Leicester transfers that thankfully never happened

[mattlcfc15]

With the Dwight McNeil swap deal in the news I remembered a few years ago when he was seemingly on his way to Leicester for £30m. Probably a good job that one didn’t go through, and compound some of the business done in recent seasons.

 

Jack Harrison in a deadline day special on £100k a week is another that was a lucky escape. In the spirit of being positive, are there any others from Leicester history that come to mind as a bonus that they never actually signed?

[coolhandfox]

We need more cheerful thread like this one!

 

To be fair they were two lucky misses. 

[Spudulike]

The answer, as always, is....

 

Jordan Veretout

 

[slymunn]

Charles Aranguiz

[jimmy7587]

Troy Deeney wouldn’t have worked out. £35m!

[bovril]

Ademola Lookman. He probably feels incredibly fortunate. 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Stefano Sensi. Remember Enzo being pissed that he couldn't sign this guy from Inter. Well he's barely played since then and now sits on the bench for CSKA Sofia.

[mattlcfc15]

2 minutes ago, bovril said:

Ademola Lookman. He probably feels incredibly fortunate. 

Never thought to look at it from the players perspective, probably a fair few of these as well 😂

[1972 Fox]

Johan Cruyff, well past his best by 1981 

[LVFox]

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

[Tommy G]

Nicky Maynard 

[brookfox]

Harry Kane, rumoured to be an option for a permanent signing following his loan. Would have just taken Vardy's place and never passed to him!

[jayfox26]

5 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Nicky Maynard 

How many pages?

[jayfox26]

Abdul, Abdul Abdul, Abdul Abdul, abdul abdul malik. 

 

For this song alone, I hope we do sign him. 

[jayfox26]

Beckham?

[AKCJ]

Lots of these suggestions would have been good for us.

 

 

The biggest thank **** we didn't sign him has to be Harrison. We were offering him a stupid deal because we were desperate and locking ourselves into a 5 year deal on 100k a week is £26m in wages alone. It might have been that deal that tipped us over the edge into oblivion and would have made moves for the likes of Skipp reasonable.

[Richard]

2 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

Lots of these suggestions would have been good for us.

 

 

The biggest thank **** we didn't sign him has to be Harrison. We were offering him a stupid deal because we were desperate and locking ourselves into a 5 year deal on 100k a week is £26m in wages alone. It might have been that deal that tipped us over the edge into oblivion and would have made moves for the likes of Skipp reasonable.

He would still have 2 years left of that deal... Absolute madness 

[StriderHiryu]

42 minutes ago, jimmy7587 said:

Troy Deeney wouldn’t have worked out. £35m!

We spent that on Slimani instead...

 

Deeney I think would have been a lot better, but yeah for that money he would still have been poor.  

[jayfox26]

4 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

We spent that on Slimani instead...

 

Deeney I think would have been a lot better, but yeah for that money he would still have been poor.  

I dont think it would have ever worked out for any striker in that period as Vardy was the golden boy, was rarely injured, and for the most part, we've only played one striker. Incredible that even now, we don't look like finding a Vardy replacement. We wont ever have anyone as good as Vardy but something in between him and Ayew/Daka would be nice 

[David Guiza II]

39 minutes ago, LVFox said:

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

Robbie Fowler as well in the same window. 

 

Manager wise - weren't we quite strongly linked with Mike Walker before O'Neill got the job?

[Bert]

Jimmy Kebe

[South Shire Fox]

Jack Harrison, what another waste of money that would of been

[Guest Fox-LMA]

Robin Gosens has to be up there. I heard he would have joined us in the summer of 20/21 if we qualified for the Champions League. Everything was agreed apparently. Massive money. Probably a club record fee.

 

Since then he turned into a massive sick-note & a financial milestone around the neck of every club he's been at since.

[Gamble92]

Anyone Ric Flair has signed from South America on Football Manager 

[21st Century Fox]