Leeds Banter Archive January 28 2016

 

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28 Jan 2016 22:38:20
We got rid of Poleon because he couldn't cut the mustard. What has he done since leaving Leeds?

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29 Jan 2016 12:14:14
agree I see a lot of posts on here calling for erwin, sloth, even adryan back in the day and fond talk of dawson and poleon they are not up to task of would be in our first team as we are not baracelona and able to mug off players like bojan and sancechez.

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28 Jan 2016 22:35:39
To be fair he might be a really good player. 15 goals in league 1 is OK. Vardy came out of non-league. We need a striker and quick. Clearly Evans does not rate Erwin.

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29 jan 2016 08:55:20
he does rate him he just says he's not fit talking crap as usual.

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29 Jan 2016 12:16:10
no one leeds he don't rate him other wise he would play him, evans is smart and not talking crap evan could say a. he is good but not quite fit or b. he is a complete donkey and pile of W""K I can't not beleieve anyone would sign him. What would you really the gaffer say? Erwin was avearge in scotland he was never going to be our savouir was he?

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28 Jan 2016 20:39:22
No more signings but Barnsley turn down bid? 😔.

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28 Jan 2016 21:14:07
It's a token gesture! A joke bid to appease us fans, A forward who's scored 15 goals albeit in league 1 at under £500,000? Really! Same pattern different window!

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28 Jan 2016 21:51:43
Really a joke bid to appease fans do you realise how silly that sounds.

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28 Jan 2016 21:58:46
Agree with Raggity, a paltry bid, Cellino taking pee.

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28 Jan 2016 23:04:57
Who bids high at the first attempt? certainly nobody who is chasing our players, so why should we?

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29 Jan 2016 02:20:13
Scoops, plenty clubs bid high first attempt. Don't know if you noticed but there are lots of players being sold for tens of millions. 300k was never going to cut it. I can understand an initial bid of 600k but half that was just silly.

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29 Jan 2016 07:22:11
Conor Washington scores 10 goals for Posh, he cost QPR £2.5 million, Winnal has scored 15 for a struggling team we offer less than £500,000, Wex, as I said a joke bid, last I looked Barnesly ain't having a fire sale, that's Bolton . So as I said a joke bid .

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28 Jan 2016 19:33:58
Glad we don, t have to play Rotherham again this season as I could see Dawson making us pay for releasing him, but all the best and I wish him luck.

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28 Jan 2016 19:45:39
obviously Bechio is going to score too ☹☹.

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28 Jan 2016 19:58:05
We have to play Rotherham away in the league.

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28 Jan 2016 20:00:00
We do play em again 2nd 1 was in fa cup and redders will play bith of them hoping to mug cellino off letting poleon and Dawson leave were big mistakes. And why we dint get beccio back till end of the season is beyond me our season was over the day we went to Ipswich with no replacement for the injured Chris wood them and wendys were must wins just imagine if we had the ambition to sign a hooper, forrestieri, Washington or tomlin absolute joke!

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28 Jan 2016 20:32:51
How many times did Redfern pick Dawson for Leeds? He will have the same impact at Rotherham as Ady White did!

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29 Jan 2016 15:40:43
Shad fit, did you just mention Poleon?!? he's hardly moved onto bigger and better things and proved his doubters wrong has he.

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29 Jan 2016 22:07:23
Everytime I saw poleon play he caused problems and he's the guy wood needs pace tbf though your right but with better players around him. _.

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28 Jan 2016 19:14:48
This forum is getting better and better. What I would like to say is we do not need to bring in journeyman players just for the sake of it and to appease us fans. let's clear out the ones who will not be up to it and develop the players we have and get the squad really playing together as a team. Putting in better performances. This comes from playing together and knowing your team mates strengths and weakness . We need to stabilise the squad . Although some may not be top class look at the improvement in some of the players over the short period Evans has been with us . If we achieve that over the rest of the season it would be a good starting point for next season . Then over the summer bring in the four or five players needed to really make a difference.

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28 Jan 2016 18:47:41
so 'unlikely' there will be anymore signings!

