Youri Tielemans

[Dante Lavelli]

He wouldn’t have been short of offers, so we must’ve sold ‘the project’ to him (alongside the pay rise) which suggests the owners are ambitious as ever.

[RamboandBruno]

Great signing this. Very good player and although he’s had a difficult year or so, we simply wouldn’t of attracted him to the club a year ago.

[Dave P]

Aren’t wages also part of FFP?

Yes but it’s amortised. A £40m signing on £80k a week on a 5 year contract equates to £12.16m a year for FFP. A free signing on £100k a week on a 5 year contract is £5.2m a year for FFP

[Brazilian Villain]

Aren’t wages also part of FFP?

Yes but it’s amortised. A £40m signing on £80k a week on a 5 year contract equates to £12.16m a year for FFP. A free signing on £100k a week on a 5 year contract is £5.2m a year for FFP

Plus if we sold him for £20m after 2 years we'd take a £4m hit to FFP (if we signed him for £40m over 5 years) whereas now we'd get a £20m 'credit'.

[OCD]

Leicester fans have to realise they've been poorly run the last couple of years. They bought a player for £40m (maybe could have got a better deal if it had been arranged before the loan move) and allowed themselves to reach a point where he's walked away after 4 years on a Bosman. Then there's the point that they've got about 10/11 players who's contracts all expire this summer.

Selling Schmeichel and not replacing him properly, then relying heavily on an ageing Vardy and a centre back who's always injured (Evans).

They needed to invest last summer but they didn't. They needed to sack Rodgers earlier but they didn't (the talk was they couldn't afford to pay up his contract).

Just an utter shit show and relegation is the price.

[pauliewalnuts]

Leicester have dropped two bollocks.

The simultaneous contract expiry thing is a big one. Apart from anything else, in a relegation struggle you won’t get the best out of a bunch of people who know 100% they can leave and get big wedge elsewhere.

The other one is waiting far too long to pot Rodgers

Dean Smith needs to get himself a better agent, too, Leicester were an unstoppable juggernaut of apathy heading toward the cliff edge.

[N'ZMAV]

Dean Smith needs to get himself a better agent, too, Leicester were an unstoppable juggernaut of apathy heading toward the cliff edge.

2 relegations in a row for Smith

[Dogtanian]

Dean Smith needs to get himself a better agent, too, Leicester were an unstoppable juggernaut of apathy heading toward the cliff edge.

2 relegations in a row for Smith

Smith shouldn’t have taken the Norwich job. There was no way he was keeping them up, they’d had two promotions under Farke, not spent in either of them despite selling off and losing some if their better players. He was on a hiding to nothing.

When I last looked at their accounts, they seem to lose £60-70m holding onto their squad in the Championship and then used the PL money to cover it when they got promoted. Hence why they can’t spend in the Prem and two capable managers have been unable to keep them up.

The Leicester job was understandable. It was far enough along in their death throes that the blame was never going to be attached to him and to be fair, he got 9 points from 8 games with them I think? While not spectacular, over a season that wouldn’t have relegated them.

I think if he gets the job full time, and I believe he is on their list, that might be a great opportunity for him to get settled again and build a good team.

[algy]

Agree with all of that. Norwich as a club seem to be apply as one of the better Championship clubs, and as of such it was pretty much impossible for Deano to succeed there. If he keeps the Leicester job, and they give him enough time, he'll do alright there.

[JUAN PABLO]

Blimey, that Foxes Talk place is full of delusional twats.

now you know with me living in Hinckley , why I wanted the twats down .  I have put up with their delusion about them and Villa for years .


fuck em

[OCD]

I think if he gets the job full time, and I believe he is on their list, that might be a great opportunity for him to get settled again and build a good team.

Once they've been gutted they'll be starting from scratch. Who knows what they'll have to spend.

[Dante Lavelli]

Aren’t wages also part of FFP?

Yes but it’s amortised. A £40m signing on £80k a week on a 5 year contract equates to £12.16m a year for FFP. A free signing on £100k a week on a 5 year contract is £5.2m a year for FFP

Thanks Dave. Excellent illustration of the benefits from a FFP perspective .

[KevinGage]

I think if he gets the job full time, and I believe he is on their list, that might be a great opportunity for him to get settled again and build a good team.

Once they've been gutted they'll be starting from scratch. Who knows what they'll have to spend.

They'll still be a big pull player-wise down in the Championship based on fairly recent history. Unless they're totally boracic lint.

Whatever happened to Steve Walsh?  The scout, rather than the lumbering CB. He was king of the bargain buys for a time there.

[Dave]

Whatever happened to Steve Walsh?  The scout, rather than the lumbering CB. He was king of the bargain buys for a time there.

He left them to spend countless millions on mediocre players for Everton, until they sacked him.

Now signing players like Ashley Westwood for Charlotte FC in MLS.

[KevinGage]

His data modelling must be totally shot if the best answer that pops out is 'Ashley Westwood.'