singaporefox Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 Leicester City owners give Sven "No limit" transfer kitty. The Thais are 100% for promotion next season. Hope we get the right players. C'mon Sven spend wisely...... Who should we buy??
MikeyT Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 Leicester City owners give Sven "No limit" transfer kitty. The Thais are 100% for promotion next season. Hope we get the right players. C'mon Sven spend wisely...... Who should we buy?? Found! http://www.thebluearmy.co.uk/news/Leicester-City-owners-Sven-limit-transfer-kitty/article-3548359-detail/article.html Sven-Goran Eriksson says he has been given no limit on what he can spend this summer to build a squad capable of getting Leicester City into the Premier League next season. The City boss said he had the full backing of the club's Thai Owners, King Power, but said he would not be spending silly money on potential transfer targets. City chairman Vichai Raksriaksorn and vice-chairman Top Raksriaksorn say they want promotion next season and Eriksson, who has one season left on his contract, knows he must deliver. However, he said he would use his common sense in the transfer market to get the right players at the right price. "There is no limit at all – they want Premier League and that is it," said the City boss. "They are very clear. The target they have the plans they have are the same. "I hope they back me every time, as long as I don't go over the top. It is common sense. "If we were a Premier League club we would have much more money and you can't get very good Premier League players to come to the Championship, so we have to look everywhere for targets." Eriksson has already started to put in phone calls in search of his new recruits and has contacted Chelsea over the availability of loan duo Patrick Van Aanholt and Jeff Bruma, and will contact Manchester City over Ben Mee. He is also weighing up whether to make offers to free agent Diomansy Kamara and to Everton for Yakubu. Eriksson is also set to contact Benfica to check the availability of Miguel Vitor, and top of his list is a bid to get Kyle Naughton permanently from Tottenham Hotspur. However, the right-back's impressive performances during his season-long loan at the Walkers Stadium has alerted Premier League clubs. Despite the focus being on immediate promotion, Eriksson said he also wants to sign players for development. "As a club we have to think long-term as well," he added. "Long-term for this club is Premier League and staying there. "We need players who are ready now and ones for the future. If you want players now who can make the squad stronger, they must be proven players. "Then we have our own players like Jeff Schlupp. It will be very interesting to see him in pre-season. He is a long term investment of the club." City defender Sol Bamba is reportedly being courted by at least three Premier League clubs. Aston Villa, Everton and Birmingham City are said to view the 26-year-old centre-back as the ideal man to provide defensive cover. City will not comment on speculation surrounding their players. Bamba has been a huge hit since joining City from Hibernian in a £250,000 deal in January.
MrSpaM Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 Thats Naughtons price gone up by another two million then This news is pretty exciting though, come the new season were going to have a beast of a team
sphericalfox Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 I think the owners are great for supporting Sven, but really should have put a PR cap of say £10mil, and then behind closed doors said there's no limit for Sven. This could really hurt the bank balance when looking for players.
LCFCMickey Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 After spending millions, if we don't get promoted next season... investors will want to cut their loses and we'll be stuffed. Wheeeeeeeey
MikeyT Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 After spending millions, if we don't get promoted next season... investors will want to cut their loses and we'll be stuffed. Wheeeeeeeey Optimism, i like it!
Guest Col city fan Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 I think the owners are great for supporting Sven, but really should have put a PR cap of say £10mil, and then behind closed doors said there's no limit for Sven. This could really hurt the bank balance when looking for players. Agree completely with this. On the other hand I guess it could show clubs like spurs and benfica that we do have the clout to make serious bids for the respective loanees
Guest Col city fan Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 I would like to see us going in for some good championship players.. I'd love to see the likes of jonny howson and Peter whittingham at city
Guest NGoloMode Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 I don't like the sound of that. This could go very wrong.
cc_star Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 An extra million just got added to the transfer fees of all our targets and an extra £10k/week on the wages. Hopefully it doesn't result in a "we have to be promoted else we'll be bankrupt" type season Excitement awaits that for sure, I trust in Sven - particularly if his first signing was a defensive coach
hackneyfox Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 Agents and clubs aren't stupid, they soon sniff out how much you have to spend.
Topman Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 These boys is not worth 140 mill, think they missed a 0 out, more like 1.4 billion
Wymsey Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 I'm not over the moon with this because you never know, Sven may pay millions for certain players and yet they may be utter crap. (Akinbiyi e.g) But glad the owners spoken re-budget.
