Leeds Banter Archive June 01 2011

01 Jun 2011 22:08:30
Leeds look set for a baron summer of transfer activity! The sad reality is that despite Leeds being a big draw at Championship level the sort of players we need to improve will inevitably go where the money is which is not Elland Rd. Bates needs to decide if he wants to take the club forward as I believe our current wage structure will prevent us signing the few quality additions we need for the promotion push. It saddens me as a Leeds supporter that Bates seems to be blind to the fact that these free signings are fine but the quality free agents come with a bigger wage demand. Loans and frees are hit and miss and we seem intent on volume above quality on the evidence of last season, too many passengers along for the ride! I say cut the volume and invest what little we seem to want to spend in 2 or 3 top players to get us to the promised land again. KB and SG need to appreciate that sometimes less is more it's not a competition to compile the biggest squad

Why don't you just hang yourself now? Give them a chance!

Moan, moan, moan! Let's wait and see eh?

Is a year not long enough to have waited?

SG gets criticised for having a pretty ordinary record in the transfer market and its true enough that the players he has brought in have generally been really dissapointing (Bessone, Paynter, Collins, Bruce, Connolly etc).

Thing is when the only targets the Chairman's finances allow him to go for are players who can't get into the first team at lesser championship clubs its hardly surprising.

he might occasionally drop lucky but for every Max Gradel we will be lumbered with paying contracts to 5 Fede Bessones.

That leaves him going for loan players (who again can't get into their first team) and even then they're the low cost loans.

Wait until August and then moan if the squad isn't good enough. Doing my head in now.

IS A YEAR NOT LONG ENOUGH TO HAVE WAITED???

We were in the same position last year as we are now and look what happened. .

. .a watertight back 4 of Connolly, Collins, Bruce and Bessone. .

. .a midfield of Adam Clayton, Ramon Nunez, Barry Bannan and Jake Livermore. .

. .up front Billy Paynter and Ross Mcormack.

Not exactly blinding successes so far?

Connolly and Bessone were replaced by loan signings during the season; Collins was sold within months of arriving; Bruce was gaff prone and couldn't hold down a regular spot; Nunez & Clayton managed something like 5 substitute appearances between them; livermore and Bannan were peripheral figures & Paynter and Mcormack managed a combined total of just 3 goals.

The manager worked miracles with a small number of decent players but had the Chairman opted not to be outbid by heavyweights such as Watford so we bought just a couple of decent players we'd have got second spot.

Fair enough about back 4 but bannan was class above when i saw him at norwich especially and jake livermore given more time looked a decent player, clayton was never going to be instant success cos he is still young and finally Ross McCormack has gat fit at the end of the season and he scored 2 in 2 and somehow got in the Scotland team?? A bit desperate maybe! !

01 Jun 2011 19:33:16
Isn't Barry Nicholson the one we we're after when Gary Mac was manager? He's 32 so not young!

01 Jun 2011 17:32:54
i bumped into billy paynter in dewsbury. he said he would relish the chance of playing for sheffield united

Good.

01 Jun 2011 16:09:50
just seen someone coming out of thorp arch who looked like tresor kandle, didn't think it could have been him but after seeing the rumour below it looks like he might be coming back!

Obviously the same person posting about Kandol. Go his name wrong both times. No chance of use resigning him.

01 Jun 2011 13:02:51
Peterborough have accepted a bid for mackail smith from an unknown premier league club, just on sky sports about 10 minutes ago!

01 Jun 2011 11:01:02
leeds to sign nobody good

source-sg/kb

What about defence???? we just had the worst defensive season ever!

01 Jun 2011 09:09:16
Promotion & relegation costs united dear. . I have it on good authority Graysons preferred midfield pairing for next season with deals ' done' was Keith Southerne and Darren Pratley. Blackpools relegation has caused blackpool to rethink the release of Southern . . Swansea's promotion will see Pratley Stay put. Its now back to the drawing board. . expect a last ditch effort to keep Johnson
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Roll back 12 months and the preferred pairing with close to 'done' deals was Montgomery & Eustace until they negotiated with Leeds and both found their current clubs were willing to pay them more than we would.

I'm sure that as the summer unfolds we will be thrilled to sign a couple of freebies who can't get regular first team football at mid table championship clubs (like Bruce, Collins & Connolly); and a one season wonder from League One (like Paynter).

Should that not work we could always play the loan market that has served us so well in the past by signing commited, enthusiastic players who will play week in week out and transform the team with their skill and endeavour: like Trundle, Mcsheffrey, Bannan, Lowry and Livermore did.

Exciting times ahead.

Haha - quite! We need more like Sanchez Watt. !

01 Jun 2011 08:59:58
Leeds should sign Michael Johnson (Man City), Dave Jones (Wolves) and Jem Karacan (Reading). All quality players but Johnson and Karacan would cost money. The question is will Bates invest for the fans and for the future.
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Each summer and January Bates likes to claim there's money available but mysteriously nowt gets spent.

This time SG has said the policy will be just to look at freebies so maybe Kenneth will surprise us and spend a fraction of the money from the Chelsea compensation, Delph sale, Collins sale, profits etc.

Maybe.

01 Jun 2011 00:42:48
Don't think it's fake, sorry mate!

Hope the twitter about Bradley wanting to stay is a fake. Not another season with him. Not quite bad enough to eat my season ticket but along the road. I presume he has realised that premiership is a division too far for his limited talents!