Jeremy Monga

[Tommy G]

15 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Tough for us to hide £5m 

 

easy for Man City or Liverpool 

Afford you mean. Nevermind hide

[st albans fox]

2 hours ago, Stevosevic said:

How do payments like this even go on the books? Pretty sure they’re not allowed officially so what’s the work around? 

‘Come in mr Monga 

we’re looking for someone to act as an advisor. your new business based in Abu Dhabi looks like it should be able to provide this - shall we say £2.5m?

oh and by the way, that boy of yours is an excellent footballer’ 
 

6 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Afford you mean. Nevermind hide

True 

[Simonb]

23 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

He doesn't even have to make th3 decision yet. Can't sign a pro deal with any club until 10th July 2026. Yes, he will benefit I'm sure from the moment he opts to leave us and go to a bigger club but it won't be to the magnitude of what he's in line for the year after.

 

He could wait to see what happens over the next year knowing he will play a large chunk of games in the Championship which he won't get a sniff in the PL for a year or two and that's being generous.

Completely agree.. depends who he has advising him I guess and what his opinions are of others careers that are starting after leaving us young like the other lad that's at Liverpool

 

Personally I think he'll go and with the shape of the club at the moment, I couldn't blame him. I'd always thought if I was good enough to be a pro I'd fancy myself as being a one club player here... but how it appears from the outside now.. I'd jump ship in a heartbeat

[Wink84]

On 28/04/2025 at 16:05, niyaminski said:

It doesn’t make sense to me why he is getting minutes when he’s going off to another club.

 

Surely we’d be better off giving minutes to Evans, Page etc.

Makes me think the club are pushing it so we get more from a tribunal

[TommyK]

6 hours ago, st albans fox said:

‘Come in mr Monga 

we’re looking for someone to act as an advisor. your new business based in Abu Dhabi looks like it should be able to provide this - shall we say £2.5m?

oh and by the way, that boy of yours is an excellent footballer’ 
 

True 

"Hello Mrs Monga,

King power welcomes you to it's Thailand family as a cultural ambassador. 

 

As part of this highly influencial and important role you will require a free house on the Saff and a free match day pass to Leicester ladies. "

 

Can't see much difference myself 

[cruzFOX]

We’ve gotta keep this kid at all cost!

[davieG]

According to a report from TEAMtalk, Manchester United are one of the sides showing an interest in signing Leicester City winger Monga ahead of the summer transfer window.

With Leicester facing the threat of being relegated down to League One, they could lose some key players heading towards the summer.

Monga is on the radar of a host of clubs, including Juventus, Real Madrid, and Borussia Dortmund, alongside plenty from the Premier League.

[nnfox]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

According to a report from TEAMtalk, Manchester United are one of the sides showing an interest in signing Leicester City winger Monga ahead of the summer transfer window.

With Leicester facing the threat of being relegated down to League One, they could lose some key players heading towards the summer.

Monga is on the radar of a host of clubs, including Juventus, Real Madrid, and Borussia Dortmund, alongside plenty from the Premier League.

I just don't see it.  He has a long way to go.

 

The irony is, he probably needs a season playing in League 1 for his development.

[dmayne7]

Another masterclass from this club. Realise he's not been amazing but he's been atrociously managed which has sucked out his confidence, not played enough to develop the tactical side of his game, all meaning that him being an easy £20m+ asset, probably makes him worth a fraction of that now.

[dmayne7]

1 hour ago, nnfox said:

I just don't see it.  He has a long way to go.

 

The irony is, he probably needs a season playing in League 1 for his development.

I think we forget, he is still only 16. He can go there for peanuts (to them) and give him a few years to develop in the reserves or out on loan

[teblin]

7 hours ago, dmayne7 said:

I think we forget, he is still only 16. He can go there for peanuts (to them) and give him a few years to develop in the reserves or out on loan

Wasn’t there an agreement that he was to sign a professional contract when he committed last summer. Though I’m sure we’d find a way to mess that up.

[RowlattsFox]

He'd be worth a gamble for a lot of clubs. 

 

In some ways, the lower we go the harder it will be for players like him to make an instant impact. It's a risky career choice in the short term but joining a big club under 21 side, getting the odd first team minutes here and there and if he's not deemed good enough he will probably still get a decent move and have a decent career from 19+.

Other positive for him would be that he's out of our shitshow. 

[TiffToff88]

Wouldn't surprise me if we sold him, but loaned him back for the League One season

[AKCJ]

Obviously full of ability. Needs a season scoring/assisting shit loads for an U21 team as opposed to sitting on the bench.

[Stadt]

1 hour ago, AKCJ said:

Obviously full of ability. Needs a season scoring/assisting shit loads for an U21 team as opposed to sitting on the bench.

Being on the bench, getting limited minutes and not playing for the U21s is the worst thing for Monga and Page's development - so of course that's what we're doing.

 

We built the jet engine with Seagrave but we use wooden propellers on the plane.

[dmayne7]

4 hours ago, teblin said:

Wasn’t there an agreement that he was to sign a professional contract when he committed last summer. Though I’m sure we’d find a way to mess that up.

