Edmund Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 The only 'fact' is we don't know how much has been spent, reading something somewhere doesn't make it a fact. Have we spent more than Cardiff or QPR, do you know that for a fact, do you know what all their players earn and how much they cost? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Anyone who thinks otherwise is being naive. I can't remember where, but I'm sure it was Warnock who stated that he was after Naughton when they loss Kyle Walker but said the fee Spurs wanted was ludicrous. QPR aren't exactly skint are they now? You're forgetting that Adams will have a lot more insight into how much players are costing our club as he and his board have access to their agents. Players are usually touted to many clubs so fees and wages aren't exactly a secret.
shailen Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 There is no such thing as buying promotion, you have to be good enough as a team to earn it. Take man city.for instance, they have spent over 200 mil and yet they cannot buy the title. A good team is not.full of superstars but one where every player is willing to play as a team
Jordan Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 We also sold Fryatt for over £1,000,000 and got his wages off the books, which balances the spending a little. And our biggest buy this season starts every game on the bench. Leicester are spending more money on wages than usual but I don't see anything obscene going on here, especially as it seems the club's owners can afford all of this. I doubt we've got the highest wage bill in the division, either.
Jacnah Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Anyone who thinks otherwise is being naive. I can't remember where, but I'm sure it was Warnock who stated that he was after Naughton when they loss Kyle Walker but said the fee Spurs wanted was ludicrous. QPR aren't exactly skint are they now? You're forgetting that Adams will have a lot more insight into how much players are costing our club as he and his board have access to their agents. Players are usually touted to many clubs so fees and wages aren't exactly a secret. just a mind reader...or was it the tea leaf reading seriously - i can see your general point but DavieG is right - you dont know diddly; you're making assumptions
Al-aLondon-Foxile Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Yakubu probably had a loan fee but I doubt Naugton, Mee and Van Aanholt did as it's in their parents clubs best interest to give them experience. I know for a fact that we nearly had Naughton on loan during pre-season, but Hoos said no to the 350k loan fee. We went back for him after the money came in so I'm pretty sure we will have paid substantial money to loan him & others. Wether or not these fees then reduce a 'buy' clause I don't know, and as my contact left with Sousa I dont know any other details.
davieG Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Anyone who thinks otherwise is being naive. I can't remember where, but I'm sure it was Warnock who stated that he was after Naughton when they loss Kyle Walker but said the fee Spurs wanted was ludicrous. QPR aren't exactly skint are they now? You're forgetting that Adams will have a lot more insight into how much players are costing our club as he and his board have access to their agents. Players are usually touted to many clubs so fees and wages aren't exactly a secret. Yes like Adam's is unbiased and not trying to make his job look more difficult. Self preservation is not the ideal ingredient for producing doses of honest comment and is Warnock such a reliable source, maybe he was looking for an excuse because Naughton chose us/Sven over him, you're the one that's coming across as naive if you're prepared to put your belief in other managers who have their own vested interests and agendas. I'm not saying we have or haven't spent money or plenty of it but the fact is you and I don't know and I doubt Warnock, Adams et al know what we or anyone else has spent. You may not need to be rocket scientist to add up a few numbers but you need to know what some of them are to begin with, you're just picking up bits of gossip and assuming they're facts.
MrSpaM Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Think were spending alot now? just wait til the summer... Got a feeling were going to be going absolutely mental with the spending wether we go up this year or not. I'd love to know how much we spent on getting Abe to the club, that can't have come cheap. Wouldn't surprise me at all if he's our highest earner after the Yak.
Darkon84 Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Micky is spot on. I read somewhere we payed over a million just to bring Naughton in on loan. Then theirs his wages. The fact is we've easily spent more than any club in this division this season. I read somewhere that we are going to sign Beckham... The fact is, that it must be true, as I read it somewhere.
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 I have respect for Mickey Adams as he did a good job for part of his tenure at Leicester however we are no more buying success than any other club in this division when it comes down to it we arent a Chelsea spending £50 MILLION pounds on one player or paying any of our players £200'000 a week in wages or owt daft like that. I think we just now maybe just maybe have the funds to compete at the higher end of the Championship or even the lower mid reaches of the premiership. Perhaps as has been suggested above it is all a tinge of jealousy at the owners we currently have?
Guest bennytwohats Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Don't think we have spent outrageously this season at all. We seem to be spending pretty sensibly imo which is all you can hope for. Of course money and success are linked in modern football, i've got no problem with us spending money, so long as we're doing it sensibly. No 35m bids for Andy Carroll for example.
Fox1651 Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 I have respect for Mickey Adams as he did a good job for part of his tenure at Leicester however we are no more buying success than any other club in this division when it comes down to it we arent a Chelsea spending £50 MILLION pounds on one player or paying any of our players £200'000 a week in wages or owt daft like that. I think we just now maybe just maybe have the funds to compete at the higher end of the Championship or even the lower mid reaches of the premiership. Perhaps as has been suggested above it is all a tinge of jealousy at the owners we currently have? I agree we havent spent any daft money yet and who's to say we would even if we get into the Prem? We have to trust the current owners to be sensible and not leave the club too far in debt when they move on. Up the Foxes
topharry123 Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 The bottom line is to be successful in football you have to spend money. We've not had any money to spend the last few years and look at what we've done? Pretty much nothing. We've finally got an investment which is hopefully taking us back to where we were league wise in the late 90's. It's very exciting watching us linked with all these names, especially as we've made some great loan signings. I wouldn't say we're buying our way there, we're just leveling ourselves out with what is needed to stand a chance in the PL.
