£3m+ and a decent replacement lined up and it would be a good bit of business.

As much as I've come to rate Kasper over the last year and appreciate the passion and commitment he brought to the Leicester shirt, if he wants a shot at te prem, let him go for the right price.

Per Camp would be my choice as a replacement but wages may be a stubbing block there also.

Hopefully Nige has a good replacement lined up.

Why we would do any business with Hull seems strange to me particularly after the fuss they made when we came in for Pearson.

I can only think there may be players coming in the other direction. Jack Hobbs maybe? is a Pearson favourite

Perhaps even Matt Fryatt - Just the kind of player we could of done with at times last season

Kasper joined Leicester to play Premiership football with us thats not happened. So he now needs to play Premiership football.

We are not in the best negotiating position every one knows we have to sell to meet the you know what.

Eh Ferry bot mate Ni has got it covered he's resigned Logan the world class understudy to Kasper (Before Blue kicks off is a joke! Well almost.

Frankly, Leicester should be kicking off about this because Hull's offer of £1.25m is an insult. We may well end up selling him but we should be looking for £3m+ for the reasons mentioned above, and regardless of only having a year left on his contract. You don't get promoted by flogging your best players on the cheap.

If Hull don't cough up, as long as it doesn't scupper us on FFP I definitely think letting Kasper run his last year down is better for us than a pathetic £1m now.

I'd also throw the sly dig in that we thought the moral and upstanding club like Hull City refused to do business with Nigel Pearson.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

£I.25m + the £2.5m of wages so who ever buys him is in for £3.75m
As for you don't get promoted selling your best players we have spend most of my life selling
the bast players because we need the cash so whats the difference this year.

As is the general consensus I would be really let down by anything under 3 million for him. I wouldnt mind Stockdale back if we could get him. Also maybe a buy back price could be wise when Hull come down next year

Anyone expecting a transfer fee of £3m + is living on cloud cuckoo land. Failure to achieve promotion last season was always going to result in a bonfire of our high-earners, particularly those who had good seasons. We were always going to be vulnerable to losing players if we didn't go up, especially to newly promoted clubs with cash on the hip and middle/low ranking PL teams. Why anyone is surprised at the prospect of losing our best player to a newly promoted side is beyond me.

My guess is we'll eventually settle for about £2.5m. That is quite a big price for a Championship goalkeeper. Is he worth £2.5m? No, I'd say in real market terms, possibly nearer to £4m. Had we been promoted this season, we could have easily held out for £5m or £6m, even we had been relegated next season (goalkeepers shine in a relegation threatened side, hence why Schmeichel to Hull is a good move for Kasper). If we'd managed to sustain PL football, he could easily be worth upwards of £8m, he certainly has the potential. Alas we will never know, because we didn't go up.

I wonder how many points Kasper earned us last season. 10? 15? Interesting to note that we only finished 14 points above the relegation zone. Where would we have finished had Chris Weale or Conrad Logan been in goal? Replacing Kasper will be a very hard task, failure to do so could have a pretty dire outcome.

Don't be surprised if Knockaert, Nugent an Konchesky all go before the start of the season. Unfortunately, Nigel Pearson's lasting legacy for his eventual replacement is that we had to sell all the best players because of his failure to get us promoted.

Oh, and as for the rather low amount Hull want to sign KS for - just remeber, we offered them equally pithy for their players once upon a time. I don't blame their owners if they now want to seek revenge.

I suspect he has a release clause in his contract that says he can go for £? if a Premiership club comes in for him. I also suspect that Hull are fully aware of that, which may be why they have put such a paltry bid on the table.

Couldn't blame him for wanting to play at the top level but I think he could do a lot better than Hull, who look every bit one-season material.

Sadly all this "I am not looking to leave" and publicising Hull's offer suggests to me he is definitely on his way, but wants a better offer and a signing on fee.

