan]

Just now, Clever Fox said:

Well that buys the good Leg. How much for the other.?

Thats a waste of a sentence then...

I think the club would accept 75 mill

[Dames]

5 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

I'm happy to slate the club on many things, particularly ticketing / growth of fambase and comms, but surely upon surely you must think that the club hierarchy would be aware that a fire sale involving losing our best 4 players would.lead to on field disaster? 

 

It ain't gonna happen. Schmeichel has gone as a favour to a loyal player and Tielemans will go due to contract. Nobody else will go. Regardless of price or player wishes

The board are business people first and if the books need balancing they will be balanced one way or another. Short term pain for long term gain. 

 

4 minutes ago, urban fox said:

But we haven’t. All we have said is that we need to sell a few before we can buy due to the number of players on the books. Not the same as having no transfer kitty or being skint. No business recruits staff when there are no vacancies to fill.

it is purely the media, who still hate us for upsetting their big six agenda, who have stirred all this up. No nothing idiots like mills, coming out with crap about all our players wanting to leave etc, when even the likes of Perez and Soyuncu, who are most likely “available” have recently been saying they are up for the new season and ready to give it their all for the club.

kasper, I think is going with the clubs blessing, the reported £1m (ridiculously low for supposedly the 7th best keeper around despite his age) fee being the clubs way of helping to get his last big contract and shot at Europe.

If you can't spend money before making money you're skint. If we really had a good amount of money we'd take the risk on improving the squad and let the players who are in the last years of their contracts sit them out or leave on a free. 

 

We have so many players in the last year of their contracts its not actually that big of a risk but its a risk the club aren't willing to take which means our finances are not as healthy as we would hope.

[Reg Vardy]

3 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

All gone mate

My internet speed needs upping.....miles behind....

[peach0000]

1 minute ago, HankMarvin said:

They have opened talks with De Jong 71m

plus Brighton left back 50m

Do they have another 80m after Sterling and koudibaly?

 

What seems to be a joke is that some clubs are unable to sign players because of FFP then Chelsea can happily blow 300 million. FFP was only ever designed to protect the elite. One of the worst things to happen to football.

[ARM1968]

£100 million package does the deal. They already know that, and at that money we have still been robbed because we just cannot replace the guy. 
 

I think, if Fofana goes, it says all we need to know. Brendan has stated that he is not for sale. If the club then go and sell the lad, we’ll, make your own minds up. 

[urban fox]

Lot being said about what players put on their social media or say in interviews.

would not be the first time a player has sworn unswerving loyalty, not interested in going anywhere, then suddenly their club gets an offer and they are told they can leave. Works both ways, so means diddly whatever managers, and/or players, say. It is the money people who actually run these things

[SecretPro]

1 minute ago, peach0000 said:

What seems to be a joke is that some clubs are unable to sign players because of FFP then Chelsea can happily blow 300 million. FFP was only ever designed to protect the elite. One of the worst things to happen to football.

It's absolutely criminal.

 

 

[Foxes96]

If he does go, and personally I’d rather he stayed for 1 more season. I would want Colwill in exchange + £70m. Can then use the money to offload a few of our fringe players for slightly less than what we’re holding out for at the minute. Renew Maddison’s contract with Schmeichel’s wages off the books and probably look to renew Söyüncü’s contract as well if his interview the other day was true. With Colwill coming in as 3rd choice. 
 

The extra money can then be used to get a RW in. Cornet and Tsygankov would offer decent options on the right as well as covering Barnes on the left, and wouldn’t cost more than £40m combined. Not sure who else is realistically out there, but all getting a bit football manager now…

[HankMarvin]

1 minute ago, urban fox said:

Lot being said about what players put on their social media or say in interviews.

would not be the first time a player has sworn unswerving loyalty, not interested in going anywhere, then suddenly their club gets an offer and they are told they can leave. Works both ways, so means diddly whatever managers, and/or players, say. It is the money people who actually run these things

He did pin a thanks to the fans for there unconditional support from a few months ago.

I think he might find that unconditional support wavering.

 

[UniFox21]

4 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

think, if Fofana goes, it says all we need to know. Brendan has stated that he is not for sale. If the club then go and sell the lad, we’ll, make your own minds up. 

That we simply aren't in a position to turn down £100million?

[SkidsFox]

I know it's big money, but selling Wes will put us in serious danger of relegation. We know Evans won't play every match, so how will we cope? Appreciate I'm overreacting here, but I fear losing Wes more than Madders.

[coolhandfox]

53 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

If we sell him now in our current situation it's frankly daft. We'll get 70 odd before bonuses, probably have to spend at least 30 odd replacing him and then still not be able to buy players because we still have too many senior squad members. 

Our it's give us some financial flexible to accept the low ball offers for the likes of Praet, Vesterguard and youri.

 

If we could sort out 35m-40m for those 3 and get 75m for fofana a cash injection of 100m.

