Leeds Rumours Archive August 07 2011

07 Aug 2011 19:45:18
Grayson to be sacked,Mervyn day to take control until new manager joins;strachan in talks?

As much of a disappointment yesterday's game was no way whatsoever will this be happening

And what has Strachan done as a manager,great player,no better than Grayson.

STRACHAN: Your havin a laugh. As much as I like the guy he has done absolutely nowt in the English leagues and shouldnt come anywhere near Elland Road. Sentimental trip will do us no good at all.

Two words gary mcallister, it never works out

Strachan wouldn't be as naive as SG in covering for Bates - he'd say it how it was and Bates is too much of a coward to risk that.

Fans stabbing Grayson in the back already. shame on you all.

Yes sg should be sacked just for last season alone, this whole pre season and the way he has conducted himself in the media and his transfer dealings lastmin.com (joke). I believe that there is money to spend, managers sit down with chairman during close season discuss budgets players in out. KB and SG have done this if bates says that sg has money he has money thats it. Tell me why did SG buy brown, why is bessone, paynter, bruce, rachupka, bromby, parker, lonergan, connolly why sign o'dea on lone sg is a really average manager with a very poor record. He can't organise or motivate players

never mind bates out I want GRAYSON OUT......

but not for strachan no time for sentiments

It's not stabbing SG in the back it's the truth which SG knows nothing about given his ever changing media statements, he has been a poor manager last year was the time to push and he just didn't capitilise on that the EC was a poor leaue last season compared to this year and the year before last

I agree, shame on you.
One loss and you're turning on Grayson? I'll admit I don't always agree with his tactics but he's a good man, and a good manager, he would cut himself in two for Leeds United.

'Yes sg should be sacked just for last season alone' we got promoted the season before, just another example of over expectant leeds fans that still cant face reality that we cant afford amazing players anymore

TO THE GUY SLAGGING SG, YOUR A UTTER MUPPET,SHAME ON YOU.....M.O.T

One game into the season? just hope southampton game will make Bates invest but i think SG done well with what he has....so far

Some of our fans deserve League1 football at best.

Grayson might well make tactical errors - which managers dont? - but he's done pretty well when given precisely b*gger all by Bates.

He signed crap last year because that's all he was given backing to get. His other targets told us to get lost when they saw the wages on offer - Eustace & Montgomery for example.

I can't believe any 'fan' is so dumb as to come out with a comment like "if Bates says that sg has money he has money thats it." Bates said the Delph money, the Chelsea money, the Garbutt money would be used for team strengthening and was it? Bates said we were buying back Thorpe Arch and did we? Bates said we always get our targets and do we?

At the start of the summer Bates's repeated lies to fans in his programme notes were exposed and a Judge ruled that he had commited "grave" libels and his programme notes were "riddled with material inaccuracies".

Oh yeah, we can really believe what Bates says can't we?

If you support Bates you hate Leeds.

....and how would changing the manager change things, whoever replaces SG will still only have 2 bob a week to run things.
I get the awful feeling this is it as far as LU is concerned, we have reached the outer limits.

Grayson Out. Will nopt stand up to Bates too weak to be Leeds Manager. MOT

Replacing SG will solve most problems as the new manager will be able to coach, speak to the media, make correct tactical decisions, have a bit of time in the transfer market to solve SG crap squad

Would love to see some of you lot manage Leeds who crtitise the management and ownership...with all your negativity there would be a player revolt and relegation Get an f-ing grip...GRAYSON IN BATES IN FANS WHO CANT SUPPORT THE CLUB THROUGH THE DOWNS OUT OUT OUT

How the hell do we know that the cash from delph, kasper etc isnt in fact sat there ready to spend but Grayson is too stupid or afraid to spend it guys

as usual, we don't know anything so lets stop assuming we know what we are talking about rather than babbling crap

Whats wrong with you all leeds have been up s**t creek it takes years to build it back up again all these championship clubs have credit from investors leeds have not got that
option we are still blacklisted for being bankrupted no one will lend them money on credit thats why there was a transfer fund of 1 mill plus sale of kaspa so 2 5 mill, spent 200 00 k so we have 2 mill 200 k left and he wants three players 2 midfielders and a top defender, obrian has been poor and has lost his response and pace . he was also very unimpressed with snody and of course Connelly was the worst player on the park , larry will get it right mot mr r

I like SG but some of his decisions in transfer market and his team selctions baffle me. Obrian is awful, clayton is awful and Snodgrass is a one trick pony. Not to mention Paynter, his keeps playing him and only SG thinks he is any good, the rest of world can see he is crap Last season i remember we were losing against sheff utd i think and he brought on paynter over somma says it all

I remember Gary macs slight dig at Bates in an interview to the reasons behind his departure after 5 losses. " I wanted to bring in a few new faces in January due to injuries but if your only given enough money to shop in a Bargain basement then you get Bargain basement quaility "
bates out

To the guy who said clayton is awful, have u seen any pre season games or the saints game, clayton was our best player by far

"Yes sg should be sacked just for last season alone"

to the person who sed that, u my friend clearly have no idea what u are talking about, grayson is an average manager with a poor record...... what record have u been looking at... did u see what happened at blackpool or how about the fact we were just promoted from league 1 and missed the play offs by 3 points at our first time of asking....u people seriously need to get a bit of perspective.. its all good to have high hopes but seriously cumon

F*** bates its him not SG that sendin us tits up

Sack a manager after one game some people make me laugh, suppose west ham should sack Allardyce then? i mean they are the joint favourites to win the league and they actually signed premiership players but they lost their game so he should be sacked then lol

I love our club Leeds Utd, and i see like we all do our transfer targets going elsewhere if we beleive the paper talk. The one thing that i have never understood is with Leeds Uniteds revenues from games, merchandise, web sales and global reach why we have never been aquired by big foreign investment? I know Mr Bates is at the Helm but surely Mr Bates would be interested in a big return for his investment if offered. I cannot beleive we have been overlooked and other clubs have been invested in to some tune. We have such a massive potential if backed a little.

