Leeds Rumours Archive December 31 2012

 

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31 Dec 2012 19:32:44
Somma to barnsley.

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Heard if Leeds sign another striker he will go, if Davies leaves Barnsley then they may look to sign Somma so i agree

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Somma is far 2 good 4 poor barnsley.

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01 Jan 2013 04:12:56
poor barnsley piss poor leeds!

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Agree , way to good for the dingles , but davies welcome to come to leeds

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Soma to Barnsley.... Haha, oh dear, someone needs to talk to frank!

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Leeds are far better than barnsley

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Why do you think Somma was rushed back? Answer so that he got some match time prior to sale in jan

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'Rushed back'?? he's been out for 18 months! he was brought back in because he is now fit and knows how to score goals!

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I'd loan somma to barnsley for 3 months to get match fit, he'd come in handy to the closing stages of the season :)

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Loan perhaps. Barnsley couldnt afford Somma.

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They could on loan i beieve that would benefit us loads

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31 Dec 2012 19:30:05
34 yr old Danny Higginbotham to sign 18 month contract with leeds

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Wouldnt supprise me.

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And im starting training tomorrow got a better body than brown nose im a natural fat person and i dont mind standing around having a laugh at our expence p.s happy new year

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Just reading about him he is on loan
at Ipswich who find him surplus to their requirements .....

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01 Jan 2013 03:58:35
do u mean hes rubbish he"ll fit right in!!

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01 Jan 2013 04:17:32
do u find it funny or is it just me but this page is sponsered by mature dating and their all to young for our squad!!!

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More rubbish.

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Just read that we're in for hill and derry.ffs, this has got to be a backward step.i want to feel positive , but we will get nowhere with old, slow players!we may as well blood the youngsters, at least they will run for 90 minutes.i am also sick of hearing mr.warnock praising everybody else all the time, let's start showing some guts and spirit.rant over!!

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31 Dec 2012 19:12:21
I wonder where Leeds scouting system has gone.
I for one would like to see the youngsters 17 - 25 given a chance. We have no chance of promotion this year, so it would be great to start seeing some good passing and confidence building. We need to find the likes of scholes, inesta, xavi, giggs, van persi or even older John Charles, Eddie Gray or johann cryuff from the youngsters before the man u, Chelsea, Barcelona etc get them. BP

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Our kids walked the league last year, but our dinosaur manager is blocking their progress so most will never make it.

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We are 5 points off the play-offs with the tansfer window coming up and 21 games still to play so in what way do we have no chance of promotion?? How can we expect the players to show any confidence on the pitch when our fans right them off so quickly?

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Would like to see more of Poleon but we had no knowledge of Byram until Warnock brought him to our attention and stuck with him . Probably think we should do same with Zac Thompson who would surely add a bit more mobility to our midfield

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No we need to not sell the ones that do come thru to Norwich

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I coached the Turner twins at primary school and they could still make it at leeds with some more experience.

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We got no chance of going up? i agree being a massive five points is it off promotion spots and no one in our league ever comes from outside at chirstmas to get promoted so good call. i do agree about the scouting system we got some good very young players but would like gary mac's team back as i believe they were the ones who brought in johnson, becchio and snods all good players at decent age 21-28. we nee to bring in people around that age of good quaility otherwise who will norwich sign next year?

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Personally I don't think we have enough creativity. There is no running off the ball, making space. I watch the Man u and Van Persie skill and work ethic, Hernades short bursts to rub into space with intelligence, Carrick and Scholes passing ability and then I look at Leeds and what we have. This is what makes me certain we will not go up. We cannot keep the ball..... Our passing is wayward, and we panic when opposing team come near us. I would like to see us try the youngsters with energy and speed, create triangles and through balls. Make other teams frightened to play us instead of laugh at us and call us Dirty Leeds. Let's be brave like we were under David O'Leary. I know we nearly went bankrupt then but it might work and it will certainly make us a better team to watch. BP

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31 Dec 2012 18:19:16
Becchio and mccormack to miss tomorrows game against bolton due to offers for both players

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Becchio missed the Hull is out due to an injury, he is likely to be back for the Bolton game -source neil Warnock on LUTV

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31 Dec 2012 19:15:25
Cannot believe they will sell both becchio will be staying put

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ROSSCO - Cardiff
Becchio - Liverpool
Byram - Liverpool

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31 Dec 2012 19:29:38
its cause there's a virus going around the squad. you lot on hear talk rubbish

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Absolute Bull mate, first class.

Both will start tomorrows game.

Get real and get sum fact not guess work.

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Nothing to do with a virus that has hit most of the squad then Jp MOT

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Becchio in frame to play, source OS

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Don't think Becchio will go. Hopefully we can bring someone with pace into the front, and someone with a good passing ability to feed him.

