Shane Long

[Happy Fox]

Dear Leicester,

Stop it

Yours sincerely,

Reading Fans

Sorry pal this will be our last one oh ps we may take Kebe as well if you don't mind

[Babylon]

apparantly bid of 7.5 million accepted with 500,000 in add ons

Guys can we please not repeat this as fact, I know you've put apparently but I really can't be doing with this spreading around twitter and all the other bloody forums.

This info has come from someone completely unproven and who could be full of shit, time will tell obviously put lets take it with a pinch of salt for now.

[Babylon]

Dear Leicester,

Stop it

Yours sincerely,

Reading Fans

Least you still have a sense of humour about it, and you all certainly seem a bit more switched on that our friends from Bristol City.

[topharry123]

Guys can we please not repeat this as fact, I know you've put apparently but I really can't be doing with this spreading around twitter and all the other bloody forums.

This info has come from someone completely unproven and who could be full of shit, time will tell obviously put lets take it with a pinch of salt for now.

It reminds me of one day earlier on in the week when apparently we'd been working through the night on Maynard according to a few supposedly reliable posters but nothing happened. Agree until it's confirmed pinch of salt.

[Adster]

In all fairness I couldn't give a monkeys uncle about how much we pay for any player anymore, the owners obviously have the money to do it. So it's fine by me.

This is the most exciting time to be a Leicester fan ever don't you agree? We have the money, spend it, and enjoy to season ahead!

[Babylon]

In all fairness I couldn't give a monkeys uncle about how much we pay for any player anymore, the owners obviously have the money to do it. So it's fine by me.

This is the most exciting time to be a Leicester fan ever don't you agree? We have the money, spend it, and enjoy to season ahead!

Honestly? I was more excited when we signed Mark Blake for about 350k.

[Guest Bilo]

Fair play to the Reading fans who've posted, they've been very magnanimous about it all.

If one club had nicked our captain and top scorer within a few weeks of each other, it's fair to say we'd be spitting feathers.

[Happy Fox]

In all fairness I couldn't give a monkeys uncle about how much we pay for any player anymore, the owners obviously have the money to do it. So it's fine by me.

This is the most exciting time to be a Leicester fan ever don't you agree? We have the money, spend it, and enjoy to season ahead!

I cannot flippin wait for our team to piss on those bastards in red, make sure their dead, in their shitty ground

[the royal]

In all seriousness - take it from me.

£7,500,000 is absolutely bonkers. He's been with us about six seasons now and the last season was the first season with us where he'd cracked more than ten league goals in a season. The guy is the absolute definition of confidence striker. He hadn't hit a goal until October last season, if memory serves me correctly, hit a bit of a purple patch and never looked back and ended up with 20+. Not a single Reading fan saw it coming and most were praying for us to cash in on him when it was rumoured Birmingham were circling with a £2/3million bid around Christmas time.

Last season could well have been a flash in the pan - I'm happy for him to prove me wrong (but only if he stays with us). You also have to remember, that he was in a team that has no egos, no big names, and is very much a collective group of players (and why we did so well last season) so I'm not sure he'll replicate it at another club with bigger-name players like Leicester.

[LeeTheFox]

Dear Leicester,

Stop it

Yours sincerely,

Reading Fans

No

[Number 6]

7 of his 21 goals were penalties. Prob not gonna take pen duties from Gally so that makes 14 from open play

[The Don]

I was excited over Mark Blake but only cos I thought it was Nathan

[Jaspa]

In all seriousness - take it from me.

£7,500,000 is absolutely bonkers. He's been with us about six seasons now and the last season was the first season with us where he'd cracked more than ten league goals in a season. The guy is the absolute definition of confidence striker. He hadn't hit a goal until October last season, if memory serves me correctly, hit a bit of a purple patch and never looked back and ended up with 20+. Not a single Reading fan saw it coming and most were praying for us to cash in on him when it was rumoured Birmingham were circling with a £2/3million bid around Christmas time.

Last season could well have been a flash in the pan - I'm happy for him to prove me wrong (but only if he stays with us). You also have to remember, that he was in a team that has no egos, no big names, and is very much a collective group of players (and why we did so well last season) so I'm not sure he'll replicate it at another club with bigger-name players like Leicester.

Why didnt we just put 7mil in for Nicky ffs

[cc_star]

In all seriousness - take it from me.

£7,500,000 is absolutely bonkers. He's been with us about six seasons now and the last season was the first season with us where he'd cracked more than ten league goals in a season. The guy is the absolute definition of confidence striker. He hadn't hit a goal until October last season, if memory serves me correctly, hit a bit of a purple patch and never looked back and ended up with 20+. Not a single Reading fan saw it coming and most were praying for us to cash in on him when it was rumoured Birmingham were circling with a £2/3million bid around Christmas time.

Last season could well have been a flash in the pan - I'm happy for him to prove me wrong (but only if he stays with us). You also have to remember, that he was in a team that has no egos, no big names, and is very much a collective group of players (and why we did so well last season) so I'm not sure he'll replicate it at another club with bigger-name players like Leicester.

