Stefano Sensi

[Lambert09]

1 minute ago, leicesterisme said:

Enzo will walk in the summer & rightly so, it's going to be an absolute shit show in the summer with these utter clowns in charge, absolutely no way we sign the players needed to stay up. 

don’t think he will get that far. The comments earlier in the week was him setting up his exit. He already knows the issues and he’ll be gone as soon as an opportunity arises 

Edited 1 February 2024 by Lambert09

[Qwerty]

It’s a pity we couldn’t do this deal, but if Inter wanted too much money, there’s nothing we could do about it.  It would have been a nightmare if we’d spent too much, and ended up breaching FFP rules and having points deducted.  Especially if Sensi hadn’t been that good, or had got injured!  
Remember how miserable everyone was when Silva’s signing was missed by 14 minutes, and then when he finally played he was pretty average.  
Having seen the trouble Everton and Forest are in with FFP, I’d rather not take any risks.  And Enzo might be privately disappointed, but he’s been saying all along that we had to sell in order to buy.  We haven’t sold anyone, so he can’t very well complain that he’s shocked we haven’t bought anyone. 

[Adster]

1 minute ago, ConnFoxUS said:

You’re making the point that Rudkin isn’t fit for his job. Who signed all these deadwood players on high wages that we can’t move to any other club in the world? Who put us in the position to HAVE to make an outgoing transfer in order to complete a chump change incoming transfer? 

I never said that didn't happen or that current board are not responsible for past decisions. We're talking about the current Sensi deal. 

 

Don't understand why people think this deal collapsing is a surprise as no players have gone out. Our actual manager has told us this a number of occasions this January. 

Edited 1 February 2024 by Adster

[The_77]

2 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

So should they have waited until they’d moved a player in the 11th hour and 30 minutes and then tried to fly Sensi in for a medical?

Or would you prefer we’d signed him without a medical?

Ridiculous logic. I know you have enough common sense to answer both of those questions.  

[It'sblueupnorth]

3 minutes ago, IsItMuzzy said:

We must have had enough confidence in the deal to fly Sensi over and complete the medical, paperwork etc… it’s entirely possible (and plausible) that Inter moved the goalposts at the last minute rather than a failure to negotiate on our behalf. 

I think it’s clutching at straws tbh. Inter aren’t in the driving seat here, they sell him now or lose him for free in the summer, and it’s a player that has played 60 mins for them this season, not somebody they’re wanting to keep hold of. It’s much more likely that we’ve moved the goalposts last minute, or that we never knew what we were doing in the first place

[John rayner]

Just now, AjcW said:

Just add the letter B, L and E and the number 1. Sound

I can't see what all the fuss is about ,top of the league by 10 points ,still have a quality squad and bringing in 1 player wouldn't have made a big difference, so let's get behind the lads and win the league. 

[Dan]

Not quite convinced he comes in the summer. I'd hardly be in a rush to come to us after this shambles.

[Hitesh]

5 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

Utter, utter shit show. We've had ****ing weeks of this.

 

How have we become so badly ran.

Calm down, it's not like we were singing Messi

[Bert]

1 minute ago, Simonb said:

Not a fan of rudkin but until we know the issue we can't hold anyone to account

 

For all we know Inter may have pulled the plug at the last minute worrying about covering their own injuries 

It was over payment structure. 

[Guest Basildon Fox]

1 minute ago, Hitesh said:

So funny to see people lose their shit on here..

 

How does everyone all of a sudden know what's happening behind the scenes? Maybe it was a inter that jacked up the price last minute?!

 

 

Why would they bother when they will get nothing for him in the summer?  He is not going to get into their team and they will now have to continue to pay his wages.

[Qwerty]

1 minute ago, Lambert09 said:

don’t think he will get that far. The comments earlier in the week was him setting up his exit. He already knows the issues and he’ll be gone as soon as an opportunity arises 

And where would he go?  Because he’s not going to get a better job than managing at team that may be in the PL next year.  And if he flounced now, he’d look an absolute fool. 

