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McGoldrick's Leicester Move Looks Off
Monday, 1st Sep 2014 15:00

Leicester City are understood to have ended their interest in Town striker David McGoldrick and are turning their attention to other targets.

The Foxes made a renewed bid - believed to be £7 million - for the 26-year-old yesterday, having had an initial offer of £6.5 million turned down on Friday.

Town owner Marcus Evans is understood to have wanted £8 million for the former Nottingham Forest man.

Leicester are now reported to have made a bid for Manchester United striker Tom Lawrence, while they also hope to sign his team-mate Nick Powell on loan.

McGoldrick continues to be linked with Crystal Palace, however, the Eagles are said to have made a bid for Leicester’s Chris Wood and are also being mentioned in connection with Norwich’s Gary Hooper and Wolves’ Kevin Doyle.

Meanwhile, the Blues are claimed to have turned down an offer of £2.5 million from Palace for left-back Tyrone Mings, according to one report. Whether or not that figure is an exaggeration it does appear that the 21-year-old won’t be joining the Eagles.

Elsewhere, new academy addition Adam McDonnell was at the club this morning to sign his two-year pro deal. The 17-year-old central midfielder was previously with Dublin side Shelbourne and spent time on trial with Town in the summer, featuring in the friendly at Braintree.

In what currently looks like being a quiet final day of the transfer window at Portman Road, one switch which may happen is Byron Lawrence joining Colchester United following his recent trial, despite U’s manager Joe Dunne having been sacked earlier today.

The 18-year-old, who is available on a free transfer, is well-known to Colchester’s academy manager Tony Humes and development coach Richard Hall from their time with the Blues’ youth set-up.


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rayman_10 added 15:03 - Sep 1
As long as McGoldrick is committed to us then good! Got to praise the resilience of ME on his one. Held out for a reasonable fee, if one wasn't forthcoming, then he's staying :) good news!
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TractorBeezer added 15:05 - Sep 1
This is a situation where either outcome would have been good...but I prefer this one!

Let's get another 19 goals for us David!
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Eireannach_gorm added 15:06 - Sep 1
Nice one Marcus.

Would like David push on and earn his 8 million pound price tag.
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RaymondovicBlue added 15:06 - Sep 1
Glad we are keeping him and I expect great things from him this year but PLEASE make sure the contract is extended ASAP or our will be an enormously expensive last season with us if we're not careful.

7 million was a good price in the circumstances... hoping this was good business. Now let's get on with the football! !
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JWM added 15:07 - Sep 1
WOOHOO!

Now Pass me the Prozac!
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cooper4england added 15:13 - Sep 1
Weird that I don't know how to feel about this!

I guess if the, whatever millions, were guaranteed to be reinvested then it maybe a loss. However, as we know, there is no guarantee of that so I spose for the best.

Please don't get croaked, please don't get croaked!
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76blue added 15:13 - Sep 1
Just hope mcgoldrick keeps his head down and gets on with his football now. Hope he's not distracted or uncomfteble and bangs in 20 this year if he gets the service
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bluefeast added 15:15 - Sep 1
Madness ,would of been our 2nd biggest exit . For a player circa 6 weeks away from full match sharpness and in the last year of the contract. Watch him go for free in the summer 2015. Madness madness madness.
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blues1 added 15:15 - Sep 1
I expect there will be some fans who posted when this original storyline came up, wgo will now realise just how wrong they were to slag off m. evans and question his ambition for this club. of course everyone will be happy that providing palace don't get him, that hes staying. me included. however, I do feel that maybe we should have accepted the initial bid, as he not worth newhere near that price, regardless of how well he did for us last season. and im sure that those who were insisting we should not sell him will soon be slating the club again if he now walks away for no fee at the end of the season. raymondovicblue. totally agree they need to sort a new contract out for him. the trouble is, if he wanted to go then the balls in his court, and he could just refuse whatever contract offer we make to him, ang go to whoever makes him an offer.
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parhamblue added 15:16 - Sep 1
And wise words from Leroy Rosenior on the FL Show. It's not always the best thing for strikers to move to the PL while scoring well in the Championship. Take your club up with you, was the advice.
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itfc1981 added 15:16 - Sep 1
That's are hope of promotion gone, we needed to rebuild the squad.
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nunny97 added 15:17 - Sep 1
As long as he goes the right way now that's great news, hopefully get a quality attacking midfielder on loan in like jonny Williams then surely this looks like a play off team at least?
Gerken
Chambers/Hewitt smith Berra mings/parr
Anderson hyam Williams/Bishop Stewart
Mcgoldrick murphy

Thoughts??

