Leeds Banter Archive April 11 2012

11 Apr 2012 22:43:19
Team next season:
Kenny
Halford O'Dea Shackell Robinson
Snodgrass Brown Clayton Ward
McCormack Cox
Subs: Rogers, Hulse, Poleon, Gimpel, McArthur

Let's hope not.

I agree, let's hope not

Id hope for more like:

Kenny
Halford Hill/Mills Whitbread Robinson
Snodgrass Clayton Derry Ambrose
Mccormack Bothroyd

I'd hope for something without snodgrass in tbh

Halford is terrible.

I honestly hope Clayton isn't a first choice in midfield next season.

11 Apr 2012 19:56:42
i agree the leeds team but i do not agree with the excess of people want to leave. as anyone who as ever played football no matter the level knows is that you can only perform to a high standard before others drag you down. for me the people to leave should be: rachukba, o'brien, connelly, parker, kisnorbo, brown, nunez, vakeryn, sam, paytner, forssell, bruce,
keep:lees, clayton, mccormack, becchio, snodgrass, o'dea, robinson, lonergan, white, c taylor,
and sign 8 more players

I agree that all those on the leave list have been very poor Leeds Utd players,Kisnorbo being the exeption when he was fit, Also if a good bid comes in for Snodgrass he will be sold.

Agree with the original poster - loads of deadwood we need to get rid of and for once I have confident we have a manager who is good in the transfer market - making moves quickly for good players and can attract players of the right calibre rather than leave it to the last minute and panic. I can see snoddy staying for at least 1 more season with Warnock building the team around him just like he did with tarabaat at QPR. I'm really looking forward to seeing what we do in the close season although I have a feeling we may have a relatively slow start simply due to how many first team players we clearly need and the settling in period

Not Nunez!!

I agree with all that however you have missed out a few players such as bromby and pugh- worth keepin or flog?

Keep forssel as he is the best striker we have and bruce is our best defender

Vakerynn has been injured but when fit would be a good player to have in central midfield alongside Clayton.He could be the man to play the Brown role if Brown leaves. He has shown in the few matches he has played that would be a strong central midfielder. Lees has weakened as the season has gone along and at the moment is certainly no better than Bruce; however he is young enough to improve but I would certainly keep Bruce as well.

11 Apr 2012 18:24:57
snoody will be going at the end of the season and he will go to norwich bradley johnson turned howsons head and he,ll do the same to snoddy i just hope it,s at the end of the season and not at the begining of the next one it would be nice to see leeds go up and norwich go down next season and see if there stay because there is no loyalty with these players because there would be nothing if it wsa not for leeds giving them a chance

If we are to lose snoddy i would sell him in the summer as we would get some good money still .wait until January we will get 2 mil tops not worth losing the money when 5 mil will get us some real quality in our squad and will make a big difference . snoddy has looked off the pace most of this season

11 Apr 2012 13:54:54
Just seen that Fraser Fyvie isn't signing a new deal at Aberdeen and wants a move. He'd be a great signing for midfield, he's only 19 so would be worth an outlay of £1 million - I'm sure Ross and Snoddy who are Scots internationals would be able to persuade him to join

I'm sure Snodgrass won't be here to persuade him and that there's no way we will pay £1m transfer fee for anyone

I fwe spend 1 mil on player it wont be some 19 year old

I dont think Snoddy will be here next season.

Just hope we get 5 mil for snoddy in the summer

The reason Fyvie is leaving Aberdeen is because he off to the PL. And 1 million is just the opening bid. We definitely need this type of player though, just won't be able to afford one....

11 Apr 2012 12:32:13
Lonergan
Robinson
O'Dea
Kisnorbo?? Injury dependant
Thompson
White
Clayton
Snodgrass
Mcormack
Somma

Are the only players out of the current squad of 30 that I would keep going in to next season.

I think lees pugh and nunez should stay aswell, they are relativly young apart from pugh and are good squad players

Robinson and Rogers maybe webber

Nunez

Lees?

Rumour has it Snoddy has finally admitted he is not happy with the clubs lack of ambition, Selling Howson is proof of that and If any team like Norwich came calling in the summer his bags will be packed in no time at all, so how will NW build the team for next season.

Paddy, how ever much hes done for us in the past, hes not what he was and we need to get him off the wage bill.

NUNEZ has a contract till 2015 so he's staying Gj

Kisnorbo was way out of his depth brfore he got injured,he will be even slower when he comes back from his present injury

Not exactly a rumour about Snoddy - he was pretty explicit at the Lorimer's Bar event according to someone I know who was there. More or less said not replacing Howson had been a major problem for the team balance and showed a lack of ambition. Pretty much said he'd be off unless things improved.

No one want becchio to stay then . if he stays injury free now he will be good again next season in this league . he could be off but no higher than this league

11 Apr 2012 12:26:55
We currently have a squad of 30 players, which everyone from KB down to the average fan in the stand agrees is too big and this summer looks like being cut back.

