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Leicester keen on swoop for Cox

Leicester City chairman Milan Mandaric says Swindon striker Simon Cox is on his club's shortlist of targets for the summer.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/leicester_city/8048694.stm

 I'd have thought West Brom will be another, but they have to wait for a bit.

 Good news as an auction is bound to push up the price.

He's better than anything they've got, but can they afford him?

I have heard from a HP Sauce that Peterborough Utd are sniffing around Cox as well and are willing to match any bid.

I don't think he'll want to join them though.

I'm not sure we should let anybody else have him. Maybe cut his feet off?

But Ben thats like cutting off your feet to spite your Cox!

Leicester would be a good move for him IMHO. Still if he is off as long as we get best price I don't actually care where he goes.

I find it wrong these people talking about under contract players so openly

I was just thinking the exact same thing.

Reading that article it would seem that they think business will be done sooner rather than later.

SOme Leicester fan says it was reported on midland news that Cox to be unveiled shortly

http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=59965

Then so be it - I'd rather his future is sorted ASAP.

This is true, then we can plan for next season, If Shrewsbury dont go up, maybe a cheeky bid for Holt?

Except for he is on holiday for two weeks so it won't be for a fortnight yet. Probably.

And he can't be officially signed until the transfer window opens.

I wish we could sniff around a few 'still under contract players' rather than rely on freebies and out-of-contractors...

I'm not saying this just to open a debate along the lines of 'well Arch, we simply don't have the cash' and 'we must spend prudently Arch' blah blah blah.....

I'm saying it because it'll make me feel like we're the big boys punching the smaller, weaker kids in the playground... what goes on in my mind eh?

Yes, but we'd all know a deal was done - the club can look to replace him and Reading can cheer themselves up with a lovely % :)

Simon Cox > Leicester City

Some people have mentioned about talking about in contract players, we did the same thing when Cox was at Reading to be fair. No idea where COx will end up, Leicester City may or may not appeal to him. Cox is the kind of player you can build a team around, are Leicester that good that Cox can slip right in and help take them that next step? Swansea IMO alongside Scotland would be an awesome move for him, Not that they are in the race, but they are a team that could really benefit from Cox and reach the playoffs next season assuming they dont get 2nd season syndrome.

Good post Gaz...a good friend of mine is a Swans fan,he would be good in that team...cant see him goin to the Foxes with Fryatt still there,also i thaught they were skint!

Apparently the news article said "Leicester City HOPE to announce the unveiling of Simon Cox in the new few days after tabeling a bid for the highly rated Swindon Town striker who was joint top goalscorer in League One last season".... So nowhere near the finished article which we suspected.

Thanks. Martinez has Swansea playing good along the ground football. Would suit Cox's style to a tee IMO. They have a very good side there and Cox could be that other bit of the puzzle. Jason Scotland, a good goalscorer but does little else. Cox would add that bit of spark up front for them.

Can they afford the asking fee for Cox though, cos the price must be creeping up with every interested party.

I would be suprised if he went there...also think that the club would have announced it if a proper bid had been tabled..alot of clubs are interested so Town would be mad to accept the first decent offer...i was told that Palace were in for him and Warnock has said he wants three new strikers.

Seems like Leicester think it's done?

http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=59971&st=20

Poll, they all love Cox

http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=59739

http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=59895

True, however if this report is true, Leicester may think get in early with a silly 2m-2.5m bid, seal the deal now before the money gets daft.

Big club syndrome...Huddersfield thaught they had him.

Looking at the Leicester forum they are saying about Fryatt going if we get Cox, Would love a half money/half swap deal if possible, would certainly help us with the goals we will miss. Dont see it though at Fryatt only just signed a new contract at Leicester.

Are you implying we should try and get Fryatt, cos that's how it sounds? If that is what you're saying it's easily the most monumentally stupid thing I've ever read on here. If not I apologise.

Cant see Fryatt dropping down...its going to be a long summer.

Plus its a bit different when our chairman and manager have pretty much said "let bidding commence, do I hear £2 million?" as opposed to "he is under contract and going nowhere". I don't see how it can be "tapping up" when we've been pretty much advertising him for the last few weeks.

Be surprised if a quick deal is done, if Leicester have made a bid it would be leaked to the media to let all the other clubs know so they'd get involved. Unless it is a stupid offer (£2.5 million plus) to get it signed and sealed quick.

'L2 to PL is a big jump in one move'

League One, twat.

Looking at the Leicester squad and being realistic about who we could include in a cash plus player

deal,i'd be very interested in getting Max Gradel.Remember when he was on a season loan at

Bournemouth? Looked quality,good pace,goes past players with ease and can play on either wing.

According to BBC Wilts we have rejected 2 bids for Cox, believed to be from Leicester and Celtic.

Swindon board in showing a bit of ambition shocker?

I say lets squeeze as much money out of these swines as humanly possible. Then reject it :D

Celtic and Rangers have a habit in Scotland of continually undepaying Scottish clubs and buying their best talent for well under their value. I wouldn't be surprised if they bid 300k for Coxy.

I don't think they'd bid that low! Didn't we already turn down a £500K bid from Huddersfield?

I wouldn't be surprised. This is the Old Firm we are talking about, tighter than a nun's craic.

I have no doubts that Swindon will be criticised for their valuation of Simon Cox - But why shouldn't we try and get what we want?

I hate to keep using this as an example but Bristol City got so desperate after pulling the plug on that Emad Motaeb deal they went and spent £2million on Nicky Maynard. Maynard scored 37 in 59 for a hardly amazing Crewe Alexandra outfit.

People outside of the STFC bubble are saying that Cox has only had one season, but I thought he looked good and scored goals for us in 2007/08 too! Had he not returned to Reading for a while he probably would have scored more.

NM's 1st Regular Campaign - 16 goals in 31 league appearances
SC's 1st Regular Campaign - 16 goals in 31 league appearances
NM's 2nd Regular Campaign - 15 goals in 27 league appearances
SC's 2nd Regular Campaign - 29 goals in 45 league appearances

Maynard's goalscoring ratio is good considering he missed a lot of games - but Cox has more games, more goals. We must use such examples to justify valuations... Saying that 29 goals speaks for itself.

I can almost guarentee that once the season is fully over better bids will come in.

But at the end of the proverbial, we don't have to sell him.

yeah, but they also have a habit of paying through the nose for players based in england. Loovens and Lafferty for example

Nah, I keep telling the kids, £2.5m, or £1.5m and Fryatt...it's funny to watch their reactions.