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Gotta massively fancy your chances of a final now. They’re ****e
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@leedoughnut: It's not easy to get out of the Championship at the first attempt. Congratulations Leicester City!
Just glad it's done and dusted... hoping this will be a catalyst like the last time we were there - and certainly gives us the opportunity to get rid of some overpaid mercenaries ...
Can't argue that we've got what we deserved - sold some of the better players at the start of the season, didn't replace them and never addressed the obvious lack of a proper striker(s) ... and Gary Rowett has been absolutely abysmal - adamant that 'experience' was key when, quite obviously, it wasn't ... fans have voted with their feet, quite understandably...
Can't argue that we've got what we deserved - sold some of the better players at the start of the season, didn't replace them and never addressed the obvious lack of a proper striker(s) ... and Gary Rowett has been absolutely abysmal - adamant that 'experience' was key when, quite obviously, it wasn't ... fans have voted with their feet, quite understandably...
When the team needed a passionate fanbase the most…….
Reckon there's a very high chance they'll go into administration at some point next season.
Genuine question Fosse, you say opportunity to get rid of overpaid mercenaries but from what’s been reported, Leicester have dished out very lucrative contracts with no relegation clauses. With reported salaries of players such as Winks on £90k a week, how easy is it to get rid of these players as they’ve not really put themselves in the shop window, either in footballing ability or realistic salaries this season. On the other hand, I’ve seen a few articles with youngsters such as Monga and James (when his loan ends) being “eyed up” by PL clubs. IMO, I still think Leicester haven’t quite reached rock bottom yet.
Will be a struggle to get fees for the players they want to offfload if they are on good money.
Of winks is on £90k a week his agent earns every penny of his commission.
It doesn’t get any easier than if they were trying to get rid of them in this league. Could argue the players have more of an upper hand in any negotiation than they did before. A weaker hand in negotiations for selling the players that are worth something and there’s a few of them worth a lot still even after this ****fest.
Realistically you loan out Winks, Skipp etc. and subsidise the wage assuming a club out there fancies that. Get what you can for James, Fatawu, Mavdidi. Probably end up still with a few they don’t want but are stuck with.
Or, unlikely, the L1 financial rules are a bit flimsier. Could gamble on promotion by retaining the better players that are up for it - assuming they exist. Unlikely but possible.
In summary, it’s ****ed.
Again it could be BS, but I saw a salary table for the top earners in the Championship and Leicester had something like 7 of the top 10 positions covered. From memory, the lowest player in that table was on something like £25k a week and Winks was the highest at a reported £90k. League 1 football and the crowds they will likely get, ain’t going to support salaries like this and that’s without the other costs like the running the training ground, which again could be BS, but reported at £40m a year.
The only player I would take is James and he’s on loan to Leicester!
They've also already borrowed against future parachute payments and transfer installments.
So in other words, they're ****ed.
So in other words, they're ****ed.
Oh didn’t even know that. Teams will want Fatawu. 22, loads of potential. Probably not as good as some Lesta fans once would have had you believe but still a very good player. Mavdidi at least gets an offer from somewhere.
Looking at the team out yesterday it’s worse than I thought. Defence and goalkeeper all either old, **** or both. They hate Thomas who is the only one under 30.
Sunderland have been linked with Fatuwu since last summer. I’m a big fan of his, earlier in the season he looked a class above Championship level. Apparently they’d take 20m for him now, it was double that at the start of the season. Depending on interest in him, it could even go as low as 15m. We would make a profit on him at some point for that kind of money.
