Leeds banter 10

03 Jul 2026 21:30:54
Just watching Australia v Egypt and Harry Souttar is having a fine game for the Aussies. 6'6" in height and only 27 years old, he might be worth a look at, especially if Leicester want him off the payroll.

03 Jul 2026 21:45:39
Not as a penalty taker though!

03 Jul 2026 22:54:11
Not really impressed by any of the Australian team as potential targets. Mo Salah is now a free agent though, just saying.

03 Jul 2026 23:19:50
Have to say their keeper looked decent.

04 Jul 2026 02:01:28
Think that a decent shout, feath. Think Souter is around 5mil and be a good squad player, great at blocks and crosses, and can score.
Probably a tad slow, but in a 3, he be ok.

03 Jul 2026 21:30:07
Looks like the England v Mexico game is now going to be a 7pm Sunday night KO, not 1 am Monday morning.
The temperature won't be much different but it might be a problem for some of the travelling fans who have flights booked.
It won't please some of the pubs but it's probably a better time for the majority of the home based fans.

03 Jul 2026 21:48:13
Not confirmed yet by FIFA, but being considered due to the threat of thunderstorms when the game is scheduled for.

04 Jul 2026 01:22:26
Back to square one (AM) .

03 Jul 2026 17:14:48
Rennes about to sign Cressy for £30m inc add ons. Nice little 15% cash back on that one!

03 Jul 2026 17:31:08
Always rated Cressy.

03 Jul 2026 18:26:01
Agree, Baz, but he did lack a yard of pace.

03 Jul 2026 18:49:45
Really, Baz, you should have mentioned it. 🤣

03 Jul 2026 19:02:26
Hehe lol. 🤣 Class that was especially for you.

Yes, LUFCfeath, I agree.. He lacks pace.

But he has so many other attributes.

120% er effort.
Supreme in the air, in both boxes.
Very strong physically, a tough tackler.
Good positioning.
Exceptionally good at blocking shots.
Scores quite a few goals, too.

Wish he was still a Leeds United player.

03 Jul 2026 19:03:07
That's £3.93M - not to be sneezed at.

03 Jul 2026 12:11:07
Already getting bored of this transfer window. As usual keep bidding for a target, don't want to pay the money then lose out. Need to move on from Charles, get better value abroad. See the 49rs getting business done for Rangers, but as always messing about. Also need to get rid of players Farke won't use.

03 Jul 2026 14:06:10
Yes Brum. I too really do hope we move on from SC, and this latest saga.

We had the 2023 summer long CDK forlorn saga and the 2025 Paxo cubes one too.

Prefer not to have another long saga on a player and position that, imo, should not be anywhere near a priority for LUFC.

And one that will not improve our first 11.

03 Jul 2026 16:08:36
There will be plenty of other targets, but the WC is affecting transfers. Unless Charles gets done, probably nothing more will happen until after the WC anyway.

03 Jul 2026 16:22:55
Alas, there is too much deja vu about this one. If everyone is waiting til after the World Cup, it's gonna be time-restrained carnage. How can players get a break and a proper pre season in? Very frustrating.

03 Jul 2026 16:43:27
It's always the case anyway - most business happens towards the end of the window. It's a domino effect with clubs waiting to source replacements before letting players go etc.

03 Jul 2026 16:55:53
What about Wilson or Brant, free agents who we have still not heard anything about?
I know the recruitment department had a lot of success last year, but it would b really nice if DF could actually use some of these players in pre season to work some tactics and formations out.

03 Jul 2026 17:10:18
That's a point that seriously pisses me off, Haydock. We leave it so late to try and bring new recruits up to "match fitness" then.

03 Jul 2026 18:28:03
This pursuit of Charles is reminding me of last year with Paixo.

03 Jul 2026 20:12:53
And De Ketalaere the year before.

03 Jul 2026 20:36:32
Brandt was always a long shot. We arent his first choice, and he will probably have plenty of options. We are offering a good wage packet, but other than that I don't have much hope. As already stated, we are just working through the final details in Wilson's contract by all accounts.

