04 Oct 2022
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1.) 05 Oct 2022
04 Oct 2022 23:28:48
OP it's over to you.

2.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 02:49:07
George these OP " misfits " ?in tne Oleary team were genuine entertainers played mostly entertaining winning football

Big difference to the very dull football we mostly have now.

3.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 06:00:53
Although it was a decent team we had, O’Leary was a sub standard manager as was found out later. The sad thing was for all that talent we had, we won zilch, in fact due to our over reckless chairman the club very nearly went extinct.
#Stop living in the past and embrace the future.

4.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 10:06:52
It's not living in the past OP

it's purely standing up against your ridiculous disparaging comments against a group of " talented " players (as you now at least admit ) who achieved plenty of relative success and with entertaining football.

Very few sides actually win trophies OP, even the great Revie side narrowly missed out on trophies a vast amount of times!

5.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 10:27:20
Forgive me if I’m wrong Baz, but isn’t playing any sport all about winning, ie winning medals and trophies.

6.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 10:56:43
Sorry OP, but on this point I can’t agree with you fully. Winning trophies is the ultimate aim of taking part in any sport, but it’s not all it’s about. As Baz says very few teams actually win trophies at any given time, so if it was all about trophies there’d seem to be little point or pleasure at all in following the vast majority of teams - including our beloved Leeds - particularly these days, when the moneybags teams like Citeh are hoovering up almost all the trophies.

7.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 10:59:11
Yes OP but only 3 domestic trophies available to win each year plus one European competition for some.

Lots of good teams with talented players narrowly miss out on winning trophies.

That doesn't make their players ' MISFITS'! ?.

8.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 11:07:00
Furthermore OP the current Leeds team which you seem to adore and stated several times you are ' super excited' about ( your words)

finished not 3rd, 4th or 5th ( like Oleary teams every season )

but 17th!

So they must be a team of 'uber misits ' ?.

9.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 11:10:49
Say that to Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal etc.
It’s only about winning!

10.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 14:05:22
Not sure how you can refer to DOL as ' substandard ' given his achievements 2 European semifinals 18 CL matches and 12 Uefa Cup matches for starters ; he must be the luckiest manager in history to achieve so much and be 'substandard'

Virtually all Leeds managers coaches achieve little success once they leave Leeds including the great Don.

11.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 14:46:58
You not like current Leeds team baz? Not a fan?

12.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 15:29:12
Aus
I love adore my beloved Leeds United tbe club since the 1960s

Disappointed by and

Not keen on current owners and DoF

Not convinced on current coach

Not that excited or convinced by footballing talent of vast majority of current squad 17th last season . no wins in 4 this season

3 best eras Revie then Wilko then Oleary ( and then Bielsa first 3 years)

13.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 16:09:41
Baz those so called achievements if you want of DoL, mean little to nothing, with that team we had they should’ve won a trophy, but we didn’t. If we had a more renowned manager at that time, with those players, we perhaps would have won something.
Missed opportunity in my opinion.

14.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 16:35:19
OP lol ' little to nothing '

Firstly you seem to have selective amnesia on the decimated injury list of Leeds at crucial times under DOL

Secondly the best chance to win something was the UEFA cup campaign . but you can't blame DOL on what happened off the pitch in Instanbul which badly affected our team on the pitch in tne semis.

to win the Champions League defeating excellent sides in Real Madrid and Valencia well you are asking a lot. an awful lot for a rookie CL side

As for the EPL . its simple. over a 38 game season both Man u and Arsenal (and even Liverpool at times had better stronger teams)

Sorry OP but your misfit blunder has clouded your mind.

15.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 17:24:46
A semi final is not an achievement. It is a failure to reach a final.
He had one of the most talented teams of that era at his disposal, and he destroyed it, on the back of what was truly a terrible chairman.
Radz is a breath of fresh air compared to that criminal, and how he is still on the Directors Register defies logic, legality and belief! Rids was an arrogant tosser too, as well as having no nouse.

16.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 17:37:31
You can’t use the injury list in your favour for your DoL point and not accept bielsa bad injuries in his final season.

