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Anthony Knockaert signs a 3.5 year deal with the Albion



beefypigeon

Well-known member
Aug 14, 2008
970
If this one comes off, I'd be very excited.

He appears to have all the ingredients to be a great winger; skillful, great left foot, set piece specialist, vision, can finish. What's not to like?
 




Zebedee

Anyone seen Florence?
Jul 8, 2003
8,047
Hangleton
If......such a small word but.....
 


Moshe Gariani

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2005
12,180
Post on the championship forum made good reading.

'Knockaert! Now there's a cult hero if there ever was one.

Remember when we signed him and he was a completely different kind of player from what I'd seen at Leicester before. Used to do things with a football which made your jaw drop, he can be a bit frustrating at times, but he'd be playing football at a far higher level if he didn't have that frustrating side, when he's at his game he just runs games at this level and is completely unplayable. No exaggeration to say if I was making a list of my top 10 favourite Leicester goals, 4 of them would be Knockaet goals.

His biggest problem was we signed Mahrez, who was even better, but you'll be hard pressed to find a better flair player at Championship level than him, superb signing for Brighton if they get him.

Still a big fan's favourite here and would get a great reception if he ever came back to the KP as an opposing player.'
This is worth repeating..!! Signing one of the best/favourite players from a strong promotion winning team seems like quite a good thing.
 


dwayne

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
16,132
London
Leicester finished last season in title winning form. No chance of relegation when you finish like that.

He wasn't playing so would have been part of the reason.

Anyway we need to at least match his Leicester salary from a year ago.
The reason he left Leicester is because he fell out with Pearson (who wasn't playing him) ..... Quite simple really
 


nwgull

Well-known member
Jul 25, 2003
14,500
Manchester
Its odd though, maybe.something lost in translation. Yesterday the club accepted our.second offer as the player was keen yet the players dad says hes not excited
Is his dad his agent? Either way, he wouldn't want to appear too keen to be able to negotiate the best deal possible.
 




LamieRobertson

Not awoke
Feb 3, 2008
48,229
SHOREHAM BY SEA
He doesn't sound enthusiastic from that article. I hope we can agree personal terms.
It would be disappointing if this fell by the wayside now.

Maybe an honest reply partly lost by the guys use of English ...and one never knows the tone of a guy's voice ....of course he could have trotted out the usual stuff full of cliches etc ....just my observation
 


Hugo Rune

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NSC Patron
Feb 23, 2012
23,558
Brighton
A challenge for Solly perhaps? He'll get his starting place straight back if we sign VLP but Knockaert is a different prospect. As has been mentioned, with LuaLua & Knockers on the flanks, we are a completely different proposition to the team we've been since March got injured. Very exciting indeed.
 


8ace

Banned
Jul 21, 2003
23,811
Brighton
Maybe an honest reply partly lost by the guys use of English ...and one never knows the tone of a guy's voice ....of course he could have trotted out the usual stuff full of cliches etc ....just my observation

Google Translate's use of english more like.
 






Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Maybe an honest reply partly lost by the guys use of English ...and one never knows the tone of a guy's voice ....of course he could have trotted out the usual stuff full of cliches etc ....just my observation

I hope so. I'll wait until his photo with the shirt before I get 'excited'.
 






Urchin

New member
Aug 1, 2011
820
I see French press reporting the fee as €3.5m, which comes to £2.6m. Will this break our previous record fee paid for CMS?
 








Diego Napier

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Mar 27, 2010
4,416
A challenge for Solly perhaps? He'll get his starting place straight back if we sign VLP but Knockaert is a different prospect. As has been mentioned, with LuaLua & Knockers on the flanks, we are a completely different proposition to the team we've been since March got injured. Very exciting indeed.

Solly won't be back this season so no challenge there. If we get to the promised land with Knockaert's help that would be great but there would be no guarantees for him playing next year if we manage it.
 


NooBHA

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Jan 13, 2015
8,591
Solly won't be back this season so no challenge there. If we get to the promised land with Knockaert's help that would be great but there would be no guarantees for him playing next year if we manage it.


If we made it to the Premiership, there would be no guarantees for any of them I don't think, with the exceptions of maybe Kayal and Stephens.
 












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