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JWM added 15:18 - Sep 1
blues1 If Evans had any ambition for this club we would be adding a decent Striiker to play alongside Goldy! Jesus Christ are we supposed to be grateful to him for allowing us to keep what we have already got?
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itfc1981 added 15:18 - Sep 1
Typical Ipswich we sell Rhodes for peanuts but turn down 7 million for McGoldrick
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cats_whiskers added 15:23 - Sep 1
If Ross McCormack hadn't gone for that ridiculous price, I'm sure they would have accepted Leicester's offer.
It's unlikely they will get that same price offered if he's still here come January regardless of his goals.

David Johnson (The one who played with Whymark under Bobby Robson) was similar but a far far better player than McGoldrick.
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essexboy added 15:25 - Sep 1
Big Mistake Mr.Evans.you should have taken the 7Mil. Offered as we will never get that kind of offer again.Very bad business.He will now be one really P....d off player as will TM.This club is really going the pan now.If the players mind was on other things last Saturday,what is going to be like now.!!!Give Rhodes away for Nowt and turn down 7 mil.God give me strength.!
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WaffleMan added 15:25 - Sep 1
Happy with how ever it turned out. Loic Remy, a premier league goal scorer signed for 10mill so 8mil would of been good, lets hope he has a another strong season but this time injury free so he can match his pricetag!
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Lightningboy added 15:27 - Sep 1
A big gamble that will only pay off if we get promoted.

I can't see that happening tbh and now McGoldrick's head has been turned it may completely backfire?

Allthough I don't want to lose our best players,ideally I would've sold him IF we could've reinvested the cash in signing Glenn Murray,Chris Wood and Jonny Williams.

As for Mings I'd take £2.5m especially as we have Parr as a ready made replacement.
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blues1 added 15:31 - Sep 1
oh what a surprise. the 1st negative comment on this story and its you, jwm. have u ever said nething positive? when will u get it,we are adhering to the ffp(whether the likes of you or me agree with that), so the only way to get the kind of striker ur talking about would be to sell some1 1st, not what we all want to hear, but the facts of how it is. strange thing is too, that nobody felt we needed another striker until this came up, but need an attacking midfielder, so most quite happy with the choices we have upfront. of course. that did rely on mcgoldrick being the other striker. itfc1981. no pleasing you. seem to remember the fact we sold Rhodes, as did many, and for the amount we did, and now u unhappy we turned down this offer? or have I misread ur post, and u just mulling over why the difference? if so, can answer that easily. keane wanted rid of Rhodes, neither mm or m. evans want mcgoldrick to go. how refreshing that is actually that we not just sell at the 1st offer.(even if in this case we prob should have).
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JWM added 15:36 - Sep 1
blues1 FFP is just a smoke screen please dont be fooled by all the spin coming out of the club! Other teams who we should be competing with dont have any qualms! Take little old Bournemouth as an example. In 2 years they have gone about investing in a team that is light years better than ours!
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Surco72 added 15:36 - Sep 1
Great we have kept hold of one of our players , who are we getting in to make us better whilst others around us add to their squads ?
We have won 1 game in 6 this season and our forwards have only scored in 1 game and we have kept no clean sheets .

Still think this is not over , and a question of who is calling who's bluff
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CambridgeBlue added 15:36 - Sep 1
Can't believe they didn't snap their arm off for Mings at £2.5m
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mojo added 15:37 - Sep 1
He won't be leaving for free in the summer. He is in effect contracted until the summer of 2016.
It certainly fits with what we are led to beleive ME's plan for the club is , loan/sell/release some of the fringe players (woody, tayls, lawrence et al), recruit from within or good freebies (mcqueen, clarke, teddy bish et al) and hopefully now tie down the crucial players on longer contracts (mcgoldrick, berra et al)
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PeekFreans added 15:41 - Sep 1
Every chance of a top 6 finish with this squad. Well done ME for holding out. If the second half on Saturday is anything to go by we'll be a team to be reckoned with once we hit top gear.
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BlueInBerks added 15:42 - Sep 1
Blue1 update: Rhodes went because his dad (and manager) couldn't see eye-to-eye with Keane. No surprise there.
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