I think Ticklers got a point actually. If Leicester are doing utterly ****e in January it's likely NP would be sacked in May, which means he would be going back to an unstable club with no gaurentee of a future there, where as he could hand in a transfer request to come here where he may be promised a good playing future and place in the first XI. But either way I'd expect him to go back and see how things go, and if such a situation happens and we end up getting him, it would be in the summer.
He has, but I don't think it's a very good one. Unless Waggy hands in a transfer request he will go back to Leicester in January. He could ask NP if he can go back out on loan, but there is no obligation for Leicester to agree. They could treat him as a slave at their club like Man U do with their reserve keepers Waggy can use his fist all he wants but it will make no difference to him going back to Leicester. Even if Leicester agree to send him out on loan again, do you really think Leicester's owners and/or NP would loan him to us? Papa Allam's comment that the Leicester owners would not want to deal with him again if they came sniffing round our players would, presumably, work the other way round as well
ok ok. i was being very extreme and tongue in cheek with my ""USE HIS FIST"" comment. in the real world it gets you the sack and into the courts. the point being that NP does not keep anyone who does not want to play for him and why should he ? with the money lesta have in jan NP can get in another striker to replace him which i think he will do regardless of the waggy situation. its gonna be an interesting next few weeks.
Waggy is at an age now where he needs to be playing 1st team football! You would have to say that on paper Beckford & Nugent are Leicester's favourable strikers, so where does that leave Waggy? Time will tell i suppose, will NP play a front 3, he is an attack minded manager after all!!!!
But, I'm pretty sure that half-season loans are the same as season-long ones in every respect, it's only emergency loans (done outside the windows with the maximum 93 day rule) that are any different (i.e. 28-day recall clause). But I think this counts as a long-term loan because it was done within transfer windows. It's the same as a season-long one. I'm partly going by FM which has all of these rules pretty well documented and is generally a pretty good resource for things like league rules. The fact we rushed to get the deal done before the window closed shows it was a long-term loan.
Gut feeling is that Waggy will stay @ Leicester from January onwards, at least till the end of the season anyway
See Regulation 53 on the link below. This says that only loan players on season long loans can be recalled, and only in the second transfer window (apart from goalkeepers) http://www.football-league.co.uk/regulations/20110629/section-6-players_2293633_2125731#51 "
i would not disagree with you on that. thats why i say its gonna be an interesting next few weeks and also january. but whats going on at lesta will also play a part. NB should be a draw for many players in the transfer window. i am curious to see how NP handles Beckford. ?
Those rules seem to say the opposite of the copy of the rules I have, though the ones I've got I've had saved for a while, so they may be out of date. Not that it really matters, as they've just said they plan to recall him when the loan expires anyway.
The Thai ladyboys will not allow Beckford to leave Leicester, they have just shelled out 4 million quid 4 him
