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02 Sep 2025 16:19:33
Alf/ LAD - any idea whether the Club is actively looking at the remaining free agent market? No need to name names.
1.) 02 Sep 2025 17:53:02
I would hope they are!
2.) 02 Sep 2025 18:17:35
So would I Feath. Failure to bring in (at least) one of the decent options out there after the end of the window would be heaping folly upon folly.
3.) 02 Sep 2025 21:20:28
I haven't heard anything concrete.
4.) 02 Sep 2025 22:14:12
Nothing, does not seem to be a likely option.
Seems the (main members on the) board don't trust Farke and others that do, don’t have enough power. So top chiefs disagreeing on management and not wanting to commit to farke transfers coupled with possible inexperience has lead to this.
As I said I don’t personally think it’s been a great window but I think we’ve got a solid experienced side with internationals that should be capable of keeping us up.
5.) 03 Sep 2025 08:50:01
If the main Board members don’t trust Farke, why didn’t they just say thank you Daniel but it’s time we all moved on, then bring in someone they believed they could trust.? The Club being stuck in a halfway house in terms of decisions, with half-hearted recruitment isn’t actually helping anyone. Starting off the new season with an under-strength squad puts the Club on a path for likely relegation, with Farke facing the prospect of being labelled a Prem failure again. Getting in a decent playmaker would help any manager, not just Farke, so why didn’t they at least ensure they did that?
I generally try to be positive about our Club’s prospects, and of course I very much hope that the current squad performs above all our expectations. However, unless our medical team can keep DCL, Nmecha and Okafor fit for most of this season, and Farke (or his supposed replacement if we don’t garner the required points in the next month or so) doesn’t unlock some hithertoo unseen creativity within our current squad, we seem likely to be in for a very difficult and ultimately unsuccessful season.
I can’t help thinking that Farke making it clear right at the beginning of preseason that Bamford, Greenwood, Gelhardt and Gyabi weren’t part of his plans and leaving them training separately can’t have helped us to move them on quickly, or for the best PSR outcomes. All in all, no-one within the Club hierarchy seems to have covered themselves in glory during the transfer window.
6.) 03 Sep 2025 12:43:10
If that is correct LAD then that is an utterly ludicrous and playground attitude to take. Either back the guy or get someone you do trust because doing what they are is only going to impact the very soul of Leeds, its supporters the club and the city. Also if they think that by doing this they are going to engineer a situation whereby they can say told you so and justify sacking DF they are lower than a slugs nadger.
7.) 03 Sep 2025 23:25:49
They tried to get some1 in the summer, but none of their preferred options wanted to come.
So they didn’t have a choice but to stick with farke but unfortunately don’t want to stick with him enough to back him.
01 Sep 2025 19:35:56
Alf/ LAD - Does anyone have an idea whether a deal sheet was sent in for Wilson, or has the potential deal now totally collapsed?
1.) 01 Sep 2025 19:48:32
Apparently it was submitted but I don't know for sure. SSN saying it was.
31 Jul 2025 13:39:58
Alf/ LAD - any idea whether there’s any truth in the suggestion that AM-N’s agent has approached Leeds (among other clubs) ?
Might seem a better option than JJ, particularly having already played with Perri.
1.) 31 Jul 2025 14:41:35
If a story is broken by Graeme Bailey or James Marshment, 90% chance there's nothing in it.
2.) 31 Jul 2025 18:08:35
who is AM-N?
{Ed001's Note - Maitland-Niles?}
3.) 31 Jul 2025 18:55:50
Ah yes that makes sense. Thanks. Saw team talk report we were interested.
4.) 01 Aug 2025 13:47:13
he has been offered to a number of clubs. This is fairly normal when a club wants to move someone on but it doesn't necessarily mean we are interested.
14 Jul 2025 23:55:56
Alf and LAD - guessing there is absolutely nothing to suggest bored Leeds fans should rush with binoculars to Leeds East Airport for the morning arrival from Southampton ? or the afternoon one from Lelystad (located within easy reach of a number of Eredivisie clubs)
1.) 15 Jul 2025 00:11:32
Unless you are a plane spotter, i would avoid the airports for Leeds united sightings tomorrow.
2.) 15 Jul 2025 10:20:07
Because the new signing is local so is driving here? (:
Thanks for the scoop LAD!
3.) 15 Jul 2025 10:56:40
thanks LAD.
4.) 15 Jul 2025 13:25:54
Too cryptic for me. Well done Alf and borat. If you right.
5.) 15 Jul 2025 20:05:55
Haha I’m with AUS too cryptic for me and I wrote it.
