Bilal El Khannouss (Stuttgart loan, official)

[ithuriel]

9 minutes ago, FerrisBueller said:

Why are all players such fannies?

Remember when Taggart played for Barnsley down here, I was  in the  kop and there keeper smothered the ball,   I  heard Tags say to him, let one in and I'll batter you and I think we did not score in that game.

[Guest Bilo]

I'm sure that there were similar threats with Mahrez, and he was back inside a fortnight before getting his move to Manchester City a few months later anyway.

 

BEK could either follow that and probably end up at a bigger club than Palace or follow through on his threat and end up with a mutual termination before joining Charleroi on a free.

[Jattdogg]

19 minutes ago, stu said:

Link: https://t.co/NA2zTd3Z3k

 

Here’s the translation of the Sky Sport article titled “Bilal El Khannouss part au clash avec Leicester City !” (published on 27 August 2025):

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"Bilal El Khannouss is heading for a clash with Leicester City!"

The tension is rising between the Foxes and their Moroccan mastermind. Here's the situation:

• Things have turned sour between Bilal El Khannouss and Leicester City. Negotiations with Crystal Palace are already tough—Leicester are still awaiting a response after sending a final counter-offer this Tuesday. Meanwhile, Leicester continue to reject attractive offers for the Moroccan. sky-sport.ch

• Furthermore, recent approaches from Saudi Arabia are swaying the English club's mindset—they believe they might secure significantly more cash from a Saudi Pro League team than from clubs able only to offer a loan deal with an obligation to buy. Consequently, the player feels his choice is being influenced. sky-sport.ch

• As it stands, Leicester are demanding £26 million, plus £3 million in bonuses, totalling £29 million to release their attacking midfielder. Some clubs, notably VfB Stuttgart, are apparently willing to meet that valuation—but only via a loan with an option to buy. sky-sport.ch

• Moreover, Leicester had initially indicated that a loan with an obligation to buy could be an option during a meeting on Tuesday—but reversed their position on Wednesday, dismissing any such proposals outright when one interested club submitted exactly that. sky-sport.ch

• In any case, Bilal El Khannouss has made clear his desire to leave the club and isn't going to change his mind—even if forced to stay until the end of the transfer window. The midfielder reiterated during a meeting that he no longer sees his future with the Foxes and is even prepared to sit out the entire season in the stands in the Championship if necessary.

Load of bollocks, prepared to sit out. Righhht. Call his bluff.  No play time, no pay time no world cup squad. Sure, he cant be that thick lol.

[Aleksz]

The level in which agents have journo's in their back pockets this summer is abysmal. Ornstein, Romano... they're all at it. Bilal's camp have had Tavolieri wrapped around their finger all summer. 

 

Makes this "source tier" on here redundant when Journo's are just spouting whatever line a players camp is feeding them, and worse still paying them for it. 

[Guest Bilo]

Just now, Aleksz said:

The level in which agents have journo's in their back pockets this summer is abysmal. Ornstein, Romano... they're all at it. Bilal's camp have had Tavolieri wrapped around their finger all summer. 

 

Makes this "source tier" on here redundant when Journo's are just spouting whatever line a players camp is feeding them, and worse still paying them for it. 

And they've got plenty wrong this summer as well.

[moore_94]

26 minutes ago, stu said:

Link: https://t.co/NA2zTd3Z3k

 

Here’s the translation of the Sky Sport article titled “Bilal El Khannouss part au clash avec Leicester City !” (published on 27 August 2025):

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"Bilal El Khannouss is heading for a clash with Leicester City!"

The tension is rising between the Foxes and their Moroccan mastermind. Here's the situation:

• Things have turned sour between Bilal El Khannouss and Leicester City. Negotiations with Crystal Palace are already tough—Leicester are still awaiting a response after sending a final counter-offer this Tuesday. Meanwhile, Leicester continue to reject attractive offers for the Moroccan. sky-sport.ch

• Furthermore, recent approaches from Saudi Arabia are swaying the English club's mindset—they believe they might secure significantly more cash from a Saudi Pro League team than from clubs able only to offer a loan deal with an obligation to buy. Consequently, the player feels his choice is being influenced. sky-sport.ch

