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5 hours ago, useless said:

I had a feeling Appiah could end with Leicester, they seem to love our released players, in recent years they've had Viktor Johansson, Mitch Clark, Lewis Brunt, Harry McKirdy was there for a while and now Appiah, Brad Burton had a trial game with them last summer against Stratford as well, that was also Brunt's initial trial game.

Appiah looks a decent prospect from what I've seen, can't say I've seen him have a bad game, even if Leicester don't take him on full-time I think he will get a decent move to another good academy.

Speaking of Brunt, there are rumours he could be in our 25 man squad this season

We have Paul Appiah on trial after you guys released him

Currently playing in a friendly for us against Notts County

Get your bets on a Villa goal in added time, can bloody guarantee it

1 hour ago, theboyangel said:

Fofana has signed a new 5yr deal which is great for them considering the poor season they’re having by their recent standards.

Good player and good for the club (but cynic in me would expect a release clause to have been included) 

Thankfully we haven't allowed anyone to have a release clause since we lost Kante and came very close to losing Vardy

4 hours ago, RichW said:

Lets be honest - there is absolute zilch chance Ndidi would come to us in the summer. It's a load of rubbish. Is he due a new contract by any chance? Sounds like agent talk. 

I think it may well be agent talk, quite a few players are in discussions for new contracts

What Rodgers and Wilf have said today in a press conference

Wilf:

“I am enjoying myself in Leicester. My family is here. My business degree is on hold after my daughter was born.”

Rodgers:

“He’s been a really important player in my time here. You see the importance I give to him in the team. It’s a young team at the moment. His experience helps the players. Wherever I ask him to play, he gives us a great physicality. There are still areas he can improve on. He comes in with a joy to train and learn. He gives us all.”

“He seems very settled, he’s moved into a new house. He seems very happy. He’s a pleasure to work with. We hope he’ll be here for a few years."

“He’s worth much more than that.”

8 hours ago, Zatman said:

Leicester fans said Tielemans and Ndidi are not giving all. I dont want this type of player near our club

Certainly wouldn’t say that about Ndidi

Rodgers has tried to move him away from doing what he does best - sitting in front of the back 4 on his own and just purely defending - to now partnering Tielemans in a 2 and also having to be more involved in the attacking play

Yet he is still the best player in the league when it comes to tackles and interceptions per 90

Tielemans MAYBE he wasn’t giving his all, but could easily just have been like many of our players his form has simply dropped off, against West Ham on Sunday he was just like during his best here

Doubt we would sell Ndidi to you guys anyway

Our bad, sorry guys

Last time we beat the team in the 19th 4-0 the season ended for 3 months 

5 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said:

Surprised Vardy hasn’t made their cup final starting 11

He has... he will be starting on Thursday against Napoli  

Thought he would start this one and Daka on Thursday tbf, but I guess he can't completely manage 3 games in a week now

10 hours ago, PieFacE said:

Surely Leicester don't need any more players. Their squad is pretty awesome as it is. 

We pretty much don't have any first 11 quality right winger, it is the one position we have struggled to recruit for ever since Mahrez left

According to Fabrizio Romano it sounds like we are looking at Matheus Pereira, no mention of Bailey

Celtic apparently want £25m for Edouard - no wonder we moved onto Daka - and now he is considering staying for the final year and leaving on a free next summer

We can have a fight for him next summer on a free 

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/odsonne-edouard-considering-celtic-stay-24345715

10 hours ago, Keener window-cleaner said:

Daka and Soumare, you guys are really doing some brilliant deals, likewise over the last years. Can't remember a signing you failed with over the last years, some have been absolutely super signings. What's the secret?

Oh we have definitely had some absolute stinkers, Perez in 2019 for £30m was pretty shocking, the whole mess with Adrien Silva being late registered and cost £22m, Musa for £17m, Slimani (although not completely bad) for £28m

So we do buy the occasional bad player, but it does tend to be when we go out of our zone away from young players

27 minutes ago, useless said:

If Leicester are no longer signing Edouard then I feel he's someone we should look to sign, especially if it's true that he's available for as little as £15m. Don't think we would have been interested in Daka, Leicester are signing him as first choice, whereas we already have our first choice centre-forward, Edouard is someone we might be able to bring in as a rotational option.

Although he seems cheap, for saying we were meant to be pretty advanced in discussions with Celtic there must have been something stupid they wanted in the deal to put us off and make us move for Daka instead

Also Edouard apparently wants paying more than whatever Daka is after, can't see him being happy with a rotation option to be honest

15 minutes ago, MotoMkali said:

From Leicesters perspective I could see an agreement of something like a 20% sell on clause on profit. With a maximum fee reaching 7.5 mil or something. Would prevent them from receiving a ridiculous fee in a future transfer but also allow you to sign him now for a reasonable cost.

