Chelsea sign Wesley Fofana - Official

[Guest Col city fan]

Rodgers has just said again that Fofana is a good kid and that he knows where the statement came from… but ain’t telling.

The childish vitriol towards Fofana on here is ridiculous really. He wanted out to move to a bigger club, on much more money. Who can blame him, especially in relation to how the club is at the moment.

He’s not and never has been a Leicester fan so won’t give a monkeys toss about staying here out of some loyalty or whatever.

Edited 1 September 2022 by Col city fan

[KFS]

9 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Rodgers has just said again that Fofana is a good kid and that he knows where the statement came from… but ain’t telling.

The childish vitriol towards Fofana on here is ridiculous really. He wanted out to move to a bigger club, on much more money. Who can blame him, especially in relation to how the club is at the moment.

He’s not and never has been a Leicester fan so won’t give a monkeys toss about staying here out of some loyalty or whatever.

No one is asking him to be a fan, Col. Just don’t force your way out of a club that gave you a 5 year deal after a horror injury 

[CloudFox]

5 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Rodgers has just said again that Fofana is a good kid and that he knows where the statement came from… but ain’t telling.

The childish vitriol towards Fofana on here is ridiculous really. He wanted out to move to a bigger club, on much more money. Who can blame him, especially in relation to how the club is at the moment.

He’s not and never has been a Leicester fan so won’t give a monkeys toss about staying here out of some loyalty or whatever.

What he said doesn't quite add up though Col. It may be that other people influenced Fofana, but he still skipped training, which Rodgers called him out on. He also liked posts about leaving us for Chelsea, and removed LCFC from his social media bios way ahead of the transfer being agreed. He even acknowledged that. It was petulant, deliberately provocative and he knew what he was doing. If a third party did it, he still didn't correct it if he disagreed with that behaviour. And the fact he posted videos of himself dancing and looking into the camera of his phone while driving (pretty much illegal and dangerous) mean he is 100% in control of what he posts, and isn't clever about it either.

 

Fantastic player, disrespectful person.

[Guest Col city fan]

1 minute ago, CloudFox said:

What he said doesn't quite add up though Col. It may be that other people influenced Fofana, but he still skipped training, which Rodgers called him out on. He also liked posts about leaving us for Chelsea, and removed LCFC from his social media bios way ahead of the transfer being agreed. He even acknowledged that. It was petulant, deliberately provocative and he knew what he was doing. If a third party did it, he still didn't correct it if he disagreed with that behaviour. And the fact he posted videos of himself dancing and looking into the camera of his phone while driving (pretty much illegal and dangerous) mean he is 100% in control of what he posts, and isn't clever about it either.

 

Fantastic player, disrespectful person.

Yes I think that’s fair enough. 
I reverse what I said… treacherous swine!

😉

[Terraloon]

12 hours ago, KFS said:

No one is asking him to be a fan, Col. Just don’t force your way out of a club that gave you a 5 year deal after a horror injury 

The club gave him a new squeaky deal because it suited the club. They didn’t do it because there is some sort of charitable obligation in place it helped reduce the sum being amortised and the fact that he was injured whilst at work surely meant he would be fully supported or are you suggesting he should have been wheeled into A&E and received the sort or physio that joe public would likely get ? PL footballers are elite and valuable sportsman and assets.Perhaps a F1 team would be justified in getting the repairs done to their cars at Fred’s Motors !
 

As for him forcing his way out of the club if Rogers or the hierarchy didn’t want to sell then they should have stood their ground. No one went to court or the like. He isn’t the first player to sulk or miss training but now you have the situation where all players will know that petulance will get you what you want at Leicester. 
 

As for him or whoever showing loyalty well some really need to get real there is no such thing in football the only surprising thing is supporters still seem to think that employees and that’s what footballers are, have any loyalty to anyone other than themselves they are no different to the average employee who will chose the employer that offers the biggest buck and career path.

