Leicester after £6.5m Leo Ulloa

[KZNSeagull]

Invest for the future of the club - definitely keep him.

 

[somerset]

Was Wood really that good? hardly memorable.

He was very average..... Just like he who headed for Burnley.

 

[Simster]

Was Wood really that good? hardly memorable.

Wood, Barnes, Vokes - all competent without looking top class. And Ulloa is FAR better than all of them.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The same Nugent who has looked like dog ploppy every time he's played at The Amex.
The same Nugent who slotted home 10 of his 22 goals from the spot.

Nugent has failed in the Premier League before, personally I don't see him setting it alight next season either. Leicester will be desperate for strikers as their other main forward is Vardy, who was playing for Fleetwood Town in the conference just over two years ago, albeit to prolific effect.

 

[stss30]

In 18 more games.

Basically I'm not having Nugent in a swap for Leo, no matter how much money Leicester are prepared to throw at the deal.

I just think Ulloa is a tad overrated by some on here, he has scored some important goals but I'm not sure whether he is clinical enough for a good side in the Premiership, case in point his early miss vs Forest.

 

[Mowgli37]

£6.5 million is a lot of money.

Leonardo scores a lot of goals.

These goals could bag us over £100 million.

He stays.

 

[smudge]

Sell the fulcrum if our team on the cheap? Madness.

 

[Comedy Steve]

All these comments saying, "Yes, £xm plus Wood...", do these people realise that swap deals are less than 1% of all transfers? If he gets sold, it'll be for a fee.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Depends on the potential fee, and who you could get with the money. Austin, Rhodes and Ings are all better footballers than Leo, would command similar fees, and are respectively 3, 4 and 6 years younger.

 

[Triggaaar]

The only person who thought Bridcutt was worth £8 million was Poyet with his Real Madrid quote. Funny that he then didn't want to pay it....

Yep. But he wasn't a striker.

Deal of the century

Because we're going to do what with the money? Spend half of it on yet another bang average central midfielder and then spend the rest of it on loans for other teams cast offs...

For the third time in recent years we have a decent striker and yet again everyone is desperate to see the back of him

Exactly.

6.5m? Yes please.

As above, what are we going to do with it? We're running at a loss of £8m a year to try and win promotion. There's no point halving that loss with no hope of promotion. We'd need a replacement signed before we could let him go.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Deal of the century

Because we're going to do what with the money? Spend half of it on yet another bang average central midfielder and then spend the rest of it on loans for other teams cast offs...

For the third time in recent years we have a decent striker and yet again everyone is desperate to see the back of him

this

 

[Thunder Bolt]

To be fair if we failed to get promotion I think we’d be foolish not to accept that offer as long as Oscar could reinvest the 4 million profit in the summer.

Pretty crappy timing from Leicester and the press in the lead up to such an important game for us though, couldn’t they wait a week before potentially unsettling our star striker!

This.

 

[Giraffe]

Pace matters in the Premiership more than it does in the Championship. I think Leo might struggle a little bit as he is pretty slow.

But if we sell him we would have to buy again for similar money so why sell unless it's a daft price? I wouldn't let him go for less £10m.

 

[stss30]

Depends on the potential fee, and who you could get with the money. Austin, Rhodes and Ings are all better footballers than Leo, would command similar fees, and are respectively 3, 4 and 6 years younger.

This. Rhodes cost £8m and he is quite clearly a better player than Ulloa. I wouldn't be happy to sell him, don't get me wrong, but if we have a replacement lined up £6.5m is about the going rate imo.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

We're running at a loss of £8m a year to try and win promotion.

It was around that in League one; currently the football club operation's losses are running at £14.8m/pa, excluding anything attributable the stadium itself and the Lancing Training facility (because the football club doesn't own either).
I don't know but maybe the Board may wish to reduce the hemorrhage.

 

[Stat Brother]

Why do people want the money just so long as £xm can be invested in a replacement.

It doesn't make sense.

Why replace the player who fits into the system, with someone who may not, just for the sake of having a couple of million left over.
How much will that couple of million be worth in a misfiring team, next year?

 

[Triggaaar]

It was around that in League one; currently the football club operation's losses are running at £14.8m/pa, excluding anything attributable the stadium itself and the Lancing Training facility (because the football club doesn't own either).

Barber said we were on target to meet FFP this year, which means the losses wouldn't be over £8m. They were higher the year before.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Why do people want the money just so long as £xm can be invested in a replacement.

It doesn't make sense.

Why replace the player who fits into the system, with someone who may not, just for the sake of having a couple of million left over.
How much will that couple of million be worth in a misfiring team, next year?

You are wrong. It makes perfect sense, and is how football works. You either trust your management team to make the right calls, or you have the wrong people. Sometimes (not always) it IS the right decision to cash in on a player and reinvest.

Take Burnley for example. Over the last two years, to outsiders, did it look good business, to cash in on Jay Rodriguez and Charlie Austin, pocket a load of cash, and replace them with Danny Ings and Sam Vokes?

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Exactly. He's clearly Premier league class and Leicester are sensibly planning for next season with what would be a cheap option if he was honestly the difference between staying up and relegation next season. He's probably the hottest property outside the top division with the possible exception of Danny Ings and Keiran Trippier.

I think you'll find that Ings and Trippier are no longer outside the top division ....

 

[Simster]

You are wrong. It makes perfect sense, and is how football works. You either trust your management team to make the right calls, or you have the wrong people. Sometimes (not always) it IS the right decision to cash in on a player and reinvest.

Take Burnley for example. Over the last two years, to outsiders, did it look good business, to cash in on Jay Rodriguez and Charlie Austin, pocket a load of cash, and replace them with Danny Ings and Sam Vokes?

Or closer to home, selling a sulking Liam Bridcutt doesn't appear to have done us much harm either.