14 Jul 2025 11:27:17
It’s obvious now, Leeds have been holding off work on new first team signings so they could concentrate last week on bringing in key players for Leeds United Women, ahead of the Julie Chipchase Trophy match tomorrow with Doncaster Belles.
1.) 14 Jul 2025 11:44:09
And rightly so Cluey! ?.
2.) 14 Jul 2025 12:30:35
Cluey what's. happened to you? ?
You sound like me now ?.
3.) 14 Jul 2025 20:18:29
I know Chris, worrying isn’t it.
But seriously, I’m just a little bored and frustrated by the slow pace of our recruitment. If the Stach deal is there to be done, just do what’s necessary to get it over the line before someone else steps in. As others have said, the Club have apparently being doing the spadework since the turn of the year at least, and promotion was confirmed in April, so it will seem crazy to go into this weekend’s game without a really decent new GK - it would have been nice to have started preseason with a positive statement result, particularly to help in further recruitment. A draw would perhaps have done in that respect, given where we’ve just come from, but even that seems less likely with Meslier or Darlow in net.
I’m still overall cautiously optimistic that if we pick up the pace in recruitment Underwood and co will pull together a decent squad. It’s just concerning that if the slow pace remains we may leave ourselves hostage to fortune.
In the meantime, occasional attempts at a little observational humour help relieve the tedium for me. Believe it or not I am actually indulging in a little wall painting - yes it really has got that bad - though sadly, with the warmer temperatures, the enjoyment from watching them doesn’t last as long as usual.
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30 Aug 2025 08:44:50
The report on supposed 49ers flip of Leeds says 3-5 years, not 2-3 years. Also it doesn’t necessarily mean the 49ers intend to exit as a whole. The document quoted from supposedly says this is the last fundraiser investment under their stewardship, as they believe the Club will be self-sustainable after 3-5 years. They may merely mean that the individual investors, to whom this document is addressed could expect to exit from this investment project in 3-5 years by selling their stake for double the amount they’ve invested. Previously it was reported that the 49ers may look to exit in ten years or so - so that would be about 8 years hence.
As you suggest, these reports are unhelpful, and it is to be hoped that Paraag clarifies the meaning of this documentation one way or another fairly shortly.
Whenever the 49ers do exit, it’s possible that Pete Lowy may look to stay on but with new ownership partners.
1.) 30 Aug 2025 09:45:10
Peter lowy is a Leeds Fan and has stated he’d love to own the club outright so maybe that’s possible clueless. I don’t think he has the funds right now but his dad is in his mid 90s and I believe (after a quick google) his net worth is around 8billion US dollars which will be presumably split between Peter and his brothers, this is when I believe what you are saying above may come true if the 9ers don’t sell before his dad snuffs it.
2.) 30 Aug 2025 10:20:25
A slight pedantic there Clu
, My point was just a general question but we can both agree on 3 year part even if I incorrectly included 2years part
That aside I wouldn't be calling it a ""conspiracy theory"" by saying it's not a good optic, surely that should have remained in boardroom for time being .
R.
3.) 30 Aug 2025 10:50:25
Also they did use word Exit Clu, so not much debate on meaning of that word.
4.) 30 Aug 2025 11:27:52
Individuals who have placed funds in an investment vehicle (which is what the 49ers Enterprises fund is) can also ‘exit’ from their investment in it.
5.) 30 Aug 2025 12:04:56
They are in all but name a private equity firm, buy low sell high, next project
Rangers probably
Also Red Bull and many others declined the stadium investment,
So again my opinion is this is wrong time to be talking about inner boardroom stuff especially when we are failing at presenting a positive image, ie transfers targets falling like green bottles off wall.
29 Aug 2025 23:43:08
I see Largie made an 11 minute sub appearance v Getafe this evening, and bagged an assist ?.
1.) 30 Aug 2025 04:06:42
Fair play to him. He found a club with a striker who can score.
2.) 30 Aug 2025 05:27:01
Just as well we got an upgrade okafor?.
23 Aug 2025 19:58:15
Mystifying team selection. It was obvious we would need an out ball as we’d be under the cost from the off - so why play Piroe rather than Nmecha? - and having been shown just how poor an error he’d made, why didn’t Farke rectify it at half time? Many have expressed concerns that Tanaka and Gruev might struggle with the athleticism and physicality of the Prem, so why play both of them from the start by bringing in Gruev for Ampadu - for this game Longstaff would have been the more sensible pick. Having Nmecha and Longstaff on from the start would also have helped combat Arsenal’s unparalleled threat from set pieces.
It’s to be hoped that that abject performance doesn’t dissuade possible decent end of window signings from joining us.
