He's been playing regular top flight football for 12 months and has already progressed the extent he has. At his age he still has a lot of improvement in him. At this rate he'll be playing CL football within 24 months.
Anything above £17m is good business for him, and I would agree that the fee been released is to push on a bid frenzy. Would prefer to see him at Everton or Soto, think he would develop more as a player there
What was the supposed final figure again for Prozzy? Wasn't Hernandez's fee supposed to be lower too?
This will happen or he'll make a hatful of mistakes, lose confidence/get frozen out and have to start again at a club like ours. Football can be binary. Whatever happens in the next few months, whether he's great or ****, you can almost guarantee he'll be in an England squad by the end of the year.
I assume for starters with Prozzy the Allams would have been happy reporting at the highest possible figure as at the time it was our record outside the top-flight, but presume the (I think?) 2.7m that he was reported at was with add-ons that he had no chance of meeting due to his lack of starts and goals.
Obviously you're all underestimating where Leicester are heading as football club because our aim next season is to qualify for Europe again and there's absolutely no reason why we won't. The top seven are all in Europe next season so automatically we have a huge advantage and you only have to look at Chelsea and Liverpool last season to see the difference it makes, Our owners are fiercely ambitious and only the Sheikh and Roman have more money and in a recent meeting it came out that they're looking at City and Chelsea and thinking "why not us?" and there is no reason why not because they have the money and the ambition. The stadium extension is already well into discussions and work will start next summer (planning approval permitting) and increase to 45k, in five years they want to increase to 60k and 72k in 10 years. They've achieved all their goals since buying us and I definitely won't be betting against them and in fact I'll put money on us being a top six club like they want us to be because there's nothing stopping them. Harry has made a very smart choice and he'll play for England playing for us and on a five year deal he fits in with what they want to acheive in the next five years. I don't see us selling him on anytime soon and he'll have no reason to leave.
I don't know if people are aware of this either but Everton and Spurs can't even compete with us financially. We're worth more than Everton now and have zero debt so we can afford to bid more for Sigurdsson and we will because he's our top target so whatever they offer we'll simply offer more. We also pay more than both Everton and Spurs in wages and we're ready to make Sigurdsson our highest paid player. We already have five players on more than the highest paid at both clubs. We're not little old Leicester anymore.
Don't get people who say that Leicester isn't a good move for him. They're a bigger club than us and he'll be in the England squad shortly after his move. It's a World Cup year and he has every chance of not only getting on that plane but also becoming an England starter.
I was told by impeccable sources that it was much closer to £1m all in. Abel was reported lower by media in Italy, think it was £7-8m from memory.
Nope, all bollocks. It wasn't ever going to reach anywhere near that, people just assumed it would with clauses.
It doesn't matter if you're paying more in wages than other clubs, Spurs' starting XI are man for man better than yours in every position, if you're paying yours more then that's more fool you.
You seem hung up on finance. I can cast iron guarantee if you ask any professional footballer who they'd rather play for - Spurs or Lester - then unless they're a fan they'll answer the former. That won't change for the next 10 years minimum. FACT.
Its a decent short term move, a couple of years experience in the top flight and an England call up should see him move on a level and sign for a top 7 club in a few seasons time.
Very true, most would take slightly less money to play for Spurs, compete for the title and play CL football, rather than take some extra cash and battle to finish near the top of the bottom half with Leicester.
It's kind of irrelevant because if you ask Maguire if he'd rather be on the bench at Spurs and earn £40k/week or be in our first XI and earn £40k/week, he'll choose Leicester.
With Spurs playing at Wembley next season I don't see them challenging for much at all. They'll be crap playing at Wembley as they've already shown. They're going from one of the smallest PL pitches to the largest and it's too big for them to play their game and that's why they struggle. I fancy us to finish above them and Everton next season and no reason why we won't.
