Odsonne Edouard joins on loan - Official

[StanSP]

Waste of 2.5m fee

 

Waste of approx 70-80k (?)of his wages. 

 

Is Rudkin responsible for the wages offered to players? Or would it be someone else? 

 

Some of the wages we've offered out over the past few seasons is staggering. 

[Chelmofox]

Is he injured? Footmob says injured until early March?

[EnderbyFox]

2 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

Is he injured? Footmob says injured until early March?

No, he's just crap

 

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Ahead of Leicester’s home game against Brentford on Friday, Van Nistelrooy was asked for his opinion on the loanee.

“He’s competing for two places on the bench with Jamie and Patson [Daka], and so far I’ve been picking the first two,” he said.

“He’s the one who is competing. If I see in training sessions that he can do something better or that he will be of more value than one of the other two, then he will be in the squad and will make minutes.

“That’s the competition. The ones who don’t play, they need to fight for their spot. The ones who play protect their spot.

“The ones who are not in the squad, they fight to be in. That’s what drives us and makes our squad better.”

 

[bmt]

9 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/02/20/odsonne-edouard-shambles-example-leicester-mismanagement/
 

When negotiating the deal with Palace, Leicester paid a £2.5 million loan fee and agreed to supplement a hefty portion of the forward’s wages, which are understood to be around a basic £90,000 a week inclusive of bonuses.

 

Edouard scored seven goals in the Premier League for Palace last season and signed a contract extension to 2027 before joining Leicester.

 

Despite that new deal, Palace are believed to have turned down a request from Leicester to rip up his loan prematurely in January.

 

The only option for a potential exit appears to be Major League Soccer in the United States.

 

The MLS transfer window is open until April 23, yet it is understood Edouard has already rejected a move to Atlanta United. The offer from Atlanta was worth a total £15 million.

The media properly catching on now.

[st albans fox]

10 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Waste of 2.5m fee

 

Waste of approx 70-80k (?)of his wages. 

 

Is Rudkin responsible for the wages offered to players? Or would it be someone else? 

 

Some of the wages we've offered out over the past few seasons is staggering. 

I reckon we’re playing 60k a week to him (if his bonus’ are10k/week (he won’t be getting any of them) then that means we’re in for 75% of his wages ) 

if we thought he was a 12.5m player then the loan fee of 2.5m stacks up and a salary of 60k in the PL is reasonable 

 

if he was any good then financially the deal is fine.   But he’s crap 

[lcfc sheff]

I’m sure I read we didn’t bother offering iheanacho a new deal last summer, which was stupid in hindsight 

[Chelmofox]

3 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

I’m sure I read we didn’t bother offering iheanacho a new deal last summer, which was stupid in hindsight 

Nah. Just because this deal didn't work doesn't mean we should have offered Nacho anything. Borough fans can't believe how bad he is. At least we wave goodbye to this guy no matter what.

Edited 20 February by Chelmofox

[bmt]

2 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

I’m sure I read we didn’t bother offering iheanacho a new deal last summer, which was stupid in hindsight 

Is it? Isn't that exactly what people think the club gets wrong the most?

[lcfc sheff]

1 minute ago, Chelmofox said:

Nah. Just because this deal didn't work doesn't mean we should have offered Nacho anything. Borough fans can't believe how bad he is. At least we wave goodbye to this guy no matter what.

He’s always took a run of games to come good. He’d been a cheaper option and also offered use a saleable asset whilst also being better than edouard

[lcfc sheff]

2 minutes ago, bmt said:

Is it? Isn't that exactly what people think the club gets wrong the most?

If we can’t spend the £s quite clearly he would’ve been a better option 

[bmt]

7 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

If we can’t spend the £s quite clearly he would’ve been a better option 

He would have been the less bad option but I'm not sure that's a good option haha

[Chelmofox]

4 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

He’s always took a run of games to come good. He’d been a cheaper option and also offered use a saleable asset whilst also being better than edouard

You have no idea if he was the cheaper option as you don't know what sort of salary or signing fee he might have demanded. Resigning out of contract players isn't free.

 

I get it, this deal is atrocious but at the time getting him seemed to make some sense.  Sometimes players just dont work out. The worst part is us having no get out clause to deal with that, which is just bad negotiating on our part.

 

None of this means resigning Nacho was a good idea.

[Jock's Hill]

Surely there is room on the bench for 2 strikers so that Ruud can choose who to put on? We even had 2 goalkeepers on there under Enzo.

Might at least give him a chance to see what Eduard can do (or not do!).

[Chelmofox]

3 minutes ago, Jock's Hill said:

Surely there is room on the bench for 2 strikers so that Ruud can choose who to put on? We even had 2 goalkeepers on there under Enzo.