There's been nothing on the radio (BBC Humberside) up here about this at any point today. The only sports news relating to Hull City concerns to the renewal of Rosenior and McShane's contracts. Normally they're up-to-date with things of this nature.

There is an argument for getting high wages off our books, although it's an argument that rates far higher for players we don't want than players we do. However, there is a major issue that arises with flogging wanted players on the cheap: I can guarantee that fans will be furious about the club's perceived lack of ambition and other players will see this too, giving them the incentive to leave immediately should they get a sniff of Premiership interest, or even high Championship. Plus it makes us look desperate and a soft touch when selling and it would put good players off coming to us.

Keeping a reputation in tact is a good enough reason to hold out for serious money for Kasper. If it doesn't come then let's keep him here for the year and see what happens. (High-offer release clause notwithstanding, and the way the negotations are going I suspect that, if there even is one, Hull aren't as close to it as you might think.)

It's bad enough that Kasper may be going. But I wish it was anyone but Dull.

I disagree Foxello. I'd rather lose 2m in transfer fees and keep Kasper for a year. As you said, that probably only just covers his wages so why sell?

If we did go up next year, he may stay. If not, he signs for free and we've lost what? A whopping £2m??

That's why I say we hold out for 3. I think we'd still get a good season out of Kasper if we refused to sell.

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Yes, but Foxello believes there's little to no chance of us getting promoted next season because Pearson's here, so we might as well cash in now.

Does he really have that little faith in our talented manager?

I don't know if anyone has seen this interview with his Dad...

http://www.insidefutbol.com/2013/06/03/peter-schmeichel-reveals-hull-city-bid-for-kasper-schmeichel/87989/

...but it sounds like he may be getting some family advice - if so he is off and it's just a matter of financial wrangling. I remember him not wanting to leave Leeds either but was happy when the move happened. If I had a choice on replacement I'd be having a look at mark schwarzer who will be number 2 at Fulham soon.

"Frankly, Leicester should be kicking off about this because Hull's offer of £1.25m is an insult"

That's exactly what this is, the owner of Hull sticking two fingers up at us and having a laugh at our expense, revenge is sweet I guess.

What I don't understand is why people seem to think we have to sell every player and his dog to survive, with players earmarked for disposal I'm sure those that we want to keep will stay, the only reason to sell our best players is for an overpriced fee and good Business.

All this talk of having to sell ( if we had any influence ) devalues the players when in fact NPs target will be to stop other teams overvaluing his targets just because LCFC are interested as we've seen since the new owners came in.

I have every faith in the Owners and Management to do the right thing for the Club in their decisions and not to sell for selling sake.

"I'm sure those that we want to keep will stay, the only reason to sell our best players is for an overpriced fee and good Business"

This is not how it works since a certain Monsieur Bosman took his club to the European Court.

If (as is highly likely) Schmeichel has a release clause in his contract, I believe we have to allow him to leave once this has been met. Our own valuation is not the deciding factor.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if he has a release clause (to a Premiership club) of somewhere between £2-3m and as one of Kasper's dad's mates, Bruce will be pretty clued up on the figure.

If I were a betting man. I would say that he won't be with Leicester next season. Question is whether he is using Hull to put himself in the shop-window.

"If (as is highly likely) Schmeichel has a release clause in his contract, I believe we have to allow him to leave once this has been met. Our own valuation is not the deciding factor."

Surely any release clause will be our own valuation, whether it's the same one we'd value him at now is another matter?

Do players at clubs like Leicester really have release clauses? He's a great keeper, but he's not Casillas!!!

Yes, players like Kasper have release clauses. Don't you remember us being under-cut by West Brom for Shane Long ?!

Our own valuation? That depends on how much we wanted to sign him and the advice of his agent. Players call the shots these days.

He has two seasons in the Championship he isn't going to want a Third.
Hull out taking the P we offered a same desirous amount for one of their players it business not the personal stuff some of us would want it to be.