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Ric Flair Live & Direct on BSLB Podcast

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ClaphamFox

ClaphamFox

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11 minutes ago, lcfcsnow said:

Of our top 7 record signings, 6 will have walked for free once after Daka leaves

I think it will be five (we got fees for Maddison and Fofana), but that is still an astonishing fact.

lcfcsnow

lcfcsnow

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5 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

I think it will be five (we got fees for Maddison and Fofana), but that is still an astonishing fact.

I had Maddison as 8th.

 

Tielemans, Perez, Slimani, Iheanacho, Daka, Silva

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Blue ROI

Blue ROI

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Swings and roundabouts

 

We got Albrighton,Vardy,Kante for not very big amounts.

 

I'd focus more on that.

 

But carry on laying into our hopeless board. 

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AKCJ

AKCJ

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According to Transfermarkt (take with a pinch of salt but the real figures won't be far off...)

 

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# Name Price Paid (€m) Price Received (€m)
1 Youri Tielemans 40 0
2 Wesley Fofana 35 80.4
3 Ayoze Perez 33.4 0
4 Islam Slimani 31 0
5 Patson Daka 30 N/A
6 Kelechi Iheanacho 27.7 0
7 James Maddison 25 46.3
8 Oliver Skipp 23.5 N/A
9 Bilal El Khannouss 22.5 N/A
10 Ricardo Pereira 22 N/A
11 Caglar Soyuncu 21.1 0
12 Timothy Castagne 20.9 13
13 Adrien Silva 20.5 0
14 Boubakary Soumare 20 ?
15 Ahmed Musa 19.5 16.5
16 Dennis Praet 19.2 0
17 Jannik Vestergaard 17.6 N/A
18 Wilfred Ndidi 17.6 8
19 Wout Faes 17 N/A
20 Harry Souttar 17 N/A
21 Abdul Fatawu 16.25 N/A
22 Nampalys Mendy 15.5 0
23 Vicente Iborra 15 10
24 Filip Benkovic 14.5 0
25 Caleb Okoli 14 N/A
  TOTAL 555.75 174.2

 

These are our 25 record signings. We have made a profit on two of these players (potentially 3 with the El Khannouss situation) and have let 9 leave for free (with more set to leave this summer).

 

I was looking at our record sales. We were known as good sellers between around 2017 and 2022 but the reality is that we've only sold 9 players for more than £30m. Our 12th highest transfer fee received was €12m for Emile Heskey in 2000. 20th highest was €8m for Neil Lennon in 2000. Our joint 24th highest was €5.5m for Gary Rowett and Matt Piper in 2002.

 

If you remove the biggest sale in the years between 2017-2022, we brought in:

 

2017 - €9m

2018 - €26.5m

2019 - €1.5m

2020 - €3.57m

2021 - €0

2022 - €1m

 

We have been consistently shit at getting unwanted players out of the door. 

 

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The_77

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On 03/02/2026 at 01:29, Ric Flair said:

The embarrassing thing is, I listened to Ice Cube a lot as a kid. 

Tbf, it’s a classic but still no 12 Days of Ormondroyd!

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VLC86

VLC86

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1 hour ago, Blue ROI said:

Swings and roundabouts

 

We got Albrighton,Vardy,Kante for not very big amounts.

 

I'd focus more on that.

 

But carry on laying into our hopeless board. 

Wild.

CL Fox

CL Fox

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1 hour ago, Blue ROI said:

Swings and roundabouts

 

We got Albrighton,Vardy,Kante for not very big amounts.

 

I'd focus more on that.

 

But carry on laying into our hopeless board. 

Over 10 years ago 🤣

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VLC86

VLC86

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2 hours ago, Langston said:

Listening to the last pod... In answer to Jordan's question re: has any other club let their record signing walk for nothing.. man united with Pogba??

Presume Pepe at Arsenal as well.

 

It’ll probably happen more often than people think.

 

Everton’s genuinely made me burst out laughing.

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The_77

The_77

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54 minutes ago, The_77 said:

Tbf, it’s a classic but still no 12 Days of Ormondroyd!

Not even close. Just checked and “It Was A Good Day” only has 1.5 billion listens on Spotify…rookie numbers. 

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Ric Flair

Ric Flair

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2 hours ago, Blue ROI said:

Swings and roundabouts

 

We got Albrighton,Vardy,Kante for not very big amounts.

 

I'd focus more on that.

 

But carry on laying into our hopeless board. 

Is this a genuine post?

dbtcity

dbtcity

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2 hours ago, Blue ROI said:

Swings and roundabouts

 

We got Albrighton,Vardy,Kante for not very big amounts.

 

I'd focus more on that.

 

But carry on laying into our hopeless board. 

Put your fishing rod away lol 

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Blue ROI

Blue ROI

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1 hour ago, CL Fox said:

Over 10 years ago 🤣

Just highlighting some of the better business we have done historically. 