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31 Dec 2012 21:02:44
I think people just make up the rumours on here for something to do

NW said that no players would be sold in January

Whatever happens will happen and let's hope that NW has some new quality players up his sleeve!!

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Lol if warnock sold the pair of them then warnock should never b a manager as they r BOTH top top quality n why would we listen 2 offers 4 our best players wake up!

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Becchio I doubt would fit they way Liverpool want to play besides I can't see him being a target for them, don't get me wrong I think he's a good player but for a team looking for euro football I would have thought they'd look for someone proven at that level

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01 Jan 2013 03:42:55
sell em cant b botherd with the whole sorry saga that is elland road switching to the boys down the road udders!!!

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Am switching to the boys over the Pennines man utd

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Why not let the whole second team play as first team for two matches so we can see who the week first teamers are.

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To both saying you are switching i assume that is a joke if not hang head in shame leeds dont want ya. how anyone can change team aligences is beyound me, been leeds fan based in south london now for 23 years since age of six good times and bad, despite being only fan in my school and getting in too many a row over it. mot and now is a bad time to switch as we will be going up this year. Although my mum did get sick and wasnt doing the house work so well so i switched to the old dear down the road

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Oh look , Becchio and McCormack starting for Leeds today , why do people make up such BS

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31 Dec 2012 16:48:15
Warnock being given untill end of feb to get us back to winning ways if not billy davis looks top to take over. Also we lead the hunt for charlie austin and max gradel

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If Billy Davis takes over, that will kill our chances of ever getting to the BPL

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Billy Davies ? ... . .Oh my God NO !

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Bullshine.

Fawksey

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I think Warnock must win next 2 games or hes for the chop

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If were gunna get rid warnock they would do it now instead of letting him spend the money n sack him for a different manager to want different players. As for Billy davies ya having a laff

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Hardly, why would the new owners insist on having Warnock as manager as part of the takeover then sack him 2 months in!

Warnocks here till the end of the season and if we dont go up, will be asked to stay another season.

Thats staright from the boardroom pal.

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Utter nonsense! It was stipulated in the takeover that NW had to stay on as manager. We have lost 2 tough away games and suddenly people are call for the mangers head!? Get a grip

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Billy Davis would be perfect look what he did for forest with a squad that should have been fighting relegation....play-offs 2 seasons running.

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Actually, I rate Billy Davies. Not highly but, a decent manager. Let down on a number of occasions by his willingness to publicly criticise his chairman.

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31 Dec 2012 16:46:47
Leeds selling Becchio for just short of 7 million - Norwich, Newcastle and Wigan interested. Mackail-Smith had medical at Thorpe Arch today.

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I'm sorry but, as much as we love him, Becchio is not worth anywhere near 7m. If a good offer of about 3m came along, I think it should be seriously considered. Don't get me wrong, i dont want to lose the guy but there are better out there.

Cambswhite

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Funnt that one pal

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More bs, cms will go to norwich, becchio going nowhere

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I'd sell for 7million if we can get CMS on the for a couple of million

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Lol there is no one better than becchio in our league n he wnt b going so dream on

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Becchio will be gone before the second week in January. Not for 6 million (ridiculous amount for a 29 year-old championship player with 18 months left on his contract)... closer to 2.5 million.
Fee will, as usual, be undisclosed to deaden the fans ire.
As to where he's going, still think Celtic but depends on movement of Wanyama

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Must have failed the medical eh?

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£7m!! Our entire team ain't worth that. stop making up so much BS

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31 Dec 2012 15:55:24
Lee from chesterfield 500k in January and possible deal for Cameron jones both in January...

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Do you actualy think that

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31 Dec 2012 14:33:54
Just one name - Steve De Ridder

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Made his debut for saints against us if thats an omen?

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Just 8 words......not worth the money Saints will be asking.
foxrat

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So, Lambert, Rodriguez, Sharp and now de Ridder! I've told you before, Elsie the tea lady at Saints is the one you should be after!

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Heard NW enquired about him but nothing formal.

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1 word answer NO!

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LUFC shouldn't consider any of these. Lightweights

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31 Dec 2012 14:05:20
Owen Hargreaves on a pay per play deal

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What does he bring ? Apart from a constant sick chit. Just not worth the effort and certainly not value for money

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We wouldnt be paying him much then!
MOT!

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We don't want him, he is s..t, always injured a liability.
We need a big strong striker in the mould of Viduka or Yeboah.

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Yeboah only retired recently. Viduka retired at the start of every contract and only picked up his shooting boots in the last 18 months of it.

