Whereas Mahrez played in that left midfield role (more of a left back really) against the best side in that group because he was the best at defending. Judge him next season when he's on the right wing. That's his best position.
Just because Pearson is a stubborn manager doesn't mean hes a Championship manager in the transfer market, it just means he will squeeze every penny to try and get the most out of any transfer, the reason that most of the transfers have been done at the moment is because people have paid over the odds for them. No deal sofar have i thought "wow, thats a good deal" £7m for Cresswell ... we were never going to pay that. Pearsons already said he won't compete for players, which is why we are still going for Ulloa, as soon as someone else comes in and offers silly money and silly wages, i've no doubt he'll wash his hands of him and move on, look at the Campbell deal. If a player would rather go elsewhere for better wages, its not going to sit right with Pearson. If they don't want to come here to play for Leicester, then im glad we aren't offering ridiculous amounts for them.
After our last stint in the Premier League, this is definitely the right choice too. AND lest we forget; 'doing a QPR' and buying loads of deadwood and fodder on ridiculous contracts just comes to no avail. I'm pretty sure that Nige will buy wise and well. Still thinking you need a marquee signing, similar to Huddlestone just to ensure you get through to January with all the chances of staying up, then allowing you to add again. Teams like us when you've just come up need to act as though each transfer window is the end of the Season really.
Can any of you on here read? I never said Mahrez was bad, I said he looked average. Do you understand what average means?
Better to be a championship manager in the transfer window than lumber you with ****e like Ferdinand.
He was neither good nor bad, it was a mediocre performance and he didn't offer anything productive when going forward.
Your opinion, please don't try and pass it off as fact. He did play an unfamiliar, left sided, defensive role and I thought he brought the ball out of defense with a lot of grace considering his team mates were lumping it up to the striker at first chance. He didn't get to prove himself as he played a good part in making sure Algeria didn't concede with his defensive work. Judge him on the games he has and will play for Leicester as that will give you a far better insight into his capabilities than 65 minutes against one of the better sides in International Football.
I don't think you understand. Someone on here said that I haven't seen Mahrez yet, I responded by saying that I have seen Mahrez once in the World Cup and that I thought he was average. I wouldn't express my opinion if I didn't think it was correct, he was average in the game I saw.
So I take it you mean he was average for a World Cup player, since that's the level you saw him at and judged him on. I would say that was a massive compliment, as that puts him on par with all the England team, most of the Argentina team and better than most of the Brazilians! So thanks!
Not really, he was average compared to his Algerian teammates. The majority of his teammates were good whilst he was average.
He only played about 70 mins in the whole tournament! Algerian looked solid but unadventurous against Belgium, none of the players stood out in that match. They got better as they had to go for it against other teams and it would have been interesting to see how Mahrez would have done when allowed to get forward, as is his natural game, but they went for more experienced players (he has fewer caps than any outfield player and was the third youngest in the squad).
So it seems we have splashed the cash on Ulloa so should keep you happy now Smoking. Excellent signing by the way. Nige got his man
Is Nige a Championship Manager in the transfer market? no obviously not he was able to prove that his talent as a manager is above that of an average championship manager by winning the league. Is his approach to the transfer market that of a championship manager? maybe, but why is it that when you build a successful side would you make wholesale changes when you reach you goal for the season. Every one of the players in the squad has earned the right to play at the top level and in fact the player that most people would say is our weakest link Konchesky is one of the few in the squad with premier experience. i think the this is all i can pay you for him and this will be your wages is a sensible approach, we all have to remember that ffp has changed the landscape of football hopefully for the good
There are 2 annoying commonalities on this forum... 1.) The tendancy to go off topic with x is better than y because i saw him once bla bla and 2.) the inability for most to debate a genuine point without getting defensive and twisting a quite neutral question. E.G quotes like "able to prove he was above an average championship manager" or "are you expecting us to compete with Man U for Vidal" which was NOWHERE stated in my original post... Okay so now we (may) have got Ulloa and it was a matter of £1-1.5 million, as my previous point mentioned, in regards to the bigger picture would it not have been sensible to pay that 2-3 weeks ago and allow the lad to be training with his new team mates by now? What will feck me off now is if 5-10 games into the season IF he isn't hitting the net someone saying "well he needs time to gel" or "he needs to fit into our style". This was my point about being maybe a little bit tight IF NP decided this was our man. (All very presumptious at this moment i know) I understand why he may have haggled for so long to get the price we deemed acceptable, it's good business, BUT there is more to business than the profit/loss at this moment in time. The element of risk has to be weighed up agsinst the future returns and as I said I would have been much happier/more confident if we had this done before Austria. Who would have thought Jelavic would be worth £7 mil last Jan when he was barely bench warming for Everton and the experience Bruce has he knew he needed that extra firepower and probably paid over the odds BUT it paid dividends. Ask any Hull fan are you happy you may have paid £2-3 million over the top for some of your acquisitions and I bet most would say "give a sh*t" we stayed up!
Interesting article from the Mercury... http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/City-future-safe-hands/story-21655758-detail/story.html
I also think, as Fosse has previously pointed out, we need to not get so hung up on what we may be paying for players. The difference between the Championship and the Premiership is huge, our income has increased astronomically, so you have to expect that our spending will increase on the same scale. If we just compare every transfer we make, to Fulham signing McCormack for £11m in THE CHAMPIONSHIP, then everything will seem like a bargain
I would want us to spend about 20M in total. 7M is already gone on Ulloa so i would want another 3-4 players out of that. 1 player who understands the league along with a few Steve Walsh bargains
I wouldn't get too worked about about future signings missing summer training. I'd assume that these players will be training with their own clubs, and training sessions are no substitute for real matches anyway. Players do need time to gel, but that starts from day one of the season proper, and at the beginning of a new season, all clubs have to wait for players to bed in, unlike some, we don't/won't have a ton of new guys to bed in. Regarding not paying over the odds, this is obviously the right thing to do. It would seem we have now called Brighton's bluff over Ulloa (claims were made that they rated him at £10m, but it looks like he'll leave for considerably less). How many more players are still to come in anyway? We've signed four (if we assume Ulloa is in) and Mahrez was signed in Jan with a view to him playing in the Prem rather than the Championship, so that's five really. I have to disagree with Proud below, I think, and as Pearson as said, there won't be many more to come. Perhaps 1-2. As I've said for months, I think Pearson sees the current squad as fit for purpose in the Prem, with about half a dozen additions (mainly to pad put the squad, at least at first). I tend to agree with Pearson, although I was concerned about us up front. Frankly, I think Pearson will live or die by the Ulloa signing... unless Nuge and Vardy exceed expectations. Glad that the £180m nonsense has been put to bed. Clearly a case of the media deliberately mishearing a quote.
