I’d much rather they give the likes of Will Alves a chance than throw £8 million quid on this Jordan Ayew.

How does he keep getting gigs, such a bang average player.

£8M for a near 33 year old?

Wow.

Honestly - we’re seriously giving Chelsea a run for their money in terms of worst run club in the Premier League.

Incidentally - nothing from TB and Mersey (I’ve unfiltered him!) the two biggest supporters of Top and the board? Isn’t that interesting just as it all starts to unravel. They were so vocal in their defence of Top last season 😂

I just don’t understand. Is this coming from Cooper? Martin Glover? Both of them? I mean clearly we’ve just thrown the baby out with the bathwater in terms of the profile of players we were scouting. These signings are bloody awful. Decordova Reid, Skipp and Ayew are going to be expensive deadweights when Cooper is sacked……it’s such a shambles

All hugely disappointing.

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Utter insanity by the club to spend so much money on someone who is 33 years old and has a below mediocre scoring record, at a time when we are desperate for creativity and goal scorers.

TBH, if we were talking about Ayew coming in on a free or a nominal fee, you could see the logic - an experienced player, someone who can play wide or as a deep 9, who has a track record of being a hard-working player who tracks well. It would be a boring, uninspiring signing like Reid, but you could see the logic. But £5m rising to £8m?! That is just outrageous and borderline negligent, at a time when our finances are stretched and we are on the brink of points deductions because of previous poor financial management.

I guess you could say, if you really wanted to give the hierachy the benefit of the doubt, that IF it rises to £8m based on performances from the player or the club, then it's a signing that has benefit us as we'll only like reach that figure if we stay up. But that would be very generous. As for the question about whether this is a Glover or Cooper signing, have a look at who Forest signed in their first season after promotion and you may have your answer....

Frankly, this entire pre-season has put a really downer on everything that was achieved last season. At least Ipswich are having a right old go with the signings they are making. Players like Hutchinson, Greaves, Jack Clarke, Delap - the sort of players that would both improve us and give us a chance of good resale value. Add to that the likes of Szmodics and, even if they go down, they will have the best team in the Championship for next season. But that doesn't seem to be the Leicester way any more.

If it wasn't obvious that Leicester is a club in decline and heading only one way, this last few months has proved it without doubt.

I guess I look at Forests transfer approach in that first season and a lot of that is Marianakis. I doubt it was Coopera idea to sign about 40 players in the first season but then again in terms of profile of player I can kind of see Foxellos point.

Cooper is clearly pushing the club in a more pragmatic direction - prioritising players that work hard and press the ball above perhaps other traits. Nothing wrong with that IF they are of the appropriate age and quality to impact the team this season and have re-sell value.

These players just aren’t. Also - let’s be honest, Cooper isn’t negotiating the fees or contracts here - so the stupidity of Skipp at £20m and Ayew for a fee rising to £8m is on Rudkin, no one else

Ultimately - Cooper is identifying a profile of player he wants to play the system he thinks Leicester need in order to survive. Nothing wrong with that - but the profile of players the club are targeting (partly due to where we find ourselves) is God awful

It's where we are, paying over the odds for a workmanlike 'forward' who will add little to the squad at 33 bar experience. Desperate signing to pay £8M for him. Similar to BdCR.

Adding in these sorts of players and giving the likes of Hamza and Jannik long term contracts - just when is Top going to understand that he has someone utterly incompetent as DoF?

I might start to change my mind on Rudders if we get a decent striker in and Cannon and Ward depart - see this fantasy end to the transfer window: https://www.leicestercity.news/transfers/dream-end-to-leicester-city-transfer-window-as-new-striker-signs-and-danny-ward-is-sold/

Tom Cannon is another example of a completely backwards transfer policy. A highly rated young striker that’s never been given a chance at Leicester - what on earth was the point in signing him if we’re going to move him on after 16 games.

I absolutely can’t stand the club these days

On reflection I think utterly incompetent is a tad harsh on Rudders, although I'm struggling to think of much good business he's overseen recently - Fatawu comes to mind I suppose.

Look what Spurs fans have to say about the Skipp deal though:
https://www.tottenhamhotspurnews.com/exclusives/tottenham-delighted-by-oliver-skipp-sale-as-multi-million-transfer-claim-emerges/
They reckon we've overpaid by £12M. I'm not sure about that as Transfermarkt have him valued at £15M (still less than we've reportedly paid).

That's not really the main issue, he's a DM acquisition, great for providing squad depth to back up Winks, but we're absolutely crying out for some quality up front. As much as I respect Ayew - he'll be a hard working addition to our forward players - wouldn't the money have been better spent on a decent AM or striker - we need goals/assists?

Or am I missing something here in our management's cunning plan?

I think utterly incompetent is bang on the money. It’s well documented by Maresca that Fatawu was down to Martin Glover - nothing to do with Rudkin. Rudkin negotiates the contracts and that’s where everything has gone so horribly wrong in the last few years

Overpaying for players, contract extensions for players we shouldn’t be retaining, letting £200m plus of players leave for free