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31 Dec 2012 13:52:30
Anybody heard anything about Liam Bridcutt signing from Brighton?Got a friend who lives down there and rumours going around hes on his way to leeds.Is the guy any good?dont know much about him.

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He is a very solid defending midfielder. wont be cheap though, at least £3m

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31 Dec 2012 13:35:01
I've heard rumours that the new board won't be laying out too much cash this january window and will be doing just enough to make sure we don't have any problems with having a small squad, i.e. injuries in key positions. So expect small cosmetic changes, possibly a couple of loans to tide us over but thats it. Then they will push on with the spending and transforming of the team in the summer to get us to the premiership.

The main reason they don't want to spend now is that prices are always inflated in the winter transfer window but also if they get the players during the summer they have the whole pre-season to learn to play with each other as a team, not get thrown straight in and be expected to gel as happens in january.

MOT

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If thats correct then surely it would make sense to buy now so they are playing as a team before pre season ?
you know as much as the rest of us (NOTHING)

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If that is the case then GFH don't have any real money to spend and we've gone from Bates to Bates and his mates!

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Well thats not going to attract the crowds back is it dont belive you and that just sets a bad president for our future

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Am expecting leeds to follow there usual path sell a good plyer replace them with lesser playerie gradel goes pugh replaces him
howson goes delph replaces him fpor a couple ofgames
snodgrass goes varney replaces him

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GFH want to try and hit the Premier league either this year or next due to the increased financial package available. Dont think for one minute that they will simply let this year slip away. They will provide funds to NW in this transfer window but I'm sure NW will juggle with the possible sale of Bechio to balance out what he needs to achieve. Bechio has only 18 months left on his contract and whilst he's been good to us the team in general are still not good enough to be in the playoffs with him. Prepare yourself for the inevitable gear change.

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Hope the irony of the typo on the third reply (bad president) wasn't lost on everybody...Happy New Year all

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Funny that cos when we have sold in January transfer window fees have been S***. JD

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This actually sounds plausible. The team we have at the moment is good enough to possibly hit the playoffs and could just do with a couple of extra players to cover holes in the squad.

Another reason I think this is possible is that we will have a different manager next season, I can't see NW staying (or more precisely I can't see the new owners offering him a new contract) and any new manager will want to sign his own players so GFH won't want to spend money on players that might not be wanted in the summer.

To the first poster, its better to do it in the summer so they can learn together in meaningless friendlies rather than make mistakes in matches and cost us points.

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All this is bs, made up by non leeds fans , warnock has been promised the funds to strengthen the squad, becchio, byram, mcCormack and anyone else these numpties wish to mention are not for sale , as stated time and time again . Mcgugan and boyd already in talks with Leeds, these really are going to be good times , so just laugh off these stupid bs rumours MOT

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31 Dec 2012 13:35:01
NW already annoyed new owners for mentioning Wood. He's gone in May. Very predictable. It's also predictable if there was 8 mill to spend in the window he only gets half in January now because they don't fully trust him.

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I wouldnt give him 10p to spend look what a mess of a team hes put together been better sticking with sg and poeple wonder why the crowd are down can watch rubbish on my local feild for nothing keep 30 quid in ur pockets ill return to er when the club shows ambishion and brings in quilty players

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31 Dec 2012 16:25:10
I wouldn't trust him either, he is a shambles. He is making some reasonable players look useless. The treatment of Drury who was very reliable and consistent for Norwich for 10 years is disgusting.

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So Bates is more or less out and now everyone's finding ANOTHER excuse not to go to games. What a cop out! So many plastic fans with no intention of returning till we are top of premier league- than they'll claim to have been around all the time. Only excuse for not going if you're in Leeds is you can't afford it. I can handle that one but all excuse merchants are an embarrassment to the club.

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I think that everyone is judging our squad by the wrong standards. When NW built this squad, he didn't have the backing he has now, and didn't have the objectives he has now.

We have all seen that, with the resources, NW can achieve anything in this division, and he clearly built a mid-table team. I reckon that everything he said about play-offs was trying to keep the fans happy, but ultimately, under Bates he didn't have the financial backing to win promotion. Suddenly now, we have a very different story. Now, he can rebuild a squad that is capable of getting promoted.

Do you guys honestly believe that, with the experience he has in football, he can't see that this team isn't promotion material?

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We sadly have some severly fickle fans, we have lost 2 tough games, proir to which we won 5 of the previous 6 games (including beating 3 of the top 6) Not so as for sticking with SG, is that not the guy who has had money to spend at Udders and is still behind us in the league?

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31 Dec 2012 12:26:15
Kenwyn jones and max gradel to elland road, sunshine newspaper

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Great goal at the weekend but if this was the case and the deal was done why did Tony Pulis play him ? Why jeopardise a £3m done deal with a potential injury when you want to offload the guy ? Am I missing something here or have I got the wrong Kenwyne jones ?

