Oliver Skipp Confirmed

[everton carr]

4 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Going to be decent next season 

Hopefully decent enough for the championship! 

Well he should be got voted Norwich player of the season when they won the championship made the PFA team of the year and In a poll on a Norwich website got voted there greatest ever Loan signing

[st albans fox]

6 minutes ago, everton carr said:

Well he should be got voted Norwich player of the season when they won the championship made the PFA team of the year and In a poll on a Norwich website got voted there greatest ever Loan signing

His career stagnated since then ….. especially this season! 

[Muzzy_no7]

8-12m signing.

 

Masssively overpaid at 20m (+5 if we stay up, repromotion) 

[Dmitry]

8 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

8-12m signing.

 

Masssively overpaid at 20m (+5 if we stay up, repromotion) 

At least it made his parents happy!

[FosseSpark]

On 18/03/2025 at 09:05, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Why have you included Cannon who can't get a game in the Championship? 

be ause i think this team beats our starting XI

[jonny_wright]

After hearing reports that he’s homesick, hadn’t settled at all at Leicester think this transfer is done…. Not sure where we go from here. 
 

he has the quality for the championship but I don’t think he has the application here 

[westernpark]

Just now, jonny_wright said:

After hearing reports that he’s homesick, hadn’t settled at all at Leicester think this transfer is done…. Not sure where we go from here. 
 

he has the quality for the championship but I don’t think he has the application here 

How can he be homesick? He’s from Welwyn Garden City 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Homesick  

 

Grow up. 

[Haywood_6]

christ if you're dropping 20 odd million on a professional, you'd hope he doesn't act like a child and get homesick, we really need to stop investing in players who give us no commitment back

[jonny_wright]

“Not settled” is the term rather than homesick 

[Swarles Barkley]

Why doesn’t he just commute 2hrs every day. Is he stupid?

[Les-TA-Jon]

9 minutes ago, jonny_wright said:

After hearing reports that he’s homesick, hadn’t settled at all at Leicester think this transfer is done…. Not sure where we go from here. 
 

he has the quality for the championship but I don’t think he has the application here 

He's going to be here for a long while because of the fee we paid. We can't shift him unless we accept a big loss. 

 

Expected book values:

• Summer 2025 £16m
• Summer 2026 £12m
• Summer 2027 £8m
• Summer 2028 £4m

 

[It'sblueupnorth]

7 minutes ago, Haywood_6 said:

christ if you're dropping 20 odd million on a professional, you'd hope he doesn't act like a child and get homesick, we really need to stop investing in players who give us no commitment back

Not that it’s childish to get homesick, if he was moving 3000 miles and had no family and friends with him etc etc I could understand it. But he’s literally moved about 80 miles 😂😂

[AKCJ]

Homesick

 

Club is full to the brim of absolute wet wipes. Fully grown man on tens of thousands a week misses mummy and daddy. Please do me a favour.

[Old Fox]

Get him in the team to play and stick with it as he will be key next season. He is no worse than Soumare and I know he has been woeful when he played but season is done so try and get him some confidence back by feeling part of squad

[Stadt]

Wasn't homesick at Norwich though when he was playing every week.

 

[WoodyFox]

38 minutes ago, jonny_wright said:

After hearing reports that he’s homesick, hadn’t settled at all at Leicester think this transfer is done…. Not sure where we go from here. 
 

he has the quality for the championship but I don’t think he has the application here 

Surely one of the first questions that is asked is how they feel about relocating. Seems like a bit of a cop out. 
 

To think the lengths previous scouting/recruitment teams went to when sounding out new players! 

[honeybradger]

To be fair I would also be feeling down due the fact that he was completely unwanted by the fans here and has barely played.

 

Just such an awful transfer that made no sense at the time and has negatively impacted both the player and the club.

 

[Cincinnati Fox]

He can be good in the championship, look at his time at Norwich. But that just tells us how low the championship standard is v PL

[LVFox]

12 minutes ago, Cincinnati Fox said:

He can be good in the championship, look at his time at Norwich. But that just tells us how low the championship standard is v PL

Exactly this. Winks and Skipp would be the best central midfield pairing in the championship this season. Just need a competent coach and we should easily be top 3 or 4 next year

[Lambert09]

32 minutes ago, LVFox said:

Exactly this. Winks and Skipp would be the best central midfield pairing in the championship this season. Just need a competent coach and we should easily be top 3 or 4 next year

Not sure winks and skipp compliment each other well. I think it’s one or the other in the lineup or you end up with too many players incapable of moving the ball forwards 

[Silva Fox]

Get rid!

[splinterdream]

A fresh manager, a new season, playing in the championship, I'm hopeful he'll be decent, he was when he played in the championship before

[JonnyBoy]

5 minutes ago, splinterdream said:

A fresh manager, a new season, playing in the championship, I'm hopeful he'll be decent, he was when he played in the championship before

 

you would hope he would be decent in the champ for 25 million, he should be head and shoulders above every player in that league. We all know he isn't going to be though 

[Claudio Fannieri]

One of my concerns about us this season has been a real lack of physicality, we have a squad littered with players who are small and/or lack physical presence. 
 

When you look at other teams they look bigger, stronger, quicker and fitter than us, I really do think we need to have a look at the profile of players we want for next season and the following season in the premier league should we go up. 
 

Thomas, Winks, Skipp, VK look too lightweight and then when you look at players like Daka and Soumare, they just don’t have the resilience to cope with the physicality and pace of football in England.