Nico González

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Fiorentina are just being smart. They can smell our desperation and will probably squeeze some more money out of us.

[Bordersfox]

Don't do it Nico lad! TJs ain't what it once was and nor is this football club! 

[Hamilton Fox]

10 hours ago, FoxOnWheels said:

Rightly or wrongly I think the thinking of the recruitment team with this transfer will be if we are going to spend 30-40M on a player if that player can also comfortably play both wingers and attacking midfield it adds extra options and cover more gaps that just being a right wing, rightly or wrongly

Get the feeling he will effectively be replacing Maddison for when we sell him in the summer

[UHDrive]

36 minutes ago, Hamilton Fox said:

Get the feeling he will effectively be replacing Maddison for when we sell him in the summer

I think this as well but that would be suicide if/when he gets injured and we become screwed in both positions (unless we spend more on another no.10 as well as him which is what is needed imo)

[Fox 4 Life]

I can’t see him joining, we are in complete freefall

 

 

 

 

 

[Ric Flair]

I think fee will be agreed by Tuesday.

[An Sionnach]

1 minute ago, Fox 4 Life said:

I can’t see him joining, we are in complete freefall

 

 

 

 

 

He would join if we offer him more money than anybody else. That appears to be what our past business plan was. I seriously doubt whether we can do that now.

[UHDrive]

22 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I think fee will be agreed by Tuesday.

That's a relief, thanks.

 

Any news on Kristiansen? It's starting to get very late in the window now and there are almost zero rumours.

[moore_94]

1 minute ago, UHDrive said:

That's a relief, thanks.

 

Any news on Kristiansen? It's starting to get very late in the window now and there are almost zero rumours.

Kristiansen was interestingly not in their squad today due to illness...

Edited 15 January 2023 by moore_94

[FoxOnWheels]

If we can get this lad, kristianson, madders and Ricardo into a side with enough games left then complete different side and one that on paper be capable of easily getting points

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Just now, moore_94 said:

Kristiansen was interestingly not in their squad today due to illness...

Probably watched our game against Forest. Enough to make anyone feel sick.

[UHDrive]

Just now, moore_94 said:

He was interestingly not in their squad today due to illness...

Thanks for the info, even if we signed those two it should be a big lift to moral. Part of me wonders whether the squad is stagnated psychologically with the players having no rotation of signings and therfore no impetus to train harder, if that makes sense. 

[LCFCJohn]

Not keen on this signing now. Shouldn’t be making big money/wages signings now. Any signings should have an eye on the Championship. Younger, hungry players who can help us back up.

Edited 15 January 2023 by LCFCJohn

[hackneyfox]

2 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Not keen on this signing now. Shouldn’t be making big money/wages signings now. Any signings should have an eye on the Championship. Younger, hungry players who can help us back up.

Thank Fcuk you have nothing to do with the club.

[LCFCJohn]

5 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

Thank Fcuk you have nothing to do with the club.

What because I don’t think we should be chucking £30mill odd and probably not far off another £100k pw on the wage bill?

[Ric Flair]

5 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

Thank Fcuk you have nothing to do with the club.

To be fair, I don't dismiss that completely. I've long believed we've had this misconception that the profile of player we need as we've established ourselves as the best of the rest needed to change. Yet despite us no longer going for the sorts of players that are young and unproven but with potential to vastly improve, we've not been any more successful. 

 

Brentford and Brighton have overtaken us, largely doing what we used to do and they'll be on wages that are far more realistic to what we pay the likes of Praet, Perez, Vestergaard, Soumare etc. 

 

I think the culture of our club has ro have a real big overhaul, we've become outdated and sloppy in our work and we are about to pay the price.

[Lambert09]

15 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Not keen on this signing now. Shouldn’t be making big money/wages signings now. Any signings should have an eye on the Championship. Younger, hungry players who can help us back up.

I don’t agree with this but I think we are totally screwed if we go down. Our side would struggle against a lot of sides in the championship at the moment and we’d be losing our best 4/5 players. 

 

we’d be starting vestergarde, ward an ancient albrighton. Vardy on crutches. and largely regretting not letting luke thomas get his experience in the championship in before we needed him to have it. 