Anyone else think/ hope this has something to do with a certain steve parkins presence with cellino. Maybe SP has a gentleman's agreement to buy out end of season, hence MC sees no incentive to invest further, . unlikely we will go up and to be fair not quite poor enough to go down.
Weird how they have been spotted together at games twice now.
No smoke without fire.

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29 Jan 2016 11:01:48
Didn't MC fund the club before he bought his majority stake?
If Parkin is to buy the club I would get MC to invest now and knock it off the bill LOL :-)

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28 Jan 2016 18:41:25
Do a lot of people on here think its as easy as spend a shed load of cash and we're back in premiership and then spend another shed load to get back in top half of premiership we more than any club know it doesn't work like that have the last 15 years thought us nothing short memories the spend spend spend brigade have.

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28 Jan 2016 19:06:38
It's ok to spend money to buy success if you have money! We tried to do it on borrowed money that was that was the mistake.
I worry that unless an Abramovic type buys us (in other words someone who can afford to spend money with no worries whether he gets a return on it or not) . Cellino is not rich enough to be that type of owner and probably neither is Parkin and his consortium (or not) . No doubt he has good intentions, but it is long road that is paved with them. Which is what it is going to be for us if things stay as they are. 😩.

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28 Jan 2016 19:07:54
Just a simple ability/ willingness to invest would be enough, Bournmouth/ watford/ norwich/ derby/ boro all smaller clubs with far smaller fanbases, they seem to be doing ok . Currently we describe MC as our 'owner' when in fact he only owns 75 isn % of lufc. The rest, as we all know, is in the hands of gfh, who are in effect sleeping partners. But as they own what they do they are legally entitled to their %age of the profits.
Further to this there is rent on ER/ TA undermining our competitiveness even more, that's a few million out of the coffers each season. With the exception of Bolton I doubt any other club in the championship is as financially handicapped to quite the same extent as lufc. Its like being in a 100metre sprint but having to run an extra 30 metres over ones competitors.
The last 15 years are largely as a result of KB rendering us as alsorands at best for a generation. He knew full well how utterly useless and penniless gfh were when he and sean harvey sold us to them. Like an abuse victim being pimped around other equally abusive and neglectful owners.

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28 Jan 2016 19:10:51
Sheff Weds wanted Foriezteri, so did we, they didn't spend a shed load of cash, he signed for them . Before you say, if a player doesn't want to sign for us, then that's his business, in the real world if I have to offers on the table one is a mockery take the other decent, I know where I d go . As Mr Cellino is the the only chairman in history to offer a up and coming player Byram a contract for less than he's on already, an aging pro coming to the end of his days, but not an up and coming star . i'd like to be a fly on the wall in the so called negotiations with Cook, Mowatt and Taylor, do you reckon they'll sign for less money eye than they are on at the mo? As Evans says none will be sold this window! Roll on next! By boys . Shed load of cash, more like trying to spend the penny jar .3 loans,2 u21's and £575,00.All that cash saved to spend in the summer, can't wait .

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28 Jan 2016 19:29:12
Agreed but some fans also feel aggrieved about recouping circa £3.7m + in fees and outlaying only £600 k, whilst charging Cat A prices to watch teams from the bottom half of the table. Prudent progress is wise but if this window also sees Bamba, Sloth, Antennuci go without any replacements (even short term) , this can leave a bad taste.

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28 Jan 2016 20:05:46
Top posts raggity007 and nots white. Our outstanding crop of young players are the future of our great club, and yet we seem to be focused on getting rid of these youngsters. Like you said Raggity I have never heard of a player with the promise of Byram to be offered a contract on less money. This time last year we were all calling for Dawson to be given a go in the first team and yet we realise him. Cellino has made a lot of the sky depacle and yet it seems to be lost that fans are being charged an extortionate amount of money to watch games like Bristol City last week (£28 ) as a result we have a crowd of just over 20,000. I am sure that most of the people on here like me have no problem in following our great team every week or week time allows and yet it is a shame so many others do not share the same attitude.

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28 Jan 2016 20:25:05
I am sure cellino could have sold mowatt cook etc. And it's easy to blame cellino but he is running the club with one hand tied behind his back with gfh they are the ones holding the club back investing nothing and looking for 25% of any profit.

