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Richard Kone

By FrankieADZ, in Transfer Talk

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kingpowerout

kingpowerout

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Leicester is a fantastic opportunity for Kone.
No disrespect to Swansea but they are unlikely to be challenging.

He should be pushing his agent as hard as possible to get a deal over the line with us  

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kingfox

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I was keen on him to be a potential signing in January, but of course with lack of funds, there was zero chance of it happening. 
 

He’d be an intriguing gamble, he has certain attributes that could make him a real handful at this level. 
 

But whether it ends up being Kone or not, finding a striker in that £5-7 million price bracket is probably the way to go. Norwich picked up Kvistgaarden for £6.9 million this summer. While in recent season’s, Boro signed Latte Lath and Sunderland signed Isidor in that price range. 

Haywood_6

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I like him, think he's got potential. Stats very similar to Stansfield in L1 last season.

 

Anyone looks good when your only options are Patson Shanker and a 33 year old Ayew though.

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Ric Flair

Ric Flair

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It's the potential that makes this signing tempting. You just don't know how good he could become given the significant gains he's already made from absolutely nowhere. 

 

£5m if that's what he'll cost is only half the profit we made on Tom Cannon.

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LVFox

LVFox

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I’ve been encouraged enough by Ayew in pre season to think he’s well worth the risk. Tremendous upside if it goes well, if it doesn’t, we likely recoup 3m or so in a couple of years time - which is likely to be his book value at the time.

 

Imagine he won’t want mega wages either, get him in the bag!!!

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brookfox

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£5m on you’d assume a 4-5yr contract is £1m a year for PSR (just in case anyone can’t do the maths!). Surely we can stretch to that…

Verumex

Verumex

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Yeah, watching us play yesterday has shown me that all we really need as a number 9 is someone who can get into the right positions and get the tap in chances created by our wingers.

 

Any strong, tall striker should be able to do that, and if he can be better than that, then that's a bonus. 

Stadt

Stadt

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Select looks much more accomplished to me. Kone's technical ability ceilings him in the championship, his touch in tight spaces is crap and a lot of the goals he scored last year were against *crap* League One keeping. But if it's £5m it's a reasonable signing.

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Les-TA-Jon

Les-TA-Jon

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2 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

It's the potential that makes this signing tempting. You just don't know how good he could become given the significant gains he's already made from absolutely nowhere. 

 

£5m if that's what he'll cost is only half the profit we made on Tom Cannon.

When did we make £10m profit on Tom Cannon? 

Chairman of the Bored

Chairman of the Bored

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25 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Select looks much more accomplished to me. Kone's technical ability ceilings him in the championship, his touch in tight spaces is crap and a lot of the girls he scored last year were against *crap* League One keeping. But if it's £5m it's a reasonable signing.

He's in a 'one woman' relationship 😁

MGLCFC

MGLCFC

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38 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Select looks much more accomplished to me. Kone's technical ability ceilings him in the championship, his touch in tight spaces is crap and a lot of the girls he scored last year were against *crap* League One keeping. But if it's £5m it's a reasonable signing.

His touch around the box must be decent if he scored with a lot of girls last year?

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FoxinNotts

FoxinNotts

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Just now, MGLCFC said:

His touch must be decent if he scored with a lot of girls last year?

If you read up on his history, some big presumptions are being mad in this statement

sdb

sdb

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1 hour ago, mozartfox said:

Rudders has got this.   

Just seen him walk out of the co op absolutely buzzing. Had a 4 pack of ice cream cones?

iancognito

iancognito

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3 hours ago, Scotch said:

I think Mads, JJ and Ndidi will go this week. Bilal will go in the last day(s) of the window and we will claim we never had time to replace him despite knowing he would go all summer. 

Jon's pencilled in Brownhill to be the new Bilal

Scotch

Scotch

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1 minute ago, iancognito said:

Jon's pencilled in Brownhill to be the new Bilal

Brownhill won't still be available by the end of the window. If we are planing on waiting for Bilal to go before we move for him. It's a risk. 

Ric Flair

Ric Flair

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46 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

When did we make £10m profit on Tom Cannon? 

 

42 minutes ago, Ian S said:

We didn’t 

Sorry, they way I worded it was confusing. The profit we made on Cannon (£2.5m) is only half what we'd likely need to pay for Kone, which spread over 5 years would be £1m per year. 

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Lambert09

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the toney comparisons may be a little lazy but it’s obviously the closest you can come to a best case example.

 

if you look at the below, when toney was 21 in league one, he had just gone to wigan, combining with his scunthorpe numbers he hit 12, this was probably the year he started to develop. 

 

the next season toney hit 22 g & a’s and kone hit  21 this season.

 

Toney followed that up with 29 g and a’s and moved for 6m plus add ons… which indicates that 5m for Kone is very good value after inflation. 

 

Fingers crossed his trajectory could match that of Toney 

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the reason toneys numbers increases the next year was partially because Brentford create more than peterborough and you can argue Kone would get more chances with us this season than he did at wycombe and by some distance.  So if he’s a natural goal scorer he would do well, where the test would come is in the prem. because he would have to create more for himself in the prem and would live on more scraps, something toney does well and an area Kone struggled at in the second half of the season at wycombe.

 

But at 5m, if it was just for this season it would be worth it. So despite my reservations, it’s just too good value to turn down. 

 

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