Leeds United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours

stryker mcqueen

Fulham in for Bryam apparently , don't know how credible the source is though ,

8.5 m being mentioned , if it was used on players I would let him go , a perfect example of a young overrated English player , not saying he is a bad player at all , but that money is crazy

championc

So Vianini gone back to Rome for the weekend to mull over his various options before coming back to Leeds on Monday.

Sounds like it's all down to negotiating over a possible permanent move after a loan. At least we're looking at medium term rather than just the short term.

championc

So Viviani gone back to Rome for the weekend to mull over his various options before coming back to Leeds on Monday.

Sounds like it's all down to negotiating over a possible permanent move after a loan. At least we're looking at medium term rather than just the short term.

fanzhiyidan

sounds like he's thinking of changing his mind after the crap performance he witnessed during the week.
probably not blown away by Hockadoodledoo either.

lets see how good Salerno is at selling the club.

championc

My god, have yis all given up on Leeds already ? To be honest, after today, I think you'd be right. 2 - 2 against Chesterfield and we couldn't score from open play !!! The defense is still a shambles and as Lorimer said, we still haven't managed to make any progress in this dept in the past 12 months. Rather than "The Hock" having no plan B, it sounds like there was very little of a plan A either.

As for Viviani, by mid-afternoon, Cellino confirmed the deal was off but by teatime, Viviani's agent confirmed it's not. Monday will tell all but right now, this guy will be our only immediate hope of salvation

NuckChorris1

Some good news for a change!

http://labottegadelcalciofilo.com/2014/07/28/exclusive-interview-to-zan-benedicic-leeds-im-coming/

JokerD

Viviani just confirmed on loan, Benedicic very close apparently from AC Milan and we're also strongly linked to Bolonga striker Acquafresca.

NuckChorris1

Acquafresca sounds like a bit of a punt really. Serious potential when younger and doesn't seem to have lived up to it anywhere he's gone. Cellino has signed him twice before tho so should at least know what he's getting.

stryker mcqueen

why are lots of Leeds fans panicking so early ? Don Cellino said he has 15m to spend on players , thats more than we've had in 10 years , patience everyone , patience .....he seems to me to be a man of his word

oldyouth

It may have something to do with a non-league manager in charge of a squad that he hasn't chosen, where most of them probably don't speak his language and knowing that if he doesn't look like winning promotion by game 10, he'll be gone

Kingp35

Also the fact that The Hock said that the team he would choose at Chesterfield was the one he considered his strongest team. Only one of the new signings started that match. Delighted we are adding more to the squad though and that will change.

championc

Kingp35 wrote: »

Also the fact that The Hock said that the team he would choose at Chesterfield was the one he considered his strongest team. Only one of the new signings started that match. Delighted we are adding more to the squad though and that will change.

The only thing I would say about the selection last Saturday was that he really didn't have much else to pick from. Some of the new boys would barely have trained with the squad and lets face it, they were all from levels outside Serie A.

The other problem would be that The Hock won't fully know the level of the Championship so therefore won't really know the level the players need to be to be a contending team.

A positive aspect about the new lads is the fact that I think they were all U-21 Internationals so they can' really be muck and more likely to be better than what we have.

Viviani could be the jewel in the Crown - the guy to control and attack from midfield, a guy who can really provide for the strikers.

Some of the loanees careers have somewhat stalled so hopefully they are with us, looking to really impress someone somewhere. Loanees work so long as they chose to come rather than being sent by their clubs (a la Morison)

DoctaDee

Have to say I'm uncomfortable with all the loan signings coming in, it's a bit too reminiscent of 2004 when Reid had a raft of loaness in from France primarily, it seemed great at the time to have that bit of flair - Olembe, Domi, Camara, Sakho and of course Roque Junior, but really when the chips were down these fellas didn't give a fiddlers, back to the parent club one way or the other. In saying that I remember Viduka didn't help the cause either. Will be interesting to see how Swindon goes tonight

Mezcita

DoctaDee wrote: »

Have to say I'm uncomfortable with all the loan signings coming in, it's a bit too reminiscent of 2004 when Reid had a raft of loaness in from France primarily, it seemed great at the time to have that bit of flair - Olembe, Domi, Camara, Sakho and of course Roque Junior, but really when the chips were down these fellas didn't give a fiddlers, back to the parent club one way or the other. In saying that I remember Viduka didn't help the cause either. Will be interesting to see how Swindon goes tonight

Who could forget that season? We sank like a stone.

