Leeds Banter Archive February 24 2014

24 Feb 2014 20:52:51
ED what's going on its like a national day of mourning on this site today no news, nothing any little scrap of information you may want to share, before before rigor mortis sets in. MOT

{Ed013's Note - Ask Survivor}

24 Feb 2014 22:07:45
All these people claiming to be in the know saying its happening today tomorrow etc, they only one who knows is Massimo and if I had to take an educated guess he's pretty confident of it happening soon. He's ran a club for over 20 years so he's not daft enough to let his daughter pose for pics at Elland Rd, his son to pose in a leeds shirt and him himself be seen in public posing for pics with fans and attending the leeds game if he wasn't confident of getting approval. I think the fact he was openly seen walking around the ground at boro on Saturday speaks volumes for the positive outcome (and very soon) of this takeover. Plus the signing of butland is another plus point towards it

24 Feb 2014 21:36:34
Dean Moxey anyone?

I don't know much about Moxey apart from he's 28 and an average player.
In my opinon we want young blood, players who can last a GOOD 90mins,
a playmaker who doesn't panic when squeezed on the ball. At the moment if ANY of our midfielders get the ball and they get harrased it big boot.

Andy MOT

24 Feb 2014 20:35:03
At least another 27 points needed for a play off spot, Anyone think we can do it.

No we can not

Yes we CAN do it, the question is WILL we do it?

24 Feb 2014 19:47:40
Cellino; leeds haven't got fans they have an army! Think I'm in love with this bloke!

24 Feb 2014 18:02:10
Sorry but BMD has not got a clue, tactically he is hopeless, why does he continue with Keby and Stewart? Even worse he dragged out Noël Hunt again for yet another crap performance. New owner new manager please. Even Colin had a better record than BMD. MOT

Give it a rest re mcdermott and get behind him.
5 wins and he is the best thing since sliced bread.
Fickle

This is why I'm looking forward to a registered site that way we can see who is fickle and go isn't.

We won't win 5 with BM. I don't wanna emulate Brighton? Say that now Brian!

24 Feb 2014 15:33:08
could fl announcement be waiting for april 1st .or maybe tommorrow is groundhog day.

Don't know but its doing my nut in

24 Feb 2014 15:23:39
I honestly thought the T/O would be today.

Takeover won't happen if it does, the league want to see what happens with the charge for embezzlement that he's waiting to go to court on. If he's cleared they'll have to approve the takeover, but if he's found guilty it's the reason to say no they want

Please Please Please, Innocent until proven guilty. the FL cannot discount Cellino on a conviction that has not been proven!

24 Feb 2014 11:48:31
all the leeds fans should sing Massimo cellinos name, because it might make him think 'I like this i'm going to spend a bit more money on them'

24 Feb 2014 10:10:47
bit of inside info here take over should go through today work for deparment of work and pensions and just finished processing p45s for a couple of guys called b mcdermott and d haigh

24 Feb 2014 08:52:49
Who have been our best two managers since Don and the worse two managers.

24 Feb 2014 09:31:17
Wilko and GG and Larry and bmd

Wilkinson and Grayson - only 2 to win anything since Don Revie

Warnock and McDermott - never seen such dire football at Leeds

Best - Wilkinson - without a shadow of doubt. Then I would go for Simon Grayson.

Worst - Quite a few to choose from, but would go for Warnock (totally clueless) and Venables (inherited a fantastic squad and ruined it).

David O Leary didn't do too bad, it wasn't his fault Ridsdale was lying to everyone.

Er, what? Venables ruined a fantastic squad?! The players were sold off by Ridsdale from under his nose in a 'firesale' when the financial sh*t hit the fan. If he'd been told the truth about our financial state, do you really think he'd have taken the job on?

