Leeds Banter Archive June 18 2012

 

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18 Jun 2012 20:21:14
Warnocks recent comments are really positive. Something big is due to happen. He would of walked by now if he new this wasn't the case. I think by the end of the week we will be all happy chaps! Wolves at home? No worries I think they'll struggle next term. ED congrats on the kiddy matey! {Ed013's Note - Thanks buddy}

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18 Jun 2012 20:29:16
latest Paddy Kenny tweet,Read into it what you want :-)

Patrick kenny‏@p20ddy

Straight to bed after football got a big meeting tomorrow and want to be fresh for it #lovetotell #

Dev.

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I really really hope the lump doesn't come, he is cr*p, should just stick with loners because Kenny isn't any better

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18 Jun 2012 20:28:12
Can someone please clear up the transfer rule
Pompey releasing players cos of administration
How can Burnley sign someone prior to the 1st of july and we cannot as informed/assumed by other fans
Southampton buy Rodriguez B4 1st July
Please clarify?? {Ed003's Note - The transfer window has been open since the day after the last league game,many players contracts run out on the 1st July,I'm guessing that is what you mean? }

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18 Jun 2012 20:11:28
paddy kenney tw33ts that he off to bed after game because he has a BIG meeting tomorrow (he is up in yorkshire too)

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Hope hes in Sheffield not Leeds!

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18 Jun 2012 18:33:06
ken bates has got to sell leeds one reason and only one because if leeds do not buy any more new players then the attendance will drop again and he will start losing more money and we all no he does not want to do that. kez1919.

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18 Jun 2012 17:45:20
It’s quite funny how many ridiculous rumours come up on this site and twitter daily about "the takeover". No takeover will take place bates is hoping to con leeds fans into buying season tickets for next season he is more than happy to milk the club and take 6 million out of the club a year until leeds are once again completely potless with no assets then he will leave unfortunately by then we will be a nothing team in league one.

I hope to god I'm wrong but I can't see anything but oblivion for our club

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Biggest load of tripe posted today. No-one is buying season tickets until the takeover fiasco is sorted. Fans are not as thick as you make out.

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I think you are talking rubbish by saying Bates is hoping to con Leeds fans and he just wants to milk the club dry and then walk away, its talk like this that drags the mood down, why cant you be positive?

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My optimism died in 2006 after the playoff final defeat im now just been realistic im happy some leeds fans can see a light at the end of the tunnel. I just see a black abyss

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18 Jun 2012 17:42:00
if you would have smithy back for this next season click believeable and if not comment and why not

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Past it. Injury prone. No longer good enough. Would find the expectation too much. Not enough hours in the day to list all other reasons. Look forwards not back...

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Go away you sad git click yes if you are a tool,and you like A smiths rear

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No coz he's not good enough

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Other than him being a Leeds lad, what is your justification, what quality would he quality would he bring?

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Im not bothered who plays for Leeds Utd, if they are old or they are young if they come from Liverpool fc (the team i hate the most) as long as they give 100% and they get us promoted.

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He's past it, maybe he will be a good coach one day as he has the passion and presence, but we can do better . slc

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Cos Alan smith is a terrible player. Ask any MK Dons fans

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If he accepted a wage package on the level of his ability, sure.

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Stop it with the Alan Smith Rubbish.

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18 Jun 2012 17:31:48
i dont think mccormack will got to huddersfield as jus before simon grayson left mccormack had SG by the neck pinned up against a wall! i found out by the acadamy goalkeeper brad!

NO1 leeds fan

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If that were true Grayson wouldn't be in for him and he'd have been disciplined by the club. Utter b*llocks.

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18 Jun 2012 16:57:46
so far we have had american,canadian,thai,bahranian,kuwati,chinese,australian and english, im gonna punt for south american, maybe brazillian

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18 Jun 2012 13:37:42
Hi
Got told by my mate who works for leeds city council that 2 directors of "gulf cement company" have registered themselves with leeds council as new directors of a yet unamed company, but he said details for company have been stated as sports stadium and casino owners. now dont shoot the messenger by saying this is b****cks. Im not saying it is for leeds but cud be. had a quick look on google at gulf cement company and they are in top 50 arab company richlist and based in bahrain. Lets hope true.

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But it clearly is b*llocks.

Directors are registered at Companies House not the local council and all registrations are in the public domain as soon as the registration is processed.

All limited companies, LLPs and charities are given a registration number and have to provide a registered office address. They also have to provide a unique name for the company which meets a very specific set of rules (mustn't be offensive, no suggestion of royal connections and a zillion others) so there can be no such thing as an 'unnamed company'.

As someone who is a registered director with three currently active limited companies and has held three other directorships in the past you can take it that I'm right and your mate isn't.