 

Buy an RW, CB and CM and still have change.

 

Not ideal but possible.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

12 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

They have opened talks with De Jong 71m

plus Brighton left back 50m

Do they have another 80m after Sterling and koudibaly?

 

They can do what they want, the FA aren't going to pull them up on anything FFP related. That's just for teams outside the top 6.

[suffolk fox]

FFP has been invented to make sure the rich clubs get richer and it puts a stop to a team like Leicester winning the premier league at 5000/1 odds.  Big 6 have benefitted from it enourmously and will continue to do so.

[coolhandfox]

Just now, SkidsFox said:

I know it's big money, but selling Wes will put us in serious danger of relegation. We know Evans won't play every match, so how will we cope? Appreciate I'm overreacting here, but I fear losing Wes more than Madders.

We managed 8th without him for 80% of last season don't be so dramatic.

[SkidsFox]

Just now, coolhandfox said:

We managed 8th without him for 80% of last season don't be so dramatic.

We still had Kasper then.

 

[Pliskin]

7 minutes ago, Dames said:

Its the same thing, we have stated we don't have money to spend until we make money. I respect the club for trying to adhere to the business model and long term its a financially sound plan but at the same time it doesn't send a positive message to players who generally only think in the short term. 

 

I also agree that with no signings and no injuries the squad is more than good enough to compete.

 

However I don't buy into the fact that we'll manage to hold onto all of our star players, Kasper is going, Tielemans is half out the door (in his head at least) its going to make other players stop and consider their futures, especially with agents in their ears looking for paydays and big clubs promising them double wages and Champions League football. We might hold some of the cards but we aren't in as strong a position as many think, at some point we are going to need to bring revenue in and the wage budget down. 

First point isn’t strictly true. We do have money to spend, but the way we operate is ordinarily we will be willing to part with a key player to generate some funds to then invest on a couple of promising players….. We’ve all gone on way to much about last summer so we need not anymore, but we’ve got a fairly bloated squad than needs the fringe players moving on…. What we can’t have is players say on big wages not in the match squad, we don’t have the finances to justify that. 
 

With regards to key players going, I think the writing was on the wall with Kasper, there was an article printed last season about him wanting to play European football again, so it’s no great surprise he has gone, and in fairness it was probably his time to go. Youri isn’t half out of the door, because we have receive the grand total of 0 bids for him….. so it appears he is firmly inside the door, the door is locked and he’s misplaced the key. 
 

People also need to realise that when players are under contract, they’re under contract. Chelsea can’t just pop into reception and leave an envelope of cash on the desk and just take Fofana off into the sunset. Even is Wes wants to go, as a club we’re entitled to say nada. I’m short, Wes will be told you’re not for sale kid, wind your neck in play your football and we will consider offers next summer, which could involve PSG, Real Madrid et al. 
 

I reiterate selling Fofana won’t help us as a club, we won’t do something that will ultimately leave us in a worse position. 

[AjcW]

1 minute ago, SkidsFox said:

I know it's big money, but selling Wes will put us in serious danger of relegation. We know Evans won't play every match, so how will we cope? Appreciate I'm overreacting here, but I fear losing Wes more than Madders.

We might have a crap season... but Bournemouth may as well pack their bags already, Fulham are Fulham and Leeds have lost their two best players and replaced them with a lot of unknown talent that could be hit or miss. Similarly Forest have signed an entirely new squad, could go either way! Similarly Southampton have been waiting to drop for years now and Everton are going into the season having not replaced Richarlison and with their only striker injured...

[Tanya]

I thought we wouldn't accept a bid unless it was around the 90 million mark.

 

We will still recoup a huge fee next summer unless injury occurs, not sure the club will risk selling him with Kasper and probably Youri also leaving.

 

I refuse to panic.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

6 minutes ago, SkidsFox said:

We still had Kasper then.

 

If Kasper goes do we have to play without a goalkeeper this season?

[ARM1968]

2 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

That we simply aren't in a position to turn down £100million?

Nope, and therein lies the eternal problem which we cannot resolve. There are teams who can offer that money, we just cannot, nor can we turn it down. This is why we will be nothing more than what we are now. Our peak was reached and we must now accept that we are upper mid table at best and will not realistically threaten the big 6 barring miracles.

 

I’m ok with that to be honest. It just feels a bit like lost opportunities after the title win, but in reality it’s just money. We cannot throw what others can and so will never compete with them over the long term. 

[Guest Col city fan]

1 minute ago, ARM1968 said:

Nope, and therein lies the eternal problem which we cannot resolve. There are teams who can offer that money, we just cannot, nor can we turn it down. This is why we will be nothing more than what we are now. Our peak was reached and we must now accept that we are upper mid table at best and will not realistically threaten the big 6 barring miracles.

 

I’m ok with that to be honest. It just feels a bit like lost opportunities after the title win, but in reality it’s just money. We cannot throw what others can and so will never compete with them over the long term. 

That's the reality