Reiss Nelson - loaned to Fulham

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Not sure about the validity of this 'source' but will post anyway

 

https://www.tribalfootball.com/article/soccer-premier-league-leicester-lining-up-bid-for-arsenal-star-816ed991-cb31-49eb-925d-b843d4eb2a3b?

 

Leicester City may be ready to put in a bid for midfielder Reiss Nelson from Arsenal.

 

Per The Mirror, the Foxes were hoping to bring Wilfried Zaha back to England.

 

However, a deal to sign Zaha from Galatasaray in Turkey appears to have collapsed.

 

The issue with the mooted loan deal is related to finances, which means they may look elsewhere.

 

The source outlines that Nelson is seen as the alternative option by Leicester boss Steve Cooper.

 

The Arsenal homegrown talent does want to leave this summer for more regular game time.

 

[-sodapop]

I think they're just reporting old news here. I doubt we've doubled back, and no way we can afford this + Hlozek + Ayew

[moore_94]

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

Remain interested in Arsenal’s Reiss Nelson, though the player’s wages are significant and more than £120,000-a-week.

[Sunbury Fox]

3 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

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

Remain interested in Arsenal’s Reiss Nelson, though the player’s wages are significant and more than £120,000-a-week.

Season long loan with Arsenal covering half his wages? 

[DJ Barry Hammond]

1 hour ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Season long loan with Arsenal covering half his wages? 

I think that’s the potential conclusion of this one - can’t see anyone picking him up for a transfer fee and those sort of wages.

 

Whether that loans to us, of course, is another thing completely!

Edited 19 August 2024 by DJ Barry Hammond

[Lesta2014]

Got deadline day panic written all over it this has. 

[J.Lisemore]

2 hours ago, moore_94 said:

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

Remain interested in Arsenal’s Reiss Nelson, though the player’s wages are significant and more than £120,000-a-week.

How on earth has he ended up on £120k a week  

[James_lcfc]

31 minutes ago, Lesta2014 said:

Got deadline day panic written all over it this has. 

Well it would be panic from Arsenal as they realise he's not going to feature so try to get his wages (or a portion of them) off the books for the season.

 

He'd be a good option for us.

[ClaphamFox]

1 minute ago, James_lcfc said:

Well it would be panic from Arsenal as they realise he's not going to feature so try to get his wages (or a portion of them) off the books for the season.

 

He'd be a good option for us.

Exactly! It won’t be a panic buy/loan from us if we’ve already targeted him earlier in the window. 

[Lesta2014]

3 minutes ago, James_lcfc said:

Well it would be panic from Arsenal as they realise he's not going to feature so try to get his wages (or a portion of them) off the books for the season.

 

He'd be a good option for us.

Meant more us overpaying on wages on deadline day. Agree he’d be a good player for us. 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

9 minutes ago, J.Lisemore said:

How on earth has he ended up on £120k a week  

They have Juan Rudkino in charge of contract negotiations 

[ClaphamFox]

10 minutes ago, Lesta2014 said:

Meant more us overpaying on wages on deadline day. Agree he’d be a good player for us. 

If it goes to deadline day, Arsenal will be much more open to paying a large chunk of his wages themselves. 

[StriderHiryu]

14 minutes ago, J.Lisemore said:

How on earth has he ended up on £120k a week  

That's the level of finances the big clubs can offer. This is why Kante, Mahrez, Fofana, Drinkwater, etc, etc all can't wait to get shot of Leicester. Maguire is on nearly 200K a week at Man United!

 

That's why to become competitve, the club started handed out big wages to secure the likes of Tielemans. But then as we see it leaves you in a precarious position where a club is over leveraged on wages, it's hard to shift players on, and they will see out their contracts instead of leaving. This has happened to us many times, but we see that Arsenal and Man U have the same problem. These clubs would have moved on the likes of Sancho, Nelson, Nketiah a long time ago if they could get the fees they want, but teams aren't willing to pay up for them.

 

Chelsea have moved to more of an incentive based wage structure as a result of this. But I'm not sure this will work for a club like Leicester. You have to offer the big bucks to stand a chance. I wouldn't be surprised if Harry Winks was on 80k a week, even in the Championship. Let's be honest, that's the biggest reason we convinced him.

[DZ-LCFC]

Deadline day deal 

[Nick]

8 minutes ago, DZ-LCFC said:

Deadline day deal 

Yep, loan with obligation to buy would be nice providing we stay up. If we can sort the wages between Arsenal and us, that'd be a great signing.

 

He could bring Eddie N. with him too on the same basis for me!

[DZ-LCFC]

Just now, Nick said:

Yep, loan with obligation to buy would be nice providing we stay up. If we can sort the wages between Arsenal and us, that'd be a great signing.

 

He could bring Eddie N. with him too on the same basis for me!

I don't think we can get Eddie 

 

arsenal want more than 40m for him 

 

[Ric Flair]

Nelson in to play that LW role that under Cooper would operate more centrally would be a great piece of business. It's going to cost us though. Big loan fee and Arsenal top up his wages or we pay them £20m and they use some to buy him off.

[Sunbury Fox]

Would love to see this happen but I'm working extremely hard to avoid building up my hopes yet again, only to find that we end up signing someone like Ayew instead. 

[Edingleyfox]

Thinking this through if he is on £120k per week buying him would seem out of the question unless he is prepared to take a wage cut of maybe a third and a further slice if Leicester are relegated, Not the most attractive option for him. Loan perhaps? 

 

Do we think he would add enough goals and assists? Still think we are shopping in the wrong markets unless Leicester have a lot more financial flexibility than is made out

Edited 19 August 2024 by Edingleyfox

[Jon the Hat]

This type of loan gets easier the close to the deadline.  He is not going to get much game time at Arsenal, and getting him playing and half his wages paid is better than him sitting on the bench for 120k a week.

[Sly]

Nelson and Nketiah both improve us, however I’m not sure we have the financial movement to get it done. 
 

From an FFP point of view, it makes sense if Arsenal sell them, albeit on the cheaper side, as they’re academy products so pure profit. No point loaning them out and still covering wages if that’s the goal. 

[LFEFox23]

7 hours ago, Sly said:

Nelson and Nketiah both improve us, however I’m not sure we have the financial movement to get it done. 
 

From an FFP point of view, it makes sense if Arsenal sell them, albeit on the cheaper side, as they’re academy products so pure profit. No point loaning them out and still covering wages if that’s the goal. 

Totally agree, but they have to put them in the 'Premier league shopwindow'....

 

Nketiah is kinda proven he can score goals at this level, hence why Forest, Bmouth & Palace all had strong interest.

 

Nelson, has he even started 5 premier league on the trott? as you mentioned, this deal may happen towards the very end of the window - Whats the point of Nelson sitting on their bench? Not exactly drawing up any interest and clocks ticking on his contract.

 

 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Nketiah is absolute rubbish and the expenditure involved to get him would represent an even worse deal. Still got a bit of hope we might get Nelson in.

[Lambert09]

Nelson and a striker upgrade and i’d actually be happy with our window. 

 

Ayew and fofana and i might cry 

[moore_94]

On 25/07/2024 at 12:30, Ric Flair said:

Fabio Vieira on loan with an option to buy would be ideal.