Dan LCFC Posted 17 July 2013 Share Posted 17 July 2013 To be fair to the guy, he never really said he didn't want to play for the club. I maybe liked to see him have one more chance, but then again I don't think he quite fits into the young system that Nigel's has picked up. Well thank you Beckford for the hat trick against Forest! Billy Sharp a replacement?, or didn't he turn us down last time? His body language certainly did and the fact you've suggested a player who's turned us down twice as an alternative sums up your low standards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 17 July 2013 Share Posted 17 July 2013 Is there any evidence to that attitude though??? I genuinely ask because I haven't seen anything to suggest he has an attitude apart from his unfortunate body language. His cockiness when he got here really did set him on a path that would go one of two ways and it went the wrong way. Whilst he may not have made those noises in the media (other than that) there's no smoke without fire with the bloke - literally every fanbase he's played under he's had criticism for his attitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiss_tony Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 The two most skillful strikers we've had in recent years are Yakubu and Beckford. neither looked very interested on the pitch, one scored freely, the other did not. neither are with us anymore. but if anybody on here thinks people like waghorn or Vardy are better because they run around a lot they need their heads examined. sad that nige couldn't get the best out of him, but it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozleicester Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Did alright for a while, was crap at other times. i thought this was a reference to Kingfox... ah kingfox.. the Beckford of banter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillo Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 lets move on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babylon Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Glad to read in the Merc that Freedman said we drove a hard bargain. I will look forward to greeting each and every "Beckford has scored, why didn't we keep him" post with £££££££'s, seeing as we will make mucho dinero with each goal he gets. Good luck Jermaine, fingers crossed you manage to score more than 9 in the league before you turn 30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Prussian Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Glad to read in the Merc that Freedman said we drove a hard bargain. I will look forward to greeting each and every "Beckford has scored, why didn't we keep him" post with £££££££'s, seeing as we will make mucho dinero with each goal he gets. Good luck Jermaine, fingers crossed you manage to score more than 9 in the league before you turn 30. I must say it's a clever add-on in the contract. This season could finally prove whether Beckford was worth all the praise or not - I mean, now he's got the incentive to score bucketloads, right? And if he scores 15, 20 or more - good for us, we can recoup some of the money we've lost over the last few months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indierich06 Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 He was a a classic example of being signed by one manager and just not fitting with the next manager's plans or style. Shame ... I thought he could have been a good signing .... but as he was never going to make it here then I'm glad for all aprties he's moved on. That should give us some money now ...... can we look forward to signing someone now!!!?? Didn't particularly fit with Sven's plans or style either! Did he even score a single goal under Sven? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickov22 Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Never felt such a dislike for a Leicester player. From his petulance at Peterborough, to him high fiving a player away at Charlton when he was nut megged by him, to him high fiving and laughing with Pederson away at Blackburn on the full time whistle (who'd scored the winner), whilst the rest of our players looked gutted. His cameo against Blackpool at home when he came on as sub and looked like someone who'd never played football before. 90% of his performances for us, where he couldn't control a football, didnt make runs, didn't close defenders down, just basically didn't give a toss He's a bad egg. I don't care how many goals he gets at Bolton, he's bad news and we are well shot. And he was absolute crap under Sven as well as Nigel. So all the Pearson critics who say he 'can't handle big name players' are WRONG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babylon Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Didn't particularly fit with Sven's plans or style either! Did he even score a single goal under Sven? One in seven I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babylon Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Never felt such a dislike for a Leicester player. From his petulance at Peterborough, to him high fiving a player away at Charlton when he was nut megged by him, to him high fiving and laughing with Pederson away at Blackburn on the full time whistle (who'd scored the winner), whilst the rest of our players looked gutted. His cameo against Blackpool at home when he came on as sub and looked like someone who'd never played football before. 90% of his performances for us, where he couldn't control a football, didnt make runs, didn't close defenders down, just basically didn't give a toss He's a bad egg. I don't care how many goals he gets at Bolton, he's bad news and we are well shot. And he was absolute crap under Sven as well as Nigel. So all the Pearson critics who say he 'can't handle big name players' are WRONG I don't dislike him, nothing was ever personal. I just didn't like how he performed on the pitch (except a few games) and I thought he was exceptionally bad value for money. He could go to Bolton and score 15 goals in the league, if he does good luck to him (£££££'s). But they won't have signed him for anything close to what we paid and probably aren't paying those kind of wages either. So for them he won't be such bad value as he was for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFS Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 So with his new incentives based contract, his 'Weak people feel pressure' quote becomes even more potent.