Leeds United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours

event

no one knows if its true though, only coming from Facebook comments.
Could be a massive hoax

event

hunt is done

http://ow.ly/i/2vWFm

Zaph

Rumours in the UK press today of Palace about to offer £3m for Byram and Blackpool bidding £1m for McCormack. Hopefully they're just rumours.

JokerD

Zaph wrote: »

Rumours in the UK press today of Palace about to offer £3m for Byram and Blackpool bidding £1m for McCormack. Hopefully they're just rumours.

These links I think are definitely true, I'm confident the lads will want to stay. Hopefully they'll be rejected anyway.

JokerD

event wrote: »

hunt is done

http://ow.ly/i/2vWFm

Gets the number 10 shirt.

JokerD

@PhilHayYEP25s
McDermott asked about possibility of £3m bid from Palace for Sam Byram. "For which boot?"

punk77

JokerD wrote: »

@PhilHayYEP25s
McDermott asked about possibility of £3m bid from Palace for Sam Byram. "For which boot?"

Ya gotta love the guy

A_Sober_Paddy

Byram has got to be worth at least 10 million to Leeds...young good English players are a rare commodity

championc

Last of the old guard gone .... Glyn Williams now on gardening leave. So that's a complete erasure of the Bates brigade. That's real intent by GFH imo.

Ceist_Beag

championc wrote: »

Last of the old guard gone .... Glyn Williams now on gardening leave. So that's a complete erasure of the Bates brigade. That's real intent by GFH imo.

Interesting article on the story here.

http://thecitytalking.com/sport/gwyn-williams-leeds

"Kevin Blackwell, Gary McAllister, Simon Grayson and Neil Warnock all
paid for managerial failure with their jobs; Dennis Wise got out while
the getting was good. Through it all, one man remained secure in his
work at Thorp Arch, despite holding the job title that arguably should
have laid the blame for the last seven years of underachievement
squarely at his door.

Gwyn Williams is finally gone now, according to Phil Hay at the YEP, who
knows how to underplay good news for the greatest impact. Throwing it
out on Twitter this morning as if an afterthought, Phil said, ?Also, we
understand that technical director Gwyn Williams is leaving. Currently
on gardening leave, negotiating severance deal.?

There is probably some hard science out there about the speed with which
even the most intricate structures collapse once they?re abandoned, and
the Fall of the House of Bates can now be added to the research. It has
taken less than a week after Ken stepped down for Williams to be
removed, confirming that he was only ever a cog in the Bates machine,
not the Leeds United one. Remove Bates, and you remove the reason for
Williams to be here.

Gwyn Williams was the man who discovered John Terry, and was described
as having ?the biggest contacts book in Britain? when he arrived at
Leeds in the summer of 2006. It?s believed that those contacts meant it
was Williams who got the call when Luciano Becchio was looking for a
trial, so we can give him that, but beyond Luci it?s hard to say who or
what Williams ever brought to the club. Agreed while Wise was manager,
and eventually completed after McAllister took over, it seems the
purchse of Enoch Showumni can be identified as the Technical Director?s
work; after that, you have to guess at who was to blame for Sorsa, da
Costa, Sa and the rest. One thing was for sure though, if a signing
didn?t work out, it was never Williams?s job on the line.

Neil Warnock might have come closest to identifying Williams?s actual
job, as Ken Bates?s eyes and ears at Thorp Arch. ?He's obviously
influential,? said Warnock, ?but I never did work out what his role
was.? The Academy seemed to be within his remit, but players like Lees,
Byram and Poleon who have come through in recent years seem to have been
due to the hands on work of Neil Redfearn and lately Richard Naylor,
while Brian McDermott?s instant alterations to the operations suggest
they had not been working under the most effective of bosses. Redfearn
in particular had reason to object to being thrown in at the deep end as
caretaker manager two more times than I think he cared for; Williams,
whose job title made his seem like the natural choice as caretaker, did
once actually take charge of one match, once, a defeat at Southend, but
never graced the bench again. His time seemed to be spent, according to
Warnock, reporting back to Basecamp Bates in Monaco and, if local
rumours were to be believed, pulling strings in the press to undermine
Simon Grayson.