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29 Jan 2016 11:04:46
Thanks Shag, I'm not trying to be pessimistic, but it's so frustrating supporting Leeds . I'm not wishing Celluno to emulate the crazy Risdale era and put us in trouble, or spend a shed load of money . But we're told the club will spend the Byram money, forget about the McCormack cash and we spend £575,00 on Toums, my maths ain't that great but if we really want to improve money will have to be spent . Not loan signings who will leave at the end of the season, but players who'll be here for a few years to build something going forward . IMO the best of the Italian signings is Antennuci, he probably won't be here next season, the next best Bellusci has had a price put on his head, a bit optimistic IMO but still says he's for sale . Our best player bar Taylor is Bridcutt, he's on loan and probably won't be here next season . If Sunderland are relegated they'll want him back if not we couldn't afford wages and there will be other Champipnship clubs willing to take him and pay him what he's worth . So we'll need about another 6/ 7 additions to the squad, what chance? Another season of loan signings or freebies for the u21's . The future ain't looking bright . But on a lighter note we should stuff Bolton Saturday :-)

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28 Jan 2016 18:27:26
Just call me a Prophet guys. Mind you it wasn't that difficult to figure out.

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28 Jan 2016 21:35:55
According to Cellino you must be the only profit at the club.

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28 Jan 2016 18:24:48
Good article on 'I hate Leeds' blog entitled 'Category A Games underline that Cellino's battle with Sky is about money not fans'.

Good read summed up by the line 'I don't want to pay £42 to watch Leeds have one shot on goal'. I couldn't agree more. Why on earth would Leeds (17th) v Bristol City (22nd) be consider a category A game?

A full ER would be worth a few extra points come the end of the season surely.

MM.

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28 Jan 2016 17:30:44
Well its been a while since Cellino said anything but I see some people have the nails ready to crucify him. The deals he is negotiating for the players evans wants, not just any player that's available, look unlikely to happen. Could be lots of reasons for that, maybe they do not want to come to Leeds. We got two players in plus two young lads, and we don't know how advanced they are could be in first team next week. He has been trying for others but looks unlikely. We would all like to see a 20 goal striker but who is available now. Tomlin Laferty, Stokes none of them will add anything to the team.
Comparing him to Bates is laughable. 2013 Kenny, Peltier, Drury, Pearce, Morrison, Hunt, Varney, Pugh, Brown, Norris Diouf, Zaliukas, Poleon, Aryibi, Stewart, all legends. Are you honestly saying the team has not improved. Granted some performances are diabolical but they have proved they can play and can improve as a unit.
We are mid table at the moment safe, what's the point in spending all the budget now on whoever we can. These same targets may be still available in summer when their clubs might be more likely to let them go. don't see him selling all the young ones and that's the main thing. Means he still is working for the club otherwise he could do what Bates did and sell them all.
And don't expect Parkin to be buying the club. Farnham approached him and asked if he wanted to join with his little band and he said no he did not want to buy the club as part of a consortium, He did not say he wanted to buy it on his own. My understanding is he wants to buy substantial shareholding in club which would be better as then we have two very rich men who want us in premiership.

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28 Jan 2016 19:11:41
Agree with just about all that Bige. We are better than we were this time last year. However, we are no closer to the play offs than over last 3-4 seasons. But don't want us to keep repeating the same mistakes. Fans want signings, management panic and we end up with players like Erwin or Halibou. Would rather sign no-one than get players who end up warming the bench in the development squad. We all know Parkin cannot fund a takeover on his own.

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28 Jan 2016 17:13:52
hello all, not posted for a while as been busy with work and lost password and too lazy to find it, but have been reading posts often.

I must say a lot of fans seem down at the minute. cheer up, always look on the bright side of life, things could be worse we could be scottish and all the other sayings and cliechaes.

i think things are going ok. Sam has gone so what, he only played well for a move and done nothing in last two seasons. He was our 2nd choice right back and not a natural winger so let him go hammers and not play for nearly 4mill.

our team is not going up but we ain't going down which is nice to say. and we have the youngest team in the league so should improve. I like Wood (S) and really think he will come good as he as been bit poor this season. Mowatt has shown quality and must improve soon as I think he will. Taylor is very good and cook is quality and best player since delph.

