Leeds United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2020/2021

purple hands

But...it's Leeds.

NuckChorris1

purple hands wrote: »

I can't see us putting any sort of a run together. If they're gonna do it, it'll be League 1 promotion last day, down to 10 men, goal down before HT, heart attack style.

Kiko sent off for handling near the half way line = Max Gradel. Pablo curls one in just like Jonny Howson and then JKA stabs in the winner like Beckford!! :pac::pac::pac:

maximoose

Looks like Kiko's hearing will be next week:

https://twitter.com/philhay_/status/1227890769148641280?s=21

PabloAndRoy

NuckChorris1 wrote: »

Kiko sent off for handling near the half way line = Max Gradel. Pablo curls one in just like Jonny Howson and then JKA stabs in the winner like Beckford!! :pac::pac::pac:

All while Lee Bowyer smiles from the dugout knowing Charlton are already safe being 5 points clear of the relegation following their three previous wins on the trot.

Jimmy Two Times

maximoose wrote: »

Looks like Kiko's hearing will be next week:

https://twitter.com/philhay_/status/1227890769148641280?s=21

I'm told that some of the Leeds fans in the away end that day will be appearing at the tribunal witnesses to confirm that they heard him using the the racist language :D:D

NuckChorris1

Phil Hay:

Bielsa on whether he will make changes against Bristol City, Casilla especially: "Casilla is going to play. And Bamford as well." #lufc

Always Be Closing

Sake.....:

At Bielsa's press conference. Speaking about Forshaw's operation: "It's a six-month process with him. Our medical staff did everything to try and help him and to solve this situation.
Bielsa on whether he will make changes against Bristol City, Casilla especially: "Casilla is going to play. And Bamford as well.
Bielsa asked if he could or should have signed cover for Forshaw: "I would like to be able to count on Forshaw. When we think about bringing in a different player, he has to be better - and that means better in every sense. Someone who is ready now would mean a lot of money."
Robbie Gotts has had a muscle problem for 5 weeks

event

I think he is getting in subtle digs at the board. Saying we cant afford what he wants. Did it for JKA as well

10000maniacs

Always Be Closing wrote: »

Sake.....:

Robbie Gotts has had a muscle problem for 5 weeks

The whole team too.

Always Be Closing

event wrote: »

I think he is getting in subtle digs at the board. Saying we cant afford what he wants. Did it for JKA as well

And he'd be right

Radrizanni is a potless chancer trying to take us up on the cheap and sell for a massive profit

And Stevie Wonder has a better eye for talent than Orta

You buy cheap, you buy twice.

3rd January Window in a row we've had the chance to kick on with the slightest bit of investment and the board have failed us

event

Always Be Closing wrote: »

And he'd be right

Radrizanni is a potless chancer trying to take us up on the cheap and sell for a massive profit

And Stevie Wonder has a better eye for talent than Orta

You buy cheap, you buy twice.

3rd January Window in a row we've had the chance to kick on with the slightest bit of investment and the board have failed us

3rd january in a row? Not at all, this goes back years. I posted this before, shocking when you look at it



2011: Leeds have celebrated Christmas Day second in the table. Grayson wants a centre-back and narrows his list of targets down to Kaspars Gorkss and Gareth McAuley. Leeds sign neither, despite claiming Grayson has money to spend. The window closes and they instead bring in two midfielders, Barry Bannan and Jake Livermore, on emergency loans. Livermore’s contract requires him to start games so Grayson starts him twice — and substitutes him at half-time twice — over the Easter weekend. Five points are lost and the play-offs go begging. In all, Leeds concede 70 league goals that season.

2012: Grayson’s defence is dropping to bits without the goals up front to compensate. On deadline day, Nikola Zigic scores four times as Birmingham City win 4-1 at Elland Road and Grayson bemoans the inexperience of his defence. A few hours earlier the club signed Adam Smith, a 20-year-old right-back, from Tottenham Hotspur. Isn’t that a contradiction? “He’ll be a good player for us,” Grayson insists. If you say so. Leeds sack Grayson the following day. Smith ends up in the Premier League but only after joining Bournemouth.

2013: Neil Warnock has already lost the crowd and at the end of the transfer window, the crowd lose cult hero and dependable goalscorer Luciano Becchio when Leeds do an unpopular swap deal for Norwich City’s Steve Morison. “He’ll be a legend here in a few years,” Warnock says of Morison but the player is persona non grata within months (though not before Warnock is himself dismissed). It takes the appointment of Brian McDermott to see off relegation.