1.) 23 Aug 2025 20:55:33
Longstaff offered little to nothing when he did come on Clu.
No, for me the entire team were worse than pedestrian, almost like rabbits in the headlights.
Slow was no the word and the passing some of the worst I’ve seen at our club for a long time.
This was not an individual problem today, it was the mentality and total lack of of belief from the whole team.
I hope Farke has a sore throat in the morning from all the shouting he should be doing in the dressing room after the game.
He’s got his work cut out to get these players to understand they are now in the Premiership.
We were not going to beat Arsenal at their ground today but I truly hope we don’t see this kind of abject performance again this season.
This is not Leeds.
2.) 23 Aug 2025 20:56:36
Bang on Cluey!
What’s really worrying is Arsenal never needed to get out of second gear.
I realise it was a tough away game but the performance was dire and if Arsenal really went for it it could have been 7 or 8.
I had the summer recruitment at 6/ 10 before today now I’m thinking 5/ 10 at best. Keeper is terrible with his feet and never came for one cross just stayed on his line. I can’t see where the goals are coming from going forward and don’t think the latest signing Okafor is an answer. Unless Wolves and w ham are really as bad as they look so far we are deep in the shite.
I’m still positive though!
3.) 23 Aug 2025 20:57:17
Agree with that assessment Clu, we knew heading in to the game we are light years away from that squad but it was soon apparent that was very much the wrong team selection and wrong formation.
Saying that, even if we had packed the midfield and gone for a draw we’re still losing that game given the huge disparity in squads and financial clout. l
On the plus side, it may focus minds in the last few days of the window and we will be a very different animal at home.
4.) 23 Aug 2025 21:03:59
I agree OP, it was an awful performance. No excuses.
5.) 23 Aug 2025 21:07:02
Absolutely OP. It was pathetic. We hardly got over the half way line. The ONLY time we actually had intent an got a corner Pascal had an opportunity. But we then ran back in our corner and hid. That is not Leeds. That is not how we play, for crying out loud. We going to wet our pants every time we play a half decent team? Jeeez I am so disappointed.
6.) 23 Aug 2025 21:09:41
Longstaff came on to a field where the morale was totally sunk, but I find it strange you single him out on a display where usual suspects for seasons were smack bang in centre yet again
Swerve the obvious, James, Gruev, Stujuk, Piroe, and home in on the lad who played 5 minutes
Farke needs to sort his 1st 11, and that means dropping Dr oss from last season
Oh by way, we are Leeds didn't work to well this evening on points distribution basis
We will do unbelievably well to finish circa 15-13 this season
End of.
7.) 23 Aug 2025 23:00:59
Guys, it was a disappointing performance, no doubt. We were as nervous as hell and by the time we had started to get to grip with where we were, we were 2-0 down. I was most disappointed in truth [since defeat was almost assured before we started], in how unprepared we seemed to be. It was "rabbits in headlights, " for a long period. Arsenal were definitely a cut above, no doubt, but 2-3 of their goals were pretty spawny.
In my view, only really Bodle, Rodon, Stach and Gudmundsson, looked anything like, but even they struggled.
Our new keeper looks ponderous, and a second off the pace of the game. I would play Darlow; he's probably not as good a keeper, but I think he would be more use to the pace of the game.
Every team in this league has their target, Arsenal, City, Liverpool etc, theirs is to win it. The likes of us, is to avoid relegation. No one is writing City off because they lost at home to a team who hasn't won away all year; likewise we shouldn't write our team off because we lost the game, we were always likely to lose. What is important now, is to take lessons from the game, and build and learn. The owners might have seen today, that they need to keep dipping into their pockets for another week.
I think, for the next match, we really need to get players in [that we have] who have EPL experience, e. g. DCL, Harrison, Longstaff etc. Amps was a big miss also.
Onwards to the next one.
8.) 24 Aug 2025 06:50:43
Darlow only looked half good in the championship, he couldn’t distribute the ball well either. At distribution Meslier is far better by comparison.
12 Aug 2025 22:53:08
Alf and LAD - I hope you’re both right and someone, hopefully more than one, is signed very soon.
1.) 13 Aug 2025 07:31:08
We will. I can feel it in ma wazz.! ??.
2.) 13 Aug 2025 09:18:57
Me too Clu!
08 Aug 2025 15:49:28
I see that the u21s have been drawn against some very decent clubs in the International Cup - Sporting, Dortmund, Bilbao and Anderlecht. Let’s hope the Club’s hierarchy use the ties as opportunities to indulge in a little networking, to start building relationships with a view to potential future transfer business.