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31 Dec 2012 11:40:03
john lucic lives across road from my dad. he said yesterday 'strach' will get leeds united back to the prem league with 3 to 4 signings, 2 top scottish players included. snodgrass/whittacker

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And what has 'strach' done in management
foxrat

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Talking absoloute 'Shibski' my friend. Strachan has achieved bugger all and the last thing we need are several Scottish players (greatest of respect to the Scots) but in general players dont perform well down South. Templeton does look talented but still have to be careful. Strachan did this at Middlesborough last time and they went down like a lead fart

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Snodgrass left to play in the prem and is a regular starter for the budgies, why would he drop back down a league?

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31 Dec 2012 10:30:02
Out in town last night foor a few beers,
Sure I saw CMS and pk in a taxi outside
Wetherspoons. Mj

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I know they're not on prem wages but wetherspoons? gotta be call lane at the very least

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31 Dec 2012 11:06:11
Yeah rite, n I saw Max Gradel too!! How many shandys did you have???

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Which town..... Norwich

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You saw CMS with Peter Kay in town last night?

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Yeah on the lash night b4 medical true pro
Jp MOT

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You should have said kp it all sounds nuts to me

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How many beers did you say you had

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Sick of hearing about CMS, I don't even want him, don't think he's the answer for us, McCormack does a similar job and if NW were wanting that type of floating striker then surely he'd be using Ross more regularly. Don't think NW sees that type of player as what's needed in this league, needs a more direct player...personally I'd love to see the unttached Rory Delap signed up along with Zigic from Brum to nod in/on his long throws, then someone quick like Ji Dong-Won or Frasier Campbell to get on the end of them

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31 Dec 2012 09:03:28
my wife works at west yorkshire clinic at bingley just phoned at 8-30 to let me know leeds utd reps are at the place with a player named smith could this be cms wife not into football just another bloke to her she can not tell us anything else her job would be at stake if your in bingley get down and c 4 yourselfs mot

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Going past the place will stop 4 a look

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31 Dec 2012 09:35:50
smiths 1 of the most popular names in England , could be anyone

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John Smith?

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Simple get her to ask if his first name is Craig!
Kella74

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Alan smith? Pahaha

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Whats the name of his other leg !!
ash, , , LUFC

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31 Dec 2012 10:58:05
Hanibal smith?

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It's an alias as it's a VD clinic. His real name is Craig jones. Don't tell the wife ............

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I am a Leeds fan based in Brighton. CMS is not well loved by the Brighton fans can be pretty wasteful. However I rate him highly definitely more of a team player than Bec. The rumours here though are Norwich are in for him.

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Clap clinic? probably one of our youth players with a academy coach

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Post-mortem on Cyril Smith ?

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I think your wife's job is already "at stake" if this is true!

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Alan Smith formerly Leeds utd currently at Mk Dons

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31 Dec 2012 08:24:15
Sheff united after jamie murphy. Good quick striker with a keen eye for goal would be worth a try for us could be a could addition.
Luke ls11

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Would be a good signing

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Signed for 100k would of been a good cheap buy that

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31 Dec 2012 08:00:34
Forest transfer news have tweeted we are in for Blackstock and McGugan for a combined £1.2 million.

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To quote Eric Morecambe 'rubbish!'

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We are in talks with mcgugan , don't know about blackstock, and also in talks with boyd

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"WE" are you a leicester fan?

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Nothing on nffc site so rubbish keep it real

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Ive heard Mc Gugan and they day we played forest the daily mail said we were after Blackstock for 700, 000.
JoeMot

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I'm a forest fan, don't think blackstock will leave but I'll drive Mcgugan there for you.....I can count the good games he has had on 1 hand in last 3 seasons. A diva who won't work when hasn't got the ball....although he does crash a 30 yard bullet in every 8 months

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Original poster here - to the guy checking the forest website. I don't recall saying it was on their website I said the NFFC transfer news tweeted this you tool.

I'd take Blackstock but unsure on McGugan. From the post above it looks like he'd be another typical Leeds signing - not worth it. But you never know he might fit in at ER

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31 Dec 2012 19:19:08
it was an unofficial nffc rumour twitter, but they did tweet it and it has even been retweeted by a few lufc journos so dont shoot the messenger without getting your facts right

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31 Dec 2012 02:54:19
I have heard from a strong reliable source that David Seaman is to become the goalkeeper coach for Leeds. Maybe he can teach Rabchubka something before hes sold to Guisley!

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Not completely unbelievable. Seaman is a Leeds fan! Fact.

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