Bilal El Khannouss (Stuttgart loan, official)

[JimJams]

6 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

Get 30m for him and stick in a 20m bid for Hayden Hackney

Ha, you're dreaming mate.  Not only is £20mill flat not enough but he's turned down a move to Ipswich already as he's obviously waiting on a Prem move.

[Happy Fox]

9 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

Get 30m for him and stick in a 20m bid for Hayden Hackney

Hackney won’t come here, if we did get serious money I would personally bid for Josh Sargent at Norwich he’s our 20 plus a goal striker at this level easily.

[slymunn]

9 hours ago, JimJams said:

With it being a loan that doesn't give them the cash to do it now though. Can they get a (financial) loan in to cover that's PSR compliant?

Or are they minted regardless?

Depends on the loan fee. That would be the money they could use towards the signing. 

 

A £5m loan fee gives you £25m towards a five year signing, for example.

[ealingfox]

4 minutes ago, JimJams said:

Ha, you're dreaming mate.  Not only is £20mill flat not enough but he's turned down a move to Ipswich already as he's obviously waiting on a Prem move.

 

21m then.

 

We're the LCFC Big Dogs, completely different proposition to Ipswich.

[JimJams]

6 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

21m then.

 

We're the LCFC Big Dogs, completely different proposition to Ipswich.

The £20mill bid was apparently accepted but the player didn't want the move.  At the time nobody had kicked a ball, so in terms of proposition many had Ipswich as the more likely to return to the Premier League.  Irrespective of that it looks pretty clear he's waiting on Premier League interest, and there's since been talk that Wolves have put an offer of £20mill rising to £30mill with easily attainable add ons.

It's also kicking about that since selling Azaz and with so little time left in the window that Boro will not entertain offers for Hackney and he'll be staying.

 

I'd love him here.  I wanted him and Lennon Miller in to revamp our midfield, unfortunately one ships sailed and the other has a different destination.

 

 

[Ric Flair]

12 minutes ago, slymunn said:

Depends on the loan fee. That would be the money they could use towards the signing. 

 

A £5m loan fee gives you £25m towards a five year signing, for example.

Don't see what's in it for a buying club to do a loan with obligation where the loan fee is the same or more than the amortised obligation fee over the contract of the player. 

[JimJams]

6 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Don't see what's in it for a buying club to do a loan with obligation where the loan fee is the same or more than the amortised obligation fee over the contract of the player. 

Proabably just cash flow.  That way you only stump up £5mill in the first instance rather than whatever sum the selling club wants as a first installment of the total fee.

[st albans fox]

26 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Don't see what's in it for a buying club to do a loan with obligation where the loan fee is the same or more than the amortised obligation fee over the contract of the player. 

 

18 minutes ago, JimJams said:

Proabably just cash flow.  That way you only stump up £5mill in the first instance rather than whatever sum the selling club wants as a first installment of the total fee.

often wondered that 

assume it could be cash flow if the initial instalment is more than the loan fee.  I think it happens if both clubs can manipulate the numbers to be better for them than a straight sale. It must benefit someone or it wouldn’t be done like this.  Of course some of the wealthy clubs don’t sail close to psr/ffp winds so it doesn’t matter to them. 

[BenTheFox]

1 hour ago, Happy Fox said:

Hackney won’t come here, if we did get serious money I would personally bid for Josh Sargent at Norwich he’s our 20 plus a goal striker at this level easily.

If I could hand pick two players from the championship to go into our starting 11 they'd be Gus Hamer and Josh Sargent. I think they'd give us everything to go onto win this league. Neither will happen though obviously. 

[tylesta]

2 hours ago, Happy Fox said:

Hackney won’t come here, if we did get serious money I would personally bid for Josh Sargent at Norwich he’s our 20 plus a goal striker at this level easily.

Whis never scored 20 league goals in a season

[BenTheFox]

4 minutes ago, tylesta said:

Whis never scored 20 league goals in a season

Injures are the only thing that have stopped him tbf. He scored 16 in 26 games two seasons ago. Would have easily topped 25 if he had the whole season. 

[FrankieADZ]

 

piss right off and pay us £32mil

[DZ-LCFC]

 

 

[Ric Flair]

That will be negotiated up to £30m with add ons and a sell on and it's done.

[FrankieADZ]

Just now, Ric Flair said:

That will be negotiated up to £30m with add ons and a sell on and it's done.

what I was thinking, if we can get £30mil guaranteed with the sell on as well then fine

but theyve just got £65mil for Woltemade 

[Torten]

This is like when Mahrez was being linked with Roma. Just stay for another season, do well, and potentially get a much bigger move for yourself.

[Tuna]

Get him out and replace him.

[Mickyblueeyes]

5 minutes ago, DZ-LCFC said:

 

 

This guy has thrown out rumours all summer. I think he must be in around 5% in terms of accuracy, 

[CornwallFox]

Just sell him. End the circus.

[brookfox]

I’m hearing that Peter O’Rourke understands Stuttgart have submitted an £26million bid to sign Leicester City star Bilal El Khannouss.

[TheGoldenGod]

Think that price is disgusting from the prices banded about...and Stutgart. Bloke fallen from grace!

Edited 31 August 2025 by TheGoldenGod

[OadbyBlue]

lowballing pricks. Realistically only a PL team will pay what we want for him.

[st albans fox]

25 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

That will be negotiated up to £30m with add ons and a sell on and it's done.

 

23 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

what I was thinking, if we can get £30mil guaranteed with the sell on as well then fine

but theyve just got £65mil for Woltemade 

Probably be undisclosed again 

if they agree to put extra add ons in to make it a 30 m deal (which are impossible to achieve) then it could be announced as a 30m deal but it will still really be 26m achievable max.  We could only end up with 23/24m total, 

[FrankieADZ]

 

[-sodapop]

Just now, FrankieADZ said:

 

Finally over. Good luck to him, Stuttgart is a good side.