2014: Massimo Cellino appears from Italy, Mad Friday ensues. McDermott is removed as manager on January 31 but reinstated 24 hours later when it turns out that Cellino’s takeover is still to be ratified. Ross McCormack, the club’s captain, asks to leave. Andrea Tabanelli, a signing proposed by Cellino, spends a week in a hotel in Leeds before being told his transfer lacked the required paperwork. Gianluca Festa, who Cellino wants to replace McDermott, sits in the stands taking abuse from supporters around him as Leeds hammer Huddersfield Town 5-1 on February 1. Happy days.

2015: Midway through January, Cellino is banned by the EFL for a breach of the Owners and Directors Test and, in body at least, quits the club until April. Neil Redfearn, his head coach, wants a striker but the best Leeds can do is an obscure Albanian named Edgar Cani, who Redfearn hardly uses. They sign midfielder Granddi N’Goyi who doesn’t bother with a medical and is injured from the outset. But Sol Bamba’s arrival from Palermo at least hits the spot and helps to keep Leeds up.

2016: Sam Byram is sold to West Ham United after declining Cellino’s request to take a pay cut. Steve Evans — the sixth manager employed by the Italian to date — goes looking for a forward. Kyle Lafferty, Evans says, has the car started and is ready to drive to Leeds from Norwich. He doesn’t appear and neither does anyone else. Mid-table it is, then. “If I get supported, we’ll challenge for the Premier League,” a defiant Evans says. He’s gone three months later.

2017: Leeds are inactive until the very last day of the window. Garry Monk gets impatient and makes a point by playing two kids, Billy Whitehouse and Paul McKay, in an FA Cup defeat at non-League Sutton United, neither of whom ever get a game for the club again. The club tell Monk they can get Lewis Grabban but Monk goes for his old club Swansea’s Mo Barrow, who does next to nothing. Winger Alfonso Pedraza arrives from Spain but doesn’t do enough. A big chance of the play-offs becomes a seventh place finish on the final day of the season.

2018: Adam Forshaw comes in from Middlesbrough but is injured before very long. Tyler Roberts comes in from West Bromwich Albion but is injured almost straight away. Head coach Thomas Christiansen is losing control and the plot and four days after the January window closes loses his job too. “If they want to find somebody better, I cannot do anything about that,” he says. Paul Heckingbottom’s subsequent appointment is similarly short-lived.

2019: Daniel James. A window summed up by one name

Always Be Closing

event wrote: »

3rd january in a row? Not at all, this goes back years. I posted this before, shocking when you look at it



2011: Leeds have celebrated Christmas Day second in the table. Grayson wants a centre-back and narrows his list of targets down to Kaspars Gorkss and Gareth McAuley. Leeds sign neither, despite claiming Grayson has money to spend. The window closes and they instead bring in two midfielders, Barry Bannan and Jake Livermore, on emergency loans. Livermore’s contract requires him to start games so Grayson starts him twice — and substitutes him at half-time twice — over the Easter weekend. Five points are lost and the play-offs go begging. In all, Leeds concede 70 league goals that season.

2012: Grayson’s defence is dropping to bits without the goals up front to compensate. On deadline day, Nikola Zigic scores four times as Birmingham City win 4-1 at Elland Road and Grayson bemoans the inexperience of his defence. A few hours earlier the club signed Adam Smith, a 20-year-old right-back, from Tottenham Hotspur. Isn’t that a contradiction? “He’ll be a good player for us,” Grayson insists. If you say so. Leeds sack Grayson the following day. Smith ends up in the Premier League but only after joining Bournemouth.

2013: Neil Warnock has already lost the crowd and at the end of the transfer window, the crowd lose cult hero and dependable goalscorer Luciano Becchio when Leeds do an unpopular swap deal for Norwich City’s Steve Morison. “He’ll be a legend here in a few years,” Warnock says of Morison but the player is persona non grata within months (though not before Warnock is himself dismissed). It takes the appointment of Brian McDermott to see off relegation.

2014: Massimo Cellino appears from Italy, Mad Friday ensues. McDermott is removed as manager on January 31 but reinstated 24 hours later when it turns out that Cellino’s takeover is still to be ratified. Ross McCormack, the club’s captain, asks to leave. Andrea Tabanelli, a signing proposed by Cellino, spends a week in a hotel in Leeds before being told his transfer lacked the required paperwork. Gianluca Festa, who Cellino wants to replace McDermott, sits in the stands taking abuse from supporters around him as Leeds hammer Huddersfield Town 5-1 on February 1. Happy days.

