Lack of transfer activity

[Ric Flair]

2 hours ago, Dan said:

£31mil raised from the second worst team in Premier League history. But it's impossible to sell a single one of our players apparently.

 

Absolutely sick to death of Rudkin.

Sulemana is the damning evidence, been an absolute disaster at Southampton in the same vain as Soumare and Daka on big wages and they get £15m for him. We moved the goalposts on both players when we had bids for them as we got greedy and no chance now.

[Bordersfox]

2 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Sulemana is the damning evidence, been an absolute disaster at Southampton in the same vain as Soumare and Daka on big wages and they get £15m for him. We moved the goalposts on both players when we had bids for them as we got greedy and no chance now.

Some argue we arent bad at selling players rather we are bad at buying them which means we're left with assets we can't move on.  But I'm with you on this Ric.  It's definitely more than just that, although that of course is an important part of the problem. Remember this in the Athletic, just one unequivocal example of the clubs terrible decision making when considering offers for players near the end of their contract:

 

"In May, Dennis Praet, who has now left the club as a free agent, told Belgian news outlet Nieuwsblad that Leicester rejected permanent bids for him from Italian side Torino because “they thought I was too good, useful and versatile to let me go on the cheap."

 

I have no doubt this sort of thing has happened numerous times, costing untold millions.

Edited 29 July 2025 by Bordersfox

[Spanner73]

10 hours ago, kristianity77 said:

It’s the Leicester way. Inept, slow, and without thought or planning. &nbsp
 

it’s been this way for 3 or 4 years. 
 

it’s not going to magically get any better when nothing changes. 
 

We are an extremely poorly run club.  Your choices are either accept it and support them anyway, or fook it all off and just glance at the scores at 5pm on a Saturday out of morbid curiosity. 

100% spot on ! 
I think most of us have given up and

I won’t be attending this season 

Ive gone past being frustrated with Dumb and Dumber and accept it won’t change. For the first time in my life I’m actually bored of my own club 

[Spanner73]

9 hours ago, whoareyaaa said:

Could be that the manager has only just arrived and is yet to asses the squad

Oh please !!!!!!! 

[CrazyKopCorner]

7 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

We're not letting him go apparently 

If that's the truth, and I can only conclude that's a joke in very poor taste, we are ****ing doomed. 

[Spanner73]

4 hours ago, Dan said:

You get what you deserve in the end. We will only continue to slide. Clubs like Norwich, West Brom etc... will be the next to pass us (or we fall past them, whichever applies). There's this institutional delusion at Leicester that it will just magically get better. The penny may drop after it's far too late.

 

It isn't just us. We are very similar to Manchester United - they won't get good any time soon either. Other clubs have gotten smarter and we still have 'Jon Rudkin' as our main football person. You get what you deserve.

Exactly !!! I’ve made that comparison with Man U also

That’s why we let Dumb and Dumber continue to take the club in a downward spiral it’s the quickest way out so give them enough rope and hopefully………. 
it’s our way out ! 
Our club’s foundation are rotten to the core so until that’s resolved nothing will change. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

I honestly think the fees we were able to generate for players like Maguire, Mahrez, Fofana, Chilwell even Drinkwater suddenly made the club truly believe they could sell at some sort of Leicester tax and created false expectations and valuations. 
 

That is all well and good when you continue to invest in players who have potential and they improve but as soon as you have a couple of average or poor transfer windows you are in the proverbial. 
 

We are very poor at trading, There are very few examples of where we sign a player and then within a couple of years move them on due to not being deemed good enough, too often we retain players and allow them to run their contracts down, we seem to have a boom or bust policy, we either sell for massive money or let them go for free. 
 

We have to start being more savvy and that maybe to accept that every sale cannot be £35m + sometimes we may have to sell a dud like a Soumare or Daka for a lower level of profit but be able to keep operating  in the transfer market. 
 

I bet there will have been interest in Wout Faes but I guarantee rather than sell for £10m which would give us £4m clear profit and circa £16m-20m to play with in the transfer market, we will be holding out for £15m minimum and will lose any chance of doing a deal and he will then stink the place out for the next 24 months waiting to walk away for free and further hamstringing our chances of rebuilding. 

