Leeds Banter Archive July 27 2011

27 Jul 2011 22:33:57
Freddy Adu is a name ive heard been thrown about on a few sites good signing in my opinion


Floyd The Barber

Yeah the name you cant forget because was awsome on fifa 2009 or summat

27 Jul 2011 22:13:41
Johnson to leicester right simon go get richie wellens he's class act

27 Jul 2011 22:03:58
Eds, can we get thumbs up and thumbs down links for peoples replies ?..... Or even likes & dislikes ?

:@) {Ed001's Note - maybe in the future, right now it is unlikely as the server is struggling with the load it already has.}

27 Jul 2011 21:59:04
What makes our new keeper think he can tell us a pack of lies and treat us like idiots before he had even kicked a ball.Listening on yorkshire radio after he was signed he said that the delay to his signing was due to his daughter, and that it was only ever going to be leeds, so why did ken bates say today that the delay was due to him wanting a move to the premiership so we were 2nd best who does he think he is, drop his arse simon he's not that good anyway I never wanted him rachubka as no1

27 Jul 2011 20:57:43
Who cares about Smiff anyway... I never rated him when he was at Leeds before..

At last someone talking sense.

Are you 12 or somthing smith never did anything for leeds...behave

27 Jul 2011 20:52:01
FACT Micheal Johnson has gont to stinking Leicester well done Leeds last again

Do we really want a player who has played so little football lately? Not for me, Leicester can have him.

Who cares?............... Crock waiting to happen ..

27 Jul 2011 19:11:03
dose any one no if leeds are getting watts , lichaj , or michael johnson and dose any one no who leeds are gonna get

I think lichaj is the most likely.sg is waiting 2 here what players the pl teams are choosing 4 the season and if watt isnt on that expect im back at leeds possibly perminant.

27 Jul 2011 18:28:02
Not a rumour but message to ed
please can you make the lines of posts shorter as
you can't read on iPhone now
thanks

Or blackberry lol

Get an iPad

27 Jul 2011 17:55:31
leeds will not sign any more players no need to top two finish no problem

I want some of the moonshine your on

Ring Moonshine Brewery, they will get you some.

27 Jul 2011 17:53:54
I think we could win promotion with 3 more signing - Michael Johnson, Matt Derbyshire & a quality right back.

That's not gonna happen now mate.

27 Jul 2011 17:32:59
callum davenport does anybody think we will take him on trial again last i heard he was playing non league football

27 Jul 2011 17:05:38
Does every one else think we will get promoted this year i for one do. iv been geting stick im working in southampton and all they keep saying is there going 2 knock 10 past us with are leaky defence.carnt wait 2 have the last laugh.leeds leeds leeds

27 Jul 2011 15:54:53
A good squad for the championship could be as follows:-

A.Lonegan
P.Rachbuka
P.Connelly
B.Parker
E.Lichaj
A.Bruce
L.Bromby
P.Kissnorbo
A.White
A.O'Brien
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M.Gradel
R.Snodgrass
L.Sam
A.Clayton
J.Howson
R.Nunez
N.Montgomery
S.Quinn
S.Clingan
M.Brown
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L.Becchio
B.Paynter
R.McCormack
D.Somma
B.Sharp

25 good quality players with cover in all positions creating competition for places. Come on S.G & K.B get the ones that are missing at the moment. Just my opinion but it would not break the bank to assemble the above squad.

About 5 mill, biggest chunk on sharp but that would do us good in this league for sure

Tell Sven were offering Paynter a new 5 year deal, he may put a bid in.

27 Jul 2011 14:40:09
Paynter is better than Torres, he just needs a chance. Big, strong, loves to head the ball.

How many more chances does he need? To be fair he has had plenty during these Pre-season games. If he was as good as some are making out he wouldn't have needed that many chances.........nice lad, but obviously just not confident or technically able to do it.

