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Bluebazooka

George Hirst

By Bluebazooka, in Leicester City Forum

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smudgerfox

smudgerfox

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Well for a start the £80-million is your valuation - there’s no real way of knowing whether that’s right 

Even if you are - you only get to realise that value if you sell….

And in the meantime you are paying out wages to players turning out for Fleetwood and Forest Green - they may come back Premier-ready they may not. most do not.

coolhandfox

coolhandfox

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45 minutes ago, smudgerfox said:

Well for a start the £80-million is your valuation - there’s no real way of knowing whether that’s right 

Even if you are - you only get to realise that value if you sell….

And in the meantime you are paying out wages to players turning out for Fleetwood and Forest Green - they may come back Premier-ready they may not. most do not.

OK lets forget the like of Barnes, KDH, Iversen that are all in the squad and benefit from the loan system, because in your mind you can value them. 

 

We have sold Chilwell (45m) and Sowah (8m) from the academy who both went on loan, for a combine total of 53m, realised value.

 

Also the loan team often pay a fee or the loanee wages as well.

 

So you still don't think its a good idea?  

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coolhandfox

coolhandfox

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42 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Apparently turned down bids of £1.5m this summer for him, if that's true its even more peculiar goings on. 

Doesn't fit with the we are skint narrative, if you are you move on the likes of Hirst and Wright for few quid as its easy money.

 

To be fair if Hirst can show the form he had for the second half of last season 11 in 23 over a full season in L1 or the Championship he will be worth a lot more. 

 

Can't help but this we stuff up his development with a poor loan to Rotherham. 

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South Shire Fox

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7 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

 

If this is remotely true.. £25k a week for guy whos never going to make it here and wages that price out the majority of EFL clubs? And the club wonder why they are in such a mess..

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FoxesWalk

FoxesWalk

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Just now, South Shire Fox said:

 

If this is remotely true.. £25k a week for guy whos never going to make it here and wages that price out the majority of EFL clubs? And the club wonder why they are in such a mess..

If it’s true, and I think that’s a big if, then can only imagine the club see him coming into the first team squad after a loan to the championship… plenty of championship clubs pay those wages btw, Smithies was on 30k a week before he came to us. 

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MarriedaLeicesterGirl

MarriedaLeicesterGirl

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3 minutes ago, South Shire Fox said:

 

If this is remotely true.. £25k a week for guy whos never going to make it here and wages that price out the majority of EFL clubs? And the club wonder why they are in such a mess..

We were offering Tavares 20k/week, so this doesn't surprise me. Hirst did very well in the back half of last season. If he can replicate that form in the Championship, it will be more than worth it.

Incognito

Incognito

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22 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

 

That can't be true surely?

 

That's nearly as much as Izzet was paid at his peak with us?

 

Just shows how football has changed in the past twenty years!

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FoxesWalk

FoxesWalk

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11 minutes ago, Lesta2014 said:

It does say including bonuses and achievements, so could be a high goal bonus, wage is 25k if he breaks into our first team? Doesn’t sound like a straight 25k a week? 

Yeah, it’s not a straight 25k a week. Assuming he isn’t talking utter shite, which is entirely possible. No idea if he is reliable or not but it’s a really weird thing to make up a story about, it’s not really high traction is it…

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Dames

Dames

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31 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

 

Glad to see that whatever little headroom we have with wages we are wasting on a player that is probably never going to make the grade here. 

Aus Fox

Aus Fox

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48 minutes ago, lfu said:

£1.3m per year for a player who won't ever play for us? :wes::nigel:

It’s an investment, some times with risks like this it pays off, sometimes it doesn’t. In the grand scheme of PL football £1.3mil is peanuts.

As someone has pointed out his form at the back end of last year was exceptional. If he does that again and bags 20+ goals at that level, he could be worth big money.

He may never have to play for us to recoup all of the investment.

coolhandfox

coolhandfox

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The average Championship wage is around 30k.

 

If he can go to the championship and carry on his form from the last 6th months in league one, he will be pretty easy to move on.

 

Its a calculated gamble. 

 

 

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ParkerPen

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lets say he gets 15 goals in the championship - not pie in the sky.

 

well worth tying him down for what we'd potentially recoup from a championship club (presumably) on this performance

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Phenom

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2 hours ago, Lesta2014 said:

It does say including bonuses and achievements, so could be a high goal bonus, wage is 25k if he breaks into our first team? Doesn’t sound like a straight 25k a week? 

Yep. Reading is hard for some people.

Foxxed

Foxxed

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2 hours ago, lfu said:

£1.3m per year for a player who won't ever play for us? :wes::nigel:

We may make a profit however. I’m starting to suspect we’re following Chelsea’s loan strategy.

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Bayfox

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52 minutes ago, jim5000 said:

Nice work if you can get it 🤣🤣

I could do with 25k a week and with my knee there's no chance of me playing for us either lol

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