Panathinaikos striker Fotis Ioannidis

[Nolucklcfc]

There’s no way we are spending 20 on skipp and spending upwards of 20 on this guy. Might as well close the thread 

[Steve Earle]

3 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

There’s no way we are spending 20 on skipp and spending upwards of 20 on this guy. Might as well close the thread 

Well, we bid over £20m for Soule knowing we’d need a striker as well, so I doubt you’re right?

[Nolucklcfc]

1 hour ago, Steve Earle said:

Well, we bid over £20m for Soule knowing we’d need a striker as well, so I doubt you’re right?

So you reckon with what we’ve spent so far we’ve got 50m to spend? No chance 

[coolhandfox]

3 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

So you reckon with what we’ve spent so far we’ve got 50m to spend? No chance 

My guess before we started was we would spend 80m, based on the fact its add around 16m per year on to our amortisation.

 

We have spent roughly around 50m so far I think we will spend another 30m odd.

Edited 18 August 2024 by coolhandfox

[Dahnsouff]

5 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

My guess before we started was we would spend 80m, based on the fact its add around 16m per year on to our amortisation.

 

We have spent roughly around 50m so far I think we will spend another 30m odd.

Before Skipp €39m, so plenty of scope

[DJ Barry Hammond]

Well he’s getting 30+ minutes tonight from the bench - Panathinaikos are 1-0 down and have been reduced to 10 men at home! 

[enmac]

Soule playing for Roma right now.

[moore_94]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/08/19/leicester-city-premier-league-ready-steve-cooper-summer/
 

Leicester’s bid to sign another top target, Panathinaikos forward Fotis Ioannidis, will require a fee approaching £30 million.

[Silva Fox]

49 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/08/19/leicester-city-premier-league-ready-steve-cooper-summer/
 

Leicester’s bid to sign another top target, Panathinaikos forward Fotis Ioannidis, will require a fee approaching £30 million.

Close thread!

[Babylon]

13 hours ago, Nolucklcfc said:

So you reckon with what we’ve spent so far we’ve got 50m to spend? No chance 

The issue is not having money, we have money. The issue is complying with PSR. If you spend £25m on two players on 5 year contracts (£50m total), it adds just £10m to your PSR for the year (plus wages). So that should be doable, yes. 

[kingpowerout]

 

 

Sporting in for this forward, maybe they have switched their attention from Fotis 

[Lambert09]

7 hours ago, moore_94 said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/08/19/leicester-city-premier-league-ready-steve-cooper-summer/
 

Leicester’s bid to sign another top target, Panathinaikos forward Fotis Ioannidis, will require a fee approaching £30 million.

Unfortunately this becomes a deadline day wait to see if they lower the price. 

 

Nobody’s paying 30m.  To be honest i don’t see anything wrong with offering 5m in add ons if we survive.  But after the skipp deal i’d be surprised if we have another  25m around. 

[DJ Barry Hammond]

5 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

Unfortunately this becomes a deadline day wait to see if they lower the price. 

 

Nobody’s paying 30m.  To be honest i don’t see anything wrong with offering 5m in add ons if we survive.  But after the skipp deal i’d be surprised if we have another  25m around. 

With our transfer budget, we can always take a punt on being able to sell someone for profit come June (seems like we did that last year) - and in my mind you could potentially take that gamble with Ioannidis himself.

 

We’d have to position the move as a stepping stone to get him - so be straight with him.

 

If we go down, there’s a release clause for what we paid for you, if we don’t there’s still a release clause of something like £40-£50 million that wouldn’t be prohibitive towards a further move next year or the year after if he’s a success.

[coolhandfox]

54 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

Unfortunately this becomes a deadline day wait to see if they lower the price. 

 

Nobody’s paying 30m.  To be honest i don’t see anything wrong with offering 5m in add ons if we survive.  But after the skipp deal i’d be surprised if we have another  25m around. 

Pretty confident we spend another 30m whether that's on 1 player is another thing.

[MPH]

 

We MIGHT HAVE created some shenanigans with skipp where we haven’t technically spent much of our budget on him, but offset what they still owe us for Maddison. Whatever our budget is, I don’t think it’s anything to do with PSR, it’s more to do with operating cash… so if we’ve used madders money or not, we’d be within PSR to get this guys too, we just might not have the cash to..

Edited 19 August 2024 by MPH

[Dahnsouff]

2 minutes ago, MPH said:

We MIGHT HAVE created some shenanigans with skipp where we haven’t technically spent much of our budget on him, but offset what they still owe us for Maddison. Whatever our budget is, I don’t think it’s anything to do with PSR, it’s more to do with operating cash… so if we’ve used madders money or not, we’d be within PSR to get this guys too, we just might not have the cash to..

Don’t we generally recognise our transfer income through loans from Maquire?

[MPH]

1 minute ago, Dahnsouff said:

Don’t we generally recognise our transfer income through loans from Maquire?

Most of the time.. not seen that we did that with Maddison though…

[murphy]

20 hours ago, enmac said:

Soule playing for Roma right now.

Never heard of him

[DJ Barry Hammond]

11 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Don’t we generally recognise our transfer income through loans from Maquire?

Yes.

 

You can see all the charges Macquarie have registered as part of their loan facilities for these transactions on Leicester City Football Club Limited’s Companies House page;

 

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04593477/filing-history

 

However - there hasn’t been a charge registered since October 2023 - in relation to the Barnes and Castagne transfers (the documents show what the charges relate to).

Edited 19 August 2024 by DJ Barry Hammond

[DJ Barry Hammond]

8 minutes ago, MPH said:

Most of the time.. not seen that we did that with Maddison though…

We did - charge was registered on 6th September 2023.

[Sunbury Fox]

2 hours ago, DJ Barry Hammond said:

With our transfer budget, we can always take a punt on being able to sell someone for profit come June (seems like we did that last year) - and in my mind you could potentially take that gamble with Ioannidis himself.

 

We’d have to position the move as a stepping stone to get him - so be straight with him.

 

If we go down, there’s a release clause for what we paid for you, if we don’t there’s still a release clause of something like £40-£50 million that wouldn’t be prohibitive towards a further move next year or the year after if he’s a success.

Problem is that we don't have many high value players left in the squad. Fatawu and Mads are the only 2 that we could potentially get big money for now, I think. Cooper is busy filling up the squad with even more players with no resale value. 

[jbflcfc]

Get this bastard in & get fatawu, Mav &

facundo running off him immediately please x

[DJ Barry Hammond]

10 minutes ago, jbflcfc said:

Get this bastard in & get fatawu, Mav &

facundo running off him immediately please x

You’re forgetting Vardy - we could definitely play two up top in some games.

[mozartfox]

13 hours ago, Dahnsouff said:

Don’t we generally recognise our transfer income through loans from Maquire?

Harry?  He already paid for Seagrave bless him. 

[jayfox26]

14 hours ago, coolhandfox said:

Pretty confident we spend another 30m whether that's on 1 player is another thing.

Nah Rudkin will have looked at the score last night and told Cooper his squad is good enough. 

 

Joking aside though, we showed some great fight and courage last night, so if we could add 2 more quality signings, we possibly could have enough to stay up. A striker and a left back would be ideal.