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18 Jun 2012 15:05:38
Need to get good quality players in as quick as possible now because those first seven fixtures scare me!

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If we don't move are ar=es in the transfer market now, we might aswell forget about promotion and get ready for a religation scrap. We deserve better than this farce.
mot4life

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Another doom and gloom post! you must have such a happy life - don't try and drag everyone else down with you.

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18 Jun 2012 14:19:52
according to west london sport clint hill hasn't signed a new contract yet and isn't expected to be a first team regular....maybe the lure of regular football might persuade him to join the mighty whites? same goes with buzaky

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Bothe players could get us to were we want to be. Likelyhood is, we will watch them move to the other clubs.
mot4life

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18 Jun 2012 14:13:30
anybody got any new info on takeover?? twitter been goin mad last 2 days.

deakko7

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Nobody knows

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18 Jun 2012 14:01:21
Anyone else read through the lines in the interview with York full back James Meredith? On SSN. Is it just me or is there a hint?

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18 Jun 2012 12:58:52
We have got to be patient, time will take its toll we are still in June for goodness sake but these idiots saying we are going to get taken over by mega rich Arabs and sign all these top names need a reality check. I believe that some people don't have anything better to do than make up blatant rubbish.

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18 Jun 2012 13:24:04
Well I'm not in the know of any actual facts of what is or isn't going on at LUFC at the minute. I have been on this site daily every day since last season ended and have read every post carefully and come to my own conclusion of what I think is going on with our club... remember just my thoughts!!

I think that the Jason Pearce signing had to be made immediately as Portsmouth were desperate for cash and other clubs were interested in him so despite Ken Bates not wanting to part with cash he was 1 of NW's summer targets and had to put his money where his mouth was and prove to the manager he was true to his word with regards to cash been available for transfers. If not NW would of left there and then.

The takeover/investment saga in my opinion must be a take over as if it was just an investment it would of all been sorted weeks ago.

The talks must be at an advanced stage as it was reported that buyers had been shown round the facilites at Thorpe Arch and Elland Road. This would not have happened unless they had tabled a bid that was exeptable by Ken Bates... he would of told them to prove they had the cash to buy before getting into things like this.

No signings have been made yet which again points at the fact that Ken doesnt want to part with cash on players wages at this stage when he is planning on calling it a day, it would be money down the drain for him. The ground and training complex must still be owned by one of Bates many companies as I find it unlikely that someone would spend millions and millions of pounds on a club with no ground or training ground owned by themselves.

The fact that Neil Warnock has not come out and said anything about all this and the fact he hasn't brought any players in yet apart from Pearce indicates that something big is going on which will be good for our future or he would of walked by now.

NW has told Robert Snodgrass to give him while the January transfer window to prove to him that the club is going in the right direction and if not he will get him his move to the Premiership which he badly wants. This is a very clever thing for him to say and do to our captain who has been linked with Premiership clubs already.

I wouldn't expect any news release from LUFC this month with info of takeover or players in. I think it will all get going in July. Lets face it, our first pre-season game is on 20th July and as we speak now we would struggle to form a squad without dipping into the youth team. I have faith in Warnock that he will form a strong Championship squad before we kick off against Wolves.

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18 Jun 2012 10:08:24
so the fixtures have been released and warnock knows what needs to be done the takeover/investment talks drag on back in april warnock said he couldnt ait for the season to end so he could move intoi the transfer market quick staing major surgery is needed he stated he wanted 3 players signed before he went away(he signed pearce so the yep keeps reminding us)he stated he wanted his squad in place before pre season with the talks ongoing (must be a takeover investement wouldnt take this long)neals goals have changed he now hopes his squad is in place for the start of the season he stated this is his last job in football (rumours have he is about to jump ship)wanting us to be promoted his new goals are for us to finish as high as we can the longer these talks take place the less the available players pool becomes leaving us with the dregs will we sign players soon or will we have another gradel with snodgrass leaving on deadline day warnock time to man up insist you get funds or walk becuase as it stands bates is making a mockery of you milky

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The fixtures have made me more worried - I can't see an easy 3 points really - to be honest I can't see many wins.
We need some cash and players badly or else we could be looking at a relegation battle by Christmas

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NW is all mouth and no b*lls. I see comments from posters on here and YEP who reckon NW will walk if not given funds blah blah blah. Well, where's his comments on the "investment" since he got back from hols? Face it - he is simply taking the Bates Shilling. He bought the Bates lies at the turn of the year, and is now simply keeping himself in a job until someone offers him a better alternative. We will end up with a team worse than what we ended with 2011/12 (journeymen and freebies) and get totally gubbed in August, Sept, October......