This week of big changes - new chairman, new managing director, new
million pound midfielder, new striker - has created a new sense of
optimism on the eve of the first pre-season friendly at Farsley on
Saturday, and fans are wagging their tails like spoiled puppies, not
knowing who to give their grateful licks to first. David Haigh?s new
Twitter profile picture is obviously meant to convey the message of a
hands on, fax-reading all-action decision maker, but I?d be happier if
he was pictured simply doing what I suspect he has been doing: listening
to Brian McDermott. The boardroom changes were agreed months ago when
GFHC took over, but what we?ve seen this week - and what we haven?t seen
for years - are football changes, and those have to be down to having a
manager in place who has ideas, and who cares, and who will make himself
heard; and who has a board who seem willing to give him what he needs,
while removing what he doesn?t need.

I don?t know what Gwyn Williams made in salary as Technical Director
over the last seven years, but I suspect its more than we could have
paid some actual technically good footballers over that time. If
anything bodes well for this season, it?s that the focus for resources
like Gwyn's wage is moving squarely to McDermott, and the team he can
put on the pitch."

Hijpo

Wouldnt it be fantastic if GFH were only reluctant to put decent money into the club until bates and anyone associated with him were well and truely gone. After all, didnt he do an "i thought it was for me" job on the few grand they invested in good faith at the start? if so, you couldnt blame them.

Mushy

https://mobile.twitter.com/IanBermo/status/353038642270318594/photo/1

Cheers Bermo for this one! I'd be very excited if they got him.

event

Hijpo wrote: »

Wouldnt it be fantastic if GFH were only reluctant to put decent money into the club until bates and anyone associated with him were well and truely gone. After all, didnt he do an "i thought it was for me" job on the few grand they invested in good faith at the start? if so, you couldnt blame them.

dont get my hopes up

SarahBM

first pre season friendly today. against Farsley.

Brown is still in the team
(first half team): Kenny, Peltier, Killock, Pearce, Pugh, Brown, Green, Tonge, McCormack, Smith, Poleon.

punk77

SarahBM wrote: »

Brown is still in the team

Thanks to NW we'll be paying his wages for another year :mad: Hopefully,this is the last time we'll see him in a starting line-up.

2nd half team : Cairns, L.Turner, Lees, Warnock, Drury, Norris, Thompson, Lenighan, White, Varney, Hunt.

punk77

1-0 Poleon.

punk77

2-0 Smithy

punk77

3-0 Header no.2 from Smithy

event

murphy not in either team?

punk77

event wrote: »

murphy not in either team?

Sub. Might get a run out in 2nd half.

punk77

4-0 Hunty

punk77

5-0 White.

punk77

Murphy on for debut.

punk77

Adam Pope ‏@APOPEY 23s
#lufc Brian McDermott says he is hopeful of having a key new signing for trip to Slovenia.

A lot of rumours doing the rounds. Adam Le Fondre just gone from 9/1 to 5/4 on skybet. Gary Mackay-Steven from Dundee is another one. Ross to Blackpool is also floating around.

punk77

Phil Hay @PhilHayYEP
Interviewed McCormack afterwards. He says he's told both his agent and McDermott that he's no interest in a transfer this summer. #lufc

championc

punk77 wrote: »

Phil Hay @PhilHayYEP
Interviewed McCormack afterwards. He says he's told both his agent and McDermott that he's no interest in a transfer this summer. #lufc

But you have to balance the books !! Smith has really given BMD something to think about with his brace today as I reckon he has him planned as a sub and cup starter. Dream start for the lad. Certainly appeared to have created a fair few chances

event

punk77 wrote: »

Phil Hay @PhilHayYEP
Interviewed McCormack afterwards. He says he's told both his agent and McDermott that he's no interest in a transfer this summer. #lufc

really hope he stays, probably my favourite player at the minute

punk77

BMcD's post match interview:

Trhiggy83

championc wrote: »

But you have to balance the books !! Smith has really given BMD something to think about with his brace today as I reckon he has him planned as a sub and cup starter. Dream start for the lad. Certainly appeared to have created a fair few chances

the crowd we were playing were very poor though, i listened to a bit of it on the radio and they didnt seem to even get near our box. I would not be praising smith too much yet, i reckon billy barn door paynter would have impressed yesterday considering the standard they were up against

championc

I reckon Ross is gone though. He can be very on and off. Becchio was better and Ross never fully convinced me me was limited by becchio. Time to cash in.