Edited 29 July 2025 by Claudio Fannieri

[Tommy G]

Let’s start a new topic on the blindingly obvious that’s already been talked to death a million times?

[Ric Flair]

This is not new, certainly not to the fans but just as much to our club. Of course it's difficult to sell players who have had mixed success here and one of the biggest obstacles is if you've paid vastly inflated fees for them in the first place and/or paid them wages that no other similar club would have done.

 

Yet here we are, time and time again, repeating the same mistakes over and over and fans defend it. Back in the summer of 2022 we should have have the rude awakening where we couldn't do the squad refresh we needed as we either asked for too much for the players we needed to move on or the moves didn't transpire because of the culmination of what I've described above. Especially when we then got relegated as a result.

 

Yet what did we learn? We get reports from Phil Hay who covers Leeds that we were willing to pay Jack Harrison £100k a week and them £20m + despite him having a short amount of his contract left, according to John Percy one of Winks or Coady is on £70k a week in the Championship, that rose to God knows what when we got promoted. 

 

If selling players is so difficult, don't make it even harder for you by taking away any financial flexibility the club may be able to build up by paying over the odds. Likewise the unreasonable transfer fees quoted. We get greedy despite scant evidence of being strong negotiators and getting good money for fringe players in the past.

 

Sadly we are unlikely to see any change until we get a new ownership and Rudkin departs. Just in this holding pen of decline until it's got so bad that it'll br a pipe dream to get even remotely close to what we once were.

 

Unforgivable.

[Bordersfox]

2 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Let’s start a new topic on the blindingly obvious that’s already been talked to death a million times?

A bit like this sort of post had been posted a million times.  

 

And here's my reply, that's been posted a million times in one form or another.  

 

Nobody is holding a gun to your head.  The thread title is pretty clear about the subject matter.  No need for you to enter and comment.  

 

There is always an element of repetition on a forum dedicated to a particular topic, I really don't know why people give a sh1t.  

[Jazzy_Jeff]

We’re going round in this never ending circle as prospective new players will see what the likes of Coady and Winks are on and will want parity.

 

Once the fat has been trimmed, we need to go back to a strategy of signing young players on the way up with a cap of £30-40k per week. That along with our academy, would build a squad of players on an upward trajectory and we wouldn’t find ourselves in this position again.

 

For this to work we need capable people in charge, that’s the first thing that has to change 

[Gazza M]

Yes, the trend unsurprisingly continues with Rudkin/man child at the wheel. It will be desperate loan time soon and another manager with their back up after a slow window. 

[Ric Flair]

3 minutes ago, Jazzy_Jeff said:

We’re going round in this never ending circle as prospective new players will see what the likes of Coady and Winks are on and will want parity.

 

Once the fat has been trimmed, we need to go back to a strategy of signing young players on the way up with a cap of £30-40k per week. That along with our academy, would build a squad of players on an upward trajectory and we wouldn’t find ourselves in this position again.

 

For this to work we need capable people in charge, that’s the first thing that has to change 

This is it, next summer needs to be the reset that should have happened 2-3 years ago but we maintained the arrogance that we could get straight back up paying daft money and stay up and the decline would be seen as a brief deviation. It clearly isn't and our club should be horrified at the mistakes it has made and the refusal to hold those accountable for it who remain in their senior positions.

 

Or we are just a social experiment which I've long thought we are as there's no explaining the last 20-30 years of us. We are mayhem.

[Groby_Blue]

I think people are thinking that because Cooper and RVN played the same dross week in, week out, Marti is going to do it as well. But I don't think he will. 

 

The analysis videos and what we've seen in pre season show that he likes fast attacking play with quick pressing and we have several players in the squad that don't fit this style and cannot play this way. 

 

I believe (and hope) that Marti will already know the players that aren't going to fit into his system and won't play them. Give the likes of Vestergaard and Soumare a few months of not getting in the squad and see what happens. They won't want to be spending their time just training so will want a move.

 

We might not see much movement now but January could well be the month where we see a lot of movement when players realise they have no future here. 

[coolhandfox]

I don't see a massive change in the squad until next season when the likes of Coady, Ayew, Soumare, Daka, JJ and Ricardo, Thomas and Wink are out of contract.

 

90m ish million in transfers fees spent on that lot and they will all walk away for free.

