Wout Faes (gone to UAE, official)

[Chelmofox]

9 minutes ago, FosseSpark said:

Until Faes, i don't think i had ever really truly hated a Leicester player. It felt like such a weird concept, to have a visceral, negative reaction to a player within a team you support. 

Don't get me wrong. I didn't think Gary Coatsworth or Junior Lewis were good enough. I didn't like that French chaps Panenka penalty, and i thought Lee Marshall was a bit shit. I was very unconvinced by Mark Blake and thought Bobby Davison rocked the Fox Leisure kit like they'd put an accountant out on the pitch.

But Faes really broke the watershed. 

He's highlighted a real trend among certain teams that has emerged post the advent of Pep ball. The ability to appear immenseley arrogant and self assured in and around the game, whilst delivering heinous **** ups and performances that cost goals, games and relegations without the approach or urgency appearing to change. Faes, Souttar, Okoli, Skipp, Ayew, Thomas, Vestergaard and others all have/had this in spades. No noticeable change in approach or style at any point despite all evidence pointing to the fact that they need to change. This is why me, and other Leicester fans i think, have slowly just fallen out of love with the players and the club. The sheer inability to recognise failure and to adopt a new style and approach is just not something we've come across at scale before and its permeated every part of the club. 

The fact we are STILL splitting our CB's and passing across our 6 yard box in League One. Still signing players who think, but can't prove, that they are above a league means that Faes is the poster boy of the whole shitshow. 

Keep giving the ball away directly to the striker for goals? Carry on

Keep getting caught out of position in transition? Carry On

Have no capacity or tactics to go long or be more direct? Carry on. 

 

For footballers like Faes on massive contracts, i think its this consequence free-ness that alienates them eventually. 

 

Anyway - **** him of to Turkey. He can even donate his barnet to all the visiting scousers getting a hair transplant.

 

Ryan Bertrand? 

[Finnegan]

39 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:

I've never had a feeling either way about xG.

Re woke, I'm on the other side of that nonsense. I would be accused of it by a rabid faragist. 

Book value, however, is the most boring football conversation imaginable. 

 

I mean yeah finances are always boring but they're also pretty relevant to the club's current issues. It's obviously something important to people and rightly so, fans have ignored the money for far too long, shrugging it off as "well it's not our money" when actually it very much is. 

 

Book values aren't exactly complex, you make out like they were some nebulous concept that people were wildly guessing at. 

 

By and large, transfer fees are fairly well reported when a player moves clubs. Even when the official announcement is "an undisclosed fee" it's nearly always widely reported what the deal was. And the club always announces how many years the contract is, that's always accurate public knowledge. 

 

So it's not like people were just making up strange numbers by pure guess work that were miles from the truth. And understanding what a players remaining book value was went a long way to understanding why we were struggling to sell some of them or just simply couldn't. 

 

TLDR: still seems a bit of a weird thing to get your jimmies rustled by my dude

 

Edited 28 August by Finnegan

[FosseSpark]

45 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

Ryan Bertrand? 

I can't say the name aloud. It's like MacBeth for actors. 

I refer to him only as 'the Southampton player'. 

 

[when_you're_smiling]

1 hour ago, FosseSpark said:

Until Faes, i don't think i had ever really truly hated a Leicester player. It felt like such a weird concept, to have a visceral, negative reaction to a player within a team you support. 

Don't get me wrong. I didn't think Gary Coatsworth or Junior Lewis were good enough. I didn't like that French chaps Panenka penalty, and i thought Lee Marshall was a bit shit. I was very unconvinced by Mark Blake and thought Bobby Davison rocked the Fox Leisure kit like they'd put an accountant out on the pitch.

But Faes really broke the watershed. 

He's highlighted a real trend among certain teams that has emerged post the advent of Pep ball. The ability to appear immenseley arrogant and self assured in and around the game, whilst delivering heinous **** ups and performances that cost goals, games and relegations without the approach or urgency appearing to change. Faes, Souttar, Okoli, Skipp, Ayew, Thomas, Vestergaard and others all have/had this in spades. No noticeable change in approach or style at any point despite all evidence pointing to the fact that they need to change. This is why me, and other Leicester fans i think, have slowly just fallen out of love with the players and the club. The sheer inability to recognise failure and to adopt a new style and approach is just not something we've come across at scale before and its permeated every part of the club. 

The fact we are STILL splitting our CB's and passing across our 6 yard box in League One. Still signing players who think, but can't prove, that they are above a league means that Faes is the poster boy of the whole shitshow. 