• As it stands, Leicester are demanding £26 million, plus £3 million in bonuses, totalling £29 million to release their attacking midfielder. Some clubs, notably VfB Stuttgart, are apparently willing to meet that valuation—but only via a loan with an option to buy. sky-sport.ch

• Moreover, Leicester had initially indicated that a loan with an obligation to buy could be an option during a meeting on Tuesday—but reversed their position on Wednesday, dismissing any such proposals outright when one interested club submitted exactly that. sky-sport.ch

• In any case, Bilal El Khannouss has made clear his desire to leave the club and isn't going to change his mind—even if forced to stay until the end of the transfer window. The midfielder reiterated during a meeting that he no longer sees his future with the Foxes and is even prepared to sit out the entire season in the stands in the Championship if necessary.

Not a chance he will sit out the the entire season when it is the AFCON and World Cup

[Aleksz]

Just now, Bilo said:

And they've got plenty wrong this summer as well.

Yeah because they're just tweeting out whatever line agents are giving them and even paying them for.

[Guest Bilo]

1 minute ago, Aleksz said:

Yeah because they're just tweeting out whatever line agents are giving them and even paying them for.

Take the Gibbs-White saga. Tottenham got the release clause from somewhere, Romano tweets 'here we go' and the next thing you know, MGW has doubled his wages to £160,000 a week with a sign-on bonus for the agent and a horse's head on the player's pillow. 

[ramboacdc]

Does the loan window also close with the transfer window? Surely he won't sit and not play when he has a shot at the world cup squad and Morocco sitting pretty at the top of their quali group. 

[mozartfox]

What airport lounge is he waiting in?  The old Mahrez play book in motion.  Must be some North African tradition. 

[stu]

19 minutes ago, K789 said:

Whst a load of clicks clickbait rubbish. We're obviously not going to reverse a position in a day and he isn't going to sit out with afcon and workd cup year 

Dorset did suggest that we'd changed our position due to the sales of McAteer and Justin, but agreed in that I doubt we'd agree to a loan with an option that doesn't give us any guaranteed money.

[stu]

1 minute ago, ramboacdc said:

Does the loan window also close with the transfer window? Surely he won't sit and not play when he has a shot at the world cup squad and Morocco sitting pretty at the top of their quali group. 

Yes, loan window closes at the same time.

[sdb]

Never seen such a pathetically transparent journalist in all my life. Proper "well I was gonna dump you anyway" vibes.

 

No one wants to buy your mates client at the asking price, fella. Accept it. 

[Aleksz]

Just now, Bilo said:

Take the Gibbs-White saga. Tottenham got the release clause from somewhere, Romano tweets 'here we go' and the next thing you know, MGW has doubled his wages to £160,000 a week with a sign-on bonus for the agent and a horse's head on the player's pillow. 

Search up "Romano Huijsen" tweets too - it's comical. Biggest example of a journalist being so far up a players agents arse that he's forgotten what daylight looks like - can only imagine how much Romano earned from that little PR campaign. Similar happening with Tavolieri and Bilal here. 

[ronnup]

What is a worry is, that its probably smoke/fire and he wants out. Seeing your club sell everyone and buy nobody may have convinced him we have no hope of a promotion

[Guest Bilo]

1 minute ago, Aleksz said:

Search up "Romano Huijsen" tweets too - it's comical. Biggest example of a journalist being so far up a players agents arse that he's forgotten what daylight looks like - can only imagine how much Romano earned from that little PR campaign. Similar happening with Tavolieri and Bilal here. 

It's why it's important that these mouthpieces get royally mugged off. The more they get wrong after practically staking their reputation on it, the quicker they end up in indykaila territory and the less clubs get paid by unscrupulous agents. It's undoubtedly far easier to do nowadays as they're all using X as a platform instead of having to get gigs at newspapers.

[Fox-LMA]

12 minutes ago, Bilo said:

It's odd that the Championship gets such a lot of stigma because it's actually a very watched league, especially among some of the bigger names. Leicester v Birmingham on Friday will get far more attention internationally than Al-Ittihad v Al-Akhdoud the following day. It's largely a sheikh's plaything to perform sportswashing that hasn't really worked, as evidenced by empty stadiums and the fact that the PFI is lobbing money at Newcastle instead.

