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The Year Of The Fox

Martí Cifuentes

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Ricey

Ricey

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If he's earning less than he did at QPR, that's great in terms of his enthusiasm for the job...but deeply concerning regarding the financial stability of the club. You could see it as the club getting serious about PSR, but why now?! Why not be serious about it over the course of the last few years?! Something is amiss.

 

Also, if we need to buy to sell, it's another damming indictment of the club that it's July 10th and we've managed to shift a grand total of zero players. Southampton have shifted 3 players for fees (£25M) and Ipswich have sold Delap for £30M.

coolhandfox

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Whilst we are in a bad place, it a massive opportunity for some to come in and turn us around.

 

We have a great crop of older youngsters in Alves, Nelson, Braybrooke, plus another crop in Monga, Evans, Page, Aloku coming though.

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Scotch

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2 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Not sure you can loan players in the last year of their contract but I might be mistaken.

You are definately mistaken. We done it with Ayoze Perez and Man Utd done it with Alexis Sanchez. 

Jacnah

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3 hours ago, smudger63 said:

I was thinking the same.  Some of those that wanted Rohl so badly, are now underwhelmed by Cifuentes, when actually they've both achieved pretty much the same, with clubs in a similar situation when they took over.

For anyone for who this season is all about getting promoted, and anything else seen as failure, then Dyche was the manager that gave the club the best chance of that,  He also probably gave the club the best chance of staying up once they got there too, but I myself didn't really want Dyche because I didn't feel he would give our young talent a chance, and that's the route I'm hoping we re going to take now.

I've got to a point with the club now, for the first time in my 50 odd years of being a supporter, where I'm so apathetic to the club and football in general, that I feel like it is what it is, and it will be what it will be, and I hate that I feel like that.

I still love the club, I still remember what it's like to love football, but modern football, with all the tippy tippy go nowhere football, all the crap to do with what you are and are not allowed to spend, and the absolute shiteshow in which our club has been run in recent seasons, not just  their decision making on and off of the pitch, but more importantly, their complete disregard to engage and communicate with fans, and make us feel like we as fans make a difference, and are an important part of the club.  I don't feel like the club currently see me as a fan, more as a consumer who they don't care about, but who they can get money from.

It's all feels so sad to me, that after so many years of being there through all the highs and lows of supporting my club, that I've become so apathetic to it!

 

 

 

very well articulated sense of relationship with the club. Not quite at your 50, but Im a 30 year season ticket holder and I feel exactly the same. This last year was the first time I ever seriously contemplated not renewing. Its not because of where we are - thats part of the ebb and flow of football - its almost everything to do with the modern game and its gradual 'americanisation'. lets see how this guy does and wether his style draws us back in. I do hope so. 

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Merchant_Banker

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9 hours ago, honeybradger said:

Im not going to get excited. I just know that if I do the starting team of the season is going to be some arrangment of Faes, Coady, Vestergaard, kristiansen, Winks, Skipp, Soumare Cordova Reid, Ndidi, ayew, Daka.

 

Not sure that my ideal manager that would come in and ruthlessly bin off this dogmuck even exists.

If they perform in training I would expect Winks and, possibly, Skipp to start. Unless we get someone in, Daka is our only senior CF.

st albans fox

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2 minutes ago, Scotch said:

You are definately mistaken. We done it with Ayoze Perez and Man Utd done it with Alexis Sanchez. 

Yep

you basically take a bath on any transfer fee but try and get a loan fee to compensate 

 

Ayo cancelled his own contact (with our agreement) which saved us his wages. A loan fee wouldn’t have been that much so we agreed 

SK3Blue

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Just now, LestaLad said:

Small contract, low wages, paying his own comp, telling him we have to sell to buy… are we learning? Or are we just broke

Absolutely skint by the sounds of it. Embarrassing for a club that won the EPL 9 years ago. 

Spudulike

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Just now, LestaLad said:

Small contract, low wages, paying his own comp, telling him we have to sell to buy… are we learning? Or are we just broke

Just broke or handcuffed by PSR? Perhaps PSR is a convenient excuse not to spend.

Philkeavo

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55 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

With a couple of clever loans (striker, midfielder) I think we have a squad more than capable of promotion without having to spend anything, depending on who leaves of course.

Biggest challenge is getting players to buy into it and create a togetherness for me. 

