Wes Burns (due to have medical, Percy / McGrath)

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Just now, CruzNoir said:

We are going to be playing 60+ games this season

 

Players, young and Old, Academy and experienced are going to get game time ffs

 

We’ve got some mega quality experience coming in to compliment our exciting younger players and Academy players

 

I hear the worries about the wages and finances, but I think we are clearly hitting for glory to get out this league first time trying, it’s a risk considering our financial status is already mind blowing

 

But I’ll tell you what, having a second season in league one would be worse so they are going all out quite visibly

 

Wes Burns is a fabulous signing for this season, injury worries aside if we get 20 games out of them I’m sure his quality will be a great contribution for a promotion push

 

You don't half pour petrol on the you being James McCarron fire

[AKCJ]

Dread to think how much we'll be paying him.

 

It'll be over 20k a week, easily. He's not giving up a Premier League salary to come to Leicester without us matching it.

 

Plus he's ancient, hasn't ever pulled up any trees in the game and is coming off the back of an awful injury.

 

Great signing for league 1 though, eh!

[SB87_LCFC]

47 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

Better than Bobby 

Not quite a throb though 

[FoxesWalk]

He just signed a one year extension as a squad player at a prem team, so probably on like 20k?

Edited 14 hours ago by FoxesWalk

[CruzNoir]

Just now, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

You don't half pour petrol on the you being James McCarron fire

 

Means I’m talking sense then I hope 
 

your compliment has been received and approved 

[jv1]

Will probably be a loan won’t it and we cover half his wages - if it’s that deal maybe even Rik will be less unhappy - big maybe 

[pmcla26]

Regardless of age, he’s a coup at this level, too good for League One. 

[FoxesWalk]

If it’s a loan and we are paying a portion of his prem wages then it’s fine. Chaplin link up etc., but shouldn’t be touching him on a permanent deal. 

[Ricey]

✅ Old
✅ Little

✅ Recent ACL

✅ No resale value

✅ Likely big wages for L1

 

He's perfect.

 

It seems we are putting all our eggs in one basket again. It all feels very short sighted. What if Martin fails? What if we do go up? Are players like Burns, Chaplin, Cullen etc going to all of a sudden become quality Championship players? No. We know their ceiling and their trajectory.

[coolhandfox]

29 minutes ago, Aleksz said:

Alves’ needs to concentrate on being fit for more than 6 weeks first before worrying about his competition. Until then competition is a good thing. 

Yeah fair point, and we need a back up RWer.

 

Alves is guile, Burns bring power and pace so match RM requirements to have different types. 

[goose2010]

7 minutes ago, CruzNoir said:

We are going to be playing 60+ games this season

 

Players, young and Old, Academy and experienced are going to get game time ffs

 

We’ve got some mega quality experience coming in to compliment our exciting younger players and Academy players

 

I hear the worries about the wages and finances, but I think we are clearly hitting for glory to get out this league first time trying, it’s a risk considering our financial status is already mind blowing

 

But I’ll tell you what, having a second season in league one would be worse so they are going all out quite visibly

 

Wes Burns is a fabulous signing for this season, injury worries aside if we get 20 games out of them I’m sure his quality will be a great contribution for a promotion push

no we wont. if we have any sense we will bomb out of all the cups early / play the youth. 

 

The first team 'squad' should only be playing max 50 games. 

[LCFCCKEANO]

Just now, goose2010 said:

no we wont. if we have any sense we will bomb out of all the cups early / play the youth. 

 

The first team 'squad' should only be playing max 50 games. 

The same youth we are all apparently expecting to win the league only using? Surely they’d also win the lower league cups by the same logic

[Rubbersoul]

25 minutes ago, FoxinNotts said:

I know right. I can't get my head around the obsession with age on here anymore. We've a really young squad now, too young if anything. Two, three or even four older heads is good

If you’re 30 you are basically dead and should be hidden away from society. 
 

