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Leicester City do retain a strong interest in QPR’s Ilias Chair and expect them to step up their interest before the transfer window closes. Rangers want to keep Chair and would prefer to cash in on fellow playmaker Chris Willock instead #LCFC#Leicester#QPR
With 2-5 million being mentioned, i am just surprised it is not at least 10 m or more
He is a fringe Moroccan national team player, played at the last world cup, is an attacking player / playmaker, has good stats for this division, contracted with some years still to go, only 5 m-ish?
At most clubs he’d be a £10m player in today’s market easily but it’s not exactly a secret we’re skint.
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Chair to Leicester? on 10:32 - Aug 16 with 2524 views
At most clubs he’d be a £10m player in today’s market easily but it’s not exactly a secret we’re skint.
We'll forever be skint if we don't start getting decent money for our players.
BOS, Manning, Dieng, Dickie all left for well below their 'peak' value for various reasons, we need to get smarter at selling players on.
If we can't get a good price for one of the division's best players, with a decent amount of time left on his contract, then we may as well give up on the development idea.
At most clubs he’d be a £10m player in today’s market easily but it’s not exactly a secret we’re skint.
Just because we have a management team that's clever enough to amplify our supposed/projected straitened fiscal circs as much as possible (while, some might feel oddly, we throw cup competitions season on season, hire and fire managers on a regular basis to generate multiple eyewatering compensation liabilities, pursue a policy of producing no players at all through our 'development' system that can be sold on for profits (or indeed any money at all), and make no effort to maximise revenue income from LR, preferring instead to talk the ground down to the, uh, ground as often as possible), why should that mean we take a lower-than-market-value bid for a top Championship international player? Chair is under contract, hasn't expressed any desire to leave, and, whatever one or two posters say, we DO hold the cards. If Leicester come knocking, we can, and should, tell them an early offer of £10m is a starting point for negotiations, and see what happens from there. That would mean being a club that does business realistically rather than one run with a permanent inferiority complex and aura of hand-over-fist desperation, however.
If it were me, I would defer any deal until next summer, unless we want to blow a big hole in our season this year and make it harder to secure our Champ status. (Which some at the club may, of course.) It would also be utter foolishness to sell without a skilled and seasoned replacement lined up, though it won't surprise me either if we offload two or even three of Chair, Willock and Field toward the end of the window just to raise everyone's anxieties all over again. Still, I'm sure Uncle is chomping at the bit to cover all bases, and the seething intensity of Richards is waiting in the wings.
If we can retain Chair, somehow reboot Willock, and add two or three quality loans, by contrast, we may have a chance of some semblance of competitiveness. The idea of being a football club is that you get better year by year, give some (head)room to dream, and respect your fanbase. As I've been told, I'm old-fashioned that way.
Ilias often slows the game down which would not suit teams like Leicester who like to move forward quickly so I would be surprised if he went there and if he did I don't see him being a regular starter.
Maybe he wouldn't slow down the game in a better, pacier team.
We'll forever be skint if we don't start getting decent money for our players.
BOS, Manning, Dieng, Dickie all left for well below their 'peak' value for various reasons, we need to get smarter at selling players on.
If we can't get a good price for one of the division's best players, with a decent amount of time left on his contract, then we may as well give up on the development idea.
Very true. We are skint so we cannot get the best price for our players and because we cannot get the best price we are skint and so on and so and so on.
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Chair to Leicester? on 13:27 - Aug 16 with 1930 views
Ilias often slows the game down which would not suit teams like Leicester who like to move forward quickly so I would be surprised if he went there and if he did I don't see him being a regular starter.
Think he quite often slows the game down because so few of our players are moving or anticipating wherever he is going to play the ball put him in a better team and with more movement then we might see exactly what he can do
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Chair to Leicester? on 17:35 - Aug 16 with 1430 views
I could go on X/Twitter now, without any evidence, and put Field is going to Odds and Sods for £2m and some people here would believe it. Twitter is like reading a toilet door.
I could go on X/Twitter now, without any evidence, and put Field is going to Odds and Sods for £2m and some people here would believe it. Twitter is like reading a toilet door.
Oh FFS, if we let him join Fulham for that, we need shooting.
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