Clever - Aiyawatt + Rudkin = Zero 🤣 

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Haywood_6

Haywood_6

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2 minutes ago, LestaLad said:

Small contract, low wages, paying his own comp, telling him we have to sell to buy… are we learning? Or are we just broke

paying the price for years of bad senior management

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Merchant_Banker

Merchant_Banker

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If he is earning less money this year than at QPR because we have agreed to repay the amount he has paid to QPR as a signing on fee of some sort. He will be on significant bonuses to get us promoted and will also get a significant rise in the PL.

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daddylonglegs

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Good luck to him. Has my full support. 

 

This club is completely on its knees isn't it. Mortifying that the sharpness of the decline (& potential for further decline) is so blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention, and yet still besides one or two articles there is no coverage of it.

 

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VLC86

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6 minutes ago, Merchant_Banker said:

If he is earning less money this year than at QPR because we have agreed to repay the amount he has paid to QPR as a signing on fee of some sort. He will be on significant bonuses to get us promoted and will also get a significant rise in the PL.

In which case he will deserve it, incentive based contracts are exactly what we should be offering.

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coolhandfox

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Just now, Ricey said:

If he's earning less than he did at QPR, that's great in terms of his enthusiasm for the job...but deeply concerning regarding the financial stability of the club. You could see it as the club getting serious about PSR, but why now?! Why not be serious about it over the course of the last few years?! Something is amiss.

Because now it's even tighter, in our last 3 years cycle we had 2 PL season and a championship season.

 

In our next one we will have two championship seasons and one PL season.

 

They also probably felt they could keep the same squad and bounce back and reestablish us in the PL.

 

 

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Also, if we need to buy to sell, it's another damming indictment of the club that it's July 10th and we've managed to shift a grand total of zero players. Southampton have shifted 3 players for fees (£25M) and Ipswich have sold Delap for £30M.

Depend who you are trying to sell, Delap is a easy sale, I'm sure we could have sold Nelson with ease.

 

I have a feeling we want to keep Hermansen and El Khannouss, unless we get top dollar 40m odd.

 

We want to sell the drags like Coady which is difficult.

 

 

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slymunn

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12 minutes ago, Fox seen in Norwich said:

Buy cheap, buy twice

Did that last season and it didn't work. 

 

At least this time we look to be getting a manager in who set ups similar to Enzo and plays youth. 

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Stadt

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37 minutes ago, Ricey said:

If he's earning less than he did at QPR, that's great in terms of his enthusiasm for the job...but deeply concerning regarding the financial stability of the club. You could see it as the club getting serious about PSR, but why now?! Why not be serious about it over the course of the last few years?! Something is amiss.

 

Also, if we need to buy to sell, it's another damming indictment of the club that it's July 10th and we've managed to shift a grand total of zero players. Southampton have shifted 3 players for fees (£25M) and Ipswich have sold Delap for £30M.

Given we’re manager led we’re so behind on our recruitment too.

 

We could have shifted some deadwood if we were proactive with it, we’re not - everybody goes on a nice, long holiday after the season (or dicks around playing Polo).

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Finnegan

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2 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Given we’re manager led we’re so behind on our recruitment too.

 

We could have shifted some deadwood if we were proactive with it, we’re not - everybody goes on a nice, long holiday after the season (or dicks around playing Polo).

 

I appreciate wanting to hear the managers opinion on players before moving but some should just be being shown the door in advance, frankly. 

 

The likes of Soumaré, Kristiansen, Faes, they don't want to be here, their career here has finished, they just have to go. 

 

I know it's harder with someone like Daka because we're threadbare in his position, but we should have started the fire sale for others on day one. 

 

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fazzyfox

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A summary of the last few weeks -

 

Jamie Vardy leaving party, Ruud was sacked then we hired Marti, Rudkin stayed, Top stayed quiet, on Foxes Talk a ****ing riot :mad:

 

By Pam Ayres

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RobHawk

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How much do we really need to buy though? Between the squad we have and the young players we want to integrate, there's probably close to 50 players there. 

 

I'd much rather we clear the decks as much as possible. Clear the wage bill and have a squad that gives those younger players a chance. Realistically 1 or 2 signings should be plenty but we could get rid of 10-15 players first and still have a strong squad. 

 

Getting the 10-15 players gone is the difficult thing. 

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