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  • cafc_se7
    cafc_se7 Posts: 2,575
    I’m not listening to Leicester fans opinions. Strange bunch. Made even more strange for their comments on Yann. We should know not to listen to them!
  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 4,155
    Didn’t get the most glowing review from my Mother in Law…

    You get Top Bantz from your MIL.

    Why do I just get messages asking me to drive her to her bingo on a Weds night.
    Hope you bin her off tomorrow night! Got important things to do/watch!
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 13,375
    Didn’t get the most glowing review from my Mother in Law…

    You get Top Bantz from your MIL.

    Why do I just get messages asking me to drive her to her bingo on a Weds night.
    Hope you bin her off tomorrow night! Got important things to do/watch!

    Of course. Me and the lad heading to the Hawthorns!
  • TheHerminator
    TheHerminator Posts: 1,504
    SOTF said:
    Desperately hope to be wrong, but in my humble opinion, Skipp is the antithesis of everything we’ve been building.
    Surely Jones wouldn’t risk it all if that were the case 
  • wolfgang
    wolfgang Posts: 1,201
    fenaddick said:

    But then you have a player skulking around who can't play and can't be forced to train alone or in a bomb squad. That would totally ruin the mood
    Sneak drugs into their food and drinks so they just wander around happily and aimlessly until the next window.  They will cause no trouble.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 14,752
    Im liking this tactic of getting the younger players signed up to a longer contract before we send them out on loan. 

    Shame we can't get the less good players to agree to a shorter contract 'Robbie, tell you what we will shorten your contract so if you do well at Bromley this year you can join on a free and get a signing on bonus next year or even in Jan.'
  • Addicksi
    Addicksi Posts: 379
    I think Leicester are an entitled fan base after winning the prem with Ranieri who they then sacked soon after. We had their pants down with Yann, so he might be decent. 
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 14,752
    wolfgang said:
    fenaddick said:

    But then you have a player skulking around who can't play and can't be forced to train alone or in a bomb squad. That would totally ruin the mood
    Sneak drugs into their food and drinks so they just wander around happily and aimlessly until the next window.  They will cause no trouble.
    A had me own regime at Charlton
  • sam3110 said:
    clive said:
    lol.........

    As I said about a dozen pages ago......been tracking him for some time. Yeah, about 6 days since JRS deal fell over. Just need a quote from NJ about Luton & we'd have the transfer bingo card completed.

    My view is, the owners don't want to keep having to fund transfers and/or want there to be a bigger transfer kitty in 2/3 years time. So we are buying young players with potential so that we can sell on for £5m/£10m/£15m in the future. Azeez at Millwall being the latest example of that. 

    Will it work....who knows. Is it a gamble.....most definitely. It didn't work with Kahim Dixon and to a lesser extent Tanto & Apter. 

    I liked the look of him on the YouTube clip posted earlier, but he himself says he is a left winger who likes to cut inside. In the YouTube video he is shown playing on the right and it does look like he is predominantly right footed. Will he be the answer to our right wing woes ?  Probabky not as a starter, which is a shame because neither TC nor Grant work playing on the right. 

    It might work out but it is far from what is needed and what we've been led to believe we've been keeping our powder dry for. 
    Player himself confirmed he heard of our interest a month ago, so there you go, wrong again
    Read my post from yesterday / day before where I said what I reckon the club will say when the announce JRS "replacement".

    You have to learn to take some of my posts tongue-in-cheek


     Certainly unintentionally laughable!

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  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 28,041
    Didn’t get the most glowing review from my Mother in Law…

    Is she driving the plane? Confused 
    What...down the M1...🙄
  • Themightyath2
    Themightyath2 Posts: 970

    If he joins, let’s at least give him a chance. You need a strong squad to compete in the Championship, and he could become an important player for us.

    Chalobah is injury-prone, Mwamba is still just a kid, and Ouma needs time to get up to speed, so I’m not surprised we’ve strengthened in that area.

    We should trust NJ and Phil C’s judgement


  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 28,721
    Didn’t get the most glowing review from my Mother in Law…
    Does she know cars don't fly?
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 15,047
    SOTF said:
    Desperately hope to be wrong, but in my humble opinion, Skipp is the antithesis of everything we’ve been building.
    People said the exact same thing about Coady. Past it, only interested in picking up a paycheck and doing his media appearances. Turned out to be totally committed and worked his arse off for the team. I'm willing to trust Jones and his judgment of player over the perceptions we've built off angry Leicester fans complaining. They're 2 for 2 on getting it wrong so far, let's hope it's 3 for 3 soon.
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,506
    Agree that the Skipp signing feels like Chalobah might be out for a while 
    Completely disagree. After the spurs game it was clear we were a quality CM light. We had Coventry plus Challobah (only going to be fit part of the time), Ouma (clearly needs time to adjust) and Mwamba (young and therefore going to have fluctuating form).