RE Venables - Up until January only Rio Ferdinand was sold. He refused to play Batty (because he deemed him not mobile enough, in reality he did not rate him or like him), He refused to play Nigel Martyn because he deemed he to old. He brought in Nick Barmby (approx 4 million) who did not fit into the team. He tried to coach the players into playing the xmas tree formation, then moaned (when we were low to mid table) that the players could not understand what he was trying to get across. Forgot to mention, that he tried to build the team around the great Paul Okon!

George graham is certainly up there sorted the defence out made a massive mistake though in not playing yeboah only thing I didn't like about him was when he jumped ship straight away was just starting to build something.

Think one of the main reason no one hardly mentions oleary is because of the money he wasted on pointless signings we already had top strikers at the club in viduka and smith then he signs fowler, keane for way more than what they were worth

My long lasting memory of Graham will be when I was down at White hart Lane, we were 3-1 up and comfortable with 20 mins to go, and for no reason he pushed Radabe up from defence to midfield, the game finished 3-3 and at the final whistle he gave us a wry smile. On the Monday he took the Totteneham job!

RE Venables. once he realised he couldn't talk Ferdinand out of leaving (it was a done deal whether Tel liked it or not anyway), he was happy enough that he had a decent defensive pairing in Woodgate and Matteo. THEN he was told during the January transfer window that we had to sell Woodgate whether he liked it or not. And Fowler. He never wanted either to leave. Woody went to Newcastle, Fowler to Man City, if you've forgotten? As regards Martyn, he was told that he may have to sell Robinson if he didn't play him. As the younger keeper of the two, he decided he preferred to keep Robbo (despite Aston Villa having had an offer accepted by Ridsdale, and Arsenal having been offered him for the same amount as agreed with Villa). Martyn went to Everton as a result. Venables wanted both keepers but had to choose - it's that simple. Barmby started his Leeds career pretty well as I remember but then faded like every other player under the shadow of financial meltdown. Okon had done a decent job for Tel at Boro, so he brought him in as an option for free. Our midfield at that point was lightweight (Batty was past it, mate; Seth Johnson was forever injured, as was McPhail; and Dacourt decided he was too good for the team and asked for a transfer. Bakke was down the pub) And lest we forget, Kewell and his agent were out talking to other clubs without permission of our club.

When you have Wise, Blackwell, Warnock, Venables and Reid to choose from, why would you say Grayson was worse?

RE. Venables. oh yeah, not forgetting good ole Lee Bowyer deciding to jump ship for West Ham in Jan window - we got 300,000 K - yippee - less than six months after Liverpool had agreed 9million for him. The greedy little sh*t hardly played his heart out after that - like Kewell he was chatting with potential new employers. Oh and re. Barmby - agreed, he hardly set the world alight for us bu he actually cost less than 3m. Robbie Keane was another man out - his choice not Tel's in the August transfer window. Everybody knows that Venables was won over by a brochure from Ridsdale that was a pack of lies. Why do you think that O'Neill accepted the job verbally after O'Leary was sacked, then decided against it when he found out about the financial storm clouds approaching Elland Road?

To the commenter about o'learys signings. O Leary actually signed viduka from Celtic for 6million. Brilliant signing IMO. Fowler was a risk that didn't come off as he had a past ACL injury but no doubt he was a real talent before his injury. Robbie Keane was initially signed as cover for the injured bridges but did well and as he has shown over his career is a very good striker. If ridsdale hadn't been a muppet with finances o Leary wouldn't have made 'unnecessary' signings. The Seth Johnson signing was awful, never rated him never worth 7million and definitely not 35k per week. It was o Leary who was interested in Johnson and pushed to get a transfer done, his biggest mistake as leeds manager!

RE Venables - the man is the most overated manager in the universe, put him in the same bracket as Harry Redknapp.

I'm not saying that Venables was the greatest manager in the world but how anyone can point the finger at him in his time at Leeds and say he was responsible for our woes, is ridiculous - the mismanagement behind the scenes, i.e. the boardroom/chairman's office, set us on a swift spiral downwards and not even the greatest manager in the world could have changed that.