Leicester Bid £3 /£5/£7.5 million for Ulloa

[Papa Lazarou]

We are 2 strikers down anyway ( Barnes and Hoskins ), so perhaps with an 8 million fee we could buy one 5 million striker, and another 3 million striker.

We still have the 4 million from the Bridcutt + Barnes fees to spend on the rest of the team ( -650K Stephens cost ).

Also a lot of wages have recently been freed up on the budget ( Bridcutt, Kuszczak, Orlandi, Upson would all have been high earners. )

Yep.

Either way, Sami has the sort of room to recruit not seen for a few years here. It promises to be fun.

 

[forumwayseagull]

Yep.

Either way, Sami has the sort of room to recruit not seen for a few years here. It promises to be fun.

Exactly as I was thinking, have money in from transfers, wages freed up from 10 players leaving/end of loans..so SH will have clear chance to freshen things up. Assuming budget is similar to previous years, this time unlike last year most of it isn't already allocated..

 

[Hotchilidog]

I think you are deluding yourself that we aren't a selling club. The only difference between now and a few years ago is that the players we are selling are worth more. Of course we will sell Leo if he wants to go. We will try and get the highest price for him and the buyer will try and get him for the lowest price and the deal will be somewhere in the middle. Apart from the top few teams in the Premiership, everyone is a selling club. Look at Soton. Walcott, Bale, Shaw, Oxlade-Chamberlain. A selling club. Expect more from us when our youth start coming through.

It's more a matter of degree for me. In years past we'd have taken the money at much earlier stage of the negotiations. As we all know each players does have his price, I'd suggest that we are now in a position to get it rather than take the first offer. So it maybe that we are a selling club, but we no longer give valued players away to the first suitor that comes along.

 

[middletoenail]

We would be crazy to turn down 7m. 7 bloody million pounds!!

Yes. 7m.

 

[nwgull]

We would be crazy to turn down 7m. 7 bloody million pounds!!

Yes. 7m.

I'm glad it's not just me!

 

[Driver8]

We would be crazy to turn down 7m. 7 bloody million pounds!!

Yes. 7m.

How any replacement proven Championship strikers will we be able to buy for that £7m then?

 

[middletoenail]

How any replacement proven Championship strikers will we be able to buy for that £7m then?

How about 3.5x Leo Ulloas?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

People are mad if they think we'll pay over 1m for a single player this transfer window.

 

[sparkie]

How about 3.5x Leo Ulloas?

Why don't Leicester do this then, rather than get just 1 Leo Ulloa from us ?

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

We would be crazy to turn down 7m. 7 bloody million pounds!!

Yes. 7m.

We could make some good additions to the first team with that, surely.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Why don't Leicester do this then, rather than get just 1 Leo Ulloa from us ?

Coz they're in the Premier League - there's so little room for bedding players in there.

 

[middletoenail]

Why don't Leicester do this then, rather than get just 1 Leo Ulloa from us ?

Because they don't NEED to. They have premier league money so they don't need to shop in Aldi.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

How any replacement proven Championship strikers will we be able to buy for that £7m then?

How much did Grabban go for?
In all seriousness I can't see that we would splurge top dollar on a 'proven' striker, I think Bloom would prefer a gamble rather than get his fingers burnt against like with CMS(my opinion). I'd anticipate a league one striker or a relative unknown from elsewhere in Europe.

 

[nwgull]

How any replacement proven Championship strikers will we be able to buy for that £7m then?

How about 2x Charlie Austins (and that's a moneybags QPR valuation).

 

[middletoenail]

I think we have to be realistic here. To admit that 7m for Ulloa is not good business is nuts. By selling him it allows us to reinforce a squad seriously depleted, whilst aligning with stringent FFP rules.

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

People are mad if they think we'll pay over 1m for a single player this transfer window.

I think we would if Leo went for north of £7m

 

[B.W.]

Too many lightweights on here. We've asked for £10M. I wouldn't be surprised if we accepted £8M, but we DON'T have to sell, and we KNOW Leo will be nigh on impossible to replace.

 

[Braders]

The more this drags on the more I think we'll keep him..



.... only for him to rule himself out injured on the first day of the season *hopeI'mwrong*

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Too many lightweights on here. We've asked for £10M. I wouldn't be surprised if we accepted £8M, but we DON'T have to sell, and we KNOW Leo will be nigh on impossible to replace.

What if Hyppia doesn't deploy a target man? Do we keep him for the sake of it?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

If it is true that he wants to leave we could have another "Bridcutt" situation. Why does everybody think that Leicester are the frontrunners for his signature now other PL clubs have been alerted ? I believe this is an "come and get me" message to Poyet although we'll only get £8M max (perhaps we can throw in Buckley for an extra 2 mil)