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Paper talk of Villa wanting Schlupp.
Straight from the pen of Terry Pratchett!

 

Leicester simply need to say **** off to all these offers, we need to build **** being a selling club. We are (LCFC) rich & we don´t need to sell our best players.

 

... not worried about Villa's supposed interest in any of our players tbh ... yes they may get a war chest from the sale of Benteke but our owners now control one of the top 50 brands in the world and look far more committed to investment and growth than Villas's Randy Lerner ... a bid from Arsenal is more worrying ... but reports of £5 million are ridiculous ... Schlupp is arguably one of the quickest players in the Premier league along with the likes of Walcott ... now if you take what the Gunners paid for Walcott and add in the effects of inflation you are talking somewhere between £10 and £15 million in today's market for such young talent under current contract and on the back of his performances in the season ... Arsenal might be prepared to pay that ... hopefully not ... but one thing for sure ... Villa won't.

 

Everything & everybody has a price. A young player with skill and ambition will move if the offer is right.

 

I can't see anyone leaving unless we want them to. Apart from Chris Wood and Danny Simpson I think everyone under contract has a future here

 

... true enough ... but the offer has to be right for the club as well as the player ... and that comes down to what it would cost to replace a player ... and it would be a lot more than £5 million to replace Schlupp...

 

Gone very quiet in relation to possible signings. Summer holidays in full swing?

 

Unsurprisingly half the Championship are after Chris Wood with Wolves rumoured to be the favorites to sign him

 

It's funny that you think that matters.

 

How can it not matter? If the club don't need the money, the only reason players will leave is if the club's ambitions don't match the players or because of wage demands. We should be matching, if not surpassing, any ambitions clubs like Villa have and we can certainly match wages (although Pearson may not want to!).

I don't think any offers will be seriously considered unless a player wants away anyway - and I don't think that's a issue unless one of the big five (or an international equivalent) come calling.

 

Anthony Knockaert has said he turned down a 4 year contract to stay here

He also said he left on good terms but couldnt understand why he only got 2 starts last season

 

... I could tell him

 

It was two starts too many if his ball retention was anything to go by.

 

WTF ? I must be missing some thing here.

 

He did get man of the match in one of them against Villa. His other game was against Everton

 

Apparently put in a 7m bid for N'Zonzi . Rejected by the player. Ambitious bid and a wasted one. He would never move here considering the bigger clubs interested in him. A sideways move at best for him to come here from An established premier league side

 

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/S...ected-reject/story-26758717-detail/story.html
... but we may have cemented Huth deal ... can't say I'm overly disappointed with N'Zonzi rejecting us .... he's OK but doesn't set any pulses racing ... and I think he may be in cloud cuckoo land in terms of his International ambitions ... France have many incredibly talented central midfield players ... and he isn't one of them ... I think Sevilla's £3 million bid just about confirms that ...

 

Huth deal agreed on sky sports transfer page. Personal terms to be agreed

 

To be fair, Villa were playing like a Championship side at the time! No doubting Knocky's ability at that level.

 

Great quote from Knock: "I do not know the Belgian competition well but I am not snobbish at all."

Also, he said: "I would have been able to re-sign for four years in Leicester but this proposal came in November when the team had returned to the Premier League in July." This is not too clear but I'm assuming he meant he was offered a new contract last November. If he turned a contract down then, it explains why he barely figured after that.