Gené and Tonic Posted 16 June 2007 Posted 16 June 2007 you can never get enough oxygen well you can, but don't nit pick
SuperSwede Posted 16 June 2007 Posted 16 June 2007 Sitting here with my tea, waiting for the big names to drop in, Come on Mr Mandaric!
Daggers Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 Hmmm what are we paying these players with then? Oxygen? I could have done with some N2O last season
filbertway Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 I could have done with some N2O last season Maybe you should write into peter Jones and ask him to provdide everyone ammonium nitrate and a bunson burner then, instead of flags.
Jay Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 Hmmm what are we paying these players with then? Oxygen? agreed and have we not already had this conversation and tried to explain it before!!
Blue Bob Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 Of course I'm going to moan at the transfers so far, they are all free transfers. Whats the point in MM coming in if he is relcutant to part with cash. I know you are all going to say be patient but why, good players who we should be targeting are being purchased or at least chased by our more forthright and ambitious rivals. Trust me, nobody wants me to be wrong more than me if you get what I mean. Regarding this transfer, I just can't believe how far this guy has sunk, he was released from an amateur contract at Apeldoorn, who the **** are they??Last season, these signings would have been reasonable considering our financial situation, but now we can do much better. The longer it goes before we even look like lodging a bid for a player the more I beleive MM is not our saviour but more a grumpy old scrooge. Hopefully, and I mean this honestly, you can all laugh at me if we win promotion this season. But this is the way the transfer market works, which clubs out there have spent money? one or two and thats it. Usually when the transfer window opens all the released players do the merry-go-round. Clubs then see what they have got and what they need to spend - how much have they off loaded in terms of wages? Then they start to buy - that has not yet happened, there are plenty of players like Koumas, Sharp, Eastwood, Earnshaw ect who are all expected to move to another club and its not yet happened. All it needs is for a few big deals to go through and the market will start, but at the moment every club is playing it cards close to its chest. Then after all the purchases there is a mop up with those players that are left. If you watch the market it goes through this cycle every year. So I dont think MM is being tight he is just waiting for the market to kick off and then we should see some action.
volpeazzurro Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 Must be shite then eh?You don't understand football across in Europe do you? Sorry 'Barton Fox', obviously I'm merely a pygmy in all matters European football wise compared with a learned master like yourself! My point was meant to be a general one which translates across European boundaries i.e. the lad's career, whatever way you look at it, would appear to be one that has been in decline in more recent times, though not neccessarily a terminal one. This would tend to imply that either he wasn't as good as first thought or, there may be other problems with him of a more personal nature. Appledorn are a Dutch team of very lowly status, arguably so are Greys Athletic which is where Wolves picked up Michael Kightley, thus showing that it is of course possible to pick up a good prospect from a less well known team. The difference for me however, is the fact that someone like Kightley was spotted by a scout as an obscure but up and coming prospect. Hellings on the other hand had been on view in a more open shop window with clubs like Ajax and Anderlect and yet still no-one wanted him. Until Leicester that is. I sincerley hope he does very well for us though.
SystonFox Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 But this is the way the transfer market works, which clubs out there have spent money? one or two and thats it. Usually when the transfer window opens all the released players do the merry-go-round. Clubs then see what they have got and what they need to spend - how much have they off loaded in terms of wages? Then they start to buy - that has not yet happened, there are plenty of players like Koumas, Sharp, Eastwood, Earnshaw ect who are all expected to move to another club and its not yet happened. All it needs is for a few big deals to go through and the market will start, but at the moment every club is playing it cards close to its chest. Then after all the purchases there is a mop up with those players that are left. If you watch the market it goes through this cycle every year. So I dont think MM is being tight he is just waiting for the market to kick off and then we should see some action. top post and i 100% agree. give it a few weeks and a few players to move for fees then we will delve into it ourselves and pick up some high profile (quality fingers crossed) signings.
lee7 Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 But this is the way the transfer market works, which clubs out there have spent money? one or two and thats it. Usually when the transfer window opens all the released players do the merry-go-round. Clubs then see what they have got and what they need to spend - how much have they off loaded in terms of wages? Then they start to buy - that has not yet happened, there are plenty of players like Koumas, Sharp, Eastwood, Earnshaw ect who are all expected to move to another club and its not yet happened. All it needs is for a few big deals to go through and the market will start, but at the moment every club is playing it cards close to its chest. Then after all the purchases there is a mop up with those players that are left. If you watch the market it goes through this cycle every year. So I dont think MM is being tight he is just waiting for the market to kick off and then we should see some action. i hope your right
johnny-kid9 Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 sergio hellings will be a decent player as i once saw him at the... dunno
THEBIGJOHNSTEADER; Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 sergio hellings will be a decent player as i once saw him at the... dunno ...spice museum in Long Stanton with Jill from reception?