17.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 18:16:17
Lol Bŕight a CL rookie side getting through 18 matches against the cream of Europe to a semi final is NOT an achievement . okey dokey . so what is it?

Is it on a par with Leeds getting knocked out of the FA and League cups in 3rd round 4 years in a row under Bielsa? ???

LAD2 wrong

I have many times accepted Bielsa had no luck at all with injuries too in his final season . but even then with these injuries under DOL Leeds still finished 4th not 17th like Bielsa.

18.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 20:22:25
Amazing. the amount of people. who knew O Leary was a crap manager all those years ago, even though I bet they all loved the optimism all around the club at that time .

Yes Ridsdale gambled but I bet not 1 person here said stop when we riding the crest of those waves .

Hindsight now seems to replaced with concrete knowledge of that time that it was all going to go Pete Tong.

19.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 22:33:14
Just want to rewind to your post Clu, there’s always a chance for a non elite club to win a domestic trophy, like Wigan beating Man City. I’m very surprised by your comment especially coming from you, I agree that it’s unlikely that we would win the Premiership any time soon but then look at Leicester.
For me I really can’t see the point of supporting a football team if you honestly believe you will never win a competition, no matter how high the odds are stacked against you.
For Baz, at least Bielsa won the Championship, O’Leary won nothing.

20.) 05 Oct 2022
05 Oct 2022 22:47:27
Not often if ever I agree with Baz but DOL in my mind was successful in the grand scheme. Winning trophies is extremely hard and to be fair he did bring us mighty close to two major finals. Truly exciting times they were. What subsequently happened is another story altogether.
Let’s live in the here n now and accept we are what we are. We have an owner who has done amazing things but unfortunately hasn’t got the financial clout needed and a squad at best mid table. Chris, who is a great poster, actually called Radz a wrong un which is way off the mark and unless a major benefactor comes in we’ll probably stay what we are.

21.) 06 Oct 2022
06 Oct 2022 05:48:33
We were all wrapped up in this frenzy of excitement during this short period with Ridsdale and O’Leary at the time, but on reflection today I just see it as a false dawn. A one man’s roll of the dice for success which was bereft of any solid foundations of how a club can be built to last for a long time, challenging for titles and trophies.
I don’t see it as a successful period at all, I reflect now on the Wilkinson period with more substance but sadly that formidable engine room of MacAllister, Strachan, Speed and Batty wasn’t bettered and the team subsequently fell apart.
At least with Radriziani our club is being rebuilt slowly but surely with real foundations. Everybody demands instant success but it’s not the formula to true success even when huge resources are available.
Our time will come if with stay with the path that we are already on. It’s a big step up coming from the Championship and will take time before we are more stabilized in the Prem, I feel we are already getting very close to achieving that. The next phase will be the big investors to take us further, onwards and upwards.

22.) 06 Oct 2022
06 Oct 2022 07:38:33
Cork, maybe the context I used the term was wrong,
By wrong un, I meant he's the wrong man to take us forward from where we are now .

Yes he's wrapped us up in glitter + gold, but ultimately I believe this was all part of grand plan to flip us from the very 1st day he took over.

23.) 06 Oct 2022
06 Oct 2022 10:38:27
OP - there’ll be many folk who support their local club who have never seen them win a trophy and whose only realistic hope may be to win League Two, or maybe the FA Trophy or EFL Trophy once in their lifetime, but they’ll keep on going and enjoy the match victories (particularly over any local rivals) the pints with their mates before and or after etc, and I for one won’t tell them to give up and support a proper club that might have realistic prospects of picking up something more significant.

I may disagree with you on that point, but I’m with you on Radz’s stewardship of our Club. He’s invested significant amounts in the Club over the period of his ownership. Contrary to the belief of some on here, he hasn’t taken money out of the Club’s revenue. He will have made a profit from sale of 44% of the shares, but it’s only a profit because the value of the Club has gone up due to decisions and actions he has taken. That profit is his, not the Club’s, and he has reinvested some of it in the Club. Some of it may have been used to further build the portfolio of broadcast rights held by his Eleven Sports company, but some of the money his is expected to gain from its sale to DAZN may now be invested in the Club.

