Kernow Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 If true, relying on other teams to bring in replacements can be risky. If we spend the window waiting, and it doesn't happen, we'll end up panicking again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Kernow said: If true, relying on other teams to bring in replacements can be risky. If we spend the window waiting, and it doesn't happen, we'll end up panicking again. I'm sure our esteemed recruitment team will have been checking out the stats for League 2s finest.......? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 This is a slightly strange one for me - we have no chance of buying him permanently we assume so why are we bothering - what do we get from making Leicester city have a better squad - if it was for a full season then fair enough but for basically 3 months why? Surely there are decent enough centre half’s available who could cover us until the summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 31 minutes ago, Sparkle said: This is a slightly strange one for me - we have no chance of buying him permanently we assume so why are we bothering - what do we get from making Leicester city have a better squad - if it was for a full season then fair enough but for basically 3 months why? Surely there are decent enough centre half’s available who could cover us until the summer Who? Forsyth, Evans and Wisdom? A left back, a midfielder and someone who hasn’t played at centre back regularly for yonks. Doesn’t fill me with a load of confidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 7 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said: Who? Forsyth, Evans and Wisdom? A left back, a midfielder and someone who hasn’t played at centre back regularly for yonks. Doesn’t fill me with a load of confidence. I wasn’t referring to our current players but a centre half who is experienced enough to step right in if needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Clough Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 41 minutes ago, Sparkle said: I wasn’t referring to our current players but a centre half who is experienced enough to step right in if needed Someone like Davies but at another club? We’re trying to get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 5 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said: Someone like Davies but at another club? We’re trying to get better. We won’t be better if they disappear in May though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posh Ram Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Maybe the best thing for everyone involved would be a year-and-a-half loan? Benkovic won't get into the Leicester team in 2020/1 anyway, especially if they're in the Champions League. We'd be able to bed him in this season and he could be a key player next year in what will hopefully be a promotion push. Then if promoted we'd have the money to sign him. Regardless though, what's disappointing is we should be trying to find a Benkovic of our own, to keep. Our recruitment team can't hold a candle to Brentford, Bristol City etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 9 minutes ago, Posh Ram said: Maybe the best thing for everyone involved would be a year-and-a-half loan? Benkovic won't get into the Leicester team in 2020/1 anyway, especially if they're in the Champions League. We'd be able to bed him in this season and he could be a key player next year in what will hopefully be a promotion push. Then if promoted we'd have the money to sign him. Regardless though, what's disappointing is we should be trying to find a Benkovic of our own, to keep. Our recruitment team can't hold a candle to Brentford, Bristol City etc. Makes more sense but probably not from a Leicester city point of view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Clough Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 35 minutes ago, Sparkle said: We won’t be better if they disappear in May though No different than your wish to sign an "experienced" player if on loan. If permanent, then we'll be looking for another CB in the summer anyway, so it'll be money wasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 29 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said: No different than your wish to sign an "experienced" player if on loan. If permanent, then we'll be looking for another CB in the summer anyway, so it'll be money wasted. ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayRam1 Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 I really don’t see the point in this signing at all! Yes he’s a good player but we’ve got no chance of signing him permanently! We might as well stick with what we’ve got. We ain’t going down or up this year so focus on trying to get somebody in in the summer. Also from his injury record he will probably miss most of the 2nd half this season anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFruitsRam7 Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 1 hour ago, Posh Ram said: Our recruitment team can't hold a candle to Brentford, Bristol City etc. I get your point, but Bristol City have had plenty of mishits. Nowhere near as good as Brentford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Skitz Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 2 hours ago, Posh Ram said: Maybe the best thing for everyone involved would be a year-and-a-half loan? Benkovic won't get into the Leicester team in 2020/1 anyway, especially if they're in the Champions League. We'd be able to bed him in this season and he could be a key player next year in what will hopefully be a promotion push. Then if promoted we'd have the money to sign him. Regardless though, what's disappointing is we should be trying to find a Benkovic of our own, to keep. Our recruitment team can't hold a candle to Brentford, Bristol City etc. you underestimate how highly the manager rates him, he picked up an injury at Celtic, which never truly healed, he then went on to play at the U21s which made it worse and he had an operation he is only back to fitness in the last couple of months, had he been fit he would have been fighting Soyuncu to replace Maguire, I could see him replacing Evans next season but even if he didn't with the CL he would still play lots of matches next season. The reason we want to sign another CB is to replace Morgan, loaning Benkovic out gets him games whilst the new guy gets the rest of the season to settle in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rynny Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 1 hour ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said: I get your point, but Bristol City have had plenty of mishits. Nowhere near as good as Brentford. Your what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Clough Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 2 hours ago, rynny said: Your what? He’s moved on from what he did at Hillsborough... to something absolutely disgusting down at Ashton Gate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posh Ram Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 4 hours ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said: I get your point, but Bristol City have had plenty of mishits. Nowhere near as good as Brentford. True, I more meant their general approach to signing players - trying to get young players a year before their value skyrockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayRam1 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 No Benkovic in today’s Leicester line up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millenniumram Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Think this one will happen this week or not at all. I’m fairly sure Cocu still wants a centre back, and I can’t see us messing around any longer if Leicester don’t let Benkovic go this week. We’ll have to move for other targets like Carter-Vickers before someone else snaps them up and we’re left with no one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC1388 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, Millenniumram said: Think this one will happen this week or not at all. I’m fairly sure Cocu still wants a centre back, and I can’t see us messing around any longer if Leicester don’t let Benkovic go this week. We’ll have to move for other targets like Carter-Vickers before someone else snaps them up and we’re left with no one. Good thing with Benkovic is he cant play Friday anyway so gives us a little longer til Luton if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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