Our system detected that your browser is blocking advertisements on our site. Please help support FoxesTalk by disabling any kind of ad blocker while browsing this site. Thank you.
Jump to content
 Share
Sly

Players that we failed to sign ….. and we dodged a bullet.

By Sly, in Leicester City Forum

Recommended Posts

sylofox

sylofox

Posted
Posted

Maynard and we had 4 million pages on him. 3,999,930 from Bristol fans claiming he was better than us and they were a bigger club 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • Haha 3
Leicesterpool

Leicesterpool

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, Pinkman said:

Swear we wanted Edgar Davids back in 2010, think he opted for Palace in the end.

Yeah remember that one, I think Pearson wanted to bring in some experience in midfield. Spoke to Davids who was interested in playing in England again, problem was he didn't want to play outside of London. A few months before he was being linked with Sven at Notts County during that bogus takeover but turned them down despite being offered a lot of money.

Bilo

Bilo

Posted
Posted
9 hours ago, sylofox said:

Maynard and we had 4 million pages on him. 3,999,930 from Bristol fans claiming he was better than us and they were a bigger club 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I remember telling one of them that we would probably play in Europe before they played in the Premier League and they took screenshots to take back to their forum.

 

I don't think they were laughing for as long as I've been. 🤣

  • Haha 1
Sampson

Sampson

Posted
Posted
4 minutes ago, Bilo said:

I remember telling one of them that we would probably play in Europe before they played in the Premier League and they took screenshots to take back to their forum.

 

I don't think they were laughing for as long as I've been. 🤣

To be fair, he did play in the Premier League before we played in Europe.

sylofox

sylofox

Posted
Posted
8 hours ago, melrose said:

Harry Kane

Much as I hate the spud cvnt. I would say we didn't dodge a bullet with him.

 

5th in the prem all time top scorers list.

  • Like 1
Electric Yetis

Electric Yetis

Posted
Posted

We seemed to be very close to signing Joseph Desire-Job when his career was very much on the downward trajectory.

 

And of course Hasselbaink too, pretty much signed before Allen's fall out and ended up at Cardiff without pulling up any trees although they made the FA Cup Final I believe.

Pinkman

Pinkman

Posted
Posted
13 hours ago, sylofox said:

Maynard and we had 4 million pages on him. 3,999,930 from Bristol fans claiming he was better than us and they were a bigger club 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Bigger club?! lollollol When have Bristol City ever been a bigger club?

damolcfc

damolcfc

Posted
Posted
10 hours ago, melrose said:

Harry Kane

Too much ambition,  he wanted trophies.

Absolutely pointless even looking at us.

Selfish , just play football,  get paid, go home.😝

  • Like 1
SkidsFox

SkidsFox

Posted
Posted

Lou Macari - if he genuinely preferred playing for Man Utd reserves, then he wasn't going to put in a shift for us.

Looking at his wiki history, I have a bit more respect for him. Yes he was prone to dodgy dealings early on, but he had to cope with family tragedies later on. And he did a lot apparently to help the homeless, particularly in the pandemic.

Still glad he never came to our club.

Saxondale

Saxondale

Posted
Posted
On 25/06/2022 at 21:19, Sampson said:

O'Neill was infamous at Sunderland for being about the only manager in the PL who didn't use the data technology that was making its name at the time (sportzone?) He was a great motivator and man manager of old school type players, but he never believed in sports science or stats or data analysis or that kind of thing and in fact actively stood against it.

I don't think he'd have won the league, in fact I's worry that he probably would've torn apart all the sports science and data analysis infrastructure Pearson had put in place, it's ultimately why the game ended up leaving O'Neill behind I think.

O’Neill based his methods entirely on Clough, which was great in the 70s when players were playing pissed and had three fags at half time. Also worked for us for a bit in the late 90s.

Saxondale

Saxondale

Posted
Posted

I remember when that bricklayer Geoff Horsfield turned us down for being too small. Did he later play for us for a bit? I forget. In the mid to late 2000s we signed about 45 players a season.

  • Like 1
  • Haha 1
Incognito

Incognito

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, Saxondale said:

I remember when that bricklayer Geoff Horsfield turned us down for being too small. Did he later play for us for a bit? I forget. In the mid to late 2000s we signed about 45 players a season.

He certainly did. A Rob Kelly loan signing iirc. Had the pleasure of meeting him, a great bloke (aside from his earlier rebuffing of us).

Gamble92

Gamble92

Posted
Posted
On 01/07/2022 at 10:37, Saxondale said:

O’Neill based his methods entirely on Clough, which was great in the 70s when players were playing pissed and had three fags at half time. Also worked for us for a bit in the late 90s.

A bit?

Sly

Sly

Posted
  • Author
Posted
On 01/07/2022 at 10:38, Saxondale said:

I remember when that bricklayer Geoff Horsfield turned us down for being too small. Did he later play for us for a bit? I forget. In the mid to late 2000s we signed about 45 players a season.

That went so well! ….. 

  • Like 1

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...