All your that want grayson out you must be mad look what his done for us, is 1st season he came to us with the points he got us would have had us promoted at start of season if he was there from the beggining then season after we beat man united? got promoted your forgetting that he improved players ready for champ gradel was no were neer as good as he is in champ then when he was in league 1 neither was becchio we finished 7th without many sighnings if he keeps improving players like he does our youth will be awsome he knows what hes doing hes best manager we had in years

You say he cant motivate players, look at max g he sorted his attitude out

07 Aug 2011 18:16:26
Leeds United are hoping to bring Chelsea’s 22 year old Left Back Ryan Bertrand in on a season-long loan.

However this deal does seem unlikely given Bates's realtionship with the club

And your source is? no point posting something if you cannot back it up

His source is prob duncan castles twitter same place I have seen this rumour. Quality signing if happens but doubt it will.

I hope we get him but very unlikely and a load of other clubs want him, like premier league clubs.

He's class we just need to get rid of connolly, bromby, bessone, parker

Not original poster but the ever reliable Daily Mail have run this story today

It makes no sense in sacking SG,i said before that SG should resign,which i meant as a protest to him having his hands tied by BATES.on all fronts.How can a manager work under these conditions?
Who ever LUFC get in won't make any difference. BATES still holds the purse strings and won't let Go.
Really is time for Bates to go and go now

07 Aug 2011 14:02:00
Forget mendy deal is to complicated we need Here and now the answer experience.UPSON,HITZLSPERGER and RHODES from huddersfield the first 2 are without clubs come on ken,what's gonna cost you more relegation or these players for f--sake spend some f---ING money or we will force you out of our great club I promise you that.

He spent feck all last year. He shouldnt be being given any more time. BATES OUT NOW.

How do you know it's not graysons fault for not spending the money? Our chairman/owner is poor in terms of personal wealth as I have pointed out before. The clubs that have spent money are all backed by groups/men far richer than bates Also the first two names might be without club but will be commanding very substantial wages think about it. They will be more than likely be wanting 20-40k a week which we can't afford

Bates has said they money is there for the players. But the wages are not so of we get free players why don't we use the transfer funds to pay the wages.

To the person above who is defending Mr bates answer me a few things I am struggling with,1 where has the money gone from the delph sale which he promised would go into rebuilding the squad has it.2 the money from schmeichel was promised on new players has it I think no to both ,also we have the highest gate receipts in the championship and some of the dearest ticket prices,why can't we afford decent wages, Mr bates is rich and gettin richer at our expense let's get him out he is raping our club.

Been saying this all closed season BATES OUT and please all u so called fans who say bates saved the club remember this relegated to it lowest league the club as ever been in its history administration all with bates at the helm not to memtion the lack of moneys not spent in all the year bates as been hear now let all get together and force bates from our great club before were relegated again

As I have mentioned it might just be graysons fault for not spending the money that is there None of us know as were not involved in the finances of Leeds unitedso instead of hatred towards bates why not go looking for answers and knowledge to all your questions?
The other side of the coin is that the first 11 at the start of play yesterday on paper at least should have been able to beat southampton. Question is where was the organization within the team as in marking etc that's sg's department? Why didn't the players look like they wanted to be on the pitch such as snodgrass etc thought it was SG's job to motivate them?

Summer 2011 spending - East Stand development (on a ground LUFC don't own) £7million v £200,000 spent on players? 1 of the highest ticket prices in the league, highest match day programme cost in all 4 english leagues (£4 for 2011/12 season). Average attendance circa 27k last season. Bates has previously told us that if we wanted a Premier League team, then we need to pay Premier League prices. We, the fans, are fulfilling our part of the bargain by paying the prices, so its time either Bates delivered on his part of the deal or f***ed off

The only complicated thing in the Mendy deal is SG not learning from Nunez last season if a player has class then freakin use him get him signed what a looser SG is.

So called leeds fans you need to realise that KB is not the devil he does own ER, the investment isn't even £6m so where you got £7 from the money will be recouped time and time again every team in every division would do and in most cases have done what bates is doing the, KB has given SG money to spend more to the point why has he not spent it and why has he not sold the crap players in the team that we all know need to go and, why is he not building a squad fit for the challange bates as nothing to do with any of thoughs points sg has no tactil knowlege his transfer record is terrible , he worse in the loan market he can't change a game look at the preston game from last season he is really really poor the only time he can motivate a team is in cup runs againts scum

love leeds hate SG love leeds hate SG

MoT

To the last guy : so didnt he motivate us to get promoted in his first full season, he didnt motivate us to 7th after being promoted, get a grip you f---ing moron

To the comment above. You're a disgrace mate.

I'm sorry but the comment above is ridiculous, grayson is the best manager we've had since sgt. wilko, if you're going to hate anyone then hate bates, simon loves the club and without him we would probably still be in league 1. Ken bates is wasting money on the stadium when the squad isn't strong enough, and even the people defending bates are beginning to turn on him. We all love leeds, we hate ken bates.

07 Aug 2011 11:27:44
Grayson wonts to sign mendy up but the deal is complicated as sg wonts to loan him out to learn the English game.Read this From y.e.p

Spell "want" correctly. O and A aren't even beside each other on the keyboard

It makes it look like he wont sign mendy, when infact h wAnts to sign mendy.