2015: Midway through January, Cellino is banned by the EFL for a breach of the Owners and Directors Test and, in body at least, quits the club until April. Neil Redfearn, his head coach, wants a striker but the best Leeds can do is an obscure Albanian named Edgar Cani, who Redfearn hardly uses. They sign midfielder Granddi N’Goyi who doesn’t bother with a medical and is injured from the outset. But Sol Bamba’s arrival from Palermo at least hits the spot and helps to keep Leeds up.

2016: Sam Byram is sold to West Ham United after declining Cellino’s request to take a pay cut. Steve Evans — the sixth manager employed by the Italian to date — goes looking for a forward. Kyle Lafferty, Evans says, has the car started and is ready to drive to Leeds from Norwich. He doesn’t appear and neither does anyone else. Mid-table it is, then. “If I get supported, we’ll challenge for the Premier League,” a defiant Evans says. He’s gone three months later.

2017: Leeds are inactive until the very last day of the window. Garry Monk gets impatient and makes a point by playing two kids, Billy Whitehouse and Paul McKay, in an FA Cup defeat at non-League Sutton United, neither of whom ever get a game for the club again. The club tell Monk they can get Lewis Grabban but Monk goes for his old club Swansea’s Mo Barrow, who does next to nothing. Winger Alfonso Pedraza arrives from Spain but doesn’t do enough. A big chance of the play-offs becomes a seventh place finish on the final day of the season.

2018: Adam Forshaw comes in from Middlesbrough but is injured before very long. Tyler Roberts comes in from West Bromwich Albion but is injured almost straight away. Head coach Thomas Christiansen is losing control and the plot and four days after the January window closes loses his job too. “If they want to find somebody better, I cannot do anything about that,” he says. Paul Heckingbottom’s subsequent appointment is similarly short-lived.

2019: Daniel James. A window summed up by one name

I meant third January under Radrizanni

He’s not the messiah some make him out to be

Worst window was 2011- Larry just need a centre back or two to get us over the line and old pissypants wasn’t interested

Slim Charles

Always Be Closing wrote: »

I meant third January under Radrizanni

He’s not the messiah some make him out to be

Worst window was 2011- Larry just need a centre back or two to get us over the line and old pissypants wasn’t interested

It were too soon to get promoted, more debts had to be paid if they went up that year, iirc

Mezcita

Yeah from memory the issue was the financial fair play rules. Apparently we could't (or weren't willing to) splash the cash during the last window as it would mean that the club would be in trouble if we don't go up this season.

The season Wolves went up they apparently gambled on going up by spending loads. Worked out fine for them in the end.

purple hands

Storm Dennis is threatening tomorrow's travel plans. Ragin

NuckChorris1

purple hands wrote: »

Storm Dennis is threatening tomorrow's travel plans. Ragin

Carcharodon

10 mins in, 80% possession, 3 shots on goal
0-0, yep definitely Saturday morning here

GoldFour4

Get in!

Please hold on to this one!

Mushy

Carcharodon wrote: »

10 mins in, 80% possession, 3 shots on goal
0-0, yep definitely Saturday morning here

Ayling scores

championc

If you're not planning on going over to the Huddersfield game on 7 March, can someone please DM me a membership that I can use to buy a second ticket.

Thanks in advance

event

Always Be Closing wrote: »

I meant third January under Radrizanni

He’s not the messiah some make him out to be

Worst window was 2011- Larry just need a centre back or two to get us over the line and old pissypants wasn’t interested

Nah. Just our last owners were so **** we like anyone that saved us

event

Ha, Fulham

Ceist_Beag

Phew, another nerve wracking afternoon but a fully deserved win, just wish we could put teams away! Still this has been a brilliant afternoon of results for us.

c.p.w.g.w

Very good set of results of us today

Mushy

Will take that. Couldn't have gone better. Only team in top 7 to win

stryker mcqueen

Just managed to steam that in Dubai! Get the f##k in... Painful to watch but got the result in the end.... And thanks barnsley

championc

Could this be our turning point ? I'd like to think so but don't think so. Anything can and will happen.

Carcharodon

Lutv wouldn’t load only phone so couldn’t watch it today, how did JK play when he came on ?
We badly need some goals

10000maniacs

Good result and good outcomes in the other matches. We still couldn't finish easy chances today. Should have been 4:0.