MC is not spending money on players I think that is wise. players are dear this time of year and hard to get better writing season off and focusing on summer.

Also love the manager and think he is the right guy (said this years ago) think we are better at 442 and not 4141 but in fat man I trust

so MOT and stop moaning you lot things have been worse we were leauge one club for a while that is now a distant memory.

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28 Jan 2016 17:40:38
Well put young Mr Bermondsey but it is Wood no S come on!

Sam now on 30k a week so he was never going to stay, none of us would so that not clubs fault at all and only had the odd good game for us this season.

It is good we are trying to get rid of people who not good enough for us moving forward, I see Dawson gone to Rotherham, well good luck to him but he didn't make a good enough case for us to play him I guess so no real loss. Bianchi off books sloth should go as they ain't going to feature.

club accounts according to Phil "honest" Hay looking good, we got a new CEO guy in, Bridcut, Muzzy and Toums or Dave are all good players who better than what we have, adds to team so agree we are building.

We do need another CF for sure, play-maker midfielder, CH and keeper to provide comp to the cat but if we got to the summer needing just those then that is not a bad place to start, would be good to get at least one of those in now mind as hard for any team outside top 10 to go up the next year doesn't happen often, you have got to build momentum from here on in.

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28 Jan 2016 18:52:19
Welcome back BW old boy. I've only got one thing to say to you -

Down the pints, Up the Whites!

MM.

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28 Jan 2016 19:14:31
Welcome back BW. Good to know your still around. Hope everything is ok with you.

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28 Jan 2016 19:35:10
I was beginning to think you'd passed on to another place BW, and I don't mean Millwall! 😉😁.

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28 Jan 2016 22:34:46
cheers everyone, that was the trouble MM over the holidays too much downing pints to be able to read let alone post. I agree think we need another forward (although I love ant and want to see more of him) and we need another Cb although I do have to say I think wooten has gone from mug to decent player and he has improved a lot, still hate bellindchi and think he is awful defender and accident waiting to happen, bit like david luiz (but worse of course) he can play football but can't defend which is a trouble for defenders. I have been working a bit at millwall as I have been made expert for them on a certain game project (which is very funny and all my wall mates and family are well P'eed off with me) . MOT and onwards and upwards with the whites.

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29 Jan 2016 08:44:02
Bermondsey you are right about league 1 being worse than championship but the team we came up with is the best we've had since, we finished 7th first season up we've been no where near since.

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28 Jan 2016 16:43:36
I have just read Evans article in the YEP. What a load of tosh.

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28 Jan 2016 16:19:14
Re transfer window: Either Cellino is playing fast and loose with the manager/ coach and the fans and always had a cap on the amount he would spend on new players, or he is in negotiations with other clubs and doesn't want to appear desperate or he has decided we are not going up or down and doesn't want to waste 6 months wages on a lost cause and will spend it in summer or he doesn't know what he is doing from one day to the next. Wouldn't like to guess.

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28 Jan 2016 16:40:07
I'll go e)

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28 Jan 2016 17:26:59
I don't think it is any as I said earlier I think has pocketed the money for himself.

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28 Jan 2016 18:53:17
That would be 'A' then Stan. A cap on how much he was going to spend. Ie playing fast and loose with the coach and fans (that is if Evans is to be believed) .

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28 Jan 2016 14:41:52
I see badge kisser has handed in a transfer request! Judus!

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28 Jan 2016 15:17:12
. and this is only a few months after he signed an improved, long-term deal with Fulham until 2019. I think we knew when he left us that he was a mercenary so-and-so. This kind of proves the point.

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28 Jan 2016 15:23:08
What a tart, he'll kiss any old badge!

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28 Jan 2016 18:18:13
He loves to offer his wares to all and sundry in the January Windows. He'll soon be in Amsterdam.

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28 Jan 2016 19:14:32
I'd swap him for Wood! 😉.

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28 Jan 2016 14:09:16
So perhaps no more signings. Is this an admission that we can't go up and can't go down so no need to spend anything.
Or the players that we really want aren't available or they want more than 2000 lire a week.
Or club is going to be sold and the new owner is going to sign Messi instead of Lafferty and Stones to replace Bamba.
Either way it seems a bit of a theme lately lots of promise about what's coming but in never actually happens.
Oh well - after 50 years of supporting Leeds I suppose were going to have the odd bad patch 😥😥.