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indierich06 Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 One in seven I think. Great return. So he's been here for roughly 98 weeks, scored 15 goals and is rumoured to be on upwards of £20,000 a week. If he was earning £20,000 a week then we've paid him around £1.96m in wages for his time here. Which means the 15 goals he's scored for Leicester have cost us around £130,000 each. If he was earning £30,000 a week then we've paid him around £2.94m in wages for his time here. Which means the 15 goals he's scored for Leicester have cost us around £196,000 each. Whatever way you spin it... what a ****ing waste of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Fox Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 I think Fat Johnno £1m wages for doing fack all tops it off as being worse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Great return. So he's been here for roughly 98 weeks, scored 15 goals and is rumoured to be on upwards of £20,000 a week. If he was earning £20,000 a week then we've paid him around £1.96m in wages for his time here. Which means the 15 goals he's scored for Leicester have cost us around £130,000 each. If he was earning £30,000 a week then we've paid him around £2.94m in wages for his time here. Which means the 15 goals he's scored for Leicester have cost us around £196,000 each. Whatever way you spin it... what a ****ing waste of money. And that's not even taking into account the original transfer fee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indierich06 Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 And that's not even taking into account the original transfer fee If I did that, I think I'd possibly have a breakdown. Football's just obscene, there's people who are barely scraping by all over the world and these twats are being paid millions to not even be that good at their jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox42 Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 How much did he go for in the end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Fatboyslow_ Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 If I did that, I think I'd possibly have a breakdown. Football's just obscene, there's people who are barely scraping by all over the world and these twats are being paid millions to not even be that good at their jobs. And yet a lot say he has a contract and that's what counts. It's a shame he has not shown a little appreciation for the "gift" he has and what it has brought him, which is a lot more than he would have realasitcaly could have expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Prussian Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 How much did he go for in the end? The fee remains undisclosed, but I suppose it's somewhere in between £800'000 and £1m, with the additional clause that we get more money for every goal he scores for Bolton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5waller5 Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Glad to read in the Merc that Freedman said we drove a hard bargain. I will look forward to greeting each and every "Beckford has scored, why didn't we keep him" post with £££££££'s, seeing as we will make mucho dinero with each goal he gets. Good luck Jermaine, fingers crossed you manage to score more than 9 in the league before you turn 30. Yeah I agree .... never feels like we sell well. Oh and before Colchester city fan gets his knickers in a twist ... that's as a club and historically not a dig at your boyfriend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col city fan Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Yeah I agree .... never feels like we sell well. Oh and before Colchester city fan gets his knickers in a twist ... that's as a club and historically not a dig at your boyfriend. You make some decent posts Wally. Some of which I'm sure I've agreed with and have said so. I think people would read you and accept you more if you tried to balance some of your stuff about the manager. We share reservations about him, which we've discussed before. Now is the time to wait and see. See who we sign (if anyone), see what the first few games hold, how we play in them and whether the 'project' is moving in the right direction. Patience is important at this juncture. He's not gone, I doubt he's going. Lets just see what transpires from now on. If it looks like we are playing shite from the off, I'll be with you, scrutinising, critiquing. Now ain't the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Fox Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Lets see what happens but I still stand by my point that this season coming is critical for NP I doubt he will get offered another contract if he doesn't lead City to promotion, unless of course there is progress on last season, but the only thing that would constitute progress would be promotion though well unless he leads us to an FA Cup Victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babylon Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Lets see what happens but I still stand by my point that this season coming is critical for NP I doubt he will get offered another contract if he doesn't lead City to promotion, unless of course there is progress on last season, but the only thing that would constitute progress would be promotion though well unless he leads us to an FA Cup Victory. Even if we tread water or have just minor progress again you could see him stay, the owners will know how much the wage bill will have been slashed come the end of the season compared to when he came in. If they see that and the reduced costs then that's something they wouldn't ignore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col city fan Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 Even if we tread water or have just minor progress again you could see him stay, the owners will know how much the wage bill will have been slashed come the end of the season compared to when he came in. If they see that and the reduced costs then that's something they wouldn't ignore. All depends how ambitious they are. I don't know? Do you? It could just as easily be that Nigel's remit in his second full season is promotion. Only he and the Thais will know this I would imagine. Slashing a wage bill may have been the minimum expectation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raw Dykes Posted 18 July 2013 Share Posted 18 July 2013 This is fantastic news. I honestly thought that the deal would be off and we'd be stuck with Beckford until his contract ran out, maybe lending him out every now and again. Great to hear that we didn't let Bolton shaft us, even though everyone knows we were desperate to sell. I doubt this will mean we can sign anyone yet, but this is a huge step in the right direction. Of all the players we wanted to shift, JB was top of the list. Hopefully Danns, Wellens, Gallagher or St. Ledger will follow him out the door soon enough. Beckford has to be one of the worst signings I can remember. Maybe he will do well for Bolton, but I can't see it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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