Hiroki Sekine - Japan Right Back

[FoxinNotts]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leicester-city-transfer-news-latest-9768995

 

Announced that he's left to join an overseas club, for a transfer, this window. I'd imagine there's a good chance it's us, given his price, and the fact that we've scouted him, and he's a right back.

 

https://www.nikkansports.com/soccer/news/202501090000273.html?cx_testId=207&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

[AKCJ]

Exactly the sort of signing we should make which is why it won't be us.

[Iwebema]

These are the types of signings we should be making, I don't know alot about him, but we should be focusing on young upcoming cheaper prospects who have been well scouted rather than cast offs from other premier league teams.

[Finnegan]

The article linking us to Sekine being the same article that said we're interested in £50m Man City target and European goal scoring sensation Omar Marmoush?

[TheGoldenGod]

Japanese players do tend to have an amazing and infectious work ethic! Hopefully he follows suit if he comes to us and raises the level cause we are slumping.

[FrankieADZ]

type of signing we need, probably going to Belgian team 

[Focks]

First Japanesey player ?

[FoxinNotts]

4 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

The article linking us to Sekine being the same article that said we're interested in £50m Man City target and European goal scoring sensation Omar Marmoush?

Factually, all could be true. We could also be interested in Haarland and Issak. Probably won't get them though! 

[TheGoldenGod]

Just now, Focks said:

First Japanesey player ?

Erm, Okazaki?

[FoxinNotts]

Just now, Focks said:

First Japanesey player ?

.....errrrr

[PNM]

1 minute ago, Focks said:

First Japanesey player ?

Yuki!

[FoxinNotts]

1 minute ago, Focks said:

First Japanesey player ?

Abe

[teblin]

I’m on board with these type of signings, risk but potential. It’s the path we have strayed from. 

[PNM]

1 minute ago, Focks said:

First Japanesey player ?

And just Japanese would’ve been fine 

[DezFox]

Exactly the sort of thing we should be doing. It’s so obviously and for that reason it will defo not be us at all. 

[Focks]

1 minute ago, PNM said:

And just Japanese would’ve been fine 

Wow

[StanSP]

Ipswich will sign him. 

[Pliskin]

Love threads like this. Pure speculation, ropey translations from the Japanese John Percy saying he’s set to sign…. And then randomly joins a German Primary schools second team.

[FoxinNotts]

4 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Love threads like this. Pure speculation, ropey translations from the Japanese John Percy saying he’s set to sign…. And then randomly joins a German Primary schools second team.

It's the joys of the January window !

[AjcW]

14 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

And then randomly joins a German Primary schools second team.

At which point @Ric Flair perks up and tells us about the CB that German Primary school team have that we should sign as some sort of revenge....

[Deeg67]

He's a good player, technically sound and unusually physical for a Japanese player.

 

FWIW the media here seems to be mentioning only us as possibilities, so if he's been linked to anyone else the press hasn't gotten wind of it.

[FoxinNotts]

2 minutes ago, Deeg67 said:

He's a good player, technically sound and unusually physical for a Japanese player.

 

FWIW the media here seems to be mentioning only us as possibilities, so if he's been linked to anyone else the press hasn't gotten wind of it.

Promising. Get the plane tracker thread open!!!! Tokyo to Gatwick?

[volpeazzurro]

Looks very interesting but, we seem to prefer the tried and tested injury prone ageing type like Bertrand. There's got to be at least one Rudkin has on redial straight to a physio room. Don't give up yet folks, there could be another limpy dick hobbling over to sign a contract as we write!

[filbertway]

58 minutes ago, PNM said:

And just Japanese would’ve been fine 

I actually think it's Japanish

[Nick]

57 minutes ago, PNM said:

And just Japanese would’ve been fine 

I don’t think that’s fair to you to refer to the player as ‘just Japanese’ I think you’ll find he’s so much more than that.