[It'sblueupnorth]

1 minute ago, Simonb said:

Not a fan of rudkin but until we know the issue we can't hold anyone to account

 

For all we know Inter may have pulled the plug at the last minute worrying about covering their own injuries 

If they were pulling the plug they wouldn’t be negotiating until 10 to 11

[Daggers]

Lest ye forget

 

 

[LCFC-92]

I know the way we have missed out might be frustrating,  and it possibly shows further incompetence from the board...its not really a big deal missing out on the actual player himself.

 

We're cruising the league, have players returning, and will have money and time come the end of the season. 

 

I am more frustrated at not shifting the likes of Ward and Souttar than I am missing out on Sensi tbh.

[fazzyfox]

Re why wasn’t it done earlier, perhaps the hope that a sale of Souttar, Nacho or Praet would enable the offer to Inter to be clearer / better and comfortably affordable and risk free to us. The waters were muddy, we were hoping they would clear but they didn’t.

 

As to why it failed tonight, sounds like one club put a clause in loan agreement that the other couldn’t agree upon.

[Lillehamring]

16 minutes ago, Bluearmyfox28 said:

This screams the club waited until he was in the building, then attempted to move the goal posts thinking inter will just bend over. If remotely true it’s embarrassing from the board.

But why would they do that - it's never going to pay off - and surely if they had done, then they come back and say ok, let's just go with what we agreed.

 

It was more in our interests than inter's to see this through.

[FrankieADZ]

makes you wonder who moved the goalposts in the deal, us or them

 

shamble for both teams imo

[AKCJ]

Just now, Hitesh said:

So funny to see people lose their shit on here..

 

How does everyone all of a sudden know what's happening behind the scenes? Maybe it was a inter that jacked up the price last minute?!

 

 

Because there would be absolutely no reason for Inter to do that.

 

He's out of contract in 6 months and not in their manager'splans whatsoever.

 

Frankly I imagine that they were happy for him to go for next to nothing. It sticks of us trying to shift the goalposts to save a couple of hundred grand or so.

 

It almost makes me want to see us cock promotion up. Just so that Top might finally see what a ****ing charlatan he's employing to run his football club.

[TeaMen Tom]

On the other hand, KDH hasn't gone anywhere. And Yunis is improving.

[Jordan]

7 minutes ago, LestaLad said:

Because we flew the man in on the basis it was agreed after negotiating the whole of Jan. Completed his medical, done all the media. 

Only for it not to get done a couple mins before the deadline. The man was literally at the training ground.

Years will pass and I will still think back about the kind of lengths we went through to string this out until 10:59 pm deadline day for a deal the board knew they had no ability to complete 😂
 

Now it's just a matter of figuring out what’s the funnier* debacle, this or #14 Adrien Silva.
 

 

 

 

*-I’m laughing but I’m angry too, just wanna put that on record.

[Nod.E]

12 hours ago, Nod.E said:

So if we pay £2m for a player out of contract in the summer, Rudkin is an idiot.

 

Also if we drive a hard bargain and negotiate, elongating the negotiation period in the process, Rudkin is an idiot.  

 

Cool.

I would like to retract this statement

[TheGoldenGod]

Cant quite comprehend how people don't think this is a disaster window really. It's not inconceivable that KDH could get injured in our next game...then what. Incredibly weak 8s that's what😐

[CosbehFox]

2 minutes ago, Adster said:

I never said that didn't happen or that current board are not responsible for past decisions. We're talking about the current Sensi deal. 

 

Don't understand why people think this deal collapsing is a surprise as no players have gone out. Our actual manager has told us this a number of occasions this January. 

Which is a result of past errors made by the same people hence the anger. Simpletons can work this stuff out 

[Qwerty]

2 minutes ago, Hitesh said:

Calm down, it's not like we were singing Messi

That’s exactly what I just said to my distraught teenager!  It’s not as if we just missed out on prime Messi.

[Lambert09]

1 minute ago, Qwerty said:

And where would he go?  Because he’s not going to get a better job than managing at team that may be in the PL next year.  And if he flounced now, he’d look an absolute fool. 

you’re kidding right? 

 

Any bottom half prem side changing managers would snap our hands off for him