 

Veiga had offers from Man United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Napoli. Had he taken one of them, he could have been a Premier League, Scudetto or World Club Cup winner. He's just bagged a move to Porto. Not to be sneezed at, but there's no doubt that Saudi set his career back.

Completely agree with all of this. I would say that the Championship is already Europe's sixth most watched league & is still growing if you look at the increasing TV money it gets. Wheres elsewhere in Europe, it's going down. Look at the disaster that happened with Ligue 1's TV rights. One club executive (can't remember who) said with absolute confidence that in five to ten years, the Championship will be seen as a kind of "EPL2" to international audiences.

 

And yet the stigma remains.. You talk to many European fans about British football, it's EPL & nothing else exists. To tell a brief story, my parents live in Tenerife, & when I visit every year my dad & I take in a CD Tenerife game. When we were last relegated I went out there soon after & got chatting to some locals & a mixture of Dutch & German tourists outside of the ground. When the conversation turned to Leicester they reacted to me as if my dog had died. One guy even put his hand on my shoulder!

 

Your right about SA. Thankfully this sportswashing adventure is already going the same way as it did with China. It's only happening because the Saudi Royal Family are fearful of possible revolution against them by their numourous & increasingly powerful youth demographic (they had a baby boom about 15-20 years ago). But they don't appear to be so interested in their local football, & other sports that they bought (like LIV Golf). Soon they will stop paying for it all, & it will wither away.

 

We're already hearing rumours that they are going quiet on Newcastle...

[MPH]

It’s an empty threat.  No player his age will sit out an entire season. Who would want to buy a player who hasn’t played for 12 months?

 

just agent talk trying to push a move.

[fox_up_north]

See it less as agent talk and more mums chatting bollocks at the school gates. 

 

"My son has been scouted by Premier League clubs"

[Guest Bilo]

1 minute ago, fox_up_north said:

See it less as agent talk and more mums chatting bollocks at the school gates. 

 

"My son has been scouted by Premier League clubs"

Why did I just get a mental image of a middle-aged North African woman as Jay Cartwright? 

[ithuriel]

If he was to have stated he is prepared to sit out the  season, surely thats contract breaking = no pay.

[coolhandfox]

Mahrez vibes 

[coolhandfox]

1 minute ago, ithuriel said:

If he was to have stated he is prepared to sit out the  season, surely thats contract breaking = no pay.

He not doing that in a world cup season.

[splinterdream]

Can the club deny him wages if he decides not to play? You’d think there has to be a mechanism to guard against that. 

[dbtcity]

52 minutes ago, stu said:

Link: https://t.co/NA2zTd3Z3k

 

Here’s the translation of the Sky Sport article titled “Bilal El Khannouss part au clash avec Leicester City !” (published on 27 August 2025):

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"Bilal El Khannouss is heading for a clash with Leicester City!"

The tension is rising between the Foxes and their Moroccan mastermind. Here's the situation:

• Things have turned sour between Bilal El Khannouss and Leicester City. Negotiations with Crystal Palace are already tough—Leicester are still awaiting a response after sending a final counter-offer this Tuesday. Meanwhile, Leicester continue to reject attractive offers for the Moroccan. sky-sport.ch

• Furthermore, recent approaches from Saudi Arabia are swaying the English club's mindset—they believe they might secure significantly more cash from a Saudi Pro League team than from clubs able only to offer a loan deal with an obligation to buy. Consequently, the player feels his choice is being influenced. sky-sport.ch

• As it stands, Leicester are demanding £26 million, plus £3 million in bonuses, totalling £29 million to release their attacking midfielder. Some clubs, notably VfB Stuttgart, are apparently willing to meet that valuation—but only via a loan with an option to buy. sky-sport.ch

• Moreover, Leicester had initially indicated that a loan with an obligation to buy could be an option during a meeting on Tuesday—but reversed their position on Wednesday, dismissing any such proposals outright when one interested club submitted exactly that. sky-sport.ch

• In any case, Bilal El Khannouss has made clear his desire to leave the club and isn't going to change his mind—even if forced to stay until the end of the transfer window. The midfielder reiterated during a meeting that he no longer sees his future with the Foxes and is even prepared to sit out the entire season in the stands in the Championship if necessary.

You’ve got to love these type of rats that will do everything in their power to try and force a move other than hand in a transfer request to keep their loyalty bonus in tact