Also, more convinved as he issues statements essentially saying he does not want to leave but is being pushed out.

Much prefer to lose him than byram

~Rebel~

I really like Matt Smith. I think there's a lot of development to come from him, and he looks to have a great attitude. Also have a lot of respect for someone who stuck with education despite having the option to move into football earlier.

(I haven't seen him play for Leeds yet, but saw a good bit of him last season.)

championc

Attitude is half the battle .... take Morison !!! However, poor Barndoor, but seems to have fitted back nicely into League One

punk77

In the first game of the pre-season tour this evening, we beat the Slovenian XI 3-1 with goals in the 1st half from Smith & Hunt and from Poleon in the 2nd half.
As it was against Farsley, we had different line-ups for each half.

LUFC Official @LUFC
In response to chants of "It's your round Brian" Brian Mac responds by handing some of the #lufc support some Euros #lufcslovenia

Brian certainly knows how to win the fans over. A touch of class

punk77

......and here's the picture to prove it

oldyouth

Brian has blown our transfer budget just to give some fans a pint

SarahBM

even made theScore.ie

http://thescore.thejournal.ie/brian-mcdermott-leeds-beer-money-987674-Jul2013/

punk77

1-0 vs Domzale after 27mins. Poleon scores (again).

punk77

79min 1-1

punk77

89min 2-1 to Domzale.

punk77

F-T 2-1.
Jeez that commentary was hard to listen to. Roll on BBC commentary.

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/20130712/bbc-leeds-return-with-a-three-year-deal_2247585_3235965

The end is probably nigh for YR.

Kristopherus

punk77 wrote: »

F-T 2-1.
Jeez that commentary was hard to listen to. Roll on BBC commentary.

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/20130712/bbc-leeds-return-with-a-three-year-deal_2247585_3235965

The end is probably nigh for YR.

Would'nt be too hard for Beeb to do a lot better than YR. But then Bates is not around to strangle anyone any more;).

punk77

Good interview with BMc in today's YEP:

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/latest-whites-news/leeds-united-i-ll-always-do-what-s-best-for-this-club-mac-1-5858395

I don't know how the future will pan out for us but I'm looking forward to the journey with BMcD at the helm. A real gem. He puts the meaning back into MOT.



In other news, Neil Sullivan has been appointed as Academy Goalkeeping Coach.

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/20130716/sullivan-returns-to-elland-road_2247585_3239352



****The final game of the Slovenian tour vs Ferencvaros kicks off at 5pm this evening****

punk77

Team line-up vs Ferencvaros:

(1st 60min) Kenny, Thompson, Peltier, Pearce, Drury, Tonge, Austin, Murphy, McCormack, Varney, Smith.

(Last 30min) Kenny, Thompson, Lees, Pugh, Warnock, Green, Norris, Brown, White, Poleon, Varney.

KJ

I got tickets for the opening game against Brighton. Haven't been to Elland Road since a 2-2 draw with Norwich a few seasons ago.

punk77

52mins, 1-0 to Ferencvaros

championc

Another game to show David Haigh how much money he needs to raise !!

tim_holsters

Anyone got their new membership cards yet?

Went for the gold on the day they came out, probably should have gone for the bronze which is great value at 20 quid but on the very slim chance we can sneak 6th place I thought it best to go for the gold. The cards don't usually arrive early but with the season beginning earlier this year I thought it would have arrived by now, incidentally ticket's for Brighton and the stadium tour that I booked on the day they became available arrived in less than 48 hours.

O yeah well done on your Predictions win Punk, I meant to say it to you before now but I haven't been on here much. Let's try and keep a Leeds stranglehold on it by one of us winning it next year too.

punk77

Cheers Tim. Maybe some other Leeds fans will join in and we can make it a complete Whitewash

punk77

BMcD's post match interview here:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152315076901542&id=334945866982

maximoose

Tickets booked for the Nurembuerg friendly

Was in Leeds for my brother's stag anyway, nice timing