Rumours are in on a daily basis, linking current players with a move away, as others are mentioned as potential signings. One that has occured lately is Steua Bucharesti defender Joyskim Dawa. The 28 year old stopper with a life in Latvian, Ukrainian and Romanian football clubs, makes a strange move if it happens. He is still one potential new player. The Cameroon international and Romanian league and cup winner has good quality. The fact that the fee could be as low as £4million, would see it as a coupe if the player becomes a success.
The problem for Steve Cooper is to get the balance needed to build further. The rumour also would possibly stress the fact that Wout Faes and Caleb Okoli could be players actually considering sold, as both will and can attract interest from teams in higher places.
The recruitment under Steve Cooper so far must be said to be under heavy criticism, bringing in players such as Oliver Skipp, Bilal El Khannouss and Caleb Okoli for heavy fees, not really having a grand plan for their first team future and a message given that would see them cementing a place in the starting eleven. To use £69million on three players and not playing them regularly makes a fatal situation and in real becomes a clown act.
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We have seen this all before with managers not understanding the fact that transfer fees used on players you are not really having a concrete first team place to, or misrating them, will in the end see you losing your job. Steve Cooper might not be the best in economics as his value of players, the balance between them, and the total amount of money available must be carefully considered so those errors we have seen so many times at Leicester will not occure again and again, but sadly this effect is still very much ignored also under the management of Steve Cooper.
Bouba Soumare has been on the fringe more or less since joining from Lille, three years ago. He has also spent time on loan at Sevilla, not really trusted by anyone to be a starter, besides Dean Smith, who took Leicester down, two seasons ago. The problem with Soumare is his different levels of high and low, that makes it far from easy to play him in a PL first team set up. AC Milan are said to looking at him, and we believe that the tempo and type of football would be more suited for the 25 year old.
Peter Taylor, Claudio Ranieri, Claude Puel, Craig Shakespeare, Sven Goran Eriksson and Brendan Rodgers all had to leave their post as manager at Leicester. One reason for their being sacked had to do with the failing use of transfer money. They splashed out cash on wrong objects, either performing to a lower standard of their value or not being used almost not at all. Steve Cooper looks to be on a similar path, splashing out the cash on players not able to break into the first team and becoming pivotal.
Peter Taylor made possibly the worst signing ever when he paid £5.5million to Wolves for Ade Akinbiyi. To use a record transfer fee on a player who never again played at Premier League level. He also decided to pay a major fee for Dennis Wise, from Chelsea. A player more or less hated by the fans and also one that was disliked by other Leicester players. This became Taylor’s fall to the ground. Claudio Ranieri used silly money on Islam Slimani, Nampalys Mendy, Ron Robert-Zieler, Bartos Kapustka and Ahmed Musa. All of them became more or less flops, never to become regular first team players.
Craig Shakespeare will always be attached to the fact that he almost ruined Adrien Silva’s career, never got much out of Vicente Iborra and signed a long lasting contract with Matty James who almost never featured in the first team after the 2013-14 promotion season.
Claude Puel did a lot of good transfers for Leicester, but also some that will be questioned into the last sundown. Rachid Ghezzal, Danny Ward and Filip Benkovic, being heavy fee signings far from needed and not good investements made.
Sven Goran Erikson made heavy mistakes with the signings of Matt Mills and Jason Beckford, both players brought in for monumental money at Championship level and not really becoming what was needed to give Svennis the run for success.
Brendan Rodgers made fatal errors with the signings of Tetè, Harry Souttar, Patson Daka, Bouba Soumare, Victor Kristiansen, Dennis Praet and Jannik Vestergaard. None of them to date is rated as top quality Premier League players, and has not shined for Leicester at this level.
The fact that Steve Cooper has used so much money on players he is not using from start in his first team, shows why he looks far out on the wrong foot, and with that bag of money thrown out on those players, you cannot understand the purpose of economics and investment strategies to lift your performance. Bilal El Khannouss, Harry Skipp and Caleb Okoli, are players that should have walked into the first team at this point, they have not, so why was the cash used on those three? makes no sense, as such money should be used on players that will improve the team, nothing else.
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