Yes, I think that's done but it was more to protect us. What I'm saying now is that he was an easy £20m asset and now you could see us letting go for £5m or under because of how he's been managed

[Finnegan]

12 hours ago, dmayne7 said:

Another masterclass from this club. Realise he's not been amazing but he's been atrociously managed which has sucked out his confidence, not played enough to develop the tactical side of his game, all meaning that him being an easy £20m+ asset, probably makes him worth a fraction of that now.

 

Ehhh, I don't know actually. I don't know what much more we could have done with Monga.

 

He isn't good enough to be starting every week in the Championship right now, certainly not in a team that's struggling like ours. He could have done with a season in League One at a team playing on the front foot giving him lots of time on the ball to grow his confidence against senior pros. But we can't loan him out because he's too young which is nothing we can help.

 

He's fallen victim to the fact we're absolutely, catastrophically shit this year. If he'd been 16 and of this quality when Enzo was here, it would have done wonders for him getting regular game time in that team but he wasn't. So.

 

I actually don't think we've done much wrong with Monga to be honest. He's just got a high ceiling, a big reputation and he's ambitious at a time when we as a club are imploding. We just can't keep him unless he's got a very, very good head on his shoulders and understands how good next season could be for him in League One as a star for us.

 

What we have done though, in getting him to sign, is guaranteeing more than a tribunal fee. Which is about the best we could do?

 

[Finnegan]

Just want to add in here, as an aside, that Jake Evans isn't making much impact at Northampton either. It's a massive ask for a teenager to get thrown in to senior football especially one so young. That's not to say that he and Monga will never make it but its not exactly damning that they're only getting bits of first team football right now, they're right at the start of their journey.

 

KDH had his breakthrough season at 22, King was 20 and in League One, Chilwell was going on 22. It's not just learning the game, most teenagers still have loads of physical development to do, the likes of Rooney, Bale, Owen, Walcott and co are massively rare (and nearly all of them had major injury problems towards the later stage of their career.)

 

We've got a few that are of the age we'd expect to start seeing them break through and Silko Thomas doesn't look like he'll be good enough, Alves has had a horrific injury but even so he's not having any real impact at Huddersfield in League One. The only of our young loanees that's doing particularly well is Braybrooke, who flopped in the SPL but is finding his feet in League Two but there's no hiding from the fact he's about 5ft flat and all of 6 stone dripping wet and constipated.

 

We might never see any of these kids make it. With or without us.

 

[LVFox]

8 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Just want to add in here, as an aside, that Jake Evans isn't making much impact at Northampton either. It's a massive ask for a teenager to get thrown in to senior football especially one so young. That's not to say that he and Monga will never make it but its not exactly damning that they're only getting bits of first team football right now, they're right at the start of their journey.

 

KDH had his breakthrough season at 22, King was 20 and in League One, Chilwell was going on 22. It's not just learning the game, most teenagers still have loads of physical development to do, the likes of Rooney, Bale, Owen, Walcott and co are massively rare (and nearly all of them had major injury problems towards the later stage of their career.)

 

We've got a few that are of the age we'd expect to start seeing them break through and Silko Thomas doesn't look like he'll be good enough, Alves has had a horrific injury but even so he's not having any real impact at Huddersfield in League One. The only of our young loanees that's doing particularly well is Braybrooke, who flopped in the SPL but is finding his feet in League Two but there's no hiding from the fact he's about 5ft flat and all of 6 stone dripping wet and constipated.

 

We might never see any of these kids make it. With or without us.

 

Agree with the premise of this, but think Northampton fans have definitely seen the talent in Evans, but yes, he’s obviously going to be inconsistent at 17.

Braybrooke a really good example of someone hitting his development now in his early 20s - we shouldn’t forget his injury basically put him a year back. He’s got a fair shout to being the best player in league 2 and his defensive numbers are good for a smaller player - no doubt to me he’s ready for league 1 next year

[moore_94]

11 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Just want to add in here, as an aside, that Jake Evans isn't making much impact at Northampton either. It's a massive ask for a teenager to get thrown in to senior football especially one so young. That's not to say that he and Monga will never make it but its not exactly damning that they're only getting bits of first team football right now, they're right at the start of their journey.

 

KDH had his breakthrough season at 22, King was 20 and in League One, Chilwell was going on 22. It's not just learning the game, most teenagers still have loads of physical development to do, the likes of Rooney, Bale, Owen, Walcott and co are massively rare (and nearly all of them had major injury problems towards the later stage of their career.)

 

We've got a few that are of the age we'd expect to start seeing them break through and Silko Thomas doesn't look like he'll be good enough, Alves has had a horrific injury but even so he's not having any real impact at Huddersfield in League One. The only of our young loanees that's doing particularly well is Braybrooke, who flopped in the SPL but is finding his feet in League Two but there's no hiding from the fact he's about 5ft flat and all of 6 stone dripping wet and constipated.

 

We might never see any of these kids make it. With or without us.