Loves to head it wide of the target

I bet if i offered a swap deal with Chelsea they'd turn me down in a flash

Paynter should play against BPA in the Leeds XI. Might give him a boost... failing that, he could go on loan there :P

After watching their number 9 and 10 there's no way Paynter would get in their first team

You obviously didnt watch his games last year. He is big but gets shoved all ball easy, doesnt challenge for headers, his passing is poor, his shooting is poor and i have been to two pre-season games and doesnt look the slightist bit intrested

27 Jul 2011 13:43:02
Apparently City offered Michael Johnson to Wolves as McCarthy was in the market for a midfielder and Leeds stuck their oar in as SG had tried to sign him before he injured his knee. I think he'd be a great signing. A quality midfielder who's been out for a while with everything to prove again.

However are good friends Leicester are in the race now aswell. I just hope he picks the right club.

Also Jay Spearing is available from Liverpool. Class player on his day. {Ed001's Note - Spearing is not available, yet. Liverpool have not made a decision on him for next season. I don't know why there are so many rumours floating around about him.}

And he is also a leeds fan.

27 Jul 2011 13:08:33
Actually we do know the ins and outs of the Smith transfer. The truth was told about a year ago (by Norman Hunter i believe) that the club asked him to go to Scum as the highest cash in hand offer. The club then inferred that Smith had taken the offer out of greed, rather than as a favour to the club he loved.
The club should be appologising to the fans for deceiving them, to Smith for scapegoating him and the fans should be appologising to Smith for allowing themselves to belive the lies of the previous owners.
We owe him, not the other way around.

Rubbish.

True, but he is also staying at newcastle for the money and then moving abroad for the money. Good leeds "fan" him.

Personally I don't want him anyway but lets be honest about one thing.. He might 'Love' Leeds but.. It is a job at the end of the day... How many of you would take a pay cut when you know you have easy money at barcodes ?

27 Jul 2011 12:06:35
Marching on Together

We r gonna see you win...na na na na na na..

We are so proud....shouting out loud

We love you LEEDS, LEEDS, LEEDS

At least get the words right

27 Jul 2011 11:33:21
All excited for the new season I think we have a squad good enough for promotion again. Although in my opinion a striker should be brought in on loan to cover just while Luciano or Somma return. Paynter despite his efforts has been disappointing so far although I would love to see him smash in a few and McCormack depite being lively and enthusiastic lacks the strength and height needed fot the 4-5-1 formation which served us well last season. I would like to see a striker such as Jon Parkin come on loan. A big strong target man who knows how to put the ball in the back of the net. However if the 4-4-2 formation is used i do think Paynter and McCormack do have the potential for goals its just getting them off the mark. The problems with Leeds fans is they are so quick to criticise, I do it myself.

Take Paynter for instance the guy can score goals its just getting the confidence in him to do that, similar to fernando torres at chelsea, once he gets a few goals he will start banging them in. I think he may surprise us given the opportunity this season.

Hopefully Alex Mendy will be signed. Him and Nunez are 2 very direct attacking players that will make things happen. It will take a little pressure off our 'under-fire' strikers and also help while our beloved No. 10 is recovering

Seriously? comparing Paynter to Torres??
Thank you for making my day

Yes comparing paynter to torres....last season neither of them could score in a room full of hungry hookers with a pocket full of fifties

Paynter is better than Torres, he just needs a chance. Big, strong, loves to head the ball.

Perhaps we can get Chelsea to buy Paynter for £55 million....if he's better, he's got to be worth that.

Jon Parkin from cardiff? thank god your not our manager he's tripe, bring carew in.... Harry MOT

If you take out Paynters last season at Swindon his record is one goal in every five games and thats in League 1 & 2. Chelsea must have been mad to pay 55m for Torres but I doubt the new manager is pinning this seasons hopes on Billy

Torres AND Paynter Are alike cos they are both s**te, only we didnt pay 50 mill.