Captain... Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 We haven't spent stupid amounts of money, but I didn't realise that these loan fees existed on top of paying a players wages. I remember reading that it would cost a million to get Yakubu on loan. Which added up as 50k a week for 20 weeks (the rest of the season). At the time I thought that meant it would cost 1 million in total, but having a look at these loan fees it could ave meant 1 million up front and pay his wages, in which case it is a lot of money. I find it frustrating that we don't have the transparency that we used to have, there never used to be any undisclosed transfer fees, I'm pretty sure that we always knew what players were signed for and what wages they were on. Now it is a guessing game. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9332131.stm Of all the transfers made on the 31st Jan I can only find 6 with an actual fee on it, admittedly a lot are loans/frees but why the secrecy? If loans are also costing money and you have to pay the wages then it would be really nice to know how much we are spending. If we have paid Naughton's loan fee of 350K that's more than we paid for Bamba, and did we have to pay it again to resign him on loan? If anyone has any of these figures I would be really interested to know, people may say as fans we have no right to know this and in no other industry would companies know what all their competitors are paying their employees. This isn't like any other industry this is football.
blueredswed Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Who cares? Cost is cost. Up we goes up in the BLUE... Wages here and there of course if you will reach PREMIER League we have a good squad or? Now is the most important thing every players shall do what they are paid for If any players is worth more they will get it :thumbsup:
Haydos Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Who cares? Cost is cost. Up we goes up in the BLUE... Wages here and there of course if you will reach PREMIER League we have a good squad or? Now is the most important thing every players shall do what they are paid for If any players is worth more they will get it :thumbsup: Well said. Probably.
Blue Bob Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Buying promotion? Never really understood that phrase!! No team ever wins anything or gets promoted without spending money on fees or wages. Normally the comment reflects on the persons team who is making the comment, buying promotion equals we have no money to spend like you do and I am jealous. Investing in the team is a better term!!
ibbosuk Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 I like to here the words "Leicester are buying promotion"........It really means other teams are getting really concerned about us........... Qpr Forest Leicester Swansea Cardiff Norwich
Corky Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 As long as we can afford it I see no problem with us spending at all. We don't appear to have thrown money around recklessly in any case.
tartanowl Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Don't listen to what he says. He's only bitter because they're skint and on a wage bill reduction plan for the next few seasons. United's debts are huge and it's all finally catching up with them.
RizLCFC Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 We have spent money on loan signings but it's not an incredible amount of money to suggest we have bought promotion. I think people look at our squad and just think bloody hell they've got quality players and wealthy owners then assuming Sven has spent crazy amounts! QPR have spent alot, Middlesborough and Leeds always seem to spend, Cardiff spend, more recently West Brom have spent alot to get promotion. I don't care what others say about City, what matters is that if we get promoted this season or next, Sven will only spend what's made available (tough if your club don't have the cash and rely on free agents and shit loans, we went through that aswell but now we do have the cash) and the reward in return will be incredible to City's owners in terms of wealth, image and meeting their aims/objectives for Leicester.
Edmund Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 It makes me laugh how people are brushing 55k a week as if it's nothing. Yes Cardiff payed a lot for Bellamy wage wise but he's the only standout signing on ludicrous amounts. People are also forgetting Davies, Kirkland, Naughton who are all on top premier wages, plus there loan fees. Then their is Abe who's on a fair whack, Waghorn who's also on big wages and not forgetting the £2,000,000 + add ons to bring him here. Vassell, Cunnigham, Mee, contract extensions which include signing on fees for Howard, King and soon to be Wellens. Ricardo, Uchechi, Bamba and the shit load of trialists who also get paid a wage to take part in a trial. Lamey, Moreno, Vitor etc etc the list goes on.... To say we've not spent much money is silly. Saying all that I couldn't give a shit and am more than happy that the owners are delving deep into their pockets but I'm not going to delude myself and think we've not been spending that much.
anotherharboroughfox Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 "Buying promotion" will inevitably lead to a bad end. might not for a while, but still........
phillthefox Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 TBH adams has sour grapes because they lost last night although god knows how..... and thats all we will get now cos we have prem players on loan because we pay bigger wages , only like man city chelsea, and crawley do it in blue square because you have to spend to get anywhere IN SVEN WE TRUST :sge:
davieG Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 It makes me laugh how people are brushing 55k a week as if it's nothing. Yes Cardiff payed a lot for Bellamy wage wise but he's the only standout signing on ludicrous amounts. People are also forgetting Davies, Kirkland, Naughton who are all on top premier wages, plus there loan fees. Then their is Abe who's on a fair whack, Waghorn who's also on big wages and not forgetting the £2,000,000 + add ons to bring him here. Vassell, Cunnigham, Mee, contract extensions which include signing on fees for Howard, King and soon to be Wellens. Ricardo, Uchechi, Bamba and the shit load of trialists who also get paid a wage to take part in a trial. Lamey, Moreno, Vitor etc etc the list goes on.... To say we've not spent much money is silly. Saying all that I couldn't give a shit and am more than happy that the owners are delving deep into their pockets but I'm not going to delude myself and think we've not been spending that much. Bloody hell Edmund why don't you include the tea lady, don't you think every club in this league has signings/current players comparable with most of that lot? No one's said we haven't spent much money just that we haven't spent an absolute fortune in the extreme sense it which is was put across.
Heart-Shaped Fox Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 Its high wages we are paying rather than transfer money. But I dont care. Its all well and good saying we are buying promotion, but you still have to win games, which we are finally doing now under Sven.
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