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Simon Cox - What's the obsession with signing him?

By Sly, in Leicester City Forum

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carterfox90

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cox has class pace & scores solo goals i think he would be a gamble worth taking well would have been just hope we dont end up with 500,000 striker that cant hit a barn door

DJ Barry Hammond

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cox has class pace & scores solo goals i think he would be a gamble worth taking well would have been just hope we dont end up with 500,000 striker that cant hit a barn door

Cox has pace, scores solo goals and is class. I think he would be a gamble well worth taking. I just hope we don't end up with £500,000 striker that can't hit a barn door.

(Is this what you were getting at?)

carterfox90

carterfox90

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Cox has pace, scores solo goals and is class. I think he would be a gamble well worth taking. I just hope we don't end up with £500,000 striker that can't hit a barn door.

(Is this what you were getting at?)

yes exactly lol:D :D

Dan

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Seeing as we are on the subject of strikers doing well in lower divisions then struggling in a higher one... What about when Leicester buys strikers that are on fire and then all of a sudden are poor when they play for us?

I've got a few examples... Obviously Akinbiyi is a big one, he couldn't cut it in the premiership but before he arrived here he was on top form.

David Connolly... Scored for fun in the Championship for many years with Wimbledon and West Ham, came here and in his first 20 games only scored something like 4-5 goals.

Matty Fryatt... Is on fire, joins us and scores on his debut and then goes well off the boil.

DJ Campbell... Did very well in lower leagues, did pretty well in the Championship before he joined us, then went AWOL with his scoring boots.

Steve Howard... Scored something like 20 goals for Derby in the Championship, came to us and could hardly hit a barn door apart from the hat-trick away at West Brom.

What is it with Leicester and turning good strikers bad? :huh:

Trevor Benjamin :rolleyes:

SwindonRed

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Swindon have put a £2.5m price tag on Cox, pretty steep and this shows just how much Swndon want to keep him (he has a year left on his contract). Cox will want to leave if the right club comes along and Leicester would have been a good move for Coxy, the board will allow Cox to go if the right offer comes along as well, for lower league sides who do not have a great fan base, transfers are a way of survival. I believe Leicesters bid of £1.25m was the reason he has not moved to you.

Reading will receive 30% of the transfer fee. so only receiving a £600,000 after the transfer fee from Readng is taken into account is peanuts for a player of his potential class.

Coxy lives in Reading and his roots are in Reading - Leicester is less than 2 hours away from Reading so commuting would not be a problem.

Cox is loved at Swindon not just for his goalscoring which kept us up last season, but his overall enthusiasm, reaction to the fans who cheer his name, and he is a guy who gives 100% every game, and is ready to play at every opportunity even in The Piss Pot Cup.

Whoever signs him will have a winner.

Koke

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Other than us, has anyone else put a bid in? Why don't Reading take advantage of their sell on clause and buy him back - they would get him back for peanuts.

StanSP

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Other than us, has anyone else put a bid in? Why don't Reading take advantage of their sell on clause and buy him back - they would get him back for peanuts.

Celtic?

craigadams22

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Simon Cox did seem like a good player last season for Swindon Town FC

But would he score that many goals in The Championship with Leicester City or another club ?

SwindonRed

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Other than us, has anyone else put a bid in? Why don't Reading take advantage of their sell on clause and buy him back - they would get him back for peanuts.

As mentioned Celtic put in a bid of £1m for him and Morrison with players going the other way.

West Brom and Derby came to watch him on numerous occasions put have not put in an official bid.

QPR is the whisper for a move for Cox, but not £2.5m.

£2.5m is a lot for a player not proven in The Championship, mind you that can be said of a lot of your squad as well. A player exchange deal is probably going to be the answer in these hard up cash times.

Sly

Sly

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As mentioned Celtic put in a bid of £1m for him and Morrison with players going the other way.

West Brom and Derby came to watch him on numerous occasions put have not put in an official bid.

QPR is the whisper for a move for Cox, but not £2.5m.

£2.5m is a lot for a player not proven in The Championship, mind you that can be said of a lot of your squad as well. A player exchange deal is probably going to be the answer in these hard up cash times.

No matter what I said earlier, I'd still swap Cox for DJ Campbell

Munzie

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No matter what I said earlier, I'd still swap Cox for DJ Campbell

I'm beginning to think that off-loading DJ is going to be harder than we think given his wage demands.

I'm now thinking that heads need to be bashed together in order to establish if we can have a working solution. If he can get on with our manager and, Pearson feels that he can get the best from the player (his loan spell suggests he can still do a good job), we may well have to look no further.

Aside from DJ throwing his toys out of the pram with his "I don't want to go back" rant, we're in the Championship now, a league that he should thrive in. My conclusions of letting him go are beginning to change having looked at the players we are being linked with. 2.5m for an unproven player is way too much risk.

MC Prussian

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The thing with this year's transfer market is that most teams (which are not too well-off in terms of finances) are all waiting on the side of the pool for a bargain buy to bite.

Also wait what next week brings when the market's officially declared open.

Place your bets.

The Doctor

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I'm beginning to think that off-loading DJ is going to be harder than we think given his wage demands.

I'm now thinking that heads need to be bashed together in order to establish if we can have a working solution. If he can get on with our manager and, Pearson feels that he can get the best from the player (his loan spell suggests he can still do a good job), we may well have to look no further.

Aside from DJ throwing his toys out of the pram with his "I don't want to go back" rant, we're in the Championship now, a league that he should thrive in. My conclusions of letting him go are beginning to change having looked at the players we are being linked with. 2.5m for an unproven player is way too much risk.

lets assasianate him and claim the insurance. it'd get his wages off the books

Munzie

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lets assasianate him and claim the insurance. it'd get his wages off the books

Let me update my celebrity death list first.

jimmer

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On Swindon Town's website, WBA have had a £2m bid accepted.

Link?

not on the swindon town website i'm looking at :dunno:

Ahhh not the official site, found it

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