However judging by all the rumours already on here, next seasons squad will be about 50 strong.

I love coming on here to read the 'I heard it from my mates dog', 'My uncles budgie is on the board', etc quotes as they do make me laugh. Especially as a club we have bought one player in the past 2 seasons.

It will be mental on here going in to pre season. I cant wait to read the inevitable insane rumours, as we go through summer.

Well, rumour has it, my uncles budgie is going to Norwich next season, along with all the decent players so we won't get any more info from that direction.

However, my best mate's aunt has a window cleaner that might be interested in the vacant position.....

11 Apr 2012 11:30:55
We cant sell snodgrass! whenever we attck it always comes from him! He is the life and blood of the team!

Unfortunately even Snodgrass is now saying that Leeds have no ambition and he cannot understand why Howson was sold but not replaced? I think Snodgrass is potentially one of our best players, given a team to actually play with, (rather than against), unfortunately he has now started to criticise Ken Bates, we all know where that will lead (though hope not!)

I think snodgrass should first ask Bates about the summer spending and why he should stay and then make his mind up before moving to Norwich.

Its been said in some area's that his Agent has had talks with two Premier league clubs, 1 being guess who Norwich and the other Everton, the Norwich link would make a lot of sence, one that Lambert would like to have Johnson Howson Snoddgrass, remember what they were like playing together at Leeds

Since taking over the captaincy Snoody has gone down hill, against Derby he (like the rest) was awful. WHilst skillful he is easily crowded out and does not pace. I would sell for anything over £1.5m and replace him by bringing Gradel back.

I said we should not give snoddy the job of been captain as he would lose the best part of his game . he lost all of his concentration . it might just be that hes had enough and cant pick up his game and he knows its time to leave .leeds need to try sell him by the end of the summer unless he signs a contract. 5 mil will be good enough

11 Apr 2012 08:10:53
Grayson put together a team to get out of league 1 fair play to him culdnt hack it in championship
Wornock will put together a team to get us out of championship but he's no prem manager
I believe in wornock and lufc but I don't believe in bates to spend to keep us in the prem
Lufc hughzy

Utter nonsense! how can you say Graysons team couldnt hack the championship when they finished 7th the first time of asking! the team that Grayson built could hack the championship but unfortunatley it got took away from him by greedy Bates. Kasper, Howson, Gradel, Johnson, Killa, etc were players capable of hacking the championship - 2 of the above are fairing quite well in the prem and one is playing in the french top league!

what they probably couldnt handle was teh constant bickering between fans and the board, protests, new contracts not getting given, broken promises and money being spent on pathetic boxes in stands when it should have been injected into the team.

but to say SG's team couldnt hack the championship is bull!

Lonergan And Schmeichal Lichaj Lees Kisnorbo White O Dea Gradel Snodgrass Howson Kilkenny Clayton Thompson Johnson I like Rodgers seen him in mls and he is class, Becchio Beckford McCormack Somma all of these wud have got us the title if grayson was backed and it would have been done playing nice attacking Football not warnocks kick and rush long ball crap which may get us promoted but will lead to us coming straight back down as that football does not work anymore as proven by the fact qpr had to spend so much as they were not gettin results Grayson was a top manager yes he had his flaws defensively but at least you could guarentee excitement and goals personallyi enjoyed all last year when presenters on sky like redknapp and tyler etc called usthe most entertaining team in england because you always got goals leeds now have noo creativity its hit and hope and ye deluded fans will find this out next year but i will continue to support leeds and will give warnock a chance however obvious the outcome may seem

Good to see people on here finally realising how badly SG was treated and how well he really did with no resources.

I'm not anti-Warnock but still think Grayson was made a scapegoat for Bates's failings after losing his best players and being left with the reserves.

Nothing to do with grayson not been able to hack it . im sure if he had been given 4 mil to spend on transfer fees we would of been in top 6 now.
bates as got to pay todays wages not 10 yr agos .hes stuck in time .

It obviously did seen as bated and harvey have spent the last few months slating grayson along with warnock who was appointed to get the best out of the current crop of players availible grayson would have had us in prem with the same players if the results of others was the same leeds were doing better under redfearn even warnocks ten games he has been in charge he has the worst record of any leeds manager even wise when we got relegared had a better record simply our players are footballers creative players like clayton snoddy mccormack whiye are better than kick and rush football never wanted warnock but know have no choice but to support him and the team even though i think there better players than warnock gives credit for

11 Apr 2012 00:11:01
I cannot believe the comments on here about Warnock! He's a proven manager who knows what he's doing, when he first joined QPR he had a poor end to the season, ended up in 13th... so nearlythe same as we're doing now, but after he had the summer and pre-season to sort the team out, they became champions. QPR did have money, but i'm not sure Colin would have signed up without the promise of funds for what he wanted! Because of that you can't say he's a crap manager already. When he's given time to sort the squad out, the summer.. We will look like a different side next season, and i'll put my money on us getting promoted!

MOT

The pressure is off him now