Oliver Skipp Confirmed

[kingpower]

Especially given we have Winks. Too similar a player and given our budget restrictions it was criminal we signed him instead of a striker 

[Lionator]

12 hours ago, Pliskin said:

I’m sure it was reported Cooper did? 

It wasn’t Cooper that put down £25 million and 5 year contract. I don’t see how we can ever shift him unless a Saudi league or MLS team come in for him. No prem club will touch him, no championship club could afford him. It’s up to whether the player will be willing to take a massive wage cut to play regular football in future.

Edited 19 January by Lionator

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

8 minutes ago, Lionator said:

It wasn’t Cooper that put down £25 million and 5 year contract. I don’t see how we can ever shift him unless a Saudi league or MLS team come in for him. No prem club will touch him, no championship club could afford him. It’s up to whether the player will be willing to take a massive wage cut to play regular football in future.

We’ve been in this situation many times, and we know how it ends. Players running down contracts and meanwhile no accountability for those who make these decisions.

 

Enough is enough and I’m delighted the penny has finally dropped with the wider fanbase and mobilisation is happening.

[Supergray22]

21 minutes ago, John12345 said:

He was english with near on 100 premier league apps, he made the championship team of the season, he's not that bad of a player. Like everyone his confidence is probably gone, it seems like it was probably low anyway, with people always making fun of him. He's also playing in a bad team.

We need players who are resilient and  have the character and leadership who can play under pressure. English with 100 EPL appearances  - we have really had our pants pulled down here ‘only fools and horses ‘style. Our recruitment process and sign off really  needs an over haul. 

It was starkly visible yesterday which players had the character for the fight and who weren’t. Taking bilal off at 1-0 when we were still in the game was just nonsense. Then bring on ‘Rodders’ Skipp. 

[volpeazzurro]

38 minutes ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

There is a decent PL player there, we just haven’t seen it. But the main issue is that we didn’t need a player in that position. I can’t believe we didn’t spent that money on a striker instead - and just shows everything that is wrong with the club to be honest.

Exactly, it's like going to Tesco's for joint of beef that you want and need but you get distracted by the buy one get one free toilet rolls. You don't really need them but can return home triumphantly thinking your wife will be impressed. 

[lcfc sheff]

The club won’t sell him at a loss due to PSR, here’s hoping most the fee is performance related otherwise we’re stuck with the uninspiring slob.

[adam95581]

Skipp will be a key player for us next year I think. The trouble is, he’s nothing more than a squad player at prem level (someone who can come in for the last 20 mins or play the cup comps) and we didn’t need that this year (not at CM anyway). 

[JimJams]

Just now, lcfc sheff said:

The club won’t sell him at a loss due to PSR, here’s hoping most the fee is performance related otherwise we’re stuck with the uninspiring slob.

It's 20 down with 5 in add ons so it's still a pants down job if he never triggers them.

 

 

[lcfc sheff]

1 minute ago, JimJams said:

It's 20 down with 5 in add ons so it's still a pants down job if he never triggers them.

 

 

We’re ****ed then. We’ll be stuck with a winks and skipp midfield which offers no excitement, physicality or potential for growth.  All in all an absolute shit situation 

[Product of 84]

The Skipp deal stinks of PSR dodginess. 

 

Remember we got Winks for next to nothing (and before I get shouted at that he is rubbish and we got what we paid for, he is English (premium), a former international, Prem experienced Champions League finalist.) They also took Madison off our hands for a fair fee considering we were desperate and, I'd have him back in a heartbeat, a bit of a luxury player at times. 

 

I wouldn't be surprised if the deal in all this was you buy one of these players, for 10million extra, if you get promoted. 

 

And don't get me started on Golding...

 

None of this excuses the wages thrown at players with potential in the pursuit of Champions League football. The ride was exciting, it won us the FA cup but this is the consequence. 

[funkyrobot]

1 hour ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

There is a decent PL player there, we just haven’t seen it. But the main issue is that we didn’t need a player in that position. I can’t believe we didn’t spent that money on a striker instead - and just shows everything that is wrong with the club to be honest.

Not seen anything that backs that statement up, certainly in a Leicester shirt. He hasn’t demonstrated any decent standout attributes at this level for us. I suspect he’s a lower league player that was lucky to hold on to a Spurs contract for as long as he did. Probably because he takes no risk with the ball and in a better team, when he did get game time he had much better players around him to flatter or mask his true ability level. 

[JimJams]

17 minutes ago, Product of 84 said:

The Skipp deal stinks of PSR dodginess.

To be fair I'd oddly feel a lot better about it if it was all part of a PSR fiddle.  At least then you'd know we've spent that money as part of a presumable to and fro to get around the financial rules.  The alternative is that somebody genuinely thought that was an acceptable price, which is a lot worse, despite them still both amounting to an overspend on a bang average cast off.

[Number 6]

This signing on its own should be a sackable offence.

[Tommy Fresh]

Only hope is he looks absolutely outstanding in the Championship and we can dupe some poor club in to taking him

[StriderHiryu]

1 minute ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Only hope is he looks absolutely outstanding in the Championship and we can dupe some poor club in to taking him

Skipp was in the Championship team of the year for Norwich a few seasons ago, so at that level he will cut it. 
 