Iwan is a Welshman Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 Shopping List: - Keeper (Westwood if doesn't get snapped by Prem.) - Right Back (Would love it to be Naughton.) - Left Back (Sounds like we're targetting Van Aanholt.) - Centre Half (Sounds like we're targetting Mee - I'd love to see him return. Maybe Vitor as well. Not huge on Bruma.) - Winger (Add a bit of pace and trickery. Any suggestions?) - 2 Strikers (One being Yak, don't particularly mind the othe being Kamara.) It looks like we're signing a new team but, apart from the attacking winger, they all played for the club last season. Avoids the settling in difficulties. That's essentially me saying the squad we finished the season with would be good enough for automatic promotion if we got them playing right. Estimated cost: About £8million in fees. God knows about wages. This is fantasy football stuff by the way.
Joe. Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 It might be unlimited so to speak, but in a realistic world Sven will probably know a reasonable figure in his mind. He knows what he needs, more or less who is left available and he'll go from there. We might have the odd £2 million plus signing like Yakubu, but I honestly can't see a ridiculous spending spree ahead. From what it sounds like we could be looking at a very similar team to the one that finished this year anyway, which is a little worrying in some areas.
cc_star Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 Shopping List: - Keeper (Westwood if doesn't get snapped by Prem.) - Right Back (Would love it to be Naughton.) - Left Back (Sounds like we're targetting Van Aanholt.) - Centre Half (Sounds like we're targetting Mee - I'd love to see him return. Maybe Vitor as well. Not huge on Bruma.) - Winger (Add a bit of pace and trickery. Any suggestions?) - 2 Strikers (One being Yak, don't particularly mind the othe being Kamara.) It looks like we're signing a new team but, apart from the attacking winger, they all played for the club last season. Avoids the settling in difficulties. That's essentially me saying the squad we finished the season with would be good enough for automatic promotion if we got them playing right. Estimated cost: About £8million in fees. God knows about wages. This is fantasy football stuff by the way. I agree with everything you've said... Westwood would be great I'm not big on PVA's defensive abilities, but with more games and hopefully some better defensive coaching over the summer he could be great. Would love to see Mee & Naughton to return Man City might want Mee at a prem club season long loan to finish he 'apprenticeship' off, or they might want to sell him now they're amongst Europe's elite, either way I'm sure we could compete for his signiture (hopefully he doesn't harbor a grudge against Sven for dropping him for Scunny away so Bruma could play) Spurs will have to reduce their wage bill & regroup in an effort to finish 4th next year, so I expect them to sell quite a few non-core players, Naughton included. Again we can compete for his signiture I'm not keen on Bruma in the slightest, I've seen anything from him to suggest he's a good player for a top Championship side - In fact he's generally looked awful, made a lot of poor decision stupidly got himself sent off, given stupid pens away. I'm sure his two wonder goals will sway some people's opinion of him but as a defending player he's been nothing but poop and nowhere near as good as Hobbs IMO I'd be delighted to sign Yak permanently. A forward who's nearly guaranteed to score 20+ league goals is almost impossible to come across, we've found one - lets keep him. I've not personally seen enough of Kamara to have an opinion either way
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 Even if true to an extent, no buisness men would come out and say they have an unlimited transfer budget as it just drives up the price and makes negotiations near on immpossible.
hackneyfox Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 They're very successful businessmen, I'm sure they have their reasons, extra press coverage, extra ST sales.
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 They're very successful businessmen, I'm sure they have their reasons, extra press coverage, extra ST sales. Having to pay an extra Million pound for one player would equate to how many extra season tickets.
Raj Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 What a load of talkingballs. No limit?? Right...Messi,Ronaldo,Rooney,Vidic etc>>> Yeah Ok lads!!
hackneyfox Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 As I said above, agents and clubs aren't stupid, once you buy in a quality player they'll all be looking for more money, everyone knows we will be one of the big spenders in this division and will raise their prices accordingly, they also know that we need to purchase almost an entire squad for next season plus players for the future so we're hardly likely to pay 4m for 3m striker. I'd hazard a guess that they're worth more than all of us combined, so they're not daft when it comes to business.
Iwan is a Welshman Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 Plus I'm pretty sure other clubs don't pay too much attention to the media when bartering over the cost of a player. If anything all the research they need to do is: - Who back's these lot? - Google. - They have x amount of cash. Let's sting 'em. I don't think lazy journalistic headlines like, "football club owning tycoon prepared to spend cash in transfer window" have much bearing on transfer negotiations.
jimmer Posted 12 May 2011 Posted 12 May 2011 On the flip side of the arguement, it shows a serious desire to get promoted.....thus becoming more attractive to prem players. Form an orderly que....
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