DoctaDee

Mezcita wrote: »

Who could forget that season? We sank like a stone.

Yeah true, the things I remember distinctly was Kewells transfer (if that's what you'd call it), getting slaughtered by Portsmouth 6-1 :eek:, been at ER to see Robbie K scoring against us and him almost apologetic to the fans and of course Smudger in tears last day of the season.

DoctaDee

Starting 11 tonight :

S Taylor, Byram, Pearce, Wootton, Warnock, Murphy, Tonge, Bianchi, Austin, Morison, Doukara

Subs: Silvestri, Lees, Berardi, Cook, Mowatt, Dawson, Smith.

Sheffield Wed thought to have made a bid for Lees - wouldn't like to lose him in fairness

fanzhiyidan

not too bothered about Lees, not really good enough.
sell him if a better player can be brought in. keep him if not.

championc

My impression is that when we are under pressure or concede in games, his confidence buckles.

BTW, second half about to start vs Swindon - 1 - 1 so far. Live commentary on uStream channel "un-lufc"

chughes

My trusty LiveScore app tells me that Leeds have beaten Swindon 1-2 away from home. Morrison in the 15th minute and Austin in the 47th minute were Leeds' scorers while Smith scored for Swindon in the 31th minute.


Thankfully we got a win as I was beginning to think that our 16-0 win over that local Italian under 9 side was going to be the highlight of the season

Zaph

chughes wrote: »

Thankfully we got a win as I was beginning to think that our 16-0 win over that local Italian under 9 side was going to be the highlight of the season

That may still turn out to be the case.

championc

We're still struggling. Keepers had nothing to do in the second half. Bianchi impressing once again and Doukara had some good efforts first half and very unlucky not to score. Berardi quieter than Byram, who he replaced. Might have been a warmup game for Taylor before the Cup match, Silvestri the chosen one me thinks

trudub83

Hi people. Not too sure whether you play Fantasy Football but if you do

Code: 511902-139648 will get you into a Leeds United fans league

Cheers boys and girls

MOT

iseegirls

trudub83 wrote: »

Hi people. Not too sure whether you play Fantasy Football but if you do

Code: 511902-139648 will get you into a Leeds United fans league

Cheers boys and girls

MOT

Hopefully next year I'll be able to choose Leeds players :rolleyes:

Mushy

trudub83 wrote: »

Hi people. Not too sure whether you play Fantasy Football but if you do

Code: 511902-139648 will get you into a Leeds United fans league

Cheers boys and girls

MOT

Joined it there anyway.

iseegirls wrote: »

Hopefully next year I'll be able to choose Leeds players :rolleyes:

If Norwich or fulham are promoted you may get ex-Leeds players. That fair enough?

trudub83

iseegirls wrote: »

Hopefully next year I'll be able to choose Leeds players :rolleyes:

We all dream that...:(

JokerD

Tom Lees looks like he's off to Sheff Wed.

championc

JokerD wrote: »

Tom Lees looks like he's off to Sheff Wed.

To then be replaced by Liam Cooper, who impressed Salerno last Saturday

DoctaDee

championc wrote: »

To then be replaced by Liam Cooper, who impressed Salerno last Saturday

He better learn Italian :pac:

fanzhiyidan

All the talk of Lees on twitter is that he'll be leaving on a free transfer.

that doesn't make sense.
He's decent, an England U21 player and has a couple of season's experience in the Championship. Surely he'd be worth somewhere around the 1 million mark.

Trend Setter in Training

championc wrote: »

To then be replaced by Liam Cooper, who impressed Salerno last Saturday

Phil Hay now saying that isn't going anywhere after a few rejected bids... back in for another italian no doubt!

championc

Trend Setter in Training wrote: »

Phil Hay now saying that isn't going anywhere after a few rejected bids... back in for another italian no doubt!

Until Cooper hands in a transfer request !!!

championc

Trend Setter in Training wrote: »

Phil Hay now saying that isn't going anywhere after a few rejected bids... back in for another italian no doubt!

Until Cooper hands in a transfer request !!!