Carcharodon

Carcharodon wrote: »

Lutv wouldn’t load only phone so couldn’t watch it today, how did JK play when he came on ?
We badly need some goals

Trying to think did he touch the ball. Actually he did, he stabbed one past the post. Hard to tell anything from 15 minute cameos

Always Be Closing

Brizzle were no mugs - could have gone 2nd beating us

You'd have to fancy us to put a few past Reading next week at ER

Keyzer

Great result. Seen highlights. Should've been 10 nil only for their goalkeeper and poor finishing. Bamford shouldve had a hat trick.

Jimmy Two Times

Keyzer wrote: »

Great result. Seen highlights. Should've been 10 nil only for their goalkeeper and poor finishing. Bamford shouldve had a hat trick.

Another good performance today. Totally dominated the 7th placed team. Two off the woodwork and two excellent saves by their keeper.
If we weren’t faced with a 4 hour delay at the airport I’d be a very happy boy 😢

is_that_so

Good piece on The Athletic, for those who have a subscription, on the development plans.

https://theathletic.com/1596683/2020/02/14/elland-road-west-stand-thorp-arch-redevelopment/

Always Be Closing

This could be the difference

https://i.imgur.com/d76nmur.jpg

event

Yeah when you look at that, we are doing OK.

maximoose

Bristol were brutal - offered absolutely nothing against us. Disappointing not to bag a few more goals but when they've 10 players in their box it's gonna be difficult.

Fantastic results all around, a good weekend

Reading will be feeling confident going into the next match, same dominance again please.

Keyzer

Always Be Closing wrote: »

This could be the difference

https://i.imgur.com/d76nmur.jpg

Its going to be a massive difference - for the right or wrong reasons.

Its getting to the business end of the season and I always fear teams fighting relegation, they are fighting for their lives.

The great thing in our favour is how the team is playing, even after all these weeks of bad results. They played out of their skins vs brentford (and should have won) and then again vs Bristol. Hopefully the teams we have coming up simply can't handle our intensity.

Ceist_Beag

By all accounts Fulham were absolutely brutal as well so hopefully they are now hitting a bad patch. Hopefully over the coming 4 weeks we can put a bit of distance between ourselves and third place and let them all fight amongst themselves for the playoff spots.

maximoose

Fulham's next 6 games are pretty nasty too.

Always Be Closing

Managed to get 2 Huddersfield tickets in Kop

36,000 tickets sold out in 43 minutes

10000maniacs

Next game Reading. We have to be careful with this lot because 2 years ago they beat us at Elland Road......while propping up the Championship.
One of our 15 or so bogey teams in the Championship.

stryker mcqueen

Huddersfield ticket secured today.... Sold out in an hour!

championc

Just about got two too. Mad scramble. Not good for the heart since I had the flights already

Always Be Closing

Quietest Leeds news day for a while- hopefully no news is good news

Mushy

Let's keep it that way. Could get mad if Casilla hearing is done and sorted tomorrow.

Always Be Closing

Mushy wrote: »

Let's keep it that way. Could get mad if Casilla hearing is done and sorted tomorrow.

I'm neither here nor there about it

More than confident Meslier can step in

event

Thinking about Casilla, I think MB did well last week keeping him in.
If he dropped him and the kid had a knightmare, then Casilla back in maybe and then the suspension, be all over the place.
So maybe he said play him until the case, if suspension then the kid can come in with not a whole load of pressure

Always Be Closing

event wrote: »

Thinking about Casilla, I think MB did well last week keeping him in.
If he dropped him and the kid had a knightmare, then Casilla back in maybe and then the suspension, be all over the place.
So maybe he said play him until the case, if suspension then the kid can come in with not a whole load of pressure

Conversely Casilla could've had another nightmare against Brizzle and we'd be baying for blood.

It's not an ideal situation, but there is a good keeper there behind all the brainfarts and eccentricities. I'd rather be going into the final stretch with Casilla and Meslier than BPF or Wiedwald, put it that way

Always Be Closing

Always Be Closing wrote: »

It's not an ideal situation, but there is a good keeper there behind all the brainfarts and eccentricities. I'd rather be going into the final stretch with Casilla and Meslier than BPF or Wiedwald, put it that way

If there is a finding that he used racist language, I hope Bielsa and the club show him the door.
I'd be a little disappointed in Bielsa if he plays him following any suspension.