Might at least give him a chance to see what Eduard can do (or not do!).

Surely the implication from Ruuds statement is that he isn't fighting for his place in training?

[ClaphamFox]

11 minutes ago, Jock's Hill said:

Surely there is room on the bench for 2 strikers so that Ruud can choose who to put on? We even had 2 goalkeepers on there under Enzo.

Might at least give him a chance to see what Eduard can do (or not do!).

If there is room on the bench for two strikers I would much rather it was Jake Evans than Odsonne Edouard. 

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

Waste of 2.5m fee

 

Waste of approx 70-80k (?)of his wages. 

 

Is Rudkin responsible for the wages offered to players? Or would it be someone else? 

 

Some of the wages we've offered out over the past few seasons is staggering. 

Directors of Football and I presume Rudkin will be almost exclusively responsible for the negotiation with players but the setting of the entire budget for footballing operations year on year will be a combined process with the CFO, DOF and quite likely the board and even the manager. 

 

Rodgers boasted about him driving the increase in renumeration for his squad due to their attempts at realising their ambition and the success they achieved and that's part of the problem we have found ourselves in. We got swept up in success and didn't have a contingency for a wage bill that nearly exceeded our entire revenue if we stopped finishing in the top 6. 

 

So whilst Rudkin will have been working within the parameters the club were all largely happy with, when the shit has hit the fan in the last few seasons it's unfathomable when you read in the press we offered Jack Harrison £100k a week 2 years ago, signed (allegedly Conor Coady) on £70k a week in the Championship that's since been bumped up to £100k a week according to John Percy, and deals like Edouard when Palace simply had to get him gone to register Nketiah. This is where I lose sympathy with the club when it's fallen on harder times, a lack of strong decision making to steer our club back to being able to operate flexibly. 

 

This is why we need the reset from top to bottom.

[TheGoldenGod]

11 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

If there is room on the bench for two strikers I would much rather it was Jake Evans than Odsonne Edouard. 

Spot on. Not sure why people get so hung up and forcing a player to work just because he's on big wages. It was a panic deadline day signing who, by the managers comments, isn't showing anything to suggest he should be given a chance.

Whereas Evans is the future so he'd have to be considered first for me.

[moore_94]

28 minutes ago, Jock's Hill said:

Surely there is room on the bench for 2 strikers so that Ruud can choose who to put on? We even had 2 goalkeepers on there under Enzo.

Might at least give him a chance to see what Eduard can do (or not do!).

We usually have 2 centre backs on the bench which there is no need for

 

He absolutely could have another striker/attacking player on the bench if he wanted

[Lesta2014]

Always banging the goals in during training clips isn’t he 

[daddylonglegs]

On 04/02/2025 at 10:51, Tommy G said:

Why do people place reliance on these sham websites and take it as gospel?

John Percy says hello

[Foxes1]

2 hours ago, Lesta2014 said:

Always banging the goals in during training clips isn’t he 

Was Danny Ward in goal.

[Dan]

Only we could make a pretty low risk move this damaging. It's cost us good money. We sit here in February with a player we signed in August and he's played more minutes for Palace this season than us. It's also costly in that it prevented us from the cheapest, most convenient way of improving the squad in a January where we would spend less money than Plymouth - due to appalling deals like this been made previously.

 

I think what sums up how useless our board and ownership are is that we are running on a huge stroke of luck this season. Got promoted. Have actually spent money. Avoided a points deduction. We got given a very lucky break, a clean slate almost - and they've delivered us a team that's this poor. This is concrete proof that all of their excuses are complete balderdash.

[TheGoldenGod]

Just seen a Jordan Blackwell tweet saying Evans is apparently got a "little injury" so no chance of this weekend then!

[King Claudio]

4 hours ago, st albans fox said:

I reckon we’re playing 60k a week to him (if his bonus’ are10k/week (he won’t be getting any of them) then that means we’re in for 75% of his wages ) 

if we thought he was a 12.5m player then the loan fee of 2.5m stacks up and a salary of 60k in the PL is reasonable 

 

if he was any good then financially the deal is fine.   But he’s crap 

Agree with this. 

 

The problem here lies more in the identification of the player. He's not an unknown quantity yet he appears useless to our team. 

 

Someone on the scouting side got this very wrong 

[coolhandfox]

He maybe is crap, but Daka and Vardy have scored 4 goals between them in 12 league games since RVN took over. 

 

We have scored 7 in 12 games, we haven't score in 5 home games 

 

He's been written off after playing 7, 1, 16 minutes in the league and 87 minutes in the cup. 

 

We are in a position were we need to take risks and roll the dice!