Leeds Banter Archive July 20 2020

20 Jul 2020 22:38:55
Very much off topic I know, but I can't help feeling a little sympathy for Hull City fans. After the New Year set of fixtures (round 26) , they were on 39 points, just 2 outside the playoffs. They must have started the full of hope, Having then sold their two best players, the Tigers have picked up just six points from the next 19 games! and are facing almost certain relegation, being three points from safety and playing Cardiff away on Wednesday.

20 Jul 2020 23:49:21
Cluey Proof they were a one man team. JB could still end up at Leeds in years to come. Get the feeling we're about to be the fashionable go to club. We need to make the right moves in the window and ensure our PR hits the right note and no more Kikos to undermine that.

21 Jul 2020 07:23:44
George JB would have been a great signing I think!
Seen him playing decent at West Ham in pretty much a struggling team! Maybe one day?

21 Jul 2020 12:33:22
Yes it's sad to see. I can imagine how I would feel if Leeds' best 2 players were sold mid season and not replaced.

20 Jul 2020 17:44:49
If our current income/ turnover is £50m and there will be an additional £100m in the premier league. Giving a total income of £150m next season.

There will also be additional costs, increased wages etc, Rads has said he does not want to spend big or as he put it, disrupt the squad with too many new additions.

All the talk elsewhere, of adding unknown left backs for £25m plus is rubbish.

How many players will we be able to get with a transfer kitty that maybe in the region of £30 to £40m?

Realistically we will need a minimum of 6 to 8 players, depending on how many of the current players MB decides are not in his plans.

Looking through the names in the U23's there are about half a dozen plus who could make the step up to the squad.

It is going to be very interesting to see who we bring in.

MB said yesterday we need to convert more of the numerous chances we create and this means adding quality strikers, wingers and creative midfielders. If we get this right we could become a very good team.

20 Jul 2020 18:32:02
1970 We don't need 6 to 8 players. 4 or 5 all that's needed. 2 central defenders, 2 midfielders and a striker.

20 Jul 2020 19:25:12
GIW if we loose White and move on 4 or 5 Beradi, Douglas, Foreshaw, Augustine, maybe Pablo . Then add in the 3 or 4 injuries MB always allows for, our squad would look very thin.
Just to have two decent options for every position we will need to recruit players.
In a perfect world maybe not but you hope for the best and plan for the worst.

20 Jul 2020 20:02:17
1970 I'm sure Berra will go and a couple of others but you're not allowing for the desired emergence of the young crop. Casey Hosannah Struick Kenneh Kamwa Stevens Bogusz McCalmont McCarron McKinstry. We must be loyal to them and give them a chance. Some will go out on loan but recruiting a minimum of 6 like you say shall be too disruptive.

This would be George's recruitment list for 2020.

White
Fry
Eze
Wilson
Woodrow

But I should stress not Woodrow Wilson. Lol 😆. There'll undoubtedly be others from abroad we'll be interested in. I think we should also be keeping our eye on Oxford (not the University town 😂) and David (not Craig 😆 but Jonathan) .

{Ed001's Note - Woodrow Wilson would be worth 14 points I reckon. Yeah I know, a history gag is probably a bit high brow for a football site but throwing it out there anyway.}

20 Jul 2020 20:22:34
GIW, think MB will want to manage how the young players are developed and bring them through gradually especially if how he used them this season is anything to go by. MB likes his senior players, who he trusts. He will know exactly what he needs and where the weaknesses in the squad are. We need a couple of strikers, wingers, midfielders and defenders, quality upfront and good solid professionals for midfield and defence. We will not get away with using out of position players as stop gaps at this higher level.

20 Jul 2020 20:39:49
we all know rads is both skint and tight. he could of invested over last two winter windows and hasnt. one year cost us the next year didnt. we all know we have had outside investement which has not always shown and now rads has said he is looking for more investement

at the end f the day let's just enjoy where we are. we might need to invest we might not. even if we lose every game next year losing to liverpool and west ham is better than losing to wigan and hereford

I don't think we need that many players, i think we have a decent team and our style is suited to prem but as last few years has shown no one on this this site can tell (and even bleisa ain't really got a clue because he is as good as he is bad) so let's just love life at the moment and next year what will be will be

that all said. we need a left back, two centre backs (take the two from millwall) one crative midfeilder (take jed wallace best player in championship and perrea of west brom or beraghana from Brentofrd) and a forward (no idea) . Sell phillips and use money to invest as shacks and stuijk are far better and we will be fine

but if we ain't so be it. better to get relegated as leeds than stay up as any other team. MOT.

20 Jul 2020 20:46:00
And at least if we get relegated it will hopefully be with some. better players and more money so we can prepare to return.

