[Football] NOT a rumour- Kelechi Iheanacho

Bladders · Jan 9, 2018

WhingForPresident said:
Slimani £28 mil, Musa £16 mil, Iheanacho £25 mil... c£70 million of attacking options with a return of one league goal between them this season from 4 starts and 17 sub appearances. Madness.

Might need to up our striker budget if we want better than that rubbish

HastingsSeagull · Jan 9, 2018

Looked good before coming to England then completely disappeared (it seemed).

Expect wages would be the biggest problem and there would be others to overcome too.

Seagull73 · Jan 9, 2018

Marshy said:
Slimani would fit the type we are after... again though wages have to be an issue.

Really?? I know nobody in a Leicester shirt played that well on Saturday, but he started up front against Fleetwood and, frankly, was gash. And that was against two bog-standard clogging League 1 centre-halves. I couldn't believe it when the commentator said he cost £28mm.

Justice · Jan 9, 2018

Bold Seagull said:
Talking of Leicester strikers, my mate saw Ulloa jogging along the seafront yesterday.

Looking for the ball after that penalty?

Dick Head · Jan 9, 2018

JJ McClure said:
Iheanacho is an odd one to work out. Didn't get much game time at City but when he played he always seemed to do well. Got a big money move to Leicester - assumedly to get more first team football and can't seem to get near the team. I'm not surprised there are rumour about Leicester be prepared to sell, but he'd be too costly in both fee and wages for us.

It's NOT a rumour.

jimhigham · Jan 9, 2018

BadFish said:
Maybe we could swap him for Murray

Just the mention of Murray has reminded me of last night and now I feel all lovely.

LlcoolJ · Jan 9, 2018

Presumably the only reason Leicester can afford to have that many strikers on massive wages is because they were in the Champions League (still sounds strange). Their wage bill must be a monster.

Kalimantan Gull · Jan 9, 2018

WhingForPresident said:
Slimani £28 mil, Musa £16 mil, Iheanacho £25 mil... c£70 million of attacking options with a return of one league goal between them this season from 4 starts and 17 sub appearances. Madness.

It really is a complete failure of recruitment by the Leicester owners. They win the league, and with the attention and champions league qualification and money and everything they have a real chance to push on and build a dynasty. And what do they do? Buy a load of ultimately overpriced strikers and give virtually no attention to the rest of the team. Two years on they are still playing largely the same team, feels like an opportunity missed.

LlcoolJ · Jan 9, 2018

Kalimantan Gull said:
It really is a complete failure of recruitment by the Leicester owners. They win the league, and with the attention and champions league qualification and money and everything they have a real chance to push on and build a dynasty. And what do they do? Buy a load of ultimately overpriced strikers and give virtually no attention to the rest of the team. Two years on they are still playing largely the same team, feels like an opportunity missed.

Yes it does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo

elwheelio · Jan 9, 2018

Kalimantan Gull said:
It really is a complete failure of recruitment by the Leicester owners. They win the league, and with the attention and champions league qualification and money and everything they have a real chance to push on and build a dynasty. And what do they do? Buy a load of ultimately overpriced strikers and give virtually no attention to the rest of the team. Two years on they are still playing largely the same team, feels like an opportunity missed.

Agreed. It also shows what a gamble it is to spend big money on strikers without a lot of PL experience. Slimani was highly rated and Iheanacho did well in cameo appearances for City but combined cost £53m and produced nothing of note. I'm sure we'd all have been delighted to sign a player of this calibre at the start of the season; it just goes to show the difficulty of the task we have in finding a good striker. Big money on any player without a proven track record in a decent league is a gamble but it's one we're going to have to take.

djentist · Jan 9, 2018

Wages and asking price are likely far too much, I'd have him though

maffew · Jan 10, 2018

What do reckon the expected weekly wage would be/do able say we went as high as 25m fo a striker?

100k plus sounds ludicrously high (I havent the faintest idea what the going rates at our level)

OzMike · Jan 10, 2018

What sort of wages are our players on at the moment then ?

glasfryn · Jan 10, 2018

maybe he ca bring Leo with him

BensGrandad · Jan 10, 2018

OzMike said:
What sort of wages are our players on at the moment then ?

Reports that it is £45k per week for the top earners., who they are I leave you to think as I dont know. and have very little idea except those rthat have signed new or improved contracts.

BensGrandad · Jan 10, 2018

glasfryn said:
maybe he ca bring Leo with him

Just Leo would be an improvement.

Pavilionaire · Jan 16, 2018

Sky sources saying Leicester will listen to offers for Iheanacho, Ulloa and Musa.

OzMike · Jan 16, 2018

Hard to find any serious sites that have any idea who we are linked with.
Sporting life have a 'Paper Talk' feature on their site and they mention everybody else but us and when they dp the info is usually trivial.
This is the latest apparently.
' Chris Hughton has been promised funds in January to add a high-profile striker to his shot-shy squad.'
So, only expect one player then.

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