Post Match Everton 1 Leicester 1

[camberwell fox]

Your post beat mine by seconds

Hopefully they were similar?

 

[camberwell fox]

Hopefully they were similar?

Take a look, you twat...

 

[mabrah]

Now don't go calling yourself a twat... let me do it for you.

 

[pork pie fox]

I agree it is difficult. When you look back though, Maguire was sold and we bought Fofana, Soyuncu and just before hat Benjovic. 2 out of those 3 are brilliant signings.

LB is another case in question, we sold Chilwell ( I know not everyone rated him but Chelsea DID), and we replaced with Castagne and Justin with Thomas in just behind them.

My point is we have a conveyor belt of players coming in for all positions bar 2 and this bodes very well not only as an underpin to our sell 1/development strategy but also to having a much stronger squad (with depth) and competition in all positions.

I firmly believe our model is correct, sustainable and leads to continued success.

I'm not saying it's easy but.....

Kante - Ndidi
Maguire - Soyuncu
Chilwell - JJ

Look at how we've invested the transfer money. Ricardo, Castagne, Maddison, Fofana.
Tilemans or Ndidi won't leave this summer but I bet Leicester will recruit their replacements this summer.
As long as we only sell one top players in the season the squad can cope whilst the replacement gets up to speed, it's like pruning a tree to make it grow back stronger.
I wouldn't want any off our squad to leave (except the obvious ones) but I have faith in Leicester to replace them if they do.

I think 99% of people would leave their current employer if they was offered a 100% pay rise with a competitor, it's human nature.

I agree with our model. I like the way we do things.

But to pick out a couple of your examples:
- We didn’t sign Ndidi until a bit after Kante left, so there was a period where we suffered without a replacement.
- Soyuncu and JJ were signed before the players they were replacing had left. If, as per the discussion above, Ndidi and Tielemans were to leave in the summer, who have we already bought to replace them?

As I say, I like the way we do things, but there comes a point where that’s increasingly difficult to do, especially when you’re replacing players to go straight in at the top end of the game.

 

[alex]

I actually think Youri Tielemans is potentially one of the greatest talents in world football. He's a season away from De Bruyne level for me. Silly good.

 

[LoopisDeLupis]

I actually think Youri Tielemans is potentially one of the greatest talents in world football. He's a season away from De Bruyne level for me. Silly good.

As @tedfoxxx regularly states, he often looks like he's barely even trying. Mark of a great.

 

[Miles Away]

Tielemans and Ndidi are world class. Could play for any team in the world.

I expect them to move on at some point. That said, Youri is clearly loving working with Rodgers.

 

[SJN-Fox]

Finding quality replacements is all well and good but in these post brexit times that will be easier said than done.

 

[Graz]

I loved seeing Youri as captain in the cup game last week.

I'd give him that role when Morgan goes. I like the captain to be centre back or centre mid, and Youri is the heartbeat of our team now.

Make him captain and build the team around him if we can keep him.

 

[Payne74]

Probably only 3 teams in the premier league that could afford him.
Both Manchester clubs and Chelsea, nobody else will pay the £100 million for him.

 

[LoopisDeLupis]

Probably only 3 teams in the premier league that could afford him.
Both Manchester clubs and Chelsea, nobody else will pay the £100 million for him.

120 thanks. If Maguire is worth 80...

 

[Payne74]

120 thanks. If Maguire is worth 80...

Maguire wasn't worth £80 million it's just Utd we're stupid enough to pay it.
In today's Covid market £100 million for a player that isn't playing in the champions league would be a good fee.

 

[Miles Away]

Chelsea must be gunshy signing our players at this point?

we’ve had their pants down twice.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Chelsea must be gunshy signing our players at this point?

we’ve had their pants down twice.

Yeah but they got Kanté for peanuts, relatively speaking, for a player of that standard

 

[parafox]

Yeah but they got Kanté for peanuts, relatively speaking, for a player of that standard

That was before the market really exploded though wasn't it? We'd easily get double what we got for him if we sold him now.

 

[Jeff]

That was before the market really exploded though wasn't it? We'd easily get double what we got for him if we sold him now.

When we sold him he was worth a lot more, but he had a clause in his contract that meant we had to accept Chelsea's offer.

 

[Feriol]

That was before the market really exploded though wasn't it? We'd easily get double what we got for him if we sold him now.

We would have got more at the time if it wasn't for a release clause.

 

[Feriol]

When we sold him he was worth a lot more, but he had a clause in his contract that meant we had to accept Chelsea's offer.

just beat me to it.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Yeah, I remember saying at the time they’d got him cheap

 

[parafox]

We would have got more at the time if it wasn't for a release clause.

Ah you're right, I remember being annoyed we put such a small one in.