Keep giving the ball away directly to the striker for goals? Carry on

Keep getting caught out of position in transition? Carry On

Have no capacity or tactics to go long or be more direct? Carry on. 

 

For footballers like Faes on massive contracts, i think its this consequence free-ness that alienates them eventually. 

 

Anyway - **** him of to Turkey. He can even donate his barnet to all the visiting scousers getting a hair transplant.

 

Surely Dennis Wise when he was doing all he could to make the club go into administration because he was told he couldn’t go around hitting people.

[Conscript Fox]

23 hours ago, Scotch said:

The strap on winks at you or the cardboard cut-out? I'm confused. 

The lady winks Scotch 

The lady

 

The strap on winking would be freakish. 

[JimJams]

52 minutes ago, FosseSpark said:

I can't say the name aloud. It's like MacBeth for actors. 

I refer to him only as 'the Southampton player'. 

 

Yeah cos that really narrows it down. 

[FosseSpark]

35 minutes ago, when_you're_smiling said:

Surely Dennis Wise when he was doing all he could to make the club go into administration because he was told he couldn’t go around hitting people.

thing was,  i understood dennis wise, just a little aggressive ratbag, and decent footballer. Whereas faes is a gen z version of unaccountable willy puller - not even encumbered with a temper to blame for his indiscretions just an immense sense of entitlement.

 

 

[Philkeavo]

Every time I see a post on this thread I live in the hope that Farce has moved on 😩

[CornwallFox]

2 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

I mean yeah finances are always boring but they're also pretty relevant to the club's current issues. It's obviously something important to people and rightly so, fans have ignored the money for far too long, shrugging it off as "well it's not our money" when actually it very much is. 

 

Book values aren't exactly complex, you make out like they were some nebulous concept that people were wildly guessing at. 

 

By and large, transfer fees are fairly well reported when a player moves clubs. Even when the official announcement is "an undisclosed fee" it's nearly always widely reported what the deal was. And the club always announces how many years the contract is, that's always accurate public knowledge. 

 

So it's not like people were just making up strange numbers by pure guess work that were miles from the truth. And understanding what a players remaining book value was went a long way to understanding why we were struggling to sell some of them or just simply couldn't. 

 

TLDR: still seems a bit of a weird thing to get your jimmies rustled by my dude

 

That may all be true. But I still cannot stand the constant speculation re book values we've had. 

Very pleased to see them slowly getting binned off across the divisions. 

[kingpowerout]

not even a rumour from any of the Belgian journo's...does nobody want our Wout?

[Simonb]

5 hours ago, FosseSpark said:

Until Faes, i don't think i had ever really truly hated a Leicester player. It felt like such a weird concept, to have a visceral, negative reaction to a player within a team you support. 

Don't get me wrong. I didn't think Gary Coatsworth or Junior Lewis were good enough. I didn't like that French chaps Panenka penalty, and i thought Lee Marshall was a bit shit. I was very unconvinced by Mark Blake and thought Bobby Davison rocked the Fox Leisure kit like they'd put an accountant out on the pitch.

But Faes really broke the watershed. 

He's highlighted a real trend among certain teams that has emerged post the advent of Pep ball. The ability to appear immenseley arrogant and self assured in and around the game, whilst delivering heinous **** ups and performances that cost goals, games and relegations without the approach or urgency appearing to change. Faes, Souttar, Okoli, Skipp, Ayew, Thomas, Vestergaard and others all have/had this in spades. No noticeable change in approach or style at any point despite all evidence pointing to the fact that they need to change. This is why me, and other Leicester fans i think, have slowly just fallen out of love with the players and the club. The sheer inability to recognise failure and to adopt a new style and approach is just not something we've come across at scale before and its permeated every part of the club. 

The fact we are STILL splitting our CB's and passing across our 6 yard box in League One. Still signing players who think, but can't prove, that they are above a league means that Faes is the poster boy of the whole shitshow. 

Keep giving the ball away directly to the striker for goals? Carry on

Keep getting caught out of position in transition? Carry On

Have no capacity or tactics to go long or be more direct? Carry on. 

 

For footballers like Faes on massive contracts, i think its this consequence free-ness that alienates them eventually. 

 

Anyway - **** him of to Turkey. He can even donate his barnet to all the visiting scousers getting a hair transplant.