 

Id rather not think about that so it’s important we go for the best players we can and prevent us falling to that 

 

 

[LCFCJohn]

8 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

I don’t agree with this but I think we are totally screwed if we go down. Our side would struggle against a lot of sides in the championship at the moment and we’d be losing our best 4/5 players. 

 

we’d be starting vestergarde, ward an ancient albrighton. Vardy on crutches. and largely regretting not letting luke thomas get his experience in the championship in before we needed him to have it. 

 

Id rather not think about that so it’s important we go for the best players we can and prevent us falling to that 

 

 

I may have been a bit drastic in my wording but my points stands. 
 

This seems like an expensive luxury signing, not the kind that has helped us with previous success. I hope I’m wrong but I don’t expect him to make much of an impact on the pitch and our fortunes in battling relegation once any positive traits have been coached out of him.

 

I suppose he probably wouldn’t stick around in the Championship in which case would we just lose money on him anyway?

 

I feel more positive about the Danish left back as he is a better profile for us. This just seems like it would create more problems than it would solve.

[Lambert09]

5 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

I may have been a bit drastic in my wording but my points stands. 
 

This seems like an expensive luxury signing, not the kind that has helped us with previous success. I hope I’m wrong but I don’t expect him to make much of an impact on the pitch and our fortunes in battling relegation once any positive traits have been coached out of him.

 

I suppose he probably wouldn’t stick around in the Championship in which case would we just lose money on him anyway?

 

I feel more positive about the Danish left back as he is a better profile for us. This just seems like it would create more problems than it would solve.

I think we are so much in the muck right now that we do need to roll the dice though. If he’s the best we can get, we get him and pay the extra.  I’d feel uneasy with a rough diamond at this point as we have no goals in the team until maddison returns or barnes remembers he’s a footballer. 

 

There’s no argument from anyone that he’d not improve us… and that’s all that matters. if his contributions wins us 3 games that could be enough to keep us in the league… that’s worth more than 30m 

Edited 15 January 2023 by Lambert09

[FoxOnWheels]

57 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Not keen on this signing now. Shouldn’t be making big money/wages signings now. Any signings should have an eye on the Championship. Younger, hungry players who can help us back up.

Shite mentality let’s avoid the championship in the first place before thinking about getting promoted from it

[MPH]

1 hour ago, LCFCJohn said:

Not keen on this signing now. Shouldn’t be making big money/wages signings now. Any signings should have an eye on the Championship. Younger, hungry players who can help us back up.

 

daft lad. Who gives up in January? Wouldn’t have made  the great escape with you in charge.

[lcfc_forever]

Deal almost agreed, personal terms are sorted:

 

https://m.tuttomercatoweb.com/serie-a/fiorentina-gonzalez-ha-l-accordo-con-il-leicester-ma-commisso-vuole-40-milioni-per-cederlo-1779378

[Jaspa]

11 minutes ago, lcfc_forever said:

Deal almost agreed, personal terms are sorted:

 

https://m.tuttomercatoweb.com/serie-a/fiorentina-gonzalez-ha-l-accordo-con-il-leicester-ma-commisso-vuole-40-milioni-per-cederlo-1779378

 

: The possibility that Nico Gonzalez will leave Fiorentina during the January transfer market is becoming more and more concrete.  As reported by Corriere Fiorentino Leicester would have reached an agreement with the player (a contract until 2027 worth 4 million net per season) and would also like to close with the purple club.  The distance between supply and demand is around 5 million, basically what belongs to the clubs where Gonzalez played as a solidarity contribution.  In short, Commisso asks to reach 40 million, thus allowing the club to collect 35. To replace him, the name on pole remains Brekalo, also keep an eye on Bamba and Karlsson.

[BKLFox]

I read the other day that there was some negotiation about a relegation clause around his wages, I’m sure it’s all being thought about…not that we will need it, positive positive!

[Dahnsouff]

23 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

daft lad. Who gives up in January? Wouldn’t have made  the great escape with you in charge.

Resilience does not seem to be a word we any longer associate with Leicester fans