Leeds Banter Archive June 02 2012

02 Jun 2012 22:00:22
looking at some players that have been released by premiership clubs and are available on a free, there is some real quality although their wages may be a stumbling block? ricardo fuller, danny guthrie, fitz hall etc does anyone think that we have a chance to sign any of them?

02 Jun 2012 21:50:42
Leeds will never move on whilst bates is there. He is a greedy old man with only his own interest at heart. No investment, no transfers, and the loss of key players to look forward to. Leeds are not a big club any more no matter what anyone says, we are a good championship side with a good past. To all the negative posts last wek about forest, they too are in the same boat, however they are willing to sell 100 percent of the club where as bates wont so if any take over is to happen it will be forest. Dirty leeds

You may have missed this but forest are for sale because their owner died a couple of months ago. Whatever you think of bates he has turned us into a attractive investment opportunity,which was his aim all along, to show how we could be run at a profit.it all unwound a bit last year as his strategy floundered on the clubs inability to attract new players,and hold onto it's best players because of his tight control of wages.the two are fundamentally linked. I do think it needs one club to go to the wall for football supporters to wake up and realise that football clubs are not immune to the realities of life, that ultimately you can't spend more than you've got coming in. I hear Bolton owe £100 million to their owner..is that sustainable if they don't get back into the premiership, and how did they rack up those debts having been in the premiership for the last few years? I hope we do get investment obvisouly,but don't expect a massive injection of cash, for one new football league rules do not allow it.

Not a true fan , leeds are still a massive club and always will be ,doesnt matter if we are in the championship

02 Jun 2012 21:06:33
Anyone slagging off Beckford has a short memory maybe you weren't there when Bristol got turned over by 10 man Leeds and Beckfords goal brought the loudest explosion I've ever heard inside Elland Road and for all the other goals he scored for us, I for one am eternally grateful he played in the White shirt and I AGAIN for one would welcome him back ...........last game against Leicester never heard an opposing team chant the name of the other sides player as we did that's how much he meant to us and how much we mean to him

That game against Bristol was unreal. I travelled from Ireland to that game and it was an awesome atmosphere. Mot

Short memory is right, what about a bloody great goal at the scum sh1t hole.
If comes back or not, they guy has given LUFC some great memories over a tough few years.

He's inconsistent. he's either scoring important goals or he's a liability and dragging the rest of the team down. maybe his goals will outwiegh that but you have to admit he is far from the complete front man.

DonnyLeeds

02 Jun 2012 18:37:52
Howson on loan anyone, if new manager doesnt fancy him? {Ed013's Note - I doubt it very much, some of the top 8 teams are monitoring him}

Don't be daft, I personally wouldn't have him back anyway, judas that jumped ship, wouldn't take him back even if we got promoted and he begged, equivalent to a dirty cheating ex, never ever take them back ha want players want to play for the club, unlike his "I'm Leeds through and through" rubbish, if he wanted to better his career then he can keep it better else where. Rant over lol

Howson had chance to prove himself at the top level and took that chance good on him . hes a footballer who will probably finish his career before hes 35 so take as much money as possible . i would do the same if i thought i was good enough

Not as daft as further down the page. James Milner (England International) on loan - in a similar deal to Bellamy - Cardiff/Man City deal two seasons ago. For me Murphy & Guthrie are certainly the type of players we should be looking at bringing in on a free.
jt-lufc

No thanks ! overated oh but hes from leeds so he must be good? are these posts by the same people who slagged him for most of last season ?

02 Jun 2012 14:17:11
On a note not relating to takeovers...

Has everyone seen the released list from the Premier league?

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11670/7790818/Released-players-revealed

Some good players on here who would fit in well at Elland Road, could be within our current wage structure as well.

Guthrie (Newcastle)
Wilbraham (Norwich)
Whitbread (Norwich)
Buzsaky (QPR)
Bodde (Swansea)
Mattock (West Brom)
Thomas (Wigan)
Kuszczak
Knight (Bolton)

MOT Macca72

You could make a full promotion winning team, out of all the released players on offer. If wages arn't a problem then alot of these would choose us.
mot4life

Zat Knight is atrocious, worse than O'Brien and Titus Bramble combined.

02 Jun 2012 13:53:28
Bechcio misses Beckford {Ed013's Note - Ahhh int that nice!}

Becchio missed most things last season lol

02 Jun 2012 11:58:44
If Grayson wants Lee Peltier at Huddersfield we should keep clear of him. SG's judgement of defenders is poor to say the least.

You can't say that about grayson he never had the money to bring in quality defenders . we will see how good a manager grayson is this season . wait until may 2013 and huddersfield going up and waving bye to us if we dont get investment

Mmmm..did you not see our goals against figure for the last two seasons. It tells you that he had no idea how to build a defence.

Well I wouldn't go that far, took Hudds 3 seasons of playoffs to get up saying that took us a couple of times and a 2nd place by a hens hair

02 Jun 2012 09:33:39
ppl talking about signing beckford if thats the case then mcCormack should be sold. remember when beccio and beckford had like 50+ goals between them in one season. hopefully this takeover goes through so clayton and a few others can stay. i give it 3 seasons and leeds will be back in europe

Europe lol do they still have the intertoto cup?

Mccormack just got 19 goals in the championship season in which we ended up in the bottom half if we had finished in top 2 i would think mccormack could get double so why sell him. he can play on both wings aswell .
then we have beckford work rate = 1%
goal scoring = around 30 a season in league 1 while up in top 2 most of season.
my opinion mccormack is better than beckford and would like to see them together this season as beckford has pace and will change a game with it ,mccormack as the control and agility with a few skills to beat players and really works for his place ,if we sell him he will be hard to replace . i think keep him and build around him and snoddy this season if we get taken over.

02 Jun 2012 00:24:02
I've heard Richard branson wa gunna buy us but didn't think virgin would be the best advertisement for Leeds fans as we have been getting shafted for the past seven years!!
Bates out
mot

Comedy lol

Would have been really funny last season if the players had to wear Virgin shirts. Especially considering the amount of times the defence was penetrated.

'DAN SNYDER' Sneakier by name but coming to the game.