 

Nothing more than that.  

 

Which is worth pointing out as it gets forgotten when we look at our record signing disappointments. 

 

And I'd be happy with what we got 4 cheap. 

 

I'm as much against the King Power Regime as anyone BTW.

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foxsake

foxsake

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Just listened to the latest.. depressing stuff but glad to hear you all vent and nail Little Boy Lost to the wall with laser precision. 

 

also, Jordan's a lovely fella - wishing you good health for the future mate 💙

Foxy-Lady

Foxy-Lady

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22 hours ago, Blue ROI said:

Swings and roundabouts

 

We got Albrighton,Vardy,Kante for not very big amounts.

 

I'd focus more on that.

 

But carry on laying into our hopeless board. 

Not really swings and roundabouts though is it...??

 

the point that screams out to me here (yet again!) is that in the Pearson/Walsh/Shakey era, our transfer dealings were the benchmark for other clubs to follow.....and now that its Rudkins responsibility without their experience, its been an absolute s**t-show.....a complete master-class in how NOT to operate in the transfer market with 4 of our top 6 highest signings leaving on FREE transfers.

 

Its not really swings and round-abouts when you are comparing the results/achievements of different people.....Rudkin had very little involvement in the successful transfers you're focussing on

 

Maybe that's one of the reasons people keep "laying-in" to our hopeless board...

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Foxy-Lady

Foxy-Lady

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23 hours ago, AKCJ said:

According to Transfermarkt (take with a pinch of salt but the real figures won't be far off...)

 

 

These are our 25 record signings. We have made a profit on two of these players (potentially 3 with the El Khannouss situation) and have let 9 leave for free (with more set to leave this summer).

 

I was looking at our record sales. We were known as good sellers between around 2017 and 2022 but the reality is that we've only sold 9 players for more than £30m. Our 12th highest transfer fee received was €12m for Emile Heskey in 2000. 20th highest was €8m for Neil Lennon in 2000. Our joint 24th highest was €5.5m for Gary Rowett and Matt Piper in 2002.

 

If you remove the biggest sale in the years between 2017-2022, we brought in:

 

2017 - €9m

2018 - €26.5m

2019 - €1.5m

2020 - €3.57m

2021 - €0

2022 - €1m

 

We have been consistently shit at getting unwanted players out of the door. 

 

Great bit of research...!

 

In fairness, id be tempted to add McGuire in to that list for some balance as we did recoup £70m on an initial outlay of £12m, although this did ultimately rise to £17m with the add-ons

 

In terms of Financial return on investment, its the 2nd highest profit we've ever made on a cost Vs sale basis  (Mahrez, Mcguire, Chilwell, Fofana, Barnes...) so credit where credits due to the post Pearson clowns...!

Lesta Legend

Lesta Legend

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2 hours ago, Foxy-Lady said:

Not really swings and roundabouts though is it...??

 

the point that screams out to me here (yet again!) is that in the Pearson/Walsh/Shakey era, our transfer dealings were the benchmark for other clubs to follow.....and now that its Rudkins responsibility without their experience, its been an absolute s**t-show.....a complete master-class in how NOT to operate in the transfer market with 4 of our top 6 highest signings leaving on FREE transfers.

 

Its not really swings and round-abouts when you are comparing the results/achievements of different people.....Rudkin had very little involvement in the successful transfers you're focussing on

 

Maybe that's one of the reasons people keep "laying-in" to our hopeless board...

I've no idea why people can't get their head round the structure and staff we had in place, doing well and as you said was a benchmark to the loss of those people and the gradual decline as they left (alongside the important support staff too) with the focus on what seems agent connections rather than good recruitment via statistical analysis and a competent recruitment team who had the leeway to make those decisions. The system that worked just doesn't exist anymore and so no we won't all of a sudden go back to the same level of success unless a good technical director has the ability to organise and develop an independent system. I do worry with so much work needed in the summer that we will be ill prepared if we're relying on a system that apparently is 'ok' and it's 'swings and roundabouts', Jesus wept.

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Claudio Fannieri

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Is there an opportunity to get Collomose, Percy and Henry Winter on for a special to discuss nothing other than Aiyawatt and Rudkin’s dismantling of our club. It might be the only way some of the KPFC fans wake up and smell the coffee before it’s too late. 

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SafewayFox

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What a fantastic pod lads.

 

I won’t name another LCFC podcast that I listened to since your last one, but your tone and sense of reality was spot on.

 

Yet, this other podcast once again referenced booing players being one of our biggest issues 🤯

 

Enjoy Milan!!

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Gamble92

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2 minutes ago, SafewayFox said:

What a fantastic pod lads.

 

I won’t name another LCFC podcast that I listened to since your last one, but your tone and sense of reality was spot on.

 

Yet, this other podcast once again referenced booing players being one of our biggest issues 🤯

 

Enjoy Milan!!

The Ginettas have their own podcast?

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