Leeds Rumours Archive May 19 2017

19 May 2017 22:19:19
Sell Wood £20m and buy our stadium back.

20 May 2017 00:34:52
Would keep Wood, buy the stadium next summer with those sweet Prem fat stacks, rather than sell him, buy the stadium and stay down. Lot of money for him but how many 30 goal strikers are about?

20 May 2017 10:52:36
Not many strikers in his calibur. But how do we know he's going to do the same next year? Also could get 2 champ level strikers for wood. On the other hand, monk has faith in him and he loves the club. For the papers o speculate like this makes the player concerned that the fans would rather have the money than the player, meaning if he does stay he may not perform as well. Need to be careful because he may lose confidence through all these sell wood posts

20 May 2017 17:50:23
Its cost us £5m a year since 2010 to rent Elland road and thorp arch you do the math.

20 May 2017 19:50:52
No wonder we are skint, we are giving someone £5m a year when the rent is only £1.6m, which is how much Cellino said the club was shelling out when he was meant to buy it back. Ok if you want to do math, and I'll use the £5m figure though its wrong, if we sell Wood (+£20m) and buy back ER (-£17m) and save £5m in rent we will come out £8m better off for the season but lacking a top striker (which will cost a lot more than £8m to replace. If we keep Wood (-/+£0m) and pay rent (-£5m) but go up (worth like £90m now right? ) then buy ER (-£17m) we have over £65m and we are in the prem. Prefer my way. Always a risk we don't go up of course but I would fancy our chances more with the top striker, we have to roll the dice at some point if we want to reach the next level.

21 May 2017 09:54:11
Not looked at it that way gummie, I like it

21 May 2017 20:12:09
Bartley, Cairney, McGeady and Abraham could be bought with 20 million along with a good championship LB, CB and striker

21 May 2017 20:41:08
Fulham have put a £20m price tag on Cairney so I doubt it GM

21 May 2017 21:27:46
Gummie you are forgetting the renting out of Elland road. Rod stewart was at Elland Road we don't get a penny think about it.

21 May 2017 21:30:43
Might not be £5m but i know renting is wasted money.

21 May 2017 21:58:21
I agree renting is bad, just saying there is a time and a place and selling one of our best players to do it isn't the way, if our hand is forced then yeah, fine but you could also say that we wouldn't have been selling out the stadium without Wood up front last season, how much extra did we take at the turnstiles from that? could easily have offset the rent. can't see us taking nothing from the Rod Stewart thing, we are renting the place, they can't just use it for other stuff, it would be like renting an office and the owner showing up to play ping pong on one of the desks every month. Cellino might have taken the money and the club nothing I guess, he is/was paying the rent, but not the owners.

21 May 2017 22:09:44
Me personally i would like to keep Wood but £20m is £20m. That is a stadium and i would choose owning our stadium over 1 player. just my opinion Gummie

21 May 2017 22:12:59
on the Rod Stewart thing they can we only rent it for matches. the owner let's us use it for 23 games a season so he can do what he wants the rest of the time.

21 May 2017 23:15:30
We rent it for the full season mate, if it was just for 23 games they would kick our staff in the offices, bars and the shop out 333 days of the season. I would choose the stadium over 1 player but I would choose promotion over the stadium in the short term because it would lead to it in the long term, if one player could bring us that, right now its Wood.

19 May 2017 05:15:13
The vultures are hovering over wood. Prem clubs prepared to pay £20m on wood. Any thoughts on letting him go and seeing who we can bring in too bolster the squad. ? whi would we get to replace him after the goals he banged in need a 20 plus If not 2 goal scores. Rumours howson could be on way back also. I would also go for Charlie adam. ⚽️⚽️👍😃

19 May 2017 07:46:32
Think we sell. Get one good goal scorer for 10 mill who can link with roofe.

19 May 2017 09:30:49
Good call Batts, think Adam would pair very well with Howson 20 mil is too good for us to turn down and the PL vultures know it, so if we have to sell we would need to bring in a prolific striker, someone like Abraham who has the ability to hit 20 a season Quick and can play lone striker or in a front 2 then you could afford a quality second striker like Lawrence from Ipswich

19 May 2017 09:36:29
Yep, for £20 million I'd sell him, convert the West Stand into a giant Wetherspoons and bring Tresor Kandol back for £5.50. Good business IMO. MM

19 May 2017 10:01:28
Ha ha ha quality as always MM

19 May 2017 10:39:40
Yeah just reading the story, 20 mil is a no-brainer I would sell, with that Joya, Abraham or Lawrence. If we could get one on-loan and buy one even better, this could give us a good player or two kitty. Unsure what's happening with Taylor think he may have put certain managers off with his behaviour.

19 May 2017 13:27:45
We'd be daft to turn that sort of money down. We could get 4 decent £5m players in for that if it was re-invested to strengthen the squad wheras if it is all in one player and he gets injured we are stuck. No bids have been made yet btw - this is purely speculation for now.

19 May 2017 20:06:28
It would be fine letting him go for £20M but surely we would have to spend it all, or most of it, to get a replacement?

19 May 2017 22:24:35
buy stadium back first then Thorpe arch we are skint boys don't expect much this transfer window.

19 May 2017 22:58:13
Hardy. I agree with the ground and Thorpe arch. But let us at least have a bit off fun pretending who we would sell
Or buy. Why so serious. ? Lol. 😝😝👍⚽️⚽️