03 Jul 2026 20:46:25
Only hope with Brandt, Alf, is if he is determined to play in the PL and we are the only club interested.

03 Jul 2026 21:16:40
Wilson is all signed, sealed, done and dusted, finito, from what I've read. (Contract signed.) He just needs to be back in the building for the presser, which should be next week, supposedly.

03 Jul 2026 21:23:15
I agree with Bright. Wilson is a Leeds player. It's not very good PR by the club, but if there are reasons for not immediately confirming it, then so be it. Maybe they want to introduce four new players at the same time. 😃😂

04 Jul 2026 10:52:55
Sgt Wilko Style, Dunelm! 8 in one day, or something like that!. 😃🤣

04 Jul 2026 14:43:13
Trafford, Brandt, Wilson and Ivan Toney all on the same day! Imagine.

03 Jul 2026 08:53:10
Manzambi of Switzerland now there's a player we should be in for. 42 mill so not impossible.

03 Jul 2026 09:59:24
He's close to a move to Newcastle, I believe, Corky.

03 Jul 2026 10:43:08
Exactly Dave, he's close but not signed.

03 Jul 2026 12:22:49
Great player. Well impressed.

03 Jul 2026 13:10:47
We will have our targets and budgets aligned already. I can't see our months of planning being disrupted unless a real bargain becomes available. Can't see that move personally, and we won't want to be drawn into a bidding war with another club.

03 Jul 2026 16:27:17
Barcodes are reputed to be offering £47M, and have £100M from Spuds for Tonali to play with, so probably not worth thinking about.

03 Jul 2026 19:49:25
Probably correct, JR.
No harm aiming high though.

02 Jul 2026 21:05:59
I hope all this talk about spending £25 million in a goalie is nonsense, when it could be better spent elsewhere on the pitch. I will be pissed off if this happens.

02 Jul 2026 22:01:49
If we'd have been 6 pts better off this season we'd have been 4 places higher.
4 places higher in each of the next 4 seasons (keeper contract length) would mean the keeper cost nothing due to increased prize money!
So, could a 25 million keeper get us an extra 3 wins instead of draws? Absolutely, they can, in my opinion, so it's well worth it.


Of course, it doesn't mean they will be that could, but, likewise, they could also do better than that.

02 Jul 2026 23:12:02
The worry is an expensive goalkeeper could turn out to be another Perri, and then we will be very upset.

03 Jul 2026 00:10:52
Same applies to any player or position.
They can all be duds or all over-perform against our expectations.

03 Jul 2026 01:23:05
Aye, remember us spending a modest £17M on some guy called Raphinha that none of us had heard of, and look how that panned out; another one like that would be good. 😀

03 Jul 2026 06:18:16
Yep, we lost him to. 🤷🏻‍♂️

03 Jul 2026 08:27:27
If he delivers the goods, as Canada intimated, I'm sure we'll all be over the moon. Darlow is stalling: replace him.

03 Jul 2026 12:52:23
Fully agree. Don't sign, ask him twice, then on your bike. Man utd going to take both keepers, just shows the money they waste.

03 Jul 2026 14:09:10
I really hoped the Darlow situation had been resolved by now.. It's a worry. Perri is not good enough, and I'm not convinced by our recruitment team to attain better. 😟

02 Jul 2026 20:49:51
Have any of you travelled to watch Castellon? What airport would you leave from and fly into? Then train or car? I'm wanting to go with my son to pay homage to Pablo.

02 Jul 2026 23:21:03
He'd probably prefer Disneyland.

03 Jul 2026 01:27:56
Never been there myself, but it looks like a flight to Valencia followed by a train would be your best bet. It's about 45 miles up the coast.