 

Gets plenty of praise from opposition fans and doesn’t seem to struggle with the physical side of the game at all (except headers obviously)

[Finnegan]

6 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Gets plenty of praise from opposition fans and doesn’t seem to struggle with the physical side of the game at all (except headers obviously)

 

I expect he'll be in the squad next year but it's a big step up again and expecting him to be one of our starting CMs week in week out seems naive.

 

Just posted in the other thread, its easy to forget that last time out in League One, Kingy had massively established pros Clemence and Oakley in the middle of the park who were both far too good for League One at the time.

 

Maaaaybbeeeee Skipp does a part of that job for us but even if he stays and he's pretty good as a player in League One he definitely doesn't strike me as a leader on the pitch. If Sammy is going to have any impact next year he'll need hella support. Ain't gonna be JJ, is it?

 

[dmayne7]

35 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Ehhh, I don't know actually. I don't know what much more we could have done with Monga.

 

He isn't good enough to be starting every week in the Championship right now, certainly not in a team that's struggling like ours. He could have done with a season in League One at a team playing on the front foot giving him lots of time on the ball to grow his confidence against senior pros. But we can't loan him out because he's too young which is nothing we can help.

 

He's fallen victim to the fact we're absolutely, catastrophically shit this year. If he'd been 16 and of this quality when Enzo was here, it would have done wonders for him getting regular game time in that team but he wasn't. So.

 

I actually don't think we've done much wrong with Monga to be honest. He's just got a high ceiling, a big reputation and he's ambitious at a time when we as a club are imploding. We just can't keep him unless he's got a very, very good head on his shoulders and understands how good next season could be for him in League One as a star for us.

 

What we have done though, in getting him to sign, is guaranteeing more than a tribunal fee. Which is about the best we could do?

 

Merit in what your saying apart from the fact that Mavididi has been a guaranteed starter in front of him, in what has without doubt, been the most pathetic attacking display I've seen from a Leicester player. So in that sense, Monga has been very poorly managed. And his confidence looks shot now but i think it's still hard to see definitively that he's not ready for this level because how much opportunity has he been given. 4 games to go and he hasn't even hit 1000 mins? That's shocking utilisation of him. I'm not saying he deserves to start every game but he should have at least been given a run of 3/4 starts on the spin and few times this season and should certainly have been the first choice on that side, this calendar year.

 

Like it or not, we are absolutely abysmal with managing young players and have been for the majority of my time supporting the club. Only have to look at Page who did ok earlier in the season but wasn't physically ready, so fair enough he's not involved for a while (though should have been in the matchday squad). Then he comes back and looks like a completely different player, and definitely ready for this level. He's then immediately dropped and tossed from the squad for Harry Winks has been a shambles and plays with 0 commitment.

[Finnegan]

12 minutes ago, dmayne7 said:

Merit in what your saying apart from the fact that Mavididi has been a guaranteed starter in front of him, in what has without doubt, been the most pathetic attacking display I've seen from a Leicester player. So in that sense, Monga has been very poorly managed. And his confidence looks shot now but i think it's still hard to see definitively that he's not ready for this level because how much opportunity has he been given. 4 games to go and he hasn't even hit 1000 mins? That's shocking utilisation of him. I'm not saying he deserves to start every game but he should have at least been given a run of 3/4 starts on the spin and few times this season and should certainly have been the first choice on that side, this calendar year.

 

But I just don't think Monga has looked particularly any good either? Few glimpses early on and a terrific assist for Ricardo back when we looked like there was still hope.

 

But he just looks like a lost little boy most of the time he plays to be honest. There's so little support around him that he's always doubled up on. Mav has been very, very poor but at least he's got strength and pace that Monga is yet to develop.

 

[dmayne7]

27 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

But I just don't think Monga has looked particularly any good either? Few glimpses early on and a terrific assist for Ricardo back when we looked like there was still hope.

 

But he just looks like a lost little boy most of the time he plays to be honest. There's so little support around him that he's always doubled up on. Mav has been very, very poor but at least he's got strength and pace that Monga is yet to develop.

 

I agree he hasn't torn it up but I he's still got some x factor, which Mavididi doesn't. And you're spot on that he is a boy, and that's maybe something that will hold him back in his long-term development, but all the more reason you need to help him grow that confidence so binning him if he doesn't tear it up and allowing Mavididi to start 15/20 games on the spin is not the way to do it. Plus, we desperately need something different so why has Monga, amongst others, not been given more of a go? That's on Rowett but it seems it extends beyond that as our manager's are petrified of dropping the usual suspects. It's depressing when we're losing, and seeing Monga just sat on the bench, normally introduced far too late and then starved of the ball when he is on the pitch (again, something that he has to take some blame for and work on)

[lcfc sheff]

4 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

But I just don't think Monga has looked particularly any good either? Few glimpses early on and a terrific assist for Ricardo back when we looked like there was still hope.

 

But he just looks like a lost little boy most of the time he plays to be honest. There's so little support around him that he's always doubled up on. Mav has been very, very poor but at least he's got strength and pace that Monga is yet to develop.

 

he'll come good whether its for us or someone else. look how he played last season when he came on in the prem! was a lot better.

this season will be seen as regression to some but think it'll prove important In his development