Im sorry I don’t make the rules 

[Buzzell]

3 minutes ago, Ricey said:

✅ Old
✅ Little

✅ Recent ACL

✅ No resale value

✅ Likely big wages for L1

 

He's perfect.

 

It seems we are putting all our eggs in one basket again. It all feels very short sighted. What if Martin fails? What if we do go up? Are players like Burns, Chaplin, Cullen etc going to all of a sudden become quality Championship players? No. We know their ceiling and their trajectory.

Rudkin will be licking his lips.

[Scotch]

It's never a good thing when you log on to see a page has been created and amassed 7 pages in a single hour....

[LCFCCKEANO]

Could go wrong and could not, I don’t think our academy lads are all quite as ready as suggested here, some definitely are but some are still very raw. We may not win the league with these signings but we would not win the league with only our academy and 20 year olds from Eastern Europe, as fun as that would be to watch

[coolhandfox]

11 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Why bother talking about this, he's staying at Ipswich 

Source?

 

[Ric Flair]

26 minutes ago, FoxKent_88 said:

But he's blocking a pathway... he's too old.... Sorry, but anyone wanting to rely solely on youth and expecting our inexperienced academy lads to earn promotion at the first attempt (a non negotiable BTW) needs a reality check. Over the course of 46 games we will absolutely need senior professionals with relevant experience. RM has spoken about due diligence of bringing in players with good character that fit his plans. There will be plenty of game time for younger pros, especially if we are dominating games. It'll hopefully be the perfect environment for them. 

What is also a likely non negotiable is needing to raise £30-40m in transfers next summer like we've had to every summer just to keep the wolf from the door.

 

The way that is even remotely possible is turning young players in to good players and that will be seriously impacted by the approach we are going down. It's a finely poised balance we have to get right.

[Samilktray]

So he was out of contract earlier in the summer, he renewed with Ipswich and now we've decided to pay money for him?

Even we aren't this thick surely?????

[TheGoldenGod]

13 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Why bother talking about this, he's staying at Ipswich 

John Percy saying he's having a medical with us but you've said this? Bold statement to throw out there but rate it!

[Ric Flair]

9 minutes ago, jv1 said:

Will probably be a loan won’t it and we cover half his wages - if it’s that deal maybe even Rik will be less unhappy - big maybe 

Don't see why it would be a loan given he just signed a new 1 year deal. They'd have just let him go if that were the case.

[Ric Flair]

1 minute ago, Samilktray said:

So he was out of contract earlier in the summer, he renewed with Ipswich and now we've decided to pay money for him?

Even we aren't this thick surely?????

Is now a good time to talk to you about Leicester City?

[teblin]

I do get the apprehension as its not just about age its about injury record. And we'll probably be paying over the odds wages wise. Hopefully we can ditch some of the other higher earners to compensate for that.

 

But it does feel a bit like Logans Runs on here sometimes.

 

We need a mix of experience and youth, we've signed 2 young players on loan. We have 4/5 I expect to be involved (Braybrooke, Aluko, Jayden Joseph, Page, Alves and maybe others) 

 

We sign Berner, Edworthy and Dickov in League one last time. No where near wages we might be paying some of these though I guess.

Edited 14 hours ago by teblin

[poppowell]

1 hour ago, Buzzell said:

Have we gone from raiding Southampton to now raiding Ipswich?  

We are not raiding them ,they are sending us their castoffs ,they are raiding us ie Fatawu ,Macateer .

Edited 14 hours ago by poppowell

[suffolk fox]

So let me get this right.  We are signing an experienced winger plus 30 yrs old who excelled for Ipswich in league 1.  Who according to some is crocked because he had an ACL injury.

 

Meanwhile, Ipswich sign Fatawu from us for 20 million, who was hit and miss for us last season, and has had an ACL injury.

 

Yet, people are having a meltdown over this.  Logic, reason non ...................