However, signing a player for the sum of money we paid who is making next to no impact in the Premier League was a huge mistake. 
 

I think it says it all that the team we were battling with for Skipp was Leeds, who aren’t in the same division as us…

[fox_favourite]

1 minute ago, StriderHiryu said:

Skipp was in the Championship team of the year for Norwich a few seasons ago, so at that level he will cut it. 
 

However, signing a player for the sum of money we paid who is making next to no impact in the Premier League was a huge mistake. 
 

I think it says it all that the team we were battling with for Skipp was Leeds, who aren’t in the same division as us…

And that money should have been invested towards a striker. As someone else says it stinks of PSR. If it isn't then it's a sign of ignorance 

[Beachyboy]

If we combine the value of Winks and Skipp currently, what we saying £25 mil, we have paid £8 mil + 20 mil and £5 mil potential add ones, so £28 mil currently, we have overpaid but put like that and Winks did help last season. The main issue is CM is probably the strongest position we have and we should of got someone else from Spurs a full back, centre back or Striker, if Skipp was some sort of artificially high fee to balance out Winks transfer.

Edited 19 January by Beachyboy

[John12345]

Many spurs fans liked skipp and they are the most difficult bunch to please.

 

He's decent in a functioning team which we ain't.

[funkyrobot]

5 minutes ago, John12345 said:

Many spurs fans liked skipp and they are the most difficult bunch to please.

 

He's decent in a functioning team which we ain't.

Spurs fans I know were very happy we paid £25m for him. Very happy! 

[The Doctor]

9 minutes ago, John12345 said:

Many spurs fans liked skipp and they are the most difficult bunch to please.

 

He's decent in a functioning team which we ain't.

what does he actually bring to the team though? like genuinely, when you say he's decent in a functioning team, what does he contribute to that team, or is it he needs a team to carry him?

[CrispinLA in Texas]

3 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

Spurs fans I know were very happy we paid £25m for him. Very happy! 

Yup on their forum they were laughing their socks off that we paid so much for him when they thought that they probably get 8m from Leeds or Norwich for him 

[orangecity23]

For the money we paid for him, for the financial position we are in, spending this much on a player must be based on a potential of resale value, ideally a profit. Skipp will never be worth more than we paid for him. He's not a player on an upward curve, he won't be attractive to moneybags big 6 clubs in the future. He's as good as he ever will be, so from here on in, we've lumbered ourselves with 4 million of amortisation minimum for the next 4 years, for a player who is basically a worse version of Nampalys Mendy.

 

Spending the money we did on Bilal might pay off handsomely in future if it result in a big sale later. There's no way the Skipp transfer will do the same. This is the kind of player that is worth picking up dirt cheap, or on a Bosman, but a permanent PSR basket case like us has to be very careful where we spend our transfer money, because moves like this is how we ended up dropping 90 million pound losses.

Edited 19 January by orangecity23

[funkyrobot]

2 minutes ago, orangecity23 said:

For the money we paid for him, for the financial position we are in, spending this much on a player must be based on a potential of resale value, ideally a profit. Skipp will never be worth more than we paid for him. He's not a player on an upward curve, he won't be attractive to moneybags big 6 clubs in the future. He's as good as he ever will be, so from here on in, we've lumbered ourselves with 4 million of amortisation minimum for the next 4 years, for a player who is basically a worse version of Nampalys Mendy.

 

Spending the money we did on Bilal might pay off handsomely in future if it result in a big sale later. There's no way the Skipp transfer will do the same. This is the kind of player that is worth picking up dirt cheap, or on a Bosman, but a permanent PSR basket case like us has to be very careful where we spend our transfer money, because moves like this is how we ended up dropping 90 million pound losses.

Mendy is levels above Skipp. Nampalys was quality ‘water carrier.’ He sought the ball, had excellent close control. constantly moved into space and could take the ball on the half turn. Don’t see any of those attributes in Skipp. 

[StriderHiryu]

3 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

And that money should have been invested towards a striker. As someone else says it stinks of PSR. If it isn't then it's a sign of ignorance 

There were so many issues with the summer window, and it all leads back to appointing the wrong guy for the job, IMO.

 

I think signing a player to be cover / rotation for Winks was neccessary. But it turns out we have that player, and it's Soumare. So if we signed Skipp we should have sold Soumare and probably Hamza too. And as we all know the fee we paid for him was insane, if we just needed cover there are tons of players around Europe we could have signed on loan.

 

I agree with the striker, but also think we needed to sign a quality CB with pace. We signed Okoli, but he's not starting. For me we could / should have combine the Skipp and Okoli moneny and brought in a fast CB to make the difference. The last BIG money CB we signed was Fofana, and he sent into and stayed in the team till he left. If you look at the back 5 we have started in the 7 game losing run, it's no suprise whatsoever that we concede over 2 goals a game.

[orangecity23]

13 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

Mendy is levels above Skipp. Nampalys was quality ‘water carrier.’ He sought the ball, had excellent close control. constantly moved into space and could take the ball on the half turn. Don’t see any of those attributes in Skipp. 

Agreed. And he was a player who we let go for free. Yet we deemed it worthwhile to drop loads of money on Skipp, a guy with worse ball control and wayward passing ability