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No information of any increased offers notified on yours or our O/S,nothing on Sky or the Beeb,so where has this information come from..

Give us the source or link....

all over twitter, originally game from Fourth-Official on twitter, one of the most reliable people on there. bin right about everything so far, even this new Chelsea guy before anyone else

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Bit of an off topic comment, but just wanted to mention that sell on clauses are based on a percentage of 'PROFIT'.

I have seen a few fans saying 'Bcfc need to sell him for 4m to make a profit',etc. They will only have to pay 20% (or whatever the sell on clause is) on anything over £2.25m.

20% on the full sale figure would be the most ridiculous contract agreement!

I would imagine IF Maynard does hand in a transfer request, Bristol City will feel a 50% profit with a year left on his contract will be a decent turnaround - so imagine he will leave for somewhere between 3 and 3.5m perhaps with a similar sell on clause on the proposed contract (I do not believe for a second that the Bristol City board care if he goes to a club in the same division, and it seems pretty lucid this is being used to try and encourage counter offers; which is an understandable tactic)

Either way, I don't think it will be the end of the world for either club if he were to stay or go; I'm sure Bristol City would get another decent striker in (perhaps we could force the deal with an offer of Waghorn on loan) and I am even more positive than Sven has several strikers on his radar.

KTF you have to remember any board has to keep its fans with the club and should the board sell to another Championship it would appear to be a complete lack of ambition and cause a large drop in attendences as who wants to watch a team with no ambition you only have to look a few miles from Ashton Gate to see the result the Gas used to have crowds comparable with ours (some years back I agree but I remember older fans talking about it when I were a kid(also many years ago)) now they are just under half which was put down to a lack of ambition many years back can't say what the fans level of ambition is or their boards now as I don't really care I just don't want my team in the same place.
As far as fans here are concerned LCFC are not a massively bigger club than us as say MCFC or MUFC so selling our best players to you would be seen as a backward step not only by the fans but by our owner/biggest share holder who wants Premiership football here.
Our Chairman has said we do not want or have to sell Nicky Maynard and unless Nicky puts in a transfer request or a BIG club makes an offer we can't refuse he would look bloody stupid to sell him on to another midranked championship such as ourselves, I realise you think you are a big club well you are the biggest club in the Walkers stadium I'll give you that but to neutrals you are not a big club(how do I get that opinion? I went outside the front door in North London where I am currently staying and spoke to people passing, mainly men I admit as they usually pay more attention to football, a lot of whom seemed to think Leicester were in league one having been just promoted from league two(I think they were getting your manager confused with the one who did the adds on the TV whilst at Notts County) the only thing most associated with Leicester was Gary Linaker and Crisps, their reaction to Bristol City was similar 'ah isn't that where David James plays now'. Quite disappointing for a fan like me but what else should I expect they have Arsenal / Spurs / Chelsea / Fulham / West Ham etc to read about everynight in the papers here.
Which puts in perspective the rankings of our clubs outside of our 'catchment areas' we are just small fry people know far more about Wigan/Blackpool/Stoke than they do about either of our teams.

surely business wise its good for you, you've got Stead and Pitman who are good, you would get £3m and crewe 250k, you could get midfield ace, along with another, or a strong centre back. maybe caulker?

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Hawkmoon.


Please use punctuation. I nearly suffocated reading your article!

forest will never offer £4m. end of.

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with the purchase of taylor the way is clear to get rid of NM, I WOULD SUGGEST we take in excess of £3.75m with a sell on clause or reaching the prem, or £20.000 a goal over 16

but their whole budget will be £4m. just becasue they may be bigger in your eyes, doesnt mean they have money.

It's looking increasingly likely Maynard wants to leave, though I think he originally thought there'd be interest from the Premiership - now that all the teams in for him are Championship clubs it'll be interesting to see whether he has committed to leaving or whether he'll figure that he's done well here and why risk a move now.

My prediction is he'll move for around £3.5m to any of the three teams mentioned - though of course I hope he sticks around.

you say it looks likely he wants to leave

A. hes on holiday

B. hes give signals he wants to stay

so where have you got he wants to leave from

poor citylad, believes everything the club says, saying they are going into contact talks, when really its," £3.5m do you want to leave?"

Hawk, Im not really sure how your comment is a reposte to what I wrote, but reading between the lines (quite difficult), it seems your point is, the fans and owners wouldn't want to sell Maynard, which I think no one would disagree with.