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28 Jan 2016 11:49:06
As I feared after my post yesterday it looks like I was right especially after what I have just read on sky's website. As I said I am totally getting peed off by owners mugging us loyal fans with promises of signing new players and never delivering on there promises. In my eyes Celino is every bit as bad as masterbstes at least we knew what Bates agenda was. Wait till the summer and Cellino will say everything we won't to hear in an attempt to get us loyal fans to re new there season tickets. I don't count players being signed on loan as being good for the club as more often than not they are playing for themselves. Can anyone tell me how many players we have signed on loan and after the loan period have joined the club. I cannot think of many.

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28 Jan 2016 14:02:00
Gradel, Bruce, Collins, Bamba, Pugh ( second time ) .

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28 Jan 2016 14:11:11
If you read Evans interview he says there looking at players n cellino said its unlikely because of negotiations for the players aren't going well.

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28 Jan 2016 16:37:48
Thanks sticky and with the exception of Gradel none of the others have set the world alight.

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28 Jan 2016 16:44:37
Yep, the common theme was they worked really hard to get a contract then went on holiday. Except Gradel who was obviously working really hard for promotion with Leeds or to move on to bigger wages elsewhere. Not sure where I'd put Bamba, he's certainly not the player who arrived last year is he!

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28 Jan 2016 17:01:14
whoooooa hold the phone. not commented for a while due to being busy and losing password to site but this comment was so bad I felt inspired to hunt through emails to fine password.

OK Shag. firstly cellino as bad as bates. NO! bad shag just NO! I know people are allowed there opinion but not when you opinion is this! Bates sold so many great players for next to nothing and replaced them with cack. Cellino has got good money for our players and even rejected bids. I can't see bates saying no to any bid for any player. Also cellino has spent money on players, one can argue they have not been great buys but he has spent quite a bit really.

you then go on to say about loan players becoming full time buys as a moan. you then go on to say that when we have brought them from loan they have often turned out bad. it is not the reason to loan maybe they was not good enough and sent back? maybe it is wise we do not buy more players as they are often not good enough. no point buying for the sake of buying.

Anyway this is up to debate but saying anyone literlly anyone Hitler, Satan, Megatron, Darth Vader or cellino are as bad as bate is not accecptable on any level EVER.

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28 Jan 2016 17:28:53
That's what so wonderful about football and we are all entitled to our opinion. As soon as masterbstes arrived I tore up my season ticket and refused to watch any game. Since bates left I have purchased a season ticket each year and haven't missed a match home and away in 2.5 years and travel over 400 miles round trip to watch a home game and in my opinion as a club we haven't moved on since Cellino took over. Only time will tell if I am right with my opinion regarding master bates, however you are missing the point about Bates yes we did know he would sell our best players, however Cellino is full of promises and hasn't delivered on any of them promises us the world and like suckers we believe all of his bs.

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28 Jan 2016 22:40:13
no I am only joking shag and can see your point. I do think we have moved on but the trouble with MC (although I am a big fan in perspective of who else we have had since Les Sivler) is he runs he mouth off. If he didn't say stuff he wouldn't let us down and then he would be more popular MC is his own worse enermy. I do think there has been progression in the sense bates killed us and left us relegation fodder Grayson built a team to get promoted to prem but losing players held him back and no money reinvested. Think how poor it was under Wanock and how poor that journey man team was now we have a young team that can progress and build and looks more like going up than down and most importantly we are not getting done over with our best players going for peanuts.

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28 jan 2016 09:30:32
so again does anybody know what there talking about . bring in players need striker get two then we hear no more . don't want to loss players one out then rumours 3/ 4 could be going . get your act together and stop talking a load of bull.

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28 Jan 2016 09:55:10
Let us stop panicking about no new players coming in, ok I haven, t read what cellino has said but might it just be that the players we were after and Don, t forget a player was hoping to be signed before the Ipswich and Sheffield Wed games just don't, t want to come, if they don't, t want to come then we defo don, t want them, so what is left and that is the dross that nobody else wants so perhaps that is why mc has said no more, and if players at the club are not in big steve, s plans then why not cash in then hopefully come summer we have more money to purchase the players we want.

