Richard Kone

[sylofox]

7 hours ago, honeybradger said:

It's not just 'vibes' though is it. It's looking at his goals and making my own opinion on whether he would translate well to championship level. Seeing how he scores, where he scores, should the defender have done better and would they do better at Championship level.

 

A lot of his goals are the result of sloppy defending from the opposition which should raise questions about how he would perform against better defenders. His touch is also loose, there are a few goals from last season

where if the defender was a bit faster they would have made the tackle before he was able to get the shot off.

 

His shooting also seems a bit sloppy, often times just hitting it at the goalkeeper and getting fortunate with a rebound. He is also slow which doesnt help with making the step up.

 

 

 

Maybe im completely wrong and he's sharp enough to catch Championship defenders off guard, it is clearly a strength of his. I do think you always have to worry with a striker who relies on defenders making mistakes making the step up.

 

In comparison I think Jake Evans has a very strong set off foundational skills which with experience will allow him to trouble defenders at any level. He is comfortable with the ball at his feet, fast, strong, can finish with both feet, can take players on, has good power on his shots, is intelligent with linking up with the players around him and making the right runs.

 

Again I could very well be wrong but this is just my opinion so feel free to take it with a grain of salt.

If 5m is the fee what you expecting prime Vardy.

 

I'm sure you could put up a prime Vardy video that would make him look no better than that.

 

Also only just 22 so room for improvement with better management and players around him.

[sylofox]

7 hours ago, FrankieADZ said:

patience?!?! sorry but I remember fans wanting him gone, calling Vardy black and blue after the boro home game(the one where it snowed badly but was still played cos it was on Sky, 2013)

 

course Kone is raw, but this is the market we should be looking at, the raw diamonds we can sell on later down the line for a (hopeful) profit, as @Ric Flair said he seems very much like Ivan Toney when he was coming through

Read the borough thread first game of the promotion season. Vardy and Drinky getting hammered as soon as the team was released. NP getting slagged off for picking them. Who scored our two?

 

Two years later would have been a different story without them both.

[sylofox]

2 hours ago, lanefox said:

Of course he did Genk 🤦‍♂️

Don't call Tommy Fresh a Genk

[brucey]

12 hours ago, Jakemoore said:

Personally, I’m not too worried. I don’t think we need anyone else if we don’t sell anyone. This squad walks back into the PL if managed correctly and then we have an entire season with no transfer fees being paid. That could set us up to spend a bit more when back in the PL. 

I'd much rather buy players while in the Championship than in the Premier League. There is definitely a Championship 'discount' vs a PL 'premium' added to prices. E.g Winks and Skipp, similar quality players bought from the same club - £10m vs £25m.

 

Even disregarding the cheaper prices, we still made better signings overall in our last Championship season than in our last PL one. 

 

From the point of view of a potential signing, I don't think there's much difference in attractiveness between a PL team likely to get relegated, and a Championship team likely to get promoted. 

 

[TommyK]

5 hours ago, brucey said:

 

 

Even disregarding the cheaper prices, we still made better signings overall in our last Championship season than in our last PL one. 

 

This was Cooper. He royal ****ed us with the players he bought in. 

[LVFox]

7 hours ago, MPH said:

Well, 40k a week would be an extra 2m a year but we should still be able to manage that.  We just got Vardy off the books.. 100k a week is 5.2m a year saved…

I’d be surprised if he was after £40k. Could easily see it around the 20-25 mark.

[Ric Flair]

8 hours ago, MPH said:

Well, 40k a week would be an extra 2m a year but we should still be able to manage that.  We just got Vardy off the books.. 100k a week is 5.2m a year saved…

Kone is likely on about £1,500 a week at the minute. Probably on the same deal as when he joined from nowhere 18 months ago.

 

If we increase his wages by more than ten fold we are beyond daft.

[st albans fox]

6 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Kone is likely on about £1,500 a week at the minute. Probably on the same deal as when he joined from nowhere 18 months ago.

 

If we increase his wages by more than ten fold we are beyond daft.

if you’re his agent then he’s not coming here for £15k on a transfer fee up to £5m inc add ons.   You’d demand double that. and this is where the problems could start because a kid of his age suddenly getting that much dosh - you’ve no idea where that goes mentally. 

[James_lcfc]

2 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

if you’re his agent then he’s not coming here for £15k on a transfer fee up to £5m inc add ons.   You’d demand double that. and this is where the problems could start because a kid of his age suddenly getting that much dosh - you’ve no idea where that goes mentally. 

Then we say thanks and send him the directions to Swansea.

 

We need to be firmer on the wages we offer and stop being so desperate.

 

[VLC86]

19 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Kone is likely on about £1,500 a week at the minute. Probably on the same deal as when he joined from nowhere 18 months ago.

 

If we increase his wages by more than ten fold we are beyond daft.

 

[Guppys Love Child]

3 minutes ago, James_lcfc said:

Then we say thanks and send him the directions to Swansea.

 

We need to be firmer on the wages we offer and stop being so desperate.

 

Totally agree.

 

£15k

Bonus if "x" goals scored. 

Pay rise on promotion or after a year etc.