20 Jul 2020 22:26:53
Perrera is a west ham player on loan, they'll keep him next year.

20 Jul 2020 23:08:38
thanks richie i never realised that

so perrera is about as likely as ben white. we can rule them both out

and yes alf if we go down we will be in better shape and a day in the sun is better than no day at all. this said i think we will be comforatble next year.

21 Jul 2020 08:04:02
Makes him a great business man in my opinion, didn’t spend on players but still got promoted, we have to remember he bought our ground back and is as we speak heavily investing in a new world class training facility.

21 Jul 2020 08:38:39
The premiership starts very soon this time round

We will go in largely with what we have as there’s little time to bring in new players and blend them in or get them up to speed

Trust the process

We have u23s that have played this system for two years now

There’s cover.

We are going to surprise a few teams with how good we actually are.

21 Jul 2020 09:23:04
Sorry Richy but it's the Grady diangana lad that's west ham's player Pereira is west Broms they made is loan a perm from sporting Lisbon but I think Pereira would be a good signing if Brom domt make it up with us lol.

21 Jul 2020 10:41:37
Taddy Leeds Utd doesn't own elland road, a holding company of Radz does which is a separate entity from the club .

20 Jul 2020 11:25:07
It's going to be a great year, hopefully with chances coming for some of the young guns. There are many who haven't been given a first team trial that are knocking on the door and I am sure Spanish will have his favourites but among the obvious ones what about, Edmondson (not a Bielsa favourite? ) Kun and McKinstry?
Everyone of the U23s will be sorely tested next year with their step up a division. Let's hope it highlights one or two that just cannot be ignored. The futur's bright the futures Mighty White.

20 Jul 2020 20:45:17
seen a bit of u23s and edmondson is good player but never a belisa player in a million years (well suited to burnley or sheff utd but not belisa)

kun was highly rated but hasn't really done it at leeds and i doubt he will ever play for 1st 11.

bogtuz has shown real class and stevens shows promise but not sure about attitude

of course stuijk looks to of come good and shacks is a god but i think overall this team is showing as much promise as the side that had heart woodgate and smith in it. by the way smith was seen at TA and is due to sign very soon. source is the survior.

21 Jul 2020 03:25:49
I was also struck by Struijk. once he got his legs under him, he looked a great understudy to KP and with more exposure as well as the hard work he seems prepared to put in . perhaps even better than that!

This is the magic of Bielsa. he brings players on as well as the team as a whole. I just wish Pablo had 2 more seasons in him for his sake as well as the side.

And if you were Ben . would ya want to be playing at Amex for their coach or bench warming at one of last years top 6 Prem clubs or working with Bielsa developing into world class.

Probably not his choice. or money will make the decision. but the right footballing thing to do is to stay with us. and live the dream. the money will follow.

M bloody well ecstatically O T.

21 Jul 2020 06:24:13
Good to see Spanishleeds back and posting the under 23 main man, Hope you’re well and fit ready to go,

21 Jul 2020 08:43:44
Adding to the above I like Alfie Mc

Ollie Casey is going to be some player too I think.

20 Jul 2020 10:07:58
Hats off to bubba and his players, hats off to rada and orta for delivering their 5year plan early, hats off to the doubters and moaners who have had the balls to admit they was wrong, hats off to germs crystal balls ( take me back to home bargains mate they don't work) I'll raise a glass with all my pals on this site inc the Ed's especially ed001 who educated me about bielsa when I knew nothing about him.
Here's to next season boys chin chin

Oh berm I'll lend you my rise tinted specs mate life looks rosy with them on 😉.

{Ed001's Note - you will have to drink mine for me as I don't drink. I know that will be hard on you, but I have faith you can produce the same spirit your players showed to win promotion and push through it....

I am so glad to see Bielsa in the Prem, he has been a bit of a hero of mine for a long time when I saw his Argentina team play. He was eccentric then too!}

20 Jul 2020 11:04:04
You we right all along Martyn :)

You had nerves of steel to stick with it but things all worked out in the end so hats off to you, sir.

R.

20 Jul 2020 12:36:59
What a great weekend to be alive and a Leeds fan . The sixteen years made everything so much sweeter . Like most of us until Brom dropped those points I was taking nothing for granted . So what joy it brought . I’ve been chanting Leeds songs all round my house and neighbourhood ( not Leeds ) . My wife and daughter only now realise how much it meant to me and all of the Leeds family . He might be a stubborn old goat at times but Marcelo delivered for us and we love him for it . NB WHAT WAS ORTA DOING WITH THAT RED AND WHITE FLAG ON THE WEEKEND CONFUSED ME?

20 Jul 2020 13:47:34
no need Martyn things looking so good i have only gone out and got myself a pair

needed them to dull the light after drinking far too much this weekend.