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28 Jan 2016 10:20:58
Well said Crofton. I'm not panicking about it either. Phil Hay has written an interesting read in the YEP about the club finances. Some of it may be speculation, but it does go a long way to explain why Cellino isn't splashing the cash on players. We're still not financially sound and MC is reluctant to throw money at players when the club is still making serious loses (not as bad as they once were, but still. )

I'm happy to play in the Championship for another season or 2 to steady the ship. I'm don't go along with impatient fans who want everything now. Risdale suckered up to impatnient demanding fans and we're still paying for it now!

Still Leeds. Always will be, not matter what. MOT

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28 Jan 2016 10:24:38
Cellino changes his mind like the wind. I believe that Evans was given assurances that money would be made available for transfers and now that promise has been removed. I do not have an issue with Cellino getting rid of players who will not feature in Evans plans i. e. Bianchi, Sloth, Bamba however to not attempt to replace them leaves a small squad even weaker. Unfortunately we cannot play 11 midfielders therefore I would worry if we had an injury to a Centre back as the only cover would be Wootton. The only winner from this current policy is Cellino as he will have the fees from Byram, Bianchi and possibly Bamba, Sloth and Antennuci whilst saving on all their wages. A comment previously stated that he is not as bad as Bates but is going that way. I would say he has Bates transfer policy manual and is following it to the letter.

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28 Jan 2016 10:49:57
I'm with you Southern. If there is nobody out there why buy for the sake of it? The manager isn't even permanent yet, so until that decision is made why let him spend money on "His" players when a new man might come in and not use them. Let's get to the end of this season and once again begin the next with eternal optimism.

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28 Jan 2016 12:39:59
then we will not be promoted no £180 mill windfall for Mr Cellino and gfh. Give me Risdale and fourth in prem any day.

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28 Jan 2016 12:44:34
WOW! Give you Risdale?

You're very welcome to him, my friend.

Never forgiven!

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28 Jan 2016 13:15:55
Doomed doomed we are doomed.

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28 Jan 2016 14:41:22
Risdale? Are you having a laugh? That's a no from me. It's the mess of his making we are still trying to claw our way out of.

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28 Jan 2016 16:10:14
Southern Softie just how patient do you after be? we've been patient since 2004 with arrogant stubborn lying owners give me the ER crowd of the 70s, 80s, and 90s to the satisfied happy clappers we now. Cellino doesn't splash the cash because his pockets aren't deep enough, as for Risdale he borrowed the millions if it had been his own money then he could've been forgiven, Cellino's record at Calgliari spent £60 plus million sold £80 plus million £20 plus million profit says it all. Until we get an owner with money and as ambitious as the fans then expect us to stay magnetised in the lower reaches of the Championship or worse.

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28 Jan 2016 16:34:40
Southern I think the majority of fans are with you all we want is the owner whoever they maybe to tell the fans the truth, when Cellino bought the club he said the plan was to get the club to the promised land in two years, this then got moved back a year, if it takes another two years as you suggest that would be five years and I think that is the reason fans get so itchy about us doing well. We have had owners that promise the world and fail to deliver on their promises. I agree with you it will take at least another two years for us to be able to get near to the level we need to be to get promotion, however we need to build a team around the outstanding youngsters we have. As for the article in YEP today where phil Hay describes the situation around the club finances if what he says is true we are in my opinion in for a whole world of pain and would suggest relegation is more of a possibility than promotion, football is unlike any other business £ if we aren't paying the wages other clubs are we don't have any chance of attracting new players, the problem around the wage bill is we have to much dead wood on the pay roll (sloth, Bianci etc) bee need to get these off the wage bill and concentrate on only buying players that will improve the club and again the majority of the players signed has been Celliono's decision so I am afraid he only has himself to blame if we have players on the books. That get paid well and are not even good enough to make the bench.

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28 Jan 2016 16:42:21
Well I agree 100 % with your last paragraph aggro.