Do you reckon maddison will be sold? 

I imagine that would be the highest we would go, but it wouldn't surprise me if Celtic are pushing for much higher than that or want a % of any fee we get rather than just profit, could be them just being petty as we seem to have dismantled everything about them when we stole Rodgers  

I don't think Maddison will go, going to cost £70m+ to get him which I can't see Arsenal offering, then we tend to want all the money in one go (we made Man Utd and Chelsea pay the entire fees upfront for Maguire and Chilwell) and I imagine Arsenal would try to spread it across a load of years like they did with Pepe - we would basically make negotiations as hard as possible

1 hour ago, Tez500 said:

100% we should move for Edouard, at that price it would be silly not to. 

Although if Leicester's talks have stalled it could be because of playing time which I imagine would be the same issue with us.

The rumour is it is an issue in negotiations with Celtic rather than Edouard himself (by all accounts, personal terms are agreed)

Wouldn't surprise me if they are trying to include a big sell on clause as they stupidly agreed to a massive one with PSG when they signed Edouard themselves - 50% of any profit they make on the £9m spent

4 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

Any opinions on Mackenzie?

He certainly rates himself very highly.

Pearson bringing him round from club to club bodes well I suppose.

He obviously seemed to be a good part of the setup we had when he was here, however he actually left us part way through the title season and joined Spurs, then eventually followed Pearson to Derby, Leuven and eventually joined yourselves

It is an interesting one because we have had quite a few members of our scouting department leave us over the years (all for "big 6" teams) but none of them are still at the clubs they left us for

Obviously it can be kind of hard to gauge exactly how much input he had with certain signings etc. as the most that comes out a bit our deals is with regards to Walsh and Mills, however I have no doubt he will of had some role to play in them

It will be one of those where it could be that he benefitted from the system we have in place, or vice-versa etc.

No doubt he is probably good at his job, not someone we seem to miss though - we have somehow turned Congerton who is apparently shocking when it comes to players into a relatively good heading of scouting

12 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

Was Walsh the one who went to Everton in some director of football type role and totally shit the bed?

Yeah I think they put a bit more pressure on him than was needed, with us he was head of recruitment and scouting which he was brilliant at

Over in USA now doing some advisory role for an MLS team

1 hour ago, Kiwivillan said:

Mahrez from Ligue 2. Kanté for 5 million

Mahrez was spotted by Steve Walsh, Kante was spotted by another of our scouts called David Mills

Both times they were at games to watch someone else

14 minutes ago, PaulC said:

Yes I was looking at players lower down the scoring chart this season. Kramaric who was useless at Leicester scored 20 goals last season in the Bundesliga. Is it that hard a league to score in. we knock the Premier League but would Lewandowski get over 40 goals in the Premier League. 

I wouldn't use Kramaric for measuring against when it comes to how he did for us, only ever started 6 league games and they were all during the great escape season (he only played 22 minutes of league football in the title winning season)

He never got a fair chance with us because of Vardy

4 minutes ago, DaveAV1 said:

I’m not having that......

He thrived when he played next to Kante, but playing alongside anyone else he really struggled

He was shocking in the Great Escape season and was also very poor in 16/17 after we sold Kante

43 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

Drinkwater and Kante was not the same season, at least not according to google. 

So you reckon losing Kante and Drinkwater from their title winning first team over 2 years means their team was dismantled. Yeah, that's not the right word. That's how normal football clubs ideally are run.

But it's just semantics at this point. I'll let the David Mitchell rage die off and get so lunch.

Kante was sold in 2016 - initially replaced with Mendy (who got a long term injury) and then further replaced with Ndidi in Jan 2017

Drinkwater sold in 2017 - replaced with Silva (although we then had the whole 14 seconds too late crap)

Mahrez sold in 2018 - replaced with Ghezzal, but we also changed system to implement Maddison as an AM to help make up for the loss of Mahrez goals and assists

We only ever sold 3 of our title winning team; Drinkwater wasn't that much of a loss, we got a brilliant replacement for Kante with Ndidi, Mahrez we replaced by getting goals and assists from other areas of the pitch

4 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

There's no way Leicester would be looking to sell Iheanacho, especially with there being a lot of talk of Vardy retiring in the summer.

 

There hasn't been any talk about Vardy retiring in the summer? Just that he will probably be rotated a lot more next season, he isn't done yet

But yes we wouldn't look to sell Iheanacho anyway as he has just signed a new contract and even with possibly signing a new striker we still need him for depth, especially if we continue to use a formation with 2 up top