03 Jul 2026 08:45:46
His son is 38, Cork! 🤣

03 Jul 2026 10:21:31
Haha, close, Feath, he's 37 1/2 actually.

03 Jul 2026 19:50:24
I'm 54 and love Disneyland!

02 Jul 2026 16:42:14
The doubts about our recruitment department still remain. What the hell are they doing? No club statement about Harry Wilson. Until it’s officially announced, it’s not a done deal.

02 Jul 2026 17:58:51
Agree, Mick. We are in July, he is out of contract with Fulham, so why the delay? Come on, Leeds, give the fans a boost and announce it.

02 Jul 2026 18:15:43
Just ironing out some details in the contract. Patience.

02 Jul 2026 19:02:28
Ironing out the wedge of a signing on fee!

02 Jul 2026 19:10:27
He's on holiday.

02 Jul 2026 19:11:06
Patience, Alf! They've had many weeks to sort out the contract so that they could unveil him on July 1st when he officially became a free agent, and yet still they're not ready. Doesn't exactly fill us with confidence in the other deals that we urgently need getting done. Get your fingers out!

02 Jul 2026 19:12:08
This one should go through. If it doesn't, then the recruitment team will lose all credibility.

02 Jul 2026 19:35:42
Indeed, Mick. Doubts do remain.

I expected/ hoped that the 49ers would bring in an experienced, successful European Director of Football with a strong track record for this vital 2nd season EPL summer window.

Alas, it is not to be. and instead we worryingly still just have Head of Recruitment Alex Davies and former youth academy geezer Adam Underwood to recruit and move on players effectively and successfully.



We lost, in the past year, Nicky Hammond and Gretar Steinsson. Their experience is greatly missed, imo

Leeds United owners can do much better on these issues, and defo need to do so going forward!

Aimo.

02 Jul 2026 21:10:00
Both of them had left before 1st July last year, so we're not overly involved in last summer's recruitment, Baz.
I think we did Ok last summer in the main (Perri a definite miss) , with Okafor, Stach, Justin and DCL being very good, and others being decent, such as Gudmundsson.

03 Jul 2026 13:05:41
The faces in the recruitment team are effectively puppets - they do not make the decisions on who we buy; that is all done based on data now. This info landed us some great players at decent prices last season, yet we are willing to lose faith based on whether one transfer succeeds or fails? How fickle the fans! If by any chance we don't get Wilson, we will have other targets, don't worry.

03 Jul 2026 13:08:59
The faces in the recruitment team are effectively puppets - they do not make the decisions on who we buy; that is all done based on data now. This info landed us some great players at decent prices last season, yet are we willing to lose faith based on whether one transfer succeeds or fails? How fickle the fans! If by any chance we don't get Wilson, they will have other targets.

Don't worry.

03 Jul 2026 14:12:45
Puppets, Alf? .. that might explain why Leeds recruitment aren't good at moving on players and attaining good transfer fees.

Skilled, savvy peeps attain this.. Data on a computer can't do that.

03 Jul 2026 16:10:10
It worked last year didn't it, Baz?

03 Jul 2026 16:29:10
Not really, Alf.. certainly in terms of moving players on / attaining transfer fees..

Exhibit A: Joel Piroe for starters ..Last summer was the optimum window to sell JP.

03 Jul 2026 16:45:17
JP didn't want to leave. We had offers, but he is under contract, and that means, without cooperation (or buying out his contract) , we can't just tell him to get lost. Honestly, it beggars belief how much info is out there that you ignore Baz because it doesn't fit your agenda.

03 Jul 2026 17:38:01
Yes, JP wanted to stay and play little to football.

Point remains, Leeds United aren't great sellers. Paraag admits it too.

03 Jul 2026 20:38:55
We were lumbered with a load of tosh on high wages due to the previous regime. Can't sell if nobody is buying.

Back to same old negative Baz after a brief respite

02 Jul 2026 07:39:08
{Ed's Note - MK Scouser has posted a new article entitled, A Squad Deep Dive as Iraola Takes Charge