DoctaDee

I wonder if Chris Dawson is to be the Sam Byram of this season ... Glenavon admittedly but a hat trick aint bad for a midfielder

championc

Can only maybe see him getting a run out in the League Cup

Actually, maybe a season long loan deal to a L2 or L1 club would really help him to move forward

Q_Ball

Lees off for an undisclosed fee. He was decent at this level but there are better out there. Buying someone who is though is a different matter...

Kingp35

We definitely need to bring in a couple of quality defenders now. Lees was decent enough so I'm hoping that Cellino already knows who is bringing in to replace him

championc

I'd perfer Cellino to have been looking to replace Wootton TBH so that a new guy would start alongside Pearce

Kingp35

According to Twitter, Viviani has turned us down and has signed for Latina instead.

fanzhiyidan

Glad with the culling that's going on but we do need to actually sign some players.

anyone else starting to get a little worried at the state of our squad with 8 days to the start of the season?

no replacement for the goals we lost last season. Matt Smith isn't going to score 20+ goals. We already need to supplement the 10+ goals he got last season anyway. Morison and Hunt are both rubbish.

Only a right back bought to improve a woeful defense when we already had a good right back.

Is Bianchi the creative spark we need in midfield?
We'll still be stuck with Austin who can't pass water.

Nothing seems to happen when Cellino isn't at Elland Road. Apparently he's back there today so hopefully we'll see some good reinforcements.

If we're linked with any other wasters like Andre Blackman and Nile Ranger, god help us.
Surprised we haven't been talking with Lee Hughes and bringing back Marlon King.

championc

Kingp35 wrote: »

According to Twitter, Viviani has turned us down and has signed for Latina instead.

A real pity that. I think we all were putting a lot of hope in this guy being our messiah. Bianchi will need to fire on all cylinders now for us.

St Senan

The Squad numbers were revealed today. It looks like Paddy Kenny and the 17 shirt are gone.

Full Squad List:
1. Marco Silvestri
2. Sam Byram
3. Stephen Warnock
4. Rodolph Austin
6. Jason Pearce
7. Luke Murphy
9. Matt Smith
10. Noel Hunt
11. Aidan White
12. Gaetano Berardi
13. Stuart Taylor
14. Tommaso Bianchi
15. Scott Wootton
18. Michael Tonge
19. Steve Morison
20. David Norris
21. Charlie Taylor
22. Zac Thompson
23. Lewis Cook
24. Chris Dawson
25. Ross Killock
26. Dominic Poleon
27. Alex Mowatt
28. Lewis Walters
29. Souleymane Doukara
30. Alex Cairns -

championc

And so it appears that the Viviani deal isn't dead afterall. This lad comes with the reputation of being the real deal.

Also confirmed late last night that Benedicic deal is done. Doubt he'll be in Leeds today though. Wouldn't be surprised to hear about a midweek behind closed doors friendly before Millwall next Saturday.

DoctaDee

Looks like Carbone has been given the bullet too

Zaph

The start of Cellino's revolving door policy that featured so much at Cagliari?

Zaph

2-0 win home to Dundee United. Morison and Poleon scored.

championc

I have to say, I'm beginning to feel optimistic. It was refreshing to see the amount of passing backwards and sideways yesterday. Any long balls were to specific targets rather than aimless hoofball.

As for the new boys, Bianchi is a class act and Doukara looking better by the game, and Berardi is pretty decent too. So basically, the new boys are actually looking like they are improvements on what we had.

Playing the passing game now rather than hoofball will somewhat remove Smiths natural game which moves Morison up the pecking order. The crowd turning on him last week may just have been the real kick in the arse he needed.

And as for Viviani, I just wonder if Cellino felt that he suddenly had enough cover with Benedicic coming in now. And the need to replace Lees appears to have steered us now towards Frederik Sorensen from Juve

St Senan

Leeds confirm the signing of Zan Benedicic on a season-long loan from AC Milan, subject to international clearance. David Hockaday said: “Zan is a versatile, strong and technical midfield player. He has massive potential and comes highly recommended by AC Milan.

Lamper.sffc

http://www.insidefutbol.com/2014/08/04/e380000-loan-fee-gets-juventus-defender-frederik-sorensen-through-leeds-united-door/153383/

Seems the sorensen deal may happen soon

Kingp35

I'm only happy about these season long loan deals if we have the option to sign them on a permanent basis if they do well.

championc

We have the option to buy him at the end of the season. Exciting prospect by all accounts. Was already in Leeds on Saturday and trained with the squad today.