Happy Fox Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/won-t-rule-signings-new-year/story-20093603-detail/story.html Manager Nigel Pearson is not ruling out adding further to his Leicester City squad during the January transfer window. Pearson said he could never say his squad was complete, but stressed he would not be adding to his squad simply for the sake of it. The City boss likes to work with smaller squads with a strong team spirit, and said he would only complete a signing if he was convinced the player would fit into his squad. Although they suffered their first home defeat of the campaign to Nottingham Forest nine days ago, City have enjoyed their best-ever start to a season. Pearson said he would only add to his squad if the player would definitely make a difference. "I would be a hypocrite if I said yes to that," said Pearson, when asked if he felt that his squad was complete. "The idea when developing a squad is to improve what you have got. "Occasionally, there may be mistakes made where you add a player who, on the face of it, has more quality, but it could affect the chemistry within the group. "We try to limit the chances of that happening by doing a lot of homework and groundwork on how we recruit, but you also have to be flexible if something comes along out of the blue, you have to move quickly on that as well. "We have done that successfully on three occasions already this season (Dean Hammond, Marcin Wasilewski and Gary Taylor-Fletcher). "There is a bit more to building a squad than throwing a few players together and then getting a list of who else might be available. "I don't think it really works like that, and there have been one or two clubs who have fallen foul of that this summer in terms of how they have tried to expand their squads. "There is no right or wrong way of doing it. We have a quieter approach, but that is how we work." Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/won-t-rule-signings-new-year/story-20093603-detail/story.html#ixzz2kzQGMfmr
cc_star Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 A return to a sensible recruitment good to hear The club feels miles better now we're not signing every 'name' going just because agents were hovering around us like flies on shit.
danlcfc4ever Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 For me, this is not news... the Mercury might as well have the headline "Winning matches is the aim, says Pearson." You can tell it's international break and they have NOTHING new to report right? Maybe I'm just mardy because it's Monday morning.
MPH Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 For me, this is not news... the Mercury might as well have the headline "Winning matches is the aim, says Pearson." You can tell it's international break and they have NOTHING new to report right? Maybe I'm just mardy because it's Monday morning. I think this kind of article annoys people because we all want to wake up and read about a new speedy winger we have signed that man u wanted but who chose us instead.
harpendenfox Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 Could be a nice new waste of time this. Create the meaningless Mercury headline. City aim for return to winning ways could be a nice one for tomorrow
kingfox Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 Let's go and get Jay Emmanuel-Thomas. Then this forum will become a happier place.
hairy Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 To be fair we would moan if there was nothing about city in the local paper during an international break. The other day it was Tigers, Tigers, Tigers which pissed me off. It must also be very hard being the sports correspondent when the 'big' sport in the city is off for two weeks and they have 6 pages, 6 days a week to fill.
sylofox Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 To be fair we would moan if there was nothing about city in the local paper during an international break. The other day it was Tigers, Tigers, Tigers which pissed me off. It must also be very hard being the sports correspondent when the 'big' sport in the city is off for two weeks and they have 6 pages, 6 days a week to fill. Why they manage to find enough shite to fill the other 60 odd pages 6 x a week.
Alf Bentley Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 Could be a nice new waste of time this. Create the meaningless Mercury headline. City aim for return to winning ways could be a nice one for tomorrow Turning over a Nuge leaf Lloyd's a banker Wasyl: "I'll eat Tractor Boys for my Ploughman's lunch" It's a Knockaert: "A game without frontiers" Konch: A word in your shell-like Barreling in: GTF is on the roofer the world Unfriendly Kasper ghosts in to haunt Ipswich St. Ledger: "McCarthy wasn't at the races as an Irish centre back" Conrad: The heart of lightness "Thai me kangaroo down, sport!" - "Wesolowski is our top target", says Top ....or, least likely of all...."Pearson reveals all" Sorry, got a bit carried away there.
The Year Of The Fox Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 I never get excited by a new signing. I never have done nor ever will until I've seen them play. The thing is with Pearson you just know that A) anyone he signs is quite unlikely to be a flop B) He won't sign anyone who will upset the applecart. I know I've just repeated what the article said but my point is you dont have to worry when Pearson signs someone. You just trust him.
Guest MattP Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 Does anyone still actually pay to read the Mercury?
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 My favourite ever Mercury gaff was in an article about a stroke victim. They referred to him as a Stoke victim a total of five times over the course of one page. Needless to say, that's probably worse.
Monsell1976 Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 Kevin Phillips on sky sports one saying he's not happy not getting games, and could move in January. Says he has a lot to offer a club, and wants to play in the midlands, anyone think he would be worth a six month contract, as states he's retiring in the summer?
Soar Fox Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 Kevin Phillips on sky sports one saying he's not happy not getting games, and could move in January. Says he has a lot to offer a club, and wants to play in the midlands, anyone think he would be worth a six month contract, as states he's retiring in the summer? Just watched this myself and was going to post about it. I'd take him on a free in January, wouldn't be massive wages, add experience and would be a great sub to bring on for the last 20 minutes when needing a goal. I do think Pearson would be interested aswell, he's done similar in the past signing older players Powell, Solano and Edworthy spring to mind.
Freeman's Wharfer Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 Kevin Phillips on sky sports one saying he's not happy not getting games, and could move in January. Says he has a lot to offer a club, and wants to play in the midlands, anyone think he would be worth a six month contract, as states he's retiring in the summer? Got to be a better option when chasing a game that GTF.
The Blur Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 Just watched this myself and was going to post about it. I'd take him on a free in January, wouldn't be massive wages, add experience and would be a great sub to bring on for the last 20 minutes when needing a goal. I do think Pearson would be interested aswell, he's done similar in the past signing older players Powell, Solano and Edworthy spring to mind. GTF already has that kind of role?
kingfox Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 Kevin Phillips on sky sports one saying he's not happy not getting games, and could move in January. Says he has a lot to offer a club, and wants to play in the midlands, anyone think he would be worth a six month contract, as states he's retiring in the summer? If he came to Leicester, my Dad would probably show his technique on how to wank. As he will probably have a wank if Phillips wore a Leicester shirt.
Soar Fox Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 GTF already have that kind of role? Kevin Philips is more of poacher who will be in the right place at the right time. I've been impressed with GTF in the short amount I've saw of him. But is the opposite to Philips, his hold up play and bringing others in to play looked good against Watford and he's the kind of player to bring on when trying to see out a game. Where as Philips you'd bring on when needing a goal.
Collymore Posted 19 November 2013 Posted 19 November 2013 the article says we had to move quickly for GTF. I thought he was bumbling around trials and training sessions being rejected like a 43 year old junior lewis!
Soar Fox Posted 19 November 2013 Posted 19 November 2013 the article says we had to move quickly for GTF. I thought he was bumbling around trials and training sessions being rejected like a 43 year old junior lewis! He was in a pie eating competition with Neil Shipperley
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