Personally i think we should swap paynter for suarez and fabregas for clayton.

jesus bloody christ i love this ridiculous board sometimes

27 Jul 2011 11:12:36
to be honest im quite honest im sick and bored of all this smith saga hope leeds keep onto this alex mendy trialist heard he's good and if or when he scores for leeds we'll all have a great song to chant (OH MENDY) lol

27 Jul 2011 10:49:34
How much longer can we percevere with Billy Paynter, its just not working for him, McCormack needs a Striking Partner with confidence along side him.

27 Jul 2011 08:38:01
.... oh yes and especially for the geek that wrote this reply below to my light hearted 'FACT' banter earlier....

'''Idiot- you can't state your opinions like "so and so better than so and so", and then say "fact"... That's the exact opposite of fact you retard'''

TRY AND RELAX THIS IS A BIT OF FUN - WE DONT WANT YOU HAVING A HEART ATTACK - SO GO BACK YOUR ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES AND LEARN TO LIGHTEN UP........
......Oh yea and by the way here is another FACT that you will like ...... i got it wrong about Nunez he's not like a new signing he's like 3 ...... FACT

27 Jul 2011 01:12:07
Speaking on Yorkshire Radio , Grayson said, "It was a decent work out. I think first half we were average to say the least.
"I thought we didn t start the game well enough, we didn t pass the ball properly, we didn t have a tempo, we were sloppy and we gave the ball away far too easily and if we start games like we did we will get punished.
"Second half we were much sharper and brighter and we had a decent tempo to the game.
"Certain issues tonight made me look at the squad and individuals and we have quite a bit of work to do still. I was nearly falling asleep on the bench."

The words of Simon Grayson after the Norway game.
Any thoughts?

Yeh get some money spent.

Have a Subway meatball marinara SG, get some players signed, and calm down. Also sell Billy the Barn door kid at the earliest opertuniy.

Try a creative central midfielder and a goalscorer, Larry

27 Jul 2011 00:34:36
People saying about harry kewell returning make me physically sick {Ed003's Note - You should see a doctor about that,try a rennie(other brands are available) might just be indigestion}

I feel the same about Smith too.

I am not usually one for all this vitriol and hate against former players. But I do feel HK was disrespectful when engineering a cheap transfer to Liverpool. However, playing for Galatasaray when there must have been other options showed a real lack of class and respect for Leeds fans. Thats hard to forget. {Ed045's Note - Harry was a quality player, it's a shame his personality didn't match that though, wouldn't want him back personally.

Ed, I posted the above. You are quite right, quality wise Kewell was excellent and could have gone on to be World class. Was my fav player for a long time. Pace, dribble, long shot, header, trickery. It's sad that as you say he turned out the way he did. I wouldn't want him back either. I blame Sheree Murphy

Lads, I don't like HK as much as the next Leeds fan. but who can not blame him for " engineering a cheap move" If the board say no it dosn't happen, simple as.
Blame the whole board not HK or Risdale LUFC was run by the Board.

We are Leeds

MOT

26 Jul 2011 23:50:19
Did anyone honestly think that smith would come back to leeds all he is bothered about is sitting on the bench at newcastle and picking up is 65k a week

Being honest, can you blame the guy. he got stick off the majority of fans when he went to scum. i reckon the max we would be prepared to offer is around 15k per week, thats £2.6million he's going to throw away potentially just in wages. we all love leeds but would you walk away from £2.6m regardless of how minted you were, especially when he will effectively retire in the next 5 years? Finally how do we know for certain that we even offered him anything other that all crap on here with people who have supposedly bumped into his mum in the street in rothwell or spoken to his barber

Well said to the last poster From what I've gathered from Geordie associates there's been no firm interest and The only interest from Leeds were the mutterings on Yorkshire Radio from Bates and Grayson that they'd be interested if he could prove fitness n wages were right. No one has bid for him and unless he gets an offer he will be sticking his contract out. I'm more disappointed than anyone as I have supported the guy from day one and I've found myself compromised because I got to know him well but continued to be a massive Lufc fan when he left. Contrary to popular anti Smith feeling, he's a good bloke and I just think the nufc game may lead to something...I don't know tbh I'll MOT regardless don't you worry.