Leeds Banter Archive June 28 2011

 

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28 Jun 2011 22:28:44
Does anybody have a link for the new kit

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Dont think anything official has been released tbh

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28 Jun 2011 22:23:25
Not seen anything posted for over an hour ahhhhh, I think ed's have gone for a good drink, can't blame them really it's the quietest pre season ever

{Ed010's Note -unfortunately not this Ed my friend.

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Shame ED lol.

AS for nothing being posted for an hour, who checks in here that regularly? Maybe you my friend need to go get a drink.

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28 Jun 2011 22:15:04
Do leeds still have debt ? I thought it had been cleared but keep hearing otherwise . Also wish we'd hurry up and sign some players to get everyones optimism back up . Even if they are free transfers , there are some quality players available

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28 Jun 2011 22:12:28
Leeds looking at numerous goalkeepers to replace Kasper:
Tomas Kusczack
Alex Smithies
Fraser Forster
among others

also a rumour that we want to sign Alan Smith? has anyone heard this one?

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LOL you being sarcastic theres been no shortage of rumours about Smith. LOL.
Whether it'll happen is quite another thing entirely

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Unfortunately Yes we have. Give it a rest Lad everyones bored of that rumour. Better to move forward with our youth.

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Yes by the same posted over and over and over again.................

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28 Jun 2011 21:34:46
Eh hello, has it not occured to anyone the following maybe contrdversial idea: the transfer window between English clubs is open already, the international transfer window opens 1st July. So, we are not signing Alan smith, bowyer or woodgate for that very reason, otherwise we would have done it by now sureley? