The Fofana Situation

[The whole world smiles]

Curious how the foxestalk faithful would handle it. 

[StanSP]

Hold out for asking price. No reason why we should drop our valuation. Chelsea have to pay up or fvck off, quite simply.

 

Fofana has no power here. The club/Rodgers handling it fine and he's just doing his own chances of wanting to make the France World Cup squad more harm than good. And that's all on him.

 

He could be so much more professional about it but we know that's not his game. 

[Hitesh]

Wait until we have a club that meets his valuation. He's on a 5 year contract so we hold all the aces.

If he grumbled then make him train with the Under 21s. But in doing so he probably ruins his world cup chances so will inevitably say sorry and come back into the fold. I'm sure we'd need and want a player of his calibre so we'll have a good Defender back.

 

And then sell him next Summer or in January.

[CalH]

I won’t be going for it but the “other” option made me laugh 

[les-tah]

Hold out make him suffer and sell for +85 next summer. He will have no choice but still play out his skin in hope for a French call up to World Cup.

 

Even if we sell him we wouldn’t re invest but the looks of things anyway.

Edited 25 August 2022 by les-tah

[AKCJ]

We've played our hand by making it blindingly obvious we won't deal unless we get a world record.

 

Ultimately we could have asked for £70m, still have the whole of the footballing world telling us what an unbelievable deal we got, had 2 weeks in the transfer market and been in a much better position by now.

 

Given we've made it clear that £80+m is the price then we can't accept less.

[kristianity77]

If he really wants to go to Chelsea, and Chelsea is his boyhood club that he wants to play for no matter what, why doesn't Fofana speak to Chelsea about the wages he has already accepted, and knock 50K a week off it.  If the contract he would sign with Chelsea was say 5 years, thats a saving for Chelsea of over 12.5 million, which they can add on to what theyve bid so far to see this deal through.  Simples.  But would Fofana do it?  No, because the guy is a selfish **** 

Edited 25 August 2022 by kristianity77

[FerrisBueller]

Bring back national service

[Focks]

...but he's down

[coolhandfox]

Mahrez wanted to leave for about 2 years, he had to knuckle down and carry on until we got the deal we wanted.

 

This is no different.

[Lambert09]

we hold out and if a complaint for tapping up hasn’t gone in, it damn well should. 

 

How is it fair that we’ve lost a player for 3 games when they aren’t even coming close to his valuation. This should have been a quick phone call, we told them the price it’s that or do one… we publicly said he’s not for sale and yet they’ve been able to keep pressuring. 

 

If chelsea left us alone, we probably would have gotten a result against southampton 

[ALC Fox]

Hold out for the fee we want. If we wants an elite club, they have to pay an elite club fee.

 

If they baulk at £80m for him, he's gotta ask why they're offering £60m for Anthony Gordon. Do Chelsea really want him enough?

 

If he doesn't go, maybe has another few weeks off to get his head right before coming back and challenging himself to continue the form that attracted an elite club in the first place. Who knows, he may end up getting a move to Real out of it.

[Danny280995]

He'll go after Chelsea game for sure 

[Tuna]

I can't see us keeping him, I just think he'll be toxic now amongst the squad and the fan base, Rodgers is sensibly keeping him away from the squad and is right to be calling him out in his press conferences.

 

I expect we'll come to an agreement to sell him for more than Chelsea's previous offer and our asking price, although I fully expect it to go right down to the transfer window closing.

[Phenom]

Hold out for asking price. We hold the leverage here. 
 

Selling him wouldn’t really fix our FFP wage woes this summer. A replacement (or 2) might be on similar wages.

 

Plus, clubs go through this every summer. Eventually the players gets over it and decides to play.

[JimJams]

Chelsea have a hard on for the £60mill ballpark figure. . Cucarella, Gordon, Fofana. So the obvious solution is to give them what they want. 

 

However! The Fofana deal must be preceded by a "Surprise" offer of the same value for Soumare*. They can pretend he's a Tuchel favourite! So we can get £120mill the pair. That'll work.

 

 

 

 

*alternatives are available.

[TeamRocket]

I say other but sell, sell him for 80ish plus a player. And if he did have sell on fee then it doesn't only benefit us but the other club too. 

[Scotch]

I would release him from his contract if it meant that folk would stop creating new thread discussions about him! 

[urban.spaceman]

100% no sale at all for me. Make a statement that we won't be bullied by corrupt clubs like Chelsea or petulant players like Fofana. 

[Vlad the Fox]

I voted other.

 

Id take out a prime time tv add with photos of Fofana playing (in a Leicester kit), they’d be shown along to the tune liquidator, that chelsea walk out to, then when it gets right to he very end they’d be a blank royal blue background and the words “**** off chelsea” in white, before fading onto an image of Danial Armarty wiping his arse with the chelsea pennant. 

Edited 25 August 2022 by Vlad the Fox

[Dahnsouff]

If we can financially live without selling him, then keep him and send the message and hope he does not down tools

[splinterdream]

don't sell him, we need him and once that window shuts i'm sure there'll be a clear the air meeting, they'll all give each other a kiss and a hug and hopefully we can crack on

[Bordersfox]

5 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said:

I voted other.

 

Id take out a prime time tv add with photos of Fofana playing (in a Leicester kit), they’d be shown along to the tune liquidator, that chelsea walk out to, then when it gets right to he very end they’d be a blank royal blue background and the words “**** off chelsea” in white, before fading onto an image of Danial Armarty wiping his arse with the chelsea pennant. 

You've given this some serious consideration I see 😅

[Vlad the Fox]

1 minute ago, Bordersfox said:

You've given this some serious consideration I see 😅

 
 

Ive draw a picture board for it and started a go fund me, get tuned into itv before tomorrow nights coronation street folks

 

 

[Vardinio'sCat]

I am reviewing the situation, can fellow be a villain all his life?