Leeds Banter Archive August 03 2020

03 Aug 2020 18:17:34
"Hello everyone 🙂

Can I put to every Leeds supporter an idea? Yep, thanks.

The idea is, big drum role.

Free Leeds United TV for all. 😱

Right, calmed down, I'm asking to see if I am said idiot your have just thought I am. "

I thought I hadn't posted this as I was spell checking it. Needed to replace with "you might", plus it wasn't finished 😁

What I was going onto say is. If Leeds TV made a profit of (no idea of real amount) 3 million pounds a season, could that not be paid for by use, Leeds fans, getting enough sponsorship money to buy the rights and make it free for all of us.

Fans buy teams, so why not the TV rights of home games 🤔

So now you can all go 😜🤪 idea LOL.

03 Aug 2020 20:57:29
Can I have a pint of what you are drinking? 😂😁😉🤣.

03 Aug 2020 21:07:05
Only CCCP will be on board with this particularly feeble idea. Such a sale would cheapen the image of the club so shouldn't happen. However, in a virus world where big attendances no longer assured selling, giving away or under selling television rights to sporting events and by an owner who made his fortune in this area is about as wise a concept as shooting John Wick's dog.

03 Aug 2020 21:22:15
'CCCP' 🤣😉 perhaps one should not smile at that Georgey but it is so spot on.

03 Aug 2020 22:29:18
Televisión rights are negotiated by the leagues and individual clubs don’t have the right to sell coverage of the games in markets covered by other deals or restrictions like the UK, no televised games at 3pm Saturday rule.

The lack of championship rights sales to other European countries gave LUTV the opportunity to sell the games to other countries where the rights hadn’t already been sold. This meant that for most of the season in Spain I could watch a live game including Saturdays for 5 euros, a real bargain, less than the cost of the alcohol and crisps you would eat and drink during the game!

As I understand it, the flexibility in the Premiership will be even less because the product is sold to far more countries. So unless the virus effects the situation again and rules again, I’m not sure that LUTV is going to have the rights to show very much to anyone in most countries but I guess we will see.

For a few games during lockdown I had the choice of watching three live tv feeds of the Leeds games, sky, lutv and a Spanish commentary version through dazn.

03 Aug 2020 13:21:47
For me all this talk of Ben White's price being in the £40m bracket is way off the mark.
If he is worth that and saying Cooper and Pontus are not worth quite as much, they must still be valued in the £20m bracket each, even if you half that again to £10m each.
We sold Pontus for around £5m
Based on selling Pontus for £5m I really don't see Ben White at any more than £10m with additional payments based on achievements like becoming a regular international, Leeds winning trophies, then only payable if we sell at a profit.
Think I would much rather spend our reported £45m transfer kitty on 6 or 7 players who strengthen the whole squad.
Also I would much sooner see us as a mid table team rather than spend stupid money on greedy has been or never would be players like we did before.
While I will always wish to see money spent, I am very happy to accept a prudent budget so long as it is spent wisely and we do not end up going backwards.

03 Aug 2020 15:17:01
Name 6 players who are Prem standard that we could get for £45million. That will only get us 3 at a push that are good enough and maybe not even that. Costa was £19million and he wasn't even that brilliant in the Championship.

03 Aug 2020 17:47:08
1970 Your baseline of Pontus is misconceived as it was halfway to a firesale due to our need to comply with FFP and his deteriorating relationship with Bielsa. He was probably worth £9m truthfully. Most first teamers and squad players who make the bench regularly in the PL are going to be worth minimum £15m as we saw with Costa and the fee talked about for Adams. Only value to be had is when there's only a year or less on their contracts. The deal we should be looking to do with Seagulls for White is £25m now, 3m if he plays for England and another £4m if we're in the PL for the 21/ 22 season.

03 Aug 2020 19:50:24
£25 mill up front?! You’re having a laugh George.
Who needs a MD when you have supporters such as Georgy who can do negotiations for ya free of charge 😂.

03 Aug 2020 20:59:41
Cork Why? He's rated in the £35m bracket. I was the first to post on here about how much it would take to prise him away and it was you who said that valuation was about right. By "up front", I mean the amount we pay but also relying on the 2 or 3 instalments we're allowed to use.

03 Aug 2020 20:59:51
Hope Georgey you are a tad better at your transfer negotiations than you are your transfer predictions 😉🤣.

04 Aug 2020 09:27:04
Alf if you go on transfer market web site it gives a list of all the players transfer fees with Lalana, Moreno, Wilson on loan, Ings, Mooy and Cavaleiro it came to about £40m. I'm not saying we should get those players but similar players who fit our style would certainly improve the squad at a cost of £45m. I trust Bielsa on recruitment as I think he is at Professor level with his knowledge of the game and can see a player. His interest alone got Dan James a transfer at a over inflated price and where James now looks if he is starting to struggle. James missed his chance to come to Leeds where Bielsa would have made him a great player, he has a very make or break season coming up.

03 Aug 2020 22:17:58
Ok Georgy you now recognize that most transfers are not paid up front.
And stop with the name calling, though it’s not beneath you, as it’s just immature and rude.
We can all be unpleasant and say that you are such an arrogant person that you actually believe the crap you type.
MOT.

03 Aug 2020 08:18:54
Has beilsa signed on, is he on a holiday, was hoping it would be resolved by now as 2 weeks into window, less than 6 weeks till new season and no sign of any new recruits or white offer?
Maybe just being over worried, but Radz and Orta not got a great history with transfer windows.
I hoping brentford get beat and we go all out for Benny, he looks class and reminds me of mahrez, takes On players and looks to have a shot.
I don't greatly understood financial side of things, but rumors are that It's worth around 180 mil to promoted teams. I understand we don't want to go back to risdale times and do a Fulham but squad needs new players and I feel 4-5 big signings and could be a top side
Could Radz take 80 and invest 100 mil, my fantasy would be spent like this.
White- 30mil, CB - 15, Eze- 20, Benrahma- 20, striker - (Watkins/ Celtic lad) -20mil.
Then a couple of loans for GK (ramsdale) another striker
Sell a few players- cassila, alioski, forshaw, bamford, Roberts.
Maybe time to stop 🍷.

03 Aug 2020 11:44:36
Bielsa hasn't signed as yet.

03 Aug 2020 14:25:58
Melbourne where do the player wages come from?

I am guessing each current squad player will have an increase due to promotion

The ground will need improvements to flood lighting, tv camera gantries, hospitality etc

The Academy has just been promoted to tier 1. We will need to buy better youngsters in

As I see it, our current squad would not go down as long as we keep White (or similar) at centre back and have a prolific striker to push Bamford (as Roofe did) . We have loaned Harrison again, so find another couple of loans

We need to stay in this league, not bust a gut to win the title.

03 Aug 2020 15:20:24
I think the floodlighting was done last year and the hospitality is already Premier league standard.

I agree though axe that our first target is to stay up and try to establish ourselves. 2/ 3 players of the right quality can help us to do that and then grow the quality of the squad each window.