 

 

Edited 2 September 2022 by Terraloon

[StanSP]

Woah

 

 

 

[Finnegan]

Sounds like he let's someone run his socials for him, probably has a bit of an entourage he trusts too much? 

 

To be fair, that's consistent with the appearance that the other players seem to be quite fond of him still. 

 

I know everyone wants to vilify Fofana but you're looking at everything so a blurred lens really aren't you. 

[ParkerPen]

he and Rogers can **** off and vibrate elsewhere

[RowlattsFox]

No surprise that someone else runs his social media, maybe not all the time but certainly some posts. Pretty common amongst players isn't it?

 

Part of Fofana's problem (he probably doesn't see it like that) is the people around him. 

[UniFox21]

6 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

No surprise that someone else runs his social media, maybe not all the time but certainly some posts. Pretty common amongst players isn't it?

 

Part of Fofana's problem (he probably doesn't see it like that) is the people around him. 

So often this is the case though. The entourage around a player is just as important as anything the club can do with a player at training or on the pitch. 

[Expatfox]

I wish him well. I hope he does as well as Drinkwater did at Chelsea.

[sacreblueits442]

On 31/08/2022 at 19:40, Viva said:

I don’t think people would have had a problem if he had behaved professionally though and still tried his best for the team paying his wages. Of course he’s going to want a seven year contract at Chelsea, but signing a five year contract with us always meant there was a chance we wouldn’t want to sell. 

...can't agree with that, the new 5-year contract was to get us the better price should someone come calling!!!

 

[MPH]

23 hours ago, Col city fan said:

Rodgers has just said again that Fofana is a good kid and that he knows where the statement came from… but ain’t telling.

The childish vitriol towards Fofana on here is ridiculous really. He wanted out to move to a bigger club, on much more money. Who can blame him, especially in relation to how the club is at the moment.

He’s not and never has been a Leicester fan so won’t give a monkeys toss about staying here out of some loyalty or whatever.

All of what you say is right, but you seem to gloss over the fact he signed a new 5 year deal last summer- less than a year ago.

 

you can somewhat understand thrift if he was coming to the end of his contract ( Youri) but he was out for a large chunk after a serious injury and we stuck by him and invested a lot of time in getting fit again so I can understand the frustration.

 

but personally I’m not surprised as he did the same to St Etienne when he joined us.

[Harry the Cat]

11 hours ago, Terraloon said:

The club gave him a new squeaky deal because it suited the club. They didn’t do it because there is some sort of charitable obligation in place it helped reduce the sum being amortised and the fact that he was injured whilst at work surely meant he would be fully supported or are you suggesting he should have been wheeled into A&E and received the sort or physio that joe public would likely get ? PL footballers are elite and valuable sportsman and assets.Perhaps a F1 team would be justified in getting the repairs done to their cars at Fred’s Motors !
 

As for him forcing his way out of the club if Rogers or the hierarchy didn’t want to sell then they should have stood their ground. No one went to court or the like. He isn’t the first player to sulk or miss training but now you have the situation where all players will know that petulance will get you what you want at Leicester. 
 

As for him or whoever showing loyalty well some really need to get real there is no such thing in football the only surprising thing is supporters still seem to think that employees and that’s what footballers are, have any loyalty to anyone other than themselves they are no different to the average employee who will chose the employer that offers the biggest buck and career path.

 

 

No one forced Fofana to sign a new five year contract. He signed because he thought it would benefit himself as well as the club. I don’t think Little Wes is a victim here. He signed the new contract after being advised. However, he decided the grass is greener and downed tools to force a move. That’s the bit that stinks, contributing to the current poisonous atmosphere in the club. I agree, there’s no loyalty when avarice is a prime motivator. 

[Viva]

47 minutes ago, sacreblueits442 said:

...can't agree with that, the new 5-year contract was to get us the better price should someone come calling!!!

 

It helped us to get a better price, but it also meant we could turn down offers we didn’t feel were acceptable. If Chelsea hadn’t come back with a better offer, he would have had to stay. 