 

I hated Mr Wise more than Faes to be honest 

[Jakemoore]

Back in the team doing Crouyff turns on the halfway line and costing us goals before no time 🥰

[Craig]

15 minutes ago, Simonb said:

I hated Mr Wise more than Faes to be honest 

Wise never actually played for us after that incident though, did he? 

 

 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Concerning lack of links. 

[inckley fox]

36 minutes ago, Simonb said:

I hated Mr Wise more than Faes to be honest 

I don't like Faes as a player, never have. Some of that may be down to my personal prejudices on what a CB should do, but I consider his character and player profile totally wrong for what we've needed in his time here, want him gone, and am mortified by the idea that I'll ever have to endure him again.

 

Still, I don't hate him. Apparently he's a nice chap, and there's probably a club out there (though far fewer, and at a way lower level than, say, hfaes would wish to believe) where he'd do a job.

 

Mr Wise, on the other hand, was (in terms of wages at least) an expensive signing who was awful on the pitch, immediately caused problems off it, seriously injured one of his team-mates in an alleged breach of discipline, then sued the club and tried to put it out of business. That takes some beating, in terms of both pure malice and how rubbish a signing he was. 

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

17 hours ago, kingpowerout said:

not even a rumour from any of the Belgian journo's...does nobody want our Wout?

That in itself should be a wake up call for him. But does he have the self awareness to realise this and do something about it?

[CloudFox]

17 hours ago, kingpowerout said:

not even a rumour from any of the Belgian journo's...does nobody want our Wout?

 

38 minutes ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

That in itself should be a wake up call for him. But does he have the self awareness to realise this and do something about it?

I think it was Faes that Martin was referring to in his press conferences to be honest. Said something along the lines of some players wanting to leave but not currently even knowing where or what level they'd have to accept. Sounds a bit desperate to me, but maybe that suggests he will just leave if he gets an opportunity. Might just have to drop his expectations to do so. Shame Monaco didn't want him back, as that would probably have removed the wages issue.

[ALC Fox]

So Faes was signed in September 2022 for £15m on a five-year contract which hasn't been extended, so his contract runs out next year and his remaining value is around £3m.

 

Last season's loan to Monaco included a €7.5m option to buy. At the end of May, Monaco were supposedly keen to make the move permanent but wanted to renegotiate the fee because they failed to qualify for the Champions League and TV revenues have dropped for Ligue 1 across the board.

 

I imagine we're trying to hold out for as much as we can get and I suspect if Monaco, or anyone else, approach us for anything around that £3m mark, we'll sell on deadline day.

[Muzzy_no7]

48 minutes ago, ALC Fox said:

So Faes was signed in September 2022 for £15m on a five-year contract which hasn't been extended, so his contract runs out next year and his remaining value is around £3m.

 

Last season's loan to Monaco included a €7.5m option to buy. At the end of May, Monaco were supposedly keen to make the move permanent but wanted to renegotiate the fee because they failed to qualify for the Champions League and TV revenues have dropped for Ligue 1 across the board.

 

I imagine we're trying to hold out for as much as we can get and I suspect if Monaco, or anyone else, approach us for anything around that £3m mark, we'll sell on deadline day.

Don’t think book values matter now we are in this league. Different rules.

[coolhandfox]

18 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Don’t think book values matter now we are in this league. Different rules.

Correct.

 

But could matter for the owner and his plans to sale, a healthy combined amount in for Souttar, Mavididi, Okoli, Faes, Hamza and Skipp would help make the finances look better.

 

There is more consider than just sustainability rules.

 

 

[Muzzy_no7]

1 minute ago, coolhandfox said:

Correct.

 

But could matter for the owner and his plans to sale, a healthy combined amount in for Souttar, Mavididi, Okoli, Faes, Hamza and Skipp would help make the finances look better.

 

There is more consider than just sustainability rules.

 

 

If we only manage to get rid of Souttar and one of Okoli or Faes, which would you prefer to keep?

[Cropwellfox]

That’s like choosing between having your nails ripped off or your teeth pulled out. 

[Muzzy_no7]

2 minutes ago, Cropwellfox said:

That’s like choosing between having your nails ripped off or your teeth pulled out. 

As much as I hate the bloke I’d keep Faes over Okoli😂.

 

Still want both gone, though.

[Pita]

9 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

As much as I hate the bloke I’d keep Faes over Okoli😂.

 

Still want both gone, though.

With any luck we could see both gone in the next couple of days if so the club have drained the swamp pretty well

[Reg Vardy]

Half a season at Monaco and a nine match unbeaten run, including beating PSG, surely he could handle Milton Keynes?