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NW is all mouth and no b*lls.
I see comments from posters on here and YEP who reckon NW will walk if not given funds blah blah blah.
Well, where's his comments on the "investment" since he got back from hols?
Face it - he is simply taking the Bates Shilling.
He bought the Bates lies at the turn of the year, and is now simply keeping himself in a job until someone offers him a better alternative.
We will end up with a team worse than what we ended with 2011/12 (journeymen and freebies) and get totally gubbed in August, Sept, October......
sawfeet

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18 Jun 2012 09:17:18
Wolves at home first game for whites.

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Another hard start to the campaign not many chances to get decent runs on the go unless we have a strong squad

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Looking at that league, its going to be hard to win it, looks even tougher than last season, dont think we have what you call an easy game right untill 29th september, going to be hard but you can do it leeds...hx white

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Wolves is an easy game.
remember pre-season 2 years ago.

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Sorry meant to say ...should be an easy game....

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Pre-season is about match fitness not the result!

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That was 2 seasons ago in a friendly . different manager different players . we might only have a youth team playing with half a dozen senior players for all we know. i pretty sure i heard bates talking about alot of youth players coming through and getting there chance this season coming ,im sure he said it around end of last season so if no takeover or owt then expect youth throughout the team

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At the moment its about wether we can put a side together with out looking a bit stupid with most of the juniors on the pitch.

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Is terry connor still manager? we'll have a good chance if he is.

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18 Jun 2012 01:17:25
Got a funny feeling lads where been played by Bates. He'll be sat with harvey, thinking what a loud of morons. They really think theres goin to be a takeover, when all there goin to get is a takeaway.
The man should be on the ten most wanted list.
mot4life

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Totally agree, if something was cracking off something would have come out by now. Bates never took Leeds on because he loved the club he will run the club in to the ground taking every penny he can along the way - I for one would love to see the back of him but can't see it happening

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Just delay tactics so he does not need to buy players until the end of July.

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He dosent buy players full stop, I hope that I am wrong and the investment money is forthcoming but the only thing that is consistent is the hope we get fed from the club (bulls#!t) which is then followed by deafening silence. Same last season how many times did we hear SG saying we hope to have a few new faces in then nothing - Ending on a positive note having money dosent guarrentee anything look at Leicester last year we are Leeds and have Warnock

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Well he wants the players who contracts run out in july to get on there bike to free up wage funds

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17 Jun 2012 23:51:24
Ed please inform us, is the guy who is informing us as " al hasawi and friends" for real, as you can see ip addresses, is it a local ip address on not? As supporters were pretty fragile at the moment,probably a joke and making a fool but need to know {Ed013's Note - Sorry mate I have been away most of the weekend for the birth of my son, the newest addition to the Leeds family. I very much doubt he would post publicly, although I do keep an eye on stuff like that}

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Congratulations Ed! Make sure you teach him tackling and passing as it looks like we have to wait for him to grow up to get a new signing.. {Ed013's Note - Haha cheers pal}

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I wish you all the best with your son ed
Blue Wolf 22 {Ed013's Note - Thanks Buddy}

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Congratulations Ed

RH {Ed013's Note - Thanks very much}

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Congrats Ed on the birth of your son.

Sankey.I {Ed013's Note - Thanks mate}

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Is he ready to play centre back yet? Congrats man....Vinny. {Ed013's Note - He is better than what we have! Thanks mate}

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Well done ed. its good wen u find out ur s***k works

deakko7 {Ed013's Note - Cheers pal, no more for me!}

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Congrats...but wait while you got 5 lol

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Congratulations ed hope you got him a Leeds baby grower no harm in starting them early

The jyg {Ed013's Note - he wore it leaving the hospital! Thanks pal}

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17 Jun 2012 23:30:19
More of a hopeful rather than a source... but surely Ken Bates has to be selling up soon. At 80 years old, its a big age for a man to be running a club the size of ours. I have nothing against the man if he backs Warnock and pumps some money into the club for signing, however if he isn't willing to do so, then have a large investment or takeover welcome into the club without making things too complicated. Im confident we will have a good season next year and Warnock will get the most out of the players we have.
CharlieLUFC.

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17 Jun 2012 22:36:56
Fingers crossed we'll all be put out of our misery tomorrow.
With a little luck for the better.
Heard this from my son who has absolutely nothing to do with LU, he doesn't know anybody's sister or any filling station assistant near Elland road and isn't Ken Bates gardeners dog but he is a fan who is convinced it's tomorrow.
Hope he's not winding me up.
JB

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Think he's having your life mate. We've got more chance of platting p=ss.
mot4life

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July 1st is when things will move at leeds united but it will probably be players out

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