 

If he bombs then we don't get stuffed too much,

Give him a goal, an incentive to "pull's up tree's"   if he performs then he earns his extra dosh.  We can't get stuff on the wages front anymore 

[st albans fox]

31 minutes ago, James_lcfc said:

Then we say thanks and send him the directions to Swansea.

 

We need to be firmer on the wages we offer and stop being so desperate.

 

 

20 minutes ago, Guppys Love Child said:

Totally agree.

 

£15k

Bonus if "x" goals scored. 

Pay rise on promotion or after a year etc.

 

If he bombs then we don't get stuffed too much,

Give him a goal, an incentive to "pull's up tree's"   if he performs then he earns his extra dosh.  We can't get stuff on the wages front anymore 

You cant buy a player for £5m and pay them 15k/week

especially when we have a dressing room full of guys on a ‘reduced’ 50/60 week making poor contributions 

 

maybe we could get away with 20/25k with a guaranteed rise to 30k on promotion. 

Edited 6 August 2025 by st albans fox

[Bluearmyfox28]

42 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

if you’re his agent then he’s not coming here for £15k on a transfer fee up to £5m inc add ons.   You’d demand double that. and this is where the problems could start because a kid of his age suddenly getting that much dosh - you’ve no idea where that goes mentally. 

You can also on play the market you’re being offered. It seems to be ourselves and Swansea and I can’t see Swansea offering anything over £20k max.

[st albans fox]

5 minutes ago, Bluearmyfox28 said:

You can also on play the market you’re being offered. It seems to be ourselves and Swansea and I can’t see Swansea offering anything over £20k max.

That’s why he’d want to come here 

we’re a better bet than Swansea if he’s ambitious and wants to earn more money.  If we start paying low wages then we won’t be as attractive a destination.  whilst we can’t be chucking around 40k+ in the championship, we can’t be trying to get players here below 25k.  It’s not going to work in the dressing room to have such massive wage divergence.  hopefully within a couple years the big earners will have gone and we can settle around 25/30k average in the champ and 40/50k in the prem. 

[DLH]

20 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

 

You cant buy a player for £5m and pay them 15k/week

especially when we have a dressing room full of guys on a ‘reduced’ 50/60 week making poor contributions 

 

maybe we could get away with 20/25k with a guaranteed rise to 30k on promotion. 

Both Mads and Mavididi were supposedly on £15k a week when we first signed them.

 

Don’t know how true that was or if they got a wage increase when we won promotion.

[pmcla26]

2 hours ago, TommyK said:

This was Cooper. He royal ****ed us with the players he bought in. 

Indeed, but the people above him shouldn't have signed off on them. 

 

For too long our transfers have been too heavily dictated by the manager's choices rather than having an approach driven by data/the style of play the club wants to achieve. 

[slymunn]

3 minutes ago, DLH said:

Both Mads and Mavididi were supposedly on £15k a week when we first signed them.

 

Don’t know how true that was or if they got a wage increase when we won promotion.

From Capology. As you say, not 100% how true they are but its an idea.

 

[Ric Flair]

15 minutes ago, slymunn said:

From Capology. As you say, not 100% how true they are but its an idea.

 

Those wages are absolute pony.

 

However I think £15-20k a week for signings from lower leagues and European countries like Sweden etc at this level is reasonable. 

[Aleksz]

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

Kone is likely on about £1,500 a week at the minute. Probably on the same deal as when he joined from nowhere 18 months ago.

 

If we increase his wages by more than ten fold we are beyond daft.

Equally, his agent is also daft if his client goes for £5m plus to the league above and they're not demanding at least 15-20k imo. 

[ozvaldo]

This is where we need some shrewd negotiation. 
Targets and bonuses have to come into play. 
We can’t do another long term contract on mad money. 
 

[VLC86]

The average championship salary is around £20k a week. This guy has never played at this level and would probably be lucky to get that.

 

We need to be smart with incentives. If he plays x amount of games or scores x amount of goals he gets a significant rise.

[Tuna]

We are talking about possible salaries, is this even close?

[Guest BlueApple]

18 minutes ago, Tuna said:

We are talking about possible salaries, is this even close?

No but there's literally nothing else to talk about. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

That’s why he’d want to come here 

we’re a better bet than Swansea if he’s ambitious and wants to earn more money.  If we start paying low wages then we won’t be as attractive a destination.  whilst we can’t be chucking around 40k+ in the championship, we can’t be trying to get players here below 25k.  It’s not going to work in the dressing room to have such massive wage divergence.  hopefully within a couple years the big earners will have gone and we can settle around 25/30k average in the champ and 40/50k in the prem. 

personally I would offer him £15k per week and set some performance related increases to incentivise him, £5k per week extra once he has played 50 games and another £5k per week once he has hit 20 goals for us, and also double his money when we get to premier league so if he has a stand out season this year he could be on £40-50k by next season, which wouldn’t be ridiculous for the premier league. 

[hackneyfox]

1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

 

You cant buy a player for £5m and pay them 15k/week

especially when we have a dressing room full of guys on a ‘reduced’ 50/60 week making poor contributions 

 

maybe we could get away with 20/25k with a guaranteed rise to 30k on promotion. 

When was this rule set?

You can offer them whatever you want, if it’s more then he’s getting offered elsewhere then he’s likely to sign.