Jay Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 remember people... chocolate oranges ARE available from Rawlinsons
Daggers Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 Maybe you should write into peter Jones and ask him to provdide everyone ammonium nitrate and a bunson burner then, instead of flags. I wanted a laugh - not to blow something up...hang on, they aren't mutually exclusive are they!
dandannieldanok Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 Hmmm what are we paying these players with then? Oxygen? So before Mandaric we had no money whatsoever to pay wages? Some people are finding hard to grasp that MM did not save the club, we could have managed, not easily admitedly, without his input.
Daggers Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 So before Mandaric we had no money whatsoever to pay wages? Some people are finding hard to grasp that MM did not save the club, we could have managed, not easily admittedly, without his input. With the greatest of respect, unless you are talking about survival in the sense of staying as a football entity...that is rhubarb. The club was making a rolling loss from which the only respite would have been either a) promotion money, or b) player sales We were relegation material and the squad as a whole would not have settled an annual loss. Until Mandaric came we were stuck with an cheap idiot for a manager, no managerial infrastructure and an inept squad: We now have a manager who was one of the most successful in England last season and he has a structure in place that will allow him access to better players than he or we could have otherwise hoped for. We are still two months from the new season starting, he has only been in the job a few weeks, a ball has not been kicked on the training ground yet - how on Earth can people be questioning him?! In The Foxes Alphabet there is an anecdote, it recounts the adage that if Villa hung up eleven just-washed shirts a crowd of forty thousand-odd would stand and watch them. It goes on to add...that if City did the same a couple of thousand would turn up but loads of people would be shouting at two of the shirts for not drying fast enough. We really have to give Allen our full support...in the way we got behind the club at the tail end of last season we have to support him, his new squad and Mandaric's vision of the future. If we don't then we're ****ed before we've even started!
dandannieldanok Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 unless you are talking about survival in the sense of staying as a football entity I was
Daggers Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 I was Then you have to accept that although MM did not "save" the club - he certainly saved it from a fate of dire football in the basement of the League.
Zingari Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 Then you have to accept that although MM did not "save" the club - he certainly saved it from a fate of dire football in the basement of the League. agree up to a point, but surely that remains to be seen; hopefully not , but we may well yet sink further even with MM
Daggers Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 agree up to a point, but surely that remains to be seen; hopefully not , but we may well yet sink further even with MM ...and I may slam my dick in the car door tomorrow morning by accident - but I think it's equally as likely.
AoWW Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 ...and I may slam my dick in the car door tomorrow morning by accident - but I think it's equally as likely. Ouch! :pinch: I like the way you had to clarify "by accident". Not the kinda thing you'd do deliberately, surely?
Kilworthfox Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 I can't be arsed to read all 10 pages that are probably 2 pages based on the Hellings deal but....... am I the only one who is worried by this guy? Ajax trainee until 18 Anderlecht for 2 years of 4 year contract 2 years farmed out to vvwhatever then signs a amateur contract for 1 year and is not renewed Signing for Leicester he seems to have started on a bright note and gone down in the last 3 years! Now he is signing for us? Hope he is better than his history is suggesting
davieG Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 I can't be arsed to read all 10 pages that are probably 2 pages based on the Hellings deal but.......am I the only one who is worried by this guy? Ajax trainee until 18 Anderlecht for 2 years of 4 year contract 2 years farmed out to vvwhatever then signs a amateur contract for 1 year and is not renewed Signing for Leicester he seems to have started on a bright note and gone down in the last 3 years! Now he is signing for us? Hope he is better than his history is suggesting Well if you did read them you'd have your answer - instead you expect everyone who's posted to come back and repeat what they've said. There are some really lazy posters on this forum!!!
Kilworthfox Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 Well if you did read them you'd have your answer - instead you expect everyone who's posted to come back and repeat what they've said.There are some really lazy posters on this forum!!! I am a Leicester City Supporter under the leadership of the Legend to soon become Sir Martin Allen
davieG Posted 17 June 2007 Posted 17 June 2007 I am a Leicester City Supporter under the leadership of the Legend to soon become Sir Martin Allen From what I've heard Martin Allen doesn't countenance lazy arses so you're not going to last long are you?
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