That's a lot of people's fear too, it almost seems like we're desperate for the last piece of the jigsaw now it looks 99.99% we won't be signing Maynard

Of course plenty of people will just see the money and assume we've bought greatness and promotion is a formality, but that's pretty far from how football works

[Brainy]

Good player but 7.5m is rubbish, whether he gets us 25 goals or not. Using some of the logic on here we're better off signing Adebayor for £20m because hey, if he gets us 20+ goals then i'll be worth it no matter what. We dont need to be spending that much on one striker, especially when we could have got someone like Yakubu (yes I know thats getting tiresome now) for a couple of million.

[wurmer]

In all seriousness - take it from me.

£7,500,000 is absolutely bonkers. He's been with us about six seasons now and the last season was the first season with us where he'd cracked more than ten league goals in a season. The guy is the absolute definition of confidence striker. He hadn't hit a goal until October last season, if memory serves me correctly, hit a bit of a purple patch and never looked back and ended up with 20+. Not a single Reading fan saw it coming and most were praying for us to cash in on him when it was rumoured Birmingham were circling with a £2/3million bid around Christmas time.

Last season could well have been a flash in the pan - I'm happy for him to prove me wrong (but only if he stays with us). You also have to remember, that he was in a team that has no egos, no big names, and is very much a collective group of players (and why we did so well last season) so I'm not sure he'll replicate it at another club with bigger-name players like Leicester.

/agree

Completely bonkers price to pay - could be another potential Akinbiyi - hopefully he will prove his worth..

Assuming we sign him of course....

[Babylon]

A moderator doesn't believe me so I'm not posting in Transfer Talk for a while, I can now see why Bert isn't posting at the moment. Some people do appreciate inside info and some don't. You will find out about Long soon enough! <_<

Stop being such a bloody baby will you. Why the hell should I or anyone else believe you about anything, you have proved nothing yet. No one has had a go at you about it and I certainly didn't, but people are entitled to question the validity of people "in the know" and so they should.

It was only yesterday we had a "blackburn in the know" on here and he turned out to be on a piss take. Get over it and take people questioning you on the chin.

[Happy Fox]

No offence to Brian MCD but Shane Long under the tutelage of :sge: will thrive and I feel will score a lot of goals

[Brainy]

Stop being such a bloody baby will you.

Same can be said of Bert whether his track record is good or not.

[Tielemans63]

To be fair, I'd be spitting if I were a Royals fan.

Seems strange to me that you're selling your best players when your owner is probably as rich as ours are?

[Guest ttfn]

£7.5m is absolutely ridiculous. It would be very steep if he had 4 years to run on his contract.

To those saying it doesn't matter how much we spend, let me assure you - it absolutely does matter because of Financial Fair Play.

I believe that this kicks in in the Championship from next season (i.e. that will be the first monitoring period - although as our aim is the Premier League this is almost an irrelevance - European FFP rules are in place already). Any expenditure made now on players with more than a 1-year deal will therefore impact on our accounts in those years. For example, if we sign Long for £7.5m on a 5-year deal, this is effectively charged at £1.5m a year to the club's Income Statement, and is £1.5m a year that we need to recoup to break-even for accounting purposes, even though the cash outlay is occurring this year. If we paid £6m, it would give us an additional £300k a year to play with in each of those years. No point in overpaying, especially when Maynard would surely be available cheaper.

[cc_star]

Sooner have Kebe to be honest... and Maynard

[Guest Bilo]

That's a fair point to make, but at 24 he's not even at his peak yet.

In a fairly attacking team such as ours, there'll be service from midfield and the likelihood of goals. If, as I and several clubs seem to think, last season was a breakthrough season for him then he looks a solid acquisition. Also, he'll be under the tutelage of a manager who is very good at developing attacking talent.

[Ric Flair]

£7.5m is absolutely ridiculous. It would be very steep if he had 4 years to run on his contract.

To those saying it doesn't matter how much we spend, let me assure you - it absolutely does matter because of Financial Fair Play.

I believe that this kicks in in the Championship from next season (i.e. that will be the first monitoring period - although as our aim is the Premier League this is almost an irrelevance - European FFP rules are in place already). Any expenditure made now on players with more than a 1-year deal will therefore impact on our accounts in those years. For example, if we sign Long for £7.5m on a 5-year deal, this is effectively charged at £1.5m a year to the club's Income Statement, and is £1.5m a year that we need to recoup to break-even for accounting purposes, even though the cash outlay is occurring this year. If we paid £6m, it would give us an additional £300k a year to play with in each of those years. No point in overpaying, especially when Maynard would surely be available cheaper.

And that is why we are going all guns blazing this season to go up. It's a huge gamble but they are stubbornly confident are our owners and manager so we've just got to get involved.

[Champ]

So we sell Matty Fryatt for less than £1mil who's now scoring plenty for Hull, n pay £7-8 mil, yes thats £7-8 mil for a similar type of player in Long?????????????????