babyblue

Unfortunately for you, if you need to meet FFP targets then it doesn't put you in a very good bargaining position to start with. By the looks of the statement from your owner, it seems you are more in need of the money, than perhaps the interested parties need your player.

Well, looking at the market for Championship players. Nobody has gone for more than about £15m from what I can see, so I'm not sure why he's suddenly worth £10m more than all the best players were previously. I appreciate you rate him highly, but fan ratings don't dictate the market. Plus, as I've said... £25m gets you champions league playing internationals abroad. 9 goals and 9 assists in an entire career, does not a £25m player make. £15m rising with high target addons, buying team staying up, making Europe, getting full international caps etc. Yes, you stand a chance of someone going for a deal like that.

Ok ?

That account is fake. You can ignore anything they say.

You overpaying doesn't mean everyone else will as well.

The money hasn't changed since we sold Drinkwater and we thought £30m was ok for a premier league winning English CM. We'd get no more than £20-£25m for Gray who is a young English Talent. I think the sales of Coutinho, Neymar, VVD have warped peoples opinions of what the market is actually like. They were freaks fueled by the desperation of PSG, they aren't going to happen all the time. We'll be expecting to get 3 players with the Mahrez money.

What the hell has happened to Championship valuations in a year that players having a decent season become £25m/£30m players? We're buying champions league playing, fully fledged internationals for less than £20m still (Pereira only cost €20m from Porto!) Maguire cost us £12m rising, and that was from a club just getting relegated.

The problem still remains though, so if your chairman wants and needs to fix it... then you will have to move on more than one player to solve it.

We aren't bidding £40m on anyone, certainly not a player from the championship. You don't sell you best player and former PFA player of the year for £60m and spend two thirds of that on someone completely unproven at the highest level. The very best championship players were still only going for about £15m just last season. Frankly, the sort of offers you'll get would be £10-15m upfront with some add on payments that could push it up to the £20m if he hit the targets. From what I'd heard, we had a deal lined up for Maddison in a similar ball park figure. But that is under question because of his injury. Not what people want to hear, but I think that's the reality of it, unless you get a bidding war from a couple of top clubs. Even then they aren't going past £25m IMO.

I hope so because that blokes a fruit cake.

This is how Fawaz at Forest started and they all loved it... until it became clear the fella didn't have an off switch and caused no end of problems with his social media use and engaging (badly) with fans. Hope for your sake he doesn't follow his lead.

He's a really good lad from what we know. Moved local and that helped form a great bond as quite a few others did the same and they saw each other in and out of work and just become good mates. Never seemed to sulk or kick up a fuss if he didn't make the team. Like most Pearson signings and ex United players (we loved signing them), a really good pro with the right attitude and a team player.

Should really read it through before hitting post shouldn't I.

Oh and he was the one who scored the first goal in our 3-2 comeback against you... so he's probably partly at fault for where you are now and what happened to us.

If you find the 5-3 highlights of the game we won against Man U, it pretty much sums him up I think. His mistake by jumping in on one of theirs and then bombing forward for some of ours.

Played left back once or twice for us in the prem and never really showed himself up. I think he even filled in at centre back during games a few times and did a really good job in a three. He could probably play wingback ok with is pace, but his final ball would be lacking.

Leicester fan here. Decent signing for the championship, it's a level where his issues won't be as obvious as they were in the premier league. His positioning isn't the best, he has a tendency to rush in to a challenge and get bypassed... but he's rapid and gets himself out of loads of problems with his pace. And he loves bombing forward, might not create a huge amount, as the final ball isn't really there. But his link up play is ok and he'll gain you loads of ground and get you into dangerous position. He served us just fine in a team that mullered the league. So I don't see any issues with the signing at all, he'd be one you'd look to shit to backup upon promotion though.

Sackable offence?!? Don't be so wet. Do any other clubs sack their managers when they abuse the press? Please don't make out that Pearson is the only person to snap at them. Fergie has done things way worse than that god knows how many times. The press don't have the balls to take him on though.

I can tell you the bloke was getting shit from a lot of fans around him. Most there cheered when Pearson said it to him. It wasn't "fans" he had a go at, it was one specific nobber.

Did you know there person Pearson called a prick purposely asked the question to get a rise? This is from the Leicester Mercury from the journo who was in the room and knows the background. "Last Thursday, during the written press section of the pre-match press conference, Pearson was asked whether that one crucial win could turn the tide of City's season. Pearson was in a relaxed mood and he smiled as he replied: "Tides do turn you know. It is to do with the moon and the gravitational pull. It is the waxing and the waning." Harmless enough, you would have thought. However, the next day several of the red top nationals had seized upon that one quote and The Sun produced a double page spread with a picture of Pearson mocked up so he looked like he was holding the moon with the headline in huge letters beneath 'Lunacy'. It didn't go down well with Pearson." When Pearson lost it the Sun reporter asking the question about "waxing and the waning" knew very well what what he was doing and it was a dig at him and the article. That's why he he called him a prick. Again, seems fair enough to me.

What on earth are you talking about, you literally have no idea about him do you. First and foremost, his "style of football" got us top of the championship with 102 points, scoring 83 goals. The play off season and the season we went up was some of the best and most exciting football I can remember in 30+ years of following Leicester. What is is about young talented, exciting, pacy players that you think is stone age? Is it because he doesn't play 4231? His man management skills are brilliant, the players loved the bloke and couldn't speak highly enough of him. Do not confuse Pearson to the press with Pearson his players. Loyalty to players that are assholes, eh? If this is referring to his sacking, he didn't like his son being accused of racism, when he did or said nothing racist. He then didn't like the club going back on what they said about personal hearing.

Yes that's fine with me, were you sat about 10 ft away to hear the utter crap being chucked at Pearson, the players, his staff by some pissed up cretin on his once yearly trip down the ground. I was and frankly I'd have been fine with Pearson punching the blokes lights out. The guy should have been ejected long before that, I'm not in the camp of you pay your money and you can say what you want.

I would argue Pearson is quote progessive in some aspects. Our sports science and scouting departments were ahead of the game, it's not "luck" we have had so few injuries since Pearson came in. How he sets his team up might see seen as regressive, in that it's 4-4-2... but it's served us well enough. Because he comes across how he does in the media, don't think that's how he is behind closed doors. I know he comes across like old school manager, but there is a bit more to how he runs a club.

Is that really that bad? Seriously. I've watched a few press conferences and you get worse than that almost every week. Pearson called someone an Ostrich and the media is in meltdown.... LVG calls someone fat boy and barely a word is written. Jose said something almost identical to Pearson in that video, nothing mentioned, Fergie would turn the air blue, Pullis, Pardew, Fat Sam, all had rows with the ress

Well my job is done then, I've got a convert!!... Please don't want Spurs to win, after visiting their forum and seeing them on Twitter, I've come to the conclusion they are the biggest bunch of twots to walk the earth and it takes a lot to wind me up.