Transfer Rumours Summer 2025 Transfer Thread…

Doesn't Vardy have a criminal record, US might not let him in.

 

You're probably right. Thinking of it now, £££ was probably tight just after Allam came in and it was Pearson that wasn't willing to shell out the £1M

 

Leicester was the football league club to be at, they were throwing ridiculous money around. Nothing about not wanting him enough, it was just impossible to compete with a club that was operating with a top half premier league budget at the time.

I recall half the football league was interested in Vardy too, everyone who had a million quid to spend.

 

Importuning, oh sorry that was Wilfrid Brambell.


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How about his wife?

 

Civil not criminal case, so probably wouldn't count...

 

Probably why he's so keen to make the move.

 

Assault, a few years ago.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/leicesters-england-rookie-jamie-vardy-5824505

 

**I'm pretty sure it was Craig Shakespeare who found him, Pearson was the manager and was keen; it was Allam Sr who wasn't happy to pay a million for a non-league larker.

** Happy to be corrected though.

 

Talk sport linking Carl Rushworth to Man Ure and Wet Spam.

 

It's too far back for me to remember accurately TBH

 

This....take him in a heartbeat but he'll be on more than we can afford and I wouldn't be surprised if a newly promoted team took a chance on him, tho I imagine he just wants to go somewhere he'll be first choice

 

Saudi or MLS I reckon.

 

If we get relegated can we do a birmingham and take advantage of the financial regulations in league 1 or have I misinterpreted them....they have spent loads..also is that not what Ipswich did too? Obviously don't want that route but just asking

 

We’re in the **** with finances as it is

 

Think they've tightened the rules - ST posted something to that effect somewhere fairly recently

 

We don’t have Birmingham’s owners. Acun isn’t actually that wealthy compared to other football club owners in the Championship. Acun Medya took out a loan from some creditor to bankroll the club and the club is being charged something like 5% to offset the debt Acun Medya owes to this creditor. It’s why when people come to his defence and say ‘he’s pumped a lot of his money into the club’, it couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s not his money; it’s some bank’s money. Football club owners loan money to their clubs all the time and that’s fairly normal. 5% is unusually high for an owner to charge his own club, however. The interest rates are so high because Acun literally can’t afford to bankroll the club with his own money. Billionaire owners usually can bankroll their clubs without taking out loans from third parties and charge their clubs minimal interest.

Reading’s owner did the same thing as Acun. He took out a £50 million loan from some Chinese state-owned bank and put the stadium up as collateral. Now he can’t pay his debts so the stadium may end up belonging to this bank.

Relegation would be catastrophic because there would be a significant loss of income. The money from TV rights alone is a huge drop-off from the Championship to League One.