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Moves Galore As Leeds Legend Backs Signing And Former Villa Assistant Slams Their Fans Plus More News

28 Jan 2016 05:34:57
{Ed's Note - We have posted a new article entitled, Moves Galore As Leeds Legend Backs Signing And Former Villa Assistant Slams Their Fans Plus More News

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28 Jan 2016 00:30:35
Well another bad thing has just hit us. When as things are looking up and looking more positive as Clarke said were slapped on the face. Cellino having another one of his classic changes of heart saying were not signing anymore players. As I said before things looking up we could be signing a good experienced championship striker which would be the No.1 signing IMO and this happens. Why can't Cellino stay quiet and try and make good signing with a good experienced championship striker coming with Byram money but to me to be honest looks like he is pocketing the money and that is a terrible thing to do and I don't think Cellino is nearly as bad as Bates but this was a Bateish terrible thing he has done (Also no offense DG but if it isn't true which I highly doubt why does have to create this controversy and give the press another reason to have a go at us but most importantly of all why does he make all of us as fans feel like this? I think we all know the reason for this and I would have to use a lot more descriptive negative words that I would not use on here! ) , and just to make matters worse Bamba looks like he is leaving which I actually thinks has been bubbling over a while and I don't think he is happy under Evans because I think he really liked Rosler and under Rosler he was playing all the time now he isn't. Another Leeds fan has been saying for quite a bit that it is worrying we are not playing him and was saying things like there probably some decent interest in him and sort of alluding towards the idea he could go and unfortunately he looks correct. And that's what I thought as soon as I heard this. So then after things are looking decently positive IMO by our standards right now and looking stable and dare I say looking like a normal football club by our standards it is all wrecked by that mad man Cellino I hope and pray that Parkin buys out him and Ellonora sport because even though the leeches GFH were worse owners they don't do anything now and would rather have them doing nothing than Cellino sharing power with Parkin unless Cellino has a minimum role at the club. Anyway whatever happens hopefully Parkin will buy the majority stake of the club. No matter what happens I will be Leeds. MOT!

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28 Jan 2016 08:25:59
Agree with you regarding cellino, doing himself no favours regarding the byram money. That is indeed a very Bates thing to do. `Replacing a future England star with a journeyman approaching 30, (carayol)
I don't know so much about bamba, the reason for me he is not playing as much is based on his performances. Of the three cb' we have sb is the most error prone, and the least mobile. GB/ LC have earned their places. All Big Stevie has done is put the best two in that we have.
Parkin presence is a source of hope!, Hope he does a deal with gfh at same time, if/ when he takes over.

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28 Jan 2016 08:54:11
Based on recent results our play off hopes are pretty much gone now. Spending money on big signing (the kind of players we should be aspiring to) are now probably seen as a needless expense.

I assume MC will either sell as over the next few months or will wait until summer, clear more more players then bring in who he wants.

As a season ticket holder I would like to feel I get value for money by seeing my club play well so want him to "splash the cash". My head says I kind of agree with MC though.

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28 Jan 2016 11:08:32
Our play off chances are probably gone, that's a reality, but a few bad results and a few injuries and the threat of relegation will be back . For the last few years we have not been that far off the Bolton 4/ 5, I really hope not, but as much as the optimism for top 6 has gone, it's this time off year we usually go the other way!

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28 Jan 2016 19:52:10
Disagree Pro Una on the fact that Bamba is our mobile cb IMO Cooper is, and even if Bamba is the mistake prone I think he is still a best cb but I agree on form Cooper and Bellussci have been better than Bamba. Losing Bamba IMO is a big loss because as I said I think he is our best cb in terms of ability. Also disagree White Knight and Raggity about signing good quality players because we won't get promoted I disagree because IMO we should get this players now and improve the squad and have the best season possible so hopefully we can have a good building point for next season and not have spend as much money in the summer on transfers we need which would include Bridcutt permanent and Carayol as well if he wants to stay at the end of the season because I heard he wants to go back to Boro if go up which is ridiculous because he doesn't get a game as it is. But back to the point we would have more money to spend on youngsters contracts. And hopefully a promotion push with
With Parkin taking over. (Trying to be positive again. ) Were White, Yellow and Blue and proud.

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27 jan 2016 23:37:20
yes no more signings want to keep best players and bamba not in evans plans . so much for him him and him when really nobody, but a few quid in his pocket.

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