Other clubs' transfers

[Ikon]

He's a former Nigerian U17 star, which means he could legitimately be significantly older than 20.

 

Yeah but at least he doesn't look 48 or something like some "youngsters" from there do

[Dr.Spaceman]

He's good now, imagine how good he'll be in a few years.

[sbnufc]

 

cunts

[ponsaelius]

Nigeria have won 5 U17 World Cups and been runner up 3 times. Way more than any other country. That success never translates to U20 or full team, and the significant majority of the winning players disappear into thin air.

 

If they aren't fiddling the ages I'd be amazed.

[Beren]

Pretty much paying their fee for Gabriel Jesus. Good business from City.

 

Like it matters

[Foluwashola]

We should be fucking aal owa that.

[Dave]

Doesn't feel like a chance we'll be paying £20m+ for anyone.

[mighty__mag]

Thought we might have made some kind of approach for Iheanacho, obviously not a Rafa player.

[Tooj]

Doesn't feel like a chance we'll be paying £20m+ for anyone.

Totally agree with this unfortunately.

[nufc4eva]

Doesn't feel like a chance we'll be paying £20m+ for anyone.

Well we will be going straight back down then. I reckon we need to spend that on Striker and maybe attacking midfielder. The bar has been set by other smaller clubs this year and other teams will just raise prices now. It's mental really, but we have to compete unless we have a grand plan for sourcing from abroad. Mind we have the right manager to get the most of players we bring in.

 

I don't think we have to spend massive on every player, but in a few key positions we really do. I can't believe we aren't trying to compete for Ineacho, Giroud or Batshuayi - or maybe we are and they don't want to sign

[Mole_Toonfan]

I don't particularly agree with the notion of spending a third of our supposed budget on someone who might not actually be that good.

 

 

[Guest]

We should definitely be in for Iheanacho, even at that price.

[Ketsbaia]

Really pissed off about the Iheanacho deal. Class signing for Leicester, really starting to wonder who we're after.

[Altamullan]

We should definitely be in for Iheanacho, even at that price.

Yep. Like him and he's still only 20. Perhaps we're getting Vardy instead...

[Leazes_End_Mag]

Really p*ssed off about the Iheanacho deal. Class signing for Leicester, really starting to wonder who we're after.

Anyone who'll cost less than 10m.

[number9shirt]

Really p*ssed off about the Iheanacho deal. Class signing for Leicester, really starting to wonder who we're after.

Same here. What is going on at our club?

[Dave]

Admittedly based on nothing much but it feels like the biggest signings we'll make will be release clauses because the market has moved on substantially from what we apparently believe offers 'value'. When the likes of Bournemouth are quoted £20m for Ake and are willing to actually pay it, if we're not prepared to compete at that level on fees we'll simply not get who we really want. Selling clubs aren't daft, they know we have these stupid amounts of money available.

 

Our second biggest transfer was over 20 years ago.

 

[Stifler]

Admittedly based on nothing much but it feels like the biggest signings we'll make will be release clauses because the market has moved on substantially from what we apparently believe offers 'value'. When the likes of Bournemouth are quoted £20m for Ake and are willing to actually pay it, if we're not prepared to compete at that level on fees we'll simply not get who we really want. Selling clubs aren't daft, they know we have the money.

 

Our second biggest transfer was over 20 years ago.

Wasn't Winjaldum our 2nd most expensive signing?

[Dave]

Nope.

[Pilko]

Iheanacho for that price is "value" ffs, it's pretty cheap for a young player who has scored goals and will only continue to improve.

 

We're mugs for not being interested, but at least we'll save £17m and get some shite second rate French prick to become Riviere II eh. Every cloud #value

[Dave]

Didn't we spend about £25m on Cabella and Thauvin? Fuck's sake.

[Mole_Toonfan]

I genuinely don't know why people are upset by not spending 25m on someone who has played for like 5 minutes.

 

There's no real proof he's going to be amazing or anything, he just hasn't had enough playing time to know whether he's going to be great.

 

We have turned down opportunities to sign much better players for less than Iheanacho, I'm just not convinced he's going to live up to the hype.

 

He might but in no way is he going to be a sure fire hit.

[Pilko]

I genuinely don't know why people are upset by not spending 25m on someone who has played for like 5 minutes.

 

There's no real proof he's going to be amazing or anything, he just hasn't had enough playing time to know whether he's going to be great.

 

We have turned down opportunities to sign much better players for less than Iheanacho, I'm just not convinced he's going to live up to the hype.

 

He might but in no way is he going to be a sure fire hit.

 

Good point, spending money on anyone at all is far too risky.

[Mole_Toonfan]

Yeah because that's what I'm saying , just people are acting like he's a sure fire 20 a season scorer.

 

If he was as good as you all seem to think, better teams than Leicester would be signing him.

 

As I said we have rejected the chance to sign much better players than him before and nobody reacted so negatively to it.

 

[Rich]

Think he is just an expensive gamble, because it's really hard to evaluate someone who we've only seen in the most creative side in the division when he's played (and often in circumstances where they've been heavy favourites to win or chasing the game).

 

Still, you have to be quality to score at a rate like he has, but his overall game hasn't shown much just yet.

 

Even ignoring the fact we haven't ever spent anywhere near £25m, maybe at this current time with the budget we have he'd be seen as too much of a risk on someone the data/video is sorely lacking on?