Im not really sure why you then banged on about Leicester being no bigger than Bristol City, crisps, Gary LinEker, etc. I don't remember suggesting they were or weren't as I find those conversations boring and redudant.

I did enjoy the suggestion that you randomly started talking to Londonders in 'passing' about Leicester City and its claimed they all had the opinion Leicester were in 'League One having been just promoted from League Two'. Great stuff.

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you say it looks likely he wants to leave

A. hes on holiday

B. hes give signals he wants to stay

so where have you got he wants to leave from
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It's not like he's been on holiday since the end of the season, and I'd wager his agent is on the phone a bit. No I don't have a source saying he wants to leave, but I didn't say he did categorically want to leave did I? All I'm saying is there's a lot of speculation (confirmed interest by the club) and where there's smoke there's often fire. Liverpool fans got irate at suggestions Mascherano and Torres might move on but at the end of the day they did. It's been well publisized by City themselves that they've offered him a new deal - if he 100% wanted to stay then he could've signed it weeks ago.

Hopefully it'll be a case of him just seeing what's out there and he'll decide any offers aren't a big enough move upwards. Is there a link to anywhere where he 'gives signals he wants to stay'? Again, I'd love him to stay - maybe I'm just preparing myself for the worst.

So much speculation so I might as well throw my own into the mix, tbh I don't think Nicky wants to go to another Championship club, I believe he's holding off on the contract to see if a Prem team come in for him as signing a contract will ward off all clubs then.

The only way I can see him going to Leicester, Florest or the Saints is in January and only if your in the top 2 would that sway him.

All IMO of course but take it as you want. We ain't going to sell him for less than £4m (in the Summer anyway) as we don't need the money.

I think we'll find out where Nicky stands within a week or so of him getting back. I agree with you that he has an eye on the Premier League, but as for the idea that City 'not needing the money' I'm not so sure. While SL is very willing to invest in the club, he's made it clear he want it to operate on its own merits and not treat him as a sugar daddy. It puts the club in a strong position in that they can't be held to ransom, but business sense is likely to prevail if it becomes apparent that Nicky won't sign a new deal.

I don't blame Leicester fans for getting excited about the possibility of signing him.

KTF it wasn't just about your and my clubs I was talking about it was football in general I was interested in what them in the smoke though about other teams I mentioned Bristol and Leicester because of the statements from some of your fans on here that they are such a big club they wouldn't have any trouble getting whoever they wanted. I have been interested in the results of my chats most Londoners seem to be in some form of time warp regarding football when they talk about big clubs - Outside of the obvious The Arsenals Man U's Man c's Spurs etc they think Notts Forrest - Derby County - Newcastle - Ipswich are the big clubs in the championship even though Newcastle spent last year in the premiership and Derby struggled more than we did.
Just another point if Snodgras is worth £7-8 M according to Leeds Utd then I think Maynard has got to be worth more than £4 M. Chelsea and Liverpool have really distorted the transfer market £ 50M for Torres and £ 25M for Andy Carrol way over priced both of them.

u mean £35m for carrol hawk

Have to be honest Hawk, I very rarely go on to other teams boards, so I am unsure what most Leicester fans have said. But from this and another thread, and all of the comments on the Leicester board, I can honestly say I have not seen a single fan suggest Leicester could get any player they want. I think we are resigned that this isn't the case as we have tried to get Given, Wright-Phillips, Westwood, Beckham, Santa Cruz, etc all without any joy whatsoever (so as you can see, a bid for Maynard seems alot more realistic to us!!)

I also lived in London for the last year or so, and can say I have never heard a Premiership fan specifically mention Ipswich or Derby, but London is a big area. The most common response I receive as a Leicester fan is '...would be good to see you back in the Premiership' or comments about how well we did with O'Neil. To be honest like most Championship team supporters, I dont really give two hoots what Prem fans think of us.

I think 'some' Leicester fans have just responsed in irritation to 'some' Bristol City fans suggesting a move to LCFC would be a sideways or backwards move. From what I have read, apart from the odd idiot who wums and provides no support to his statements, most Robins fans would feel the same if it was any Championship club coming in with an offer which is fair enough.

I think this subject has now been exhausted, so I will say farewell and good luck for the season, at worst I think you'll finish in the top half.

Nobody said it was a backwards move!

But it definitely is a sideways move, and thats how we see it whether you like it or not!

I do not see Leicester city as a big club and I suspect nor would the vast majority of most clubs fans.

You dont like that, tough!