[FoxyJim1987]

12 hours ago, Terraloon said:

The club gave him a new squeaky deal because it suited the club. They didn’t do it because there is some sort of charitable obligation in place it helped reduce the sum being amortised and the fact that he was injured whilst at work surely meant he would be fully supported or are you suggesting he should have been wheeled into A&E and received the sort or physio that joe public would likely get ? PL footballers are elite and valuable sportsman and assets.Perhaps a F1 team would be justified in getting the repairs done to their cars at Fred’s Motors !
 

As for him forcing his way out of the club if Rogers or the hierarchy didn’t want to sell then they should have stood their ground. No one went to court or the like. He isn’t the first player to sulk or miss training but now you have the situation where all players will know that petulance will get you what you want at Leicester. 
 

As for him or whoever showing loyalty well some really need to get real there is no such thing in football the only surprising thing is supporters still seem to think that employees and that’s what footballers are, have any loyalty to anyone other than themselves they are no different to the average employee who will chose the employer that offers the biggest buck and career path.

 

 

Ha are you for real? The guy played 37 games and had only just signed a new contract and said the club is like a family. First sniff of a bigger club coming in, he acts like a baby, almost laughing at the club in his social media, and more or less forces our hand to sell him late in the window at probably a lower price than we really wanted. So yeah I think the hatred towards him is fairly justified. No one said they saw him staying here years, but at least this season.

[HankMarvin]

So someone else runs his socials 

but Reece James was tapping him up in his DMs and chatting on Instagram before he started following Chelsea players 

[Sly]

The missus … 

[sacreblueits442]

1 hour ago, Viva said:

It helped us to get a better price, but it also meant we could turn down offers we didn’t feel were acceptable. If Chelsea hadn’t come back with a better offer, he would have had to stay. 

...had he not signed the new contract, it would have been the same situation!!!

Could we have pushed to the same price then perhaps yes, the additional contract almost guaranteed the bigger price? If we did not get the price that we wanted, then we should not have caved and held on to him, we did that with Mahrez. His antics did not help, but we should have held him to the contract if Chelsea did not come up with the price.

[Terraloon]

12 hours ago, FoxyJim1987 said:

Ha are you for real? The guy played 37 games and had only just signed a new contract and said the club is like a family. First sniff of a bigger club coming in, he acts like a baby, almost laughing at the club in his social media, and more or less forces our hand to sell him late in the window at probably a lower price than we really wanted. So yeah I think the hatred towards him is fairly justified. No one said they saw him staying here years, but at least this season.

He is a footballer who basically had no affinity with Leicester other than the fact that he was employed by the club. The use of the word family was for the PR team because let’s face it in one context it creates a warm cosy word but in another you have families of the dysfunctional type

 

They say there is no sentiment in business and football is just that a business. The only thing in this that surprises me is that supporters get sucked into the words that are put out there about how a player feels about being at one club or another. There is no way a player would come back from saying he hated the club hates the area, the manager the owner etc. 
 

He was offered a new contract because it suited the club what was he meant to do turn it down ? 
 

The real sad part is that you use the word hatred about a player who leaves and the suggestion that that hatred would not exist if he stays one more year is strange.

 

As for the club being forced to sale well no if the club had dug their heels in then he wouldn’t have been sold other clubs have done it but on the flip you do yourself more damage by not letting players go.

 

For me behind closed doors the execs are probably delighted but can’t or won’t come out with their delight that a big chunk of wedge is incoming  because it’s helped cash flow and there is absolutely no doubt the business model fails without a big transfer out each season and without European football the cupboard really is bare

 

 

 

 

Edited 3 September 2022 by Terraloon

[st albans fox]

3 minutes ago, Terraloon said:

He is a footballer who basically had no affinity with Leicester other than the fact that he was employed by the club. The use of the word family was for the PR team because let’s face it in one context it creates a warm cosy word but in another you have families of the dysfunctional type

 

They say there is no sentiment in business and football is just that a business. The only thing in this that surprises me is that supporters get sucked into the words that are put out there about how a player feels about being at one club or another. There is no way a player would come back from saying he hated the club hates the area, the manager the owner etc. 
 

