Leeds Banter Archive January 15 2018

15 Jan 2018 19:53:53
Ok, I’m sorry for the negative posts guys but again I’m baffled by Orta! Wolves top of the league by 10 points are in the market for Grabbon who has scored 12 goals for bottom club Sunderland, they are also looking a Spanish striker at £12M! Derby 2nd are in for Norwich City’s Nelson Olivera at £8M! Cardiff 3rd and Aston Villa 4th Bristol City 5th and Sheffield United 6th are all buying or actively looking at players, apart from Wolves going Spanish all the other transfer links to all the teams in the top six are proven Championship players, what the bloody hell is Orta doing? Every player we are linked with is either been bought for another day or a complete unknown with no idea! We need a goal scorer and Grabbonfits the bill! Nelson Olivera would be good but as usual we won’t pay! All teams above us are strengthening and some teams directly below are doing the same! At this rate we will get left behind and before you know it we will be mid table with no chance of finishing in the top six!

15 Jan 2018 20:03:35
Sunderland have parachute payment as do villa so their not short and looking and buying are different things. We have paid around 3 million for a LB and have nearly 3 weeks to go what's the problem

15 Jan 2018 20:05:43
Wolves superior business model and in better position to "gamble" with tried and tested English championship players. We were always going to go foreign. We have Orta and a foreign owner who bought the club from another foreigner and he bought it from a tight fisted cheapskate. I'm hoping though they've learned their lesson. Still 2 weeks left of this transfer window. Does make you ponder where we'd be had we secured English based talent instead of some of these Mediterranean softies. We'd probably be no lower than 2nd. Next season will be tougher because it looks like clubs who been in the PL for a fair few seasons could be relegated. They'll have money to burn. Could be now or never.

15 Jan 2018 20:05:47
Regards unknowns when did you first hear of pontus and saiz arguably our best players and the envy of many

15 Jan 2018 20:08:50
Just 4 seconds apart Wex but utterly different thinking separates us!

15 Jan 2018 21:19:57
Sunderland have money to burn and English players and british manager and are doing amazing at the moment. Oh hang on

15 Jan 2018 21:32:17
1.5 for the left back wex. we are in for chris Martin, fml way past his best!

15 Jan 2018 21:33:55
Mikewoody: Ambition

15 Jan 2018 22:32:23
Sunderland don't have any money wex, it's all been pulled out by the owners, they took 30 mil for Pickford and gave Larry less than 2 mil to bring players in, Coleman has said himself the best he can hope for is to bring in a loan player, maybe 2

15 Jan 2018 22:52:10
I swear to god Whiteman my mate, Wex misses the point every time! I never said anything about Sunderland spending or having money to spend! I’m on about the bloody top six and a few more below us Wex! Open you’re eyes and look at what is happening now, look at how we are playing and if out of around 25 signings you can only pick Pontus, Siaz and whoever then what about the others! Wex, it’s hard to accept but come on mate, how much proof do you need, nearly all of us on here are singing the same song, if you think things are good then good luck luck with that one!

15 Jan 2018 23:02:03
I give up Whiteman mate, even George who makes a great point gets it wrong according to Wex, we are all wrong mate, you, me, Alf, George, Mezzer, Leeeeeds, Aus, Bige, Leodis, Martyn, and many many more! It must be us mate, maybe we expect to much for our £100 in costs for every match. I would like to add Wex that Derby, Cardiff, Bristol City, Sheffield Utd, Preston, Ipswich, and Wolves have had no parachute payments, some of those have never had payments, it’s like Whiteman said “Ambition” you need to take the blinkers off!

15 Jan 2018 23:15:43
I just keep thinking how many millions and millions has orta wasted. All the rubbish bought and their wages. All the u23 squad on long term contracts even if they turn out league 3 standard. and most importantly. He has probably cost is the chance of promotion from the easiest championship for years and years.

16 Jan 2018 00:20:46
Ausman Good post

16 Jan 2018 00:22:45
Wex Sunderland are skint! Wex, if West Brom and Stoke go down they'll buy their way out of the league and then some. Rest assured.

16 Jan 2018 04:19:46
Thanks MW67. Whitewoman, it's got nowt to do with ambition. The ambition is there. The word is method. It's all about method. The balance is wrong right now. Personally, I'd fire Orta at the end of the season. TC has done a fairly good job with what he's been given so keep him on.

16 Jan 2018 09:28:52
I get the harder next year mentality. Anyone in the relegation zone must be putting something aside now for the rainy day that is coming. Maybe even scouting for the same rainy day.

16 Jan 2018 09:32:27
George I stand corrected, 😊

16 Jan 2018 10:42:56
Talking rubbish Wex ! Sunderland are massively in debt, don't have a pot to pee in at the moment

15 Jan 2018 17:59:39
Most of us assume that owners and coaches know what's best for their team. I don't think so. If we'd have put a strong side out against Newport, the players and fans would have been in a great mood looking forward to a full house at Elland Road against Tottenham. This positivity would have been taken into the game against Ipswich and we'd have probably won, and we'd all be feeling totally different than we do now! 😠

15 Jan 2018 20:06:50
Let it go Danum

15 Jan 2018 17:27:18
LUFC have decided against appealing O'Kane's dismissal. Probably for the best since on the footage he quite clearly nuts the guy. Ok, he went down like a sack of 5hit but don't they all. Would have lost the appeal for sure.

15 Jan 2018 16:41:24
Just looking at the U23s tables; A and B. If we have chosen wisely and have put so much faith in "ones for the future", how come we are 9th out of 11 in group A and if merged with group B, 18th out of 21. Surely we should be far nearer the top if this team have not been messed about a players regularily plucked to play in the first team? Are we perhaps getting overly optimistic on these players chances of leading our charge to the premiership if they can't even win the U23 league?

15 Jan 2018 17:01:01
It's because it's all a lie Leo.

15 Jan 2018 17:34:00
Not all of them are in the reserve or youth squads - some of them are playing for our best friends Cultural and they are having a barnstorming season. Oh wait, I had the table upside down.

15 Jan 2018 12:47:14
Why is it we never buy the players to push on! I know the window is still open but my gut is telling we will get some bargain basement speculative signing and once again faulter near the finish line. You can't race against Ferrari with a golf and expect to win a race over 46 laps no matter how good the driver is. Our owners need to invest at this point of the season in two or three Ferraris, it ain't rocket science, Come on Orta and Radz pull your fingers out! Frustrated Leeds fan. MOT

15 Jan 2018 12:09:17
Just watched Moise Kean on video, thought I was watching a young Tino Asprilla. This lad Kean has tricks and flicks in abundance. He seems to pack tons of pace and good upper body strength, especially for his age. The one thing I did not see much of was goals, maybe that will come. He certainly looks like he would leave a few Championship defenders on the seat of their pants. Depending on the cost (val 5/6 mil) I would certainly give him a go and trickle him into the first team, sooner rather than later. The lad is 17 so will make mistakes but he looks to have the potential to win a game in a second. He seems to be on loan to Verona but I would not wait. Buy him now and if necessary leave him to see out his loan.