Albrighton

[PeterWithesShin]

Cole is on a two year contract.

[conman]

Cole is on a two year contract.

hes on loan to coventry

[PeterWithesShin]

I know, that doesn't change that his contract with us is 2 years, not 3.

[glasses]

I know, that doesn't change that his contract with us is 2 years, not 3.

My mistake. Still, it's that sort of decision making that leads us to where we are right now.

[PeterWithesShin]

Purely guesswork but I wonder if a big part of us letting him go was that we had Grealish coming through.

[conman]

I know, that doesn't change that his contract with us is 2 years, not 3.

My mistake. Still, it's that sort of decision making that leads us to where we are right now.

exactly glasses ,,the length of joe coles contract is irrelevant ,,
its the fact we didnt give albrighton one ,,,,,,,but we gave him one instead

[glasses]

Maybe. That would point to us looking to save money, but then doesn't explain the ludicrous appointment of Cole with the 'saving' in the wage bill.

[PeterWithesShin]

Again purely guesswork, but I doubt we'd have played them both very often, whereas Cole and Jack could play together. Also, that Cole was bought in for experience and helping off the field. Maybe wishful thinking but Cole could help Jack in training etc a lot more than Marc would.

And it's worth remembering that while he is playing pretty well for Leicester, it's one game in the last 12 where has scored or had an assist. I'd have preferred to keep him and said so at the time, but it's not like he's turned into Messi since he left.

[glasses]

No and I know what you mean. People do make players out to be better ones when they no longer play for us. (And when they're not in the team)

He was a better player than Cole at the time though, and its an awful lot of money to pay to have someone with 'experience' not playing very often. With all due respect thats what coaches are for, and they are paid about a 10th of that. I'd go as far as saying Albrighton would have been a better role model off the pitch that Cole too. A local hard working lad who rose through the academy and knew the place inside out.

It's easy in hindsight, but the sheer amount of bad decisions at all levels outweigh the good ones in the last 4 or 5 years. They can't be coincidental.

[Dave]

He was a better player than Cole at the time though, and its an awful lot of money to pay to have someone with 'experience' not playing very often. With all due respect thats what coaches are for, and they are paid about a 10th of that. I'd go as far as saying Albrighton would have been a better role model off the pitch that Cole too. A local hard working lad who rose through the academy and knew the place inside out.

And worth offering a £40,000 per week, four year contract to?

[glasses]

He was a better player than Cole at the time though, and its an awful lot of money to pay to have someone with 'experience' not playing very often. With all due respect thats what coaches are for, and they are paid about a 10th of that. I'd go as far as saying Albrighton would have been a better role model off the pitch that Cole too. A local hard working lad who rose through the academy and knew the place inside out.

And worth offering a £40,000 per week, four year contract to?

If that was what Leicester were offering, that's what they were offering. We didn't even offer him the same contract again. We didn't try to keep him. Who's to say he wouldn't have stayed here at 2 or 3k above what he was earning? (supposedly £25k)

[Dave]

He was a better player than Cole at the time though, and its an awful lot of money to pay to have someone with 'experience' not playing very often. With all due respect thats what coaches are for, and they are paid about a 10th of that. I'd go as far as saying Albrighton would have been a better role model off the pitch that Cole too. A local hard working lad who rose through the academy and knew the place inside out.

And worth offering a £40,000 per week, four year contract to?

If that was what Leicester were offering, that's what they were offering. We didn't even offer him the same contract again. We didn't try to keep him. Who's to say he wouldn't have stayed here at 2 or 3k above what he was earning? (supposedly £25k)

Because a young fringe player is not likely to write off over £2 million of wages and a substantial signing-on fee just because of sentiment?

[conman]

He was a better player than Cole at the time though, and its an awful lot of money to pay to have someone with 'experience' not playing very often. With all due respect thats what coaches are for, and they are paid about a 10th of that. I'd go as far as saying Albrighton would have been a better role model off the pitch that Cole too. A local hard working lad who rose through the academy and knew the place inside out.

And worth offering a £40,000 per week, four year contract to?

If that was what Leicester were offering, that's what they were offering. We didn't even offer him the same contract again. We didn't try to keep him. Who's to say he wouldn't have stayed here at 2 or 3k above what he was earning? (supposedly £25k)

If Leicester were only too keen to pay albrighton 40 grand a week and we wasnt
 it just goes to show how far we have fallen behind ,, and not only in league positions ,

[glasses]

He was a better player than Cole at the time though, and its an awful lot of money to pay to have someone with 'experience' not playing very often. With all due respect thats what coaches are for, and they are paid about a 10th of that. I'd go as far as saying Albrighton would have been a better role model off the pitch that Cole too. A local hard working lad who rose through the academy and knew the place inside out.

And worth offering a £40,000 per week, four year contract to?

If that was what Leicester were offering, that's what they were offering. We didn't even offer him the same contract again. We didn't try to keep him. Who's to say he wouldn't have stayed here at 2 or 3k above what he was earning? (supposedly £25k)

Because a young fringe player is not likely to write off over £2 million of wages and a substantial signing-on fee just because of sentiment?

You think spending that £2m on Joe Cole was the better move then?

[Dave]

He was a better player than Cole at the time though, and its an awful lot of money to pay to have someone with 'experience' not playing very often. With all due respect thats what coaches are for, and they are paid about a 10th of that. I'd go as far as saying Albrighton would have been a better role model off the pitch that Cole too. A local hard working lad who rose through the academy and knew the place inside out.

And worth offering a £40,000 per week, four year contract to?

If that was what Leicester were offering, that's what they were offering. We didn't even offer him the same contract again. We didn't try to keep him. Who's to say he wouldn't have stayed here at 2 or 3k above what he was earning? (supposedly £25k)

Because a young fringe player is not likely to write off over £2 million of wages and a substantial signing-on fee just because of sentiment?

You think spending that £2m on Joe Cole was the better move then?

I'm absolutely certain that offering Marc Albrighton an £8m contract and offering Joe Cole a £2.5m contract weren't the only two options available to us.

Personally I'd have offered an £8m contract to somebody worth an £8m contract.