Edited 29 July 2025 by coolhandfox

[Bordersfox]

8 minutes ago, Groby_Blue said:

I think people are thinking that because Cooper and RVN played the same dross week in, week out, Marti is going to do it as well. But I don't think he will. 

 

The analysis videos and what we've seen in pre season show that he likes fast attacking play with quick pressing and we have several players in the squad that don't fit this style and cannot play this way. 

 

I believe (and hope) that Marti will already know the players that aren't going to fit into his system and won't play them. Give the likes of Vestergaard and Soumare a few months of not getting in the squad and see what happens. They won't want to be spending their time just training so will want a move.

 

We might not see much movement now but January could well be the month where we see a lot of movement when players realise they have no future here. 

Unfortunately Vestergaard has already proven he's happy to sit on his giraffe sized arse and collect a fat salary.  

[Ric Flair]

16 minutes ago, Groby_Blue said:

I think people are thinking that because Cooper and RVN played the same dross week in, week out, Marti is going to do it as well. But I don't think he will. 

 

The analysis videos and what we've seen in pre season show that he likes fast attacking play with quick pressing and we have several players in the squad that don't fit this style and cannot play this way. 

 

I believe (and hope) that Marti will already know the players that aren't going to fit into his system and won't play them. Give the likes of Vestergaard and Soumare a few months of not getting in the squad and see what happens. They won't want to be spending their time just training so will want a move.

 

We might not see much movement now but January could well be the month where we see a lot of movement when players realise they have no future here. 

January is an even worse transfer window for us than the summer. Don't be fooled that will happen at all. Those 9 players out of contract next summer will only have a few more months to wait come January to then take advantage of being a free agent and the likely bigger gains in signing on fee than moving in January and our club getting a fee. We've been notoriously poor at moving players on with less than a year to go. Got £1.8m for Demarai Gray and had to agree to a loan for Perez in his last year. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Bordersfox said:

Some argue we arent bad at selling players rather we are bad at buying them which means we're left with assets we can't move on.  But I'm with you on this Ric.  It's definitely more than just that, although that of course is an important part of the problem. Remember this in the Athletic, just one unequivocal example of the clubs terrible decision making when considering offers for players near the end of their contract:

 

"In May, Dennis Praet, who has now left the club as a free agent, told Belgian news outlet Nieuwsblad that Leicester rejected permanent bids for him from Italian side Torino because “they thought I was too good, useful and versatile to let me go on the cheap."

 

I have no doubt this sort of thing has happened numerous times, costing until millions.

In fairness, he was a useful player.

 

Which is why we never used him.

 

We seem to think we're Chelsea and can just let good players fester.

[funkyrobot]

11 hours ago, Lineker's Left Foot said:

Well you all know what to do…. Don’t attend games or buy merchandise.. Not One Penny More.

Struggling to correlate how say an attendance of zero home fans against Sheff Wed would encourage someone like Al Hilal to offer us £30m for Patson Daka. Or how zero shirt sales will result in a lucrative move to Italy for Vestergaard tbh.

[lanefox]

But people still say how do we know it's Rudskins responsibility 

[UniFox21]

The recent Dan Iversen interview highlighted these issues, he's said he'd got moves ready and lined up but didn't take place due to the number of sign offs it took for things to be approved. 

[Finn Claw II]

We’ve realised we are bad at selling players, signing players and offering new contracts.

 

The obvious solution is to done none of it.  
 

#Rukdin is listening 

[Lineker's Left Foot]

23 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

Struggling to correlate how say an attendance of zero home fans against Sheff Wed would encourage someone like Al Hilal to offer us £30m for Patson Daka. Or how zero shirt sales will result in a lucrative move to Italy for Vestergaard tbh.

No but a continuation of abstaining from going or our own ‘investing’ into the club has a greater likelihood of getting rid of KP.

[Jock's Hill]

I thought some of our players (Faes, Vestergaard) had been advised to leave if they wanted to be part of their international sides for upcoming tournaments next year.

It won't help them being part of a bloated squad and maybe not being picked.

[Grebfromgrebland]

2 hours ago, CrazyKopCorner said:

If that's the truth, and I can only conclude that's a joke in very poor taste, we are ****ing doomed. 

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/conor-coady-leicester-rangers-transfer-35628153