Leeds United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2024/25

So the positive from that is if experienced sporting business men are going the wrong way about making a quick profit then they are not looking at making a quick profit. I guess they want their own foundations set, that could then mean that on the pitch it could be short term pain for long term gain.

My issue is how they are going about it. Theres zero communication and what they do say comes across as lies because this is no where near what was portrayed early on.

Just watched Joe Blackburn on YouTube bemoaning the fact that we've now missed out on signing Bashir Humphries from Chelsea. He's just gone to Burnley on loan, with an obligation to buy for €5m.

Chelsea apparently currently have a huge squad, but are only allowed a much smaller number of players in their squad plus a maximum of 6 players on loan domestically and internationally combined next season. They therefore need to considerably trim their squad.

A lot of the other top teams are similarly overstaffed.

With the amount of money we have on hand from our recent sales, we're certainly going to be in a very strong position when it comes to negotiating purchases from clubs who are desperate to downsize their squads.

Ok, I accept that I'm grasping at straws, but after the shocks we've recently had, I badly need something to cheer me up.

Not grasping a straws, there has to be a method to their perceived madness. If they have analysed other squads to this level and predicted they need to offload players then it's a master stroke.

Does seem pretty strange that the Rutter deal still hasn't been signed, sealed and delivered??

Yep i would blame this board as well as orta and radz for some of these contract situations even though farke is kind of absolving current owners judging by his comments. Think we all thought these would be shrewd owners but so far it fells nearly cellionesque. Still trust in farke but i get where you are coming from, the whole lumping on all attackers with 20 to go is too predictable at this stage. Doesn't look good for season ahead but lets hope the board start buying players farke wants and needs. Feeling farke was definitely blindsided by this contracts mess based on his comments.

Oh i understand that, hes no fool but its obvious both parties are at fault. Cant fully blame this board for the contract scenario when they weren't the major shareholder when they were signed. Have to be fair about this too, and share the blame when its warranted. The summer has been v poor by this board however, no doubt.

Seville fans not too happy with orta back in may either.

https://x.com/MarioMijenz/status/1794796318944379362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1794796318944379362%7Ctwgr%5Edb6eb26e9876dba1eb789363d1200a83e22e3e61%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Fleeds-united%2Ffurious-sevilla-fans-protest-against-victor-orta-12-months-after-fiery-leeds-united-exit-4643719

Rumour is that Brighton are planning a dual player reveal or whatever its called. Not sure who else they were in for

Nancy froston getting plenty stick on twitter for her lack of updates .We didnt realise how good phil was.

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For all the Brighton trolling, if it's any consolation, Leeds got £40 million for a player who looked so out of his depth in the Premier League, he was taken off at every opportunity and replaced with Adam Forshaw or Weston McKennie.

Not sure he will be any better for Brighton when the big hitters go in hard on him.

If there was a soccer version of the Harlem Globetrotters, he would be great in that.

Marseille look like they are getting Rowe from Norwich

To be fair, the poster didn't compare him to either of those players.

Perhaps Brighton have bought him, like Minteh, simply as an investment, something they have shown a fantastic ability to do over the last few seasons, buy cheap, sell high. Personally, I don't see them making a huge profit on Rutter, but fully expect them to at least double their investment on Minteh.

As regards players coming in, I hear only rumours about Clarke, Ljubicic, Junior (loan from Villa) Benson (Burnley) and Beck (from Liverpool), but about 0% concrete information related to any of those players.

He started 1 game and was replaced by Gnonto on the 68th min!

And out of those 11 games he played a total of 264 mins, probably less seeing as he "spent so much time on the floor!" You're turning him to Adryan or Ayling describing him as such.

Better than yours seeing as he played 11 games, only started in 1 and in those games McKennie started 8 and Foreshaw 2 and 1 sub appearance!

There's no fun left in the team.

This makes for very grim reading.

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/leeds-uniteds-ps1231m-transfer-income-compared-to-europes-biggest-sellers-including-newcastle-man-utd-juventus-more-4744538?page=4

It is nice, though, when the tread has been updated to see that a real player might be signing for us. Who doesn't want a Belgian u19 international in their squad>

Ramazani looks pretty good from the Youtube profiles. But Kristensen and Aaronson also looked good from the Youtube profiles when we signed them, so that's not an accurate indicator.

Ramazani reminds me a bit of Gnonto, but he seems to offload and distribute the ball sooner which is Gnontos biggest weakness.

Man Utd removed him from the books because he wasn't happy with the contract he was offered. A bit concerning. If he had star potential, they wouldn't have dumped him.