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03 Sep 2025 08:50:01
If the main Board members don’t trust Farke, why didn’t they just say thank you Daniel but it’s time we all moved on, then bring in someone they believed they could trust.? The Club being stuck in a halfway house in terms of decisions, with half-hearted recruitment isn’t actually helping anyone. Starting off the new season with an under-strength squad puts the Club on a path for likely relegation, with Farke facing the prospect of being labelled a Prem failure again. Getting in a decent playmaker would help any manager, not just Farke, so why didn’t they at least ensure they did that?
I generally try to be positive about our Club’s prospects, and of course I very much hope that the current squad performs above all our expectations. However, unless our medical team can keep DCL, Nmecha and Okafor fit for most of this season, and Farke (or his supposed replacement if we don’t garner the required points in the next month or so) doesn’t unlock some hithertoo unseen creativity within our current squad, we seem likely to be in for a very difficult and ultimately unsuccessful season.
I can’t help thinking that Farke making it clear right at the beginning of preseason that Bamford, Greenwood, Gelhardt and Gyabi weren’t part of his plans and leaving them training separately can’t have helped us to move them on quickly, or for the best PSR outcomes. All in all, no-one within the Club hierarchy seems to have covered themselves in glory during the transfer window.
02 Sep 2025 18:17:35
So would I Feath. Failure to bring in (at least) one of the decent options out there after the end of the window would be heaping folly upon folly.
01 Sep 2025 20:35:24
Strategically poor for the Club to get into an end-of-window position of depending on a deal with a potential bottom-half rival, which had every incentive to string us along then leave us empty handed with no time to look elsewhere.
Given the injuries to Amps and Ao, I’d be more than happy with us bringing in free agent Brownhill, who can play also AM, knows where the net is, has a very decent set piece delivery, and apparently wanted a move to Leeds. He could yet end up going to another Prem team - maybe even back to Burnley - and, if so, would almost certainly have a hand in a goal or two against us that could very well be the difference between us surviving or going down.
01 Sep 2025 08:14:03
Whatever they’re looking to do, they’d better get cracking as there’s less than 11 hours until today’s deadline.
01 Sep 2025 08:12:07
If we were to get a previously linked player from Anderlecht, I’d rather it were Dolberg - though Celtic are reportedly in for him.
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04 Sep 2025 22:58:40
Aus - I think you’ll find most people who are truly religious would disagree with you re people’s perception of reality. And where wars are concerned, religion has on many occasions been used as a badge of convenience for what extreme nationalism and/ or empire building etc. As a practicing Christian, I can advise you that no-one who truly believes in and adheres to the central tenets of the faith could genuinely justify starting a war for ‘religious’ reasons, and I am sure that adherents of many other faiths would inform you likewise of their own religion. And yes, I and the vast majority of my religious friends, of various faiths, are very much in touch with reality. No offence taken though.
01 Sep 2025 12:10:42
Sorry to say, if we end up without filling some of the squad places which required new players it is down to poor recruitment. There are plenty of really decent players out there if you look for them rather than spending months trying to bring in players who were very likely to get a better offer. Yes, try for those players to start with - some will say yes (Bijol and Stach, for example) but most will probably say no or maybe. No point waiting for the maybes - just move on.
Someone on here and others elsewhere got whispers last month that we were looking at the young lad Oskarssen. I’d rather we’d brought him or similar in rather than continue messing around with Muniz for so long and then get to today still looking to make signings.
30 Aug 2025 11:27:52
Individuals who have placed funds in an investment vehicle (which is what the 49ers Enterprises fund is) can also ‘exit’ from their investment in it.
28 Aug 2025 15:06:05
I hope your info is incorrect as we need a 10 and a proper no 9 without a significant injury history - at the moment we have the equivalent of just one no9 - with DCL and Nmecha possibly on a job share in between time on the treatment table. If both are injured at the same time we are truly stuffed as things stand. With Ramazani leaving on loan and Okafor already injured after 1 and a bit games we are also looking very light on the wings. We seriously need someone other than Stach who can take decent set pieces, Stach should be in or outside the box for those, to help get a head on it or get a thunderous strike off following a knock down or clearance. Getting two injury prone strikers on frees is only a good move if the money saved on those transfers is put into other really good (and physically resilient) attacking players. We’ve put down a significant part of that cash on yet another injury prone player, while also letting a very decent winger leave on loan. I for one am seriously underwhelmed to date by our transfer activity at the attacking end of the pitch. We don’t have much time to put it right, and just one further attacking signing is very unlikely to be sufficient.
27 Aug 2025 22:22:31
Now they’re through on penalties 12-11 - well done Grimsby.
Maybe 49ers could bring in David Artell ?.