He was offered a new contract because it suited the club what was he meant to do turn it down ? 
 

The real sad part is that you use the word hatred about a player who leaves and the suggestion that that hatred would not exist if he stays one more year is strange.

 

If he stayed another year and then left, a proportion of the fanbase would still give him stick 

 

a larger proportion would be ok with it 

 

the narrative I’ve read is that he initially understood that he would need to stay for the season.  But Chelsea kept pushing (increasing his package)  and likely told him that it was now or never.   They probably upped the ante for his agent too.  Probably not unlike our pursuit of him at ASSE. 
 

What none of us know is actually how insistent the club was that he couldn’t go as time moved on and it became clear we were struggling big time to move on the three or four we expected to 

[An Sionnach]

14 minutes ago, Terraloon said:

He is a footballer who basically had no affinity with Leicester other than the fact that he was employed by the club. The use of the word family was for the PR team because let’s face it in one context it creates a warm cosy word but in another you have families of the dysfunctional type

 

They say there is no sentiment in business and football is just that a business. The only thing in this that surprises me is that supporters get sucked into the words that are put out there about how a player feels about being at one club or another. There is no way a player would come back from saying he hated the club hates the area, the manager the owner etc. 
 

He was offered a new contract because it suited the club what was he meant to do turn it down ? 
 

The real sad part is that you use the word hatred about a player who leaves and the suggestion that that hatred would not exist if he stays one more year is strange.

 

As for the club being forced to sale well no if the club had dug their heels in then he wouldn’t have been sold other clubs have done it but on the flip you do yourself more damage by not letting players go.

 

For me behind closed doors the execs are probably delighted but can’t or won’t come out with their delight that a big chunk of wedge is incoming  because it’s helped cash flow and there is absolutely no doubt the business model fails without a big transfer out each season and without European football the cupboard really is bare

 

 

 

 

The Srivaddhannaprabhas have found out that running a top six club is way beyond their means. In truth if we want to remain ambitious , we need new and richer owners.

[FoxyJim1987]

44 minutes ago, Terraloon said:

He is a footballer who basically had no affinity with Leicester other than the fact that he was employed by the club. The use of the word family was for the PR team because let’s face it in one context it creates a warm cosy word but in another you have families of the dysfunctional type

 

They say there is no sentiment in business and football is just that a business. The only thing in this that surprises me is that supporters get sucked into the words that are put out there about how a player feels about being at one club or another. There is no way a player would come back from saying he hated the club hates the area, the manager the owner etc. 
 

He was offered a new contract because it suited the club what was he meant to do turn it down ? 
 

The real sad part is that you use the word hatred about a player who leaves and the suggestion that that hatred would not exist if he stays one more year is strange.

 

As for the club being forced to sale well no if the club had dug their heels in then he wouldn’t have been sold other clubs have done it but on the flip you do yourself more damage by not letting players go.

 

For me behind closed doors the execs are probably delighted but can’t or won’t come out with their delight that a big chunk of wedge is incoming  because it’s helped cash flow and there is absolutely no doubt the business model fails without a big transfer out each season and without European football the cupboard really is bare

 

 

 

 

He's been here 5 minutes and after last season's injury and signing a new contract in march do you really think fans are asking for too much to think he would stay at least one more year? And even if he wanted to go to Chelsea, did he really have to act like he did? Or if he didn't then the people advising him and those around him did, making him look like a greedy petulant baby. As for the club execs being happy, are they?? We have spent approx £15m of it on Faes, gave around £10m to st Etienne, and bought him originally for £36m, leaving approximately £20m profit on a player already one of the best around but will only get better. Chelsea and Fofana got their way while our pre season and first few games are knackered. 

[LFox99]

Just got done in a race against Orsic and Chelsea conceded

[turlo]

Oh Dear