    Those 3 together only add up to 2 full players, so with Cov we're a player short of having 2 for each position.

    Obviously that discounts Doc and JRC, but I think we can all agree we don't want them starting games.

    NJ wasn't chasing Holgrove all summer for fun, he could see we needed 1 more in midfield. 
  • sirjohnhumphrey
    sirjohnhumphrey Posts: 1,959
    Jones and the recruitment team will
    have done their due diligence on his personality and character. 

    He wouldn’t have gone for him if he had worries about that side of things.
  • 2121
    2121 Posts: 1,783
    Maybe also the positive with skippy, is he stays fit whereas chalobah gets injured? 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 24,453
    The biggest argument for signing Skipp is that playing Coventry every single game sort of broke him a bit and he wasn't the same player until he recovered. It's such a high-intensity position and a bit of rotation isn't a bad idea 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 24,453
    All the criticisms aimed at Skipp are basically jet-fuelled versions of the Coventry slander so I'm expecting them to be more or less the same sort of player 
  • BigDiddy
    BigDiddy Posts: 1,584
    Looks like I need to eat some humble pie, going after Skipp based on what heard about goings on at Leicester.

    If Oliver has signed, Welcome and i will hope he does brilliantly for us.

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  • Southbank
    Southbank Posts: 5,872
    Leuth said:
    The biggest argument for signing Skipp is that playing Coventry every single game sort of broke him a bit and he wasn't the same player until he recovered. It's such a high-intensity position and a bit of rotation isn't a bad idea 
    Cov also had to cover for Doc giving the ball away every other time he got hold of it.
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,835
    Didn’t get the most glowing review from my Mother in Law…

    Is she driving the plane? Confused 
    We live in Spain 😂
  • Hchadwick
    Hchadwick Posts: 2
    Very easy to jump on the bandwagon that Leicester Fans try to portray, that he’s lazy, and is a total waste of time. 
    NJ doesn’t stand for any of that, and I’m sure he will drum that into Skipp before he signs the dotted line. 
    Geezer was on the cusp of England squads when he was at Spurs, one of Norwich’s best players when he was with them.
    Very intelligent and classy footballer if he’s got that drive. 
    Don’t write him off, no one would want to play for Leicester right now, they’re a sinking ship. 
    Get behind him and I’m sure he will deliver 
  • AberystwythAddick
    AberystwythAddick Posts: 2,330
    I’ll be interested to see if there’s and option or obligation to buy if conditions are met 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,687
    Leuth said:
    The biggest argument for signing Skipp is that playing Coventry every single game sort of broke him a bit and he wasn't the same player until he recovered. It's such a high-intensity position and a bit of rotation isn't a bad idea 
    Will he be happy rotating though ?  

    At the end of the day its only a loan. Outlay being a loan fee & contribution to wages ?  Probably what we would have paid for JRS. 
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,841

    If he joins, let’s at least give him a chance. You need a strong squad to compete in the Championship, and he could become an important player for us.

    Chalobah is injury-prone, Mwamba is still just a kid, and Ouma needs time to get up to speed, so I’m not surprised we’ve strengthened in that area.

    We should trust NJ and Phil C’s judgement


    I would also add he’s probably got one more shot of proving himself that he’s capable at playing at Championship level given how the last few years have panned out at Leicester 

    A lot of their players (rightly), got stick for the club’s fall from grace and I think that unless Skipp is simply looking at monetary gain for the rest of his career, he needs to grab this opportunity with both hands.  Who knows 
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 14,752
    Skippetdy do dah, Skippetdy day, my oh my what a shocking fall in valuation and form from playing in a then decent spurs team at home and away. 
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,526
    Leuth said:
    The biggest argument for signing Skipp is that playing Coventry every single game sort of broke him a bit and he wasn't the same player until he recovered. It's such a high-intensity position and a bit of rotation isn't a bad idea 
    Essential IMO. 
    Reduces injuries, keeps us stronger.
    Long old season.
  • CafcSteve
    CafcSteve Posts: 1,214
    Leicester struggling without Skipp tonight too!
  • Bod
    Bod Posts: 366
    Leicester fans disliked Yann, that's a good enough recommendation for me.