With Orta, Kinnear and now the 49ers Radz is, as you say, building the Club on sure financial foundations, developing the infrastructure (Academy first and Stadium over the next few years) , playing staff (both first team and below) and coaching staff. In much of the u21 team yesterday and the other younger players within the first team, the Board will be hoping they may have the solid core around which to build the first team over the next few years, with the addition of a handful of further quality players in key positions.

In due course, Radz will step aside (though possibly retaining a minority share) , but he will have done the hardest yards in getting us out of the EFL and establishing us back in the Prem. For how many years were we longing for someone to invest hard cash in us to get us back into the Prem, seeing Sheffield United, Huddersfield, Hull, and even Barnsley and Bradford take a turn (or turns) in the promised land whilst we remained in exile? And now some on here seem to want to slag him off for having the barefaced cheek to buy us while only having sufficient cash to get us promoted but not necessarily enough to be totally assured of mid table security from which to launch a European bid.

24.) 06 Oct 2022
06 Oct 2022 17:24:27
. He wasn’t a crap manager, but like I said, he had one the most talented young “groups” of player of that generation. Wilko would’ve won the league and CL with them. Collectively, they underachieved.
And yeah, I winced when we bought Fowler, as that spending was lavish, and un needed. The spending, and the structure of that spending, was ludicrous, and I said it at the time. Unfortunately, this website wasn’t around then for me be able to do a Baz and say “I was 96.763% correct”.

25.) 06 Oct 2022
06 Oct 2022 18:44:55
Bright I lurve Wilko but that is a very bold statement of him winning both the EPL and CL with those players ( there were some weaknesses with that team / squad )

26.) 06 Oct 2022
06 Oct 2022 18:49:08
Here we go again, with the Florence Radrizzani narrative,

Clue, just for starters can you explain this 1 away?

Leeds 116million broadcasting revenue

Even as you say, not from revenues, but what about the annual dividend from the companies affiliated to all things Leeds united?

The mans got to be making serious money on the back of us.

27.) 06 Oct 2022
06 Oct 2022 23:12:26
But Chris, it’s his company to make money off the back off. No1 questions if the brothers who own asda makes billions, so why question radz?

28.) 07 Oct 2022
07 Oct 2022 00:22:55
Chris
Re ' more red flags than Beijing ' Clu ; he is renonwed for his Radz and Orta propaganda spin ; and fair enough that's Clus prerogative.

BUT Of course Radz is making a mint from LUFC whilst getting very very lucky last season with avoiding R last season which would have been a huge set back financially

Leeds United need much better than Radz.

29.) 07 Oct 2022
07 Oct 2022 06:01:18
It does get forgotten that Radz had to plough a lot of his own money to get us back into the Prem, plus balancing the books at our ravaged club. If he has made some profit now to recoup what he has lost then that would be fair, would it not? After all it is his football club and business. Some fans I think believe that football club owners shouldn’t make a profit and that it should be more of a charitable excercise.

30.) 07 Oct 2022
07 Oct 2022 10:00:16
Let me say this again OP++ LAWD and even clu, Mr Radrizzani is certainly entitled to all his wealth, afterall be is a very successful, shrewd business man .

I do not begrudge him any success nor do I envy his work load .

What has irked me for many years is the point he runs with fox +hound
He loves to give the impression of being a fan 1st +foremost,

Yet last +this season have clearly shown how he's totally a bottom line man as he has again been prepared to gamble on our position in league .

No proper striker or LB is totally negligent in Premiership.

The narrative set out by Clu and many others gives out the impression that poor old chairman is doing his best for Leeds on the average industrial wage .

He's here to MAXIMIZE PROFIT, so please not try cloud that particular issue with oh, he laid on 12 million of his own during c.v.

Let's balance that with how much he got back from c.v. to keep the business going, as I posted already a few weeks ago to a point Brightwhite made, which showed big sums of. Cash before during +after c.v.

The show is still on road ???, Radz is still ready to make huge profit, when he sells , so let's stop with the oh, c.v. farked it all up spin once! for all.