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It is where we are currently. Let's hope the production line from Seagrave continues to shadow the talent 'running' the club and that one day, the whole organisation finds its way. We're a way away currently. 

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Please rid us of Faes, Okoli, Madvidi, Thomas and Choudhury first. We cannot hope for a fresh start with these players hanging around. Does anyone feel 100% sure any of the players mentioned are good enough even for this level and that they will not stink the place out given half a chance?

 

What we are going to end up doing is keeping them and losing our best prospects who are probably being paid peanuts. Administration then follows. 

 

I do not understand why Rudkin is still here. He has had a part in all of this and he is an employee. Either Top is absolutely blind or he dare not get rid.of him. Either explanation is deeply concerning and does not give me any confidence we are going to change our direction of travel.

 

We have never been a third tier regular and should not accept being so (or even worse). 

 

 

 

Posted
7 hours ago, jv1 said:

Club lower down the food chain sells players to premier league giants 

 

shock horror 

 

this forum is mental 

That's not really what this is.  We know that a food chain exists in football but big clubs raiding promising talent from smaller clubs straight from the academy is a cynical ploy to snatch away the developing club's sell on profit.  He won't play for them.

 

If Page had become a regular for us and got to a level where Man Utd might want to sign him to play for them, that is a very different thing.

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we are in full on 'fruit today or jam tomorrow' territory arent we?

We now have to sell players like Page to bring in two x £2m strikers. But in doing so we fundamentally undermine the spirit and ethos of the club and ensure we dont have succession planning, local connection and depth to the club.

i believe they call it 'tinpot'.

 

 

Posted
16 minutes ago, markko said:

Please rid us of Faes, Okoli, Madvidi, Thomas and Choudhury first. We cannot hope for a fresh start with these players hanging around. Does anyone feel 100% sure any of the players mentioned are good enough even for this level and that they will not stink the place out given half a chance?

 

No. No-one thinks that way. That is why they aren't buying them. 

Posted
56 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

A Blackburn and Birmingham fan at the offices predicted this to me. Said every prospect you create be quickly pass onto the next club in super quick time. Once the cash is dried up, this is how clubs have to operate without those parachute payments 

Birmingham at least had had full seasons from Jude Bellingham and Jordan James.

 

Wharton played 3000 minutes for Blackburn before leaving.

 

Page has played 500 minutes for us. We barely even got to see him in a Leicester shirt.

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2 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

Birmingham at least had had full seasons from Jude Bellingham and Jordan James.

 

Wharton played 3000 minutes for Blackburn before leaving.

 

Page has played 500 minutes for us. We barely even got to see him in a Leicester shirt.

I get its an analogy but if page was anything close to as good as either wharton or Bellingham then we’d have seen him rack up 46 starts last season! 

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Is there any truth in this rumour?

All this come from a BBC source and other are quoting this. I’m sure Page has said he wants regular 1st team football and that he was happy to fight for his place. I hope that this rumour isn’t true!

Posted
27 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

I get its an analogy but if page was anything close to as good as either wharton or Bellingham then we’d have seen him rack up 46 starts last season! 

We don't trust genuine youngsters here. Barnes and Dewsbury-Hall were into their twenties before they were regular starters.

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25 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

I get its an analogy but if page was anything close to as good as either wharton or Bellingham then we’d have seen him rack up 46 starts last season! 

Wharton is a product of getting game time at a young age, he needed that trust from Blackburn to become the player that he is today.

 

Whose to say that if Page didn't get that same trust that he wouldn't have taken the next step in his development.

 

For context there was an England youth game I watched where Braybrooke and Wharton played midfield together. Between the two of them Braybrooke was the one controlling the game and who looked more impressive.

 

I get Braybrooke had an ACL to deal with but these £60mil Prem midfielders arent some mythical level of talent that our players can never reach, they were just nurtured properly and avoided injury. Page, if nurtured properly, could very well end up being a PL midfielder like Wharton.

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Posted (edited)
33 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

Birmingham at least had had full seasons from Jude Bellingham and Jordan James.

 

Wharton played 3000 minutes for Blackburn before leaving.

 

Page has played 500 minutes for us. We barely even got to see him in a Leicester shirt.

There’s other examples of Birmingham and Blackburn which are less than three examples you’ve mentioned. They were not really the players they were getting at. 
 

Valentin Joseph and Camden Schraper from Blackburn have left to PL clubs at young ages without senior apps. The latter being just 14 when pinched by Chelsea for £700k. There’s another lad Ty Livesley, just turning 16 likely to join Man City this summer. 
 

Blackburn make the most of the area north of them into Cumbria etc. 

 

Anyway we digress 

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Posted
2 hours ago, coolhandfox said:

If we were selling him for 4m he would have already gone.

I think you will be surprised. I bet they have bid about 5. IMO anything less than 10 would bad business but I don’t hold much hope. 

Posted
1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

What a depressing acceptance. Our decline is so difficult to stomach and these reminders sting.

Just seen it now, I'm in a pretty bad place with the club currently over the last 18 months.

The anger I feel about this and those stupid stupid idiots running the club and the easy picking we are for these approaches. We have to sell because of our parlous financial state and our league position.  Not only have they destroyed our very recent history, their crass stupidity has destroyed our short term future.

Page had something, more I felt than Monga based on last season.

Situations like Top's farcical laughing interview about promotion last season and Rudkin, I'm mean a Leicester lad, a long history with the club and you have have stayed after doing this to us.

I have a season ticket but I just don't feel I'll have the passion for this, we should not be in the division and losing these locally developed youthful talents.

When you're in the top flight you get £30m for Barnes etc. when you're in League one you get £10m & less.

Gutting.  Not so funny now Top.

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The one slight glimmer after relegation was that we might finally be rid of some of the shite and we might see our academy talents given a chance. Instead Monga and potentially Page could be gone before we've been able to see what they can really do, and Nelson would be gone if wasn't for his injury. While the likes of Mavididi, BDR, Skipp and Wout are still here, stinking the place out. Depressing.

Posted
8 hours ago, Silva Fox said:

Will the last one out please turn off the lights!

The goalposts, cones and bibs have been placed on eBay 

 

Aiyawatt: Wow lad you’ve done a splendid job !! 

Posted
9 hours ago, markko said:

Please rid us of Faes, Okoli, Madvidi, Thomas and Choudhury first. We cannot hope for a fresh start with these players hanging around. Does anyone feel 100% sure any of the players mentioned are good enough even for this level and that they will not stink the place out given half a chance?

 

What we are going to end up doing is keeping them and losing our best prospects who are probably being paid peanuts. Administration then follows. 

 

I do not understand why Rudkin is still here. He has had a part in all of this and he is an employee. Either Top is absolutely blind or he dare not get rid.of him. Either explanation is deeply concerning and does not give me any confidence we are going to change our direction of travel.

 

We have never been a third tier regular and should not accept being so (or even worse). 

 

 

 

Can only sell what others are willing to buy 

Posted
10 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

What a depressing acceptance. Our decline is so difficult to stomach and these reminders sting.

I accepted it long ago, this is the way the club is going. My biggest annoyance of it all is just that we can’t use whatever money we’ve got from this to actually spend 

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