Adrien Silva

[lcfcrules]

It is the daily mirror though. Wouldn't surprise me if they made up the opposite bollocks tomorrow. Either way, when a decision finally comes, they will claim to have exclusively revealed it.

 

[SilverFox]

Good if true.

 

[SilverFox]

So the Merc is saying that we are confident of our chances on appeal, not that we have succeeded.

 

[LudlowFox]

Confident is the sort of thing you say publicly. You don't say 'we are giving it a go but frankly we expect the finger'

Let's wait and see. Personally, I'm not confident.

 

[deleted member]

It is the daily mirror though. Wouldn't surprise me if they made up the opposite bollocks tomorrow. Either way, when a decision finally comes, they will claim to have exclusively revealed it.

Possibly made up but those papers sometimes report info that has leaked from insiders who want to remain anonymous. I guess only time will tell.

 

[SJN-Fox]

 

[deleted member]

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Until there is an official announcement or any news anything in the media is just speculation.

 

[SJN-Fox]

I would have thought that coming from the manager during the press conference is probably about as close as you're gonna get.

 

[dpjfox]

Absolute embarrassment from the start (messing about linking Drinkwater transfer), fail;ing to hit agreed extension. Mass of people jumping on the newspaper bandwagon claiming they are in the know and Silva move imminent. Truth is the club saying feck all, not even to the manager!!!. Its pointless puttingin an appeal unless theres a cast iron case. imo we wont even bother appealing, its our fault entirely now the club are dragging out the saga instead of coming clean. the best we can hope for is that hes allowed to train with the team till January, then we will delay putting him in the team until he plays 5/6 development team games. We would have been better off (having realised our error, to leave him at Sporting until January Theres still no sign of Ibborra being put in the first team and he signed mid summer . bloody shambles

 

[Blue Maniac]

Absolute embarrassment from the start (messing about linking Drinkwater transfer), fail;ing to hit agreed extension. Mass of people jumping on the newspaper bandwagon claiming they are in the know and Silva move imminent. Truth is the club saying feck all, not even to the manager!!!. Its pointless puttingin an appeal unless theres a cast iron case. imo we wont even bother appealing, its our fault entirely now the club are dragging out the saga instead of coming clean. the best we can hope for is that hes allowed to train with the team till January, then we will delay putting him in the team until he plays 5/6 development team games. We would have been better off (having realised our error, to leave him at Sporting until January Theres still no sign of Ibborra being put in the first team and he signed mid summer . bloody shambles

You're just hopeless, aren't you?

 

[Brown Nose]

Absolute embarrassment from the start (messing about linking Drinkwater transfer), fail;ing to hit agreed extension. Mass of people jumping on the newspaper bandwagon claiming they are in the know and Silva move imminent. Truth is the club saying feck all, not even to the manager!!!. Its pointless puttingin an appeal unless theres a cast iron case. imo we wont even bother appealing, its our fault entirely now the club are dragging out the saga instead of coming clean. the best we can hope for is that hes allowed to train with the team till January, then we will delay putting him in the team until he plays 5/6 development team games. We would have been better off (having realised our error, to leave him at Sporting until January Theres still no sign of Ibborra being put in the first team and he signed mid summer . bloody shambles

I don't think the club has done much wrong here. Hopefully, sense will prevail and we can get on with Silva in the squad.

The club didn't tell Drinkwater to get his head turned. They didn't down tools with a fake injury and, according to media reports, on the instruction of his agent, agitate for a move on deadline day itself.

The club sensibly set a very high asking price and stuck to it. It wasn't their fault that Chelsea left it until the last hour of the window to match that price. The club had Chelsea's pants down with that deal. It was excellent work.

Even then, the club had a perfectly sensible back up plan all ready and had the player primed to join in Leicester with an agreement in place. It wasn't their fault that Sporting Lisbon demanded more money late on the deadline day as well. For the second deadline day in succession, the Sporting boss had our pants down.

All that and we missed one of several forms by 14 seconds. And in all likelihood end up with a better player and a fat profit.

 

[popillius]

I don't think the club has done much wrong here. Hopefully, sense will prevail and we can get on with Silva in the squad.

The club didn't tell Drinkwater to get his head turned. They didn't down tools with a fake injury and, according to media reports, on the instruction of his agent, agitate for a move on deadline day itself.

The club sensibly set a very high asking price and stuck to it. It wasn't their fault that Chelsea left it until the last hour of the window to match that price. The club had Chelsea's pants down with that deal. It was excellent work.

Even then, the club had a perfectly sensible back up plan all ready and had the player primed to join in Leicester with an agreement in place. It wasn't their fault that Sporting Lisbon demanded more money late on the deadline day as well. For the second deadline day in succession, the Sporting boss had our pants down.

All that and we missed one of several forms by 14 seconds. And in all likelihood end up with a better player and a fat profit.

A very reasoned post. I have been extremely disappointed and agitated by the club's part in this saga and have vocalised such thoughts on the matter but put like this there's something in what you say.

When you see it all unfolded in black and white like this I suppose it is pretty harsh to level huge amounts of blame at the club.

 

[fitz]

Until there is an official announcement or any news anything in the media is just speculation.

Not sure why they'd make up his wife being up the duff

Edit - she could be expecting something else of course.

 

[popillius]

Not sure why they'd make up his wife being up the duff

Edit - she could be expecting something else of course.

Like an email confirming her husband's loan move?

 

[pork pie fox]

Absolute embarrassment from the start (messing about linking Drinkwater transfer), fail;ing to hit agreed extension. Mass of people jumping on the newspaper bandwagon claiming they are in the know and Silva move imminent. Truth is the club saying feck all, not even to the manager!!!. Its pointless puttingin an appeal unless theres a cast iron case. imo we wont even bother appealing, its our fault entirely now the club are dragging out the saga instead of coming clean. the best we can hope for is that hes allowed to train with the team till January, then we will delay putting him in the team until he plays 5/6 development team games. We would have been better off (having realised our error, to leave him at Sporting until January Theres still no sign of Ibborra being put in the first team and he signed mid summer . bloody shambles

Is this for real?

 

[Blaarev]

Is this for real?

Sociedad?

 

[Skitzo]

to be fair Chelsea's interest in Drinkwater was known about for a long time and we didn't have to wait for DD to be sold to buy Silva financially so we should have gotten Silva done well in advance

 

[Redditch Fox]

There is a funny side to all this fret about Silva. Reports suggest that he's injured in any case. So in true Leicester style with new signings, even if he had been cleared to play, he wouldn't be available.

Best we can hope for is a successful appeal and it will be about November before he will be picked for the first team.

djfox is maybe a bit OTT on this one but the club has not improved its illustrious (not) recent record in the transfer market or player rewards dealings. Are we so wealthy that money can be thrown at Ulloa (basically paid not to play) and the unfortunate James?

 

[Redditch Fox]

to be fair Chelsea's interest in Drinkwater was known about for a long time and we didn't have to wait for DD to be sold to buy Silva financially so we should have gotten Silva done well in advance

We've heard a lot of rubbish about Leicester playing 'hard ball' with Chelsea.
In fact, it's true that we got a decent fee for DD but playing hard ball would have meant not permitting DD to leave the club until we had secured a replacement.

 

[SilverFox]

We've heard a lot of rubbish about Leicester playing 'hard ball' with Chelsea.
In fact, it's true that we got a decent fee for DD but playing hard ball would have meant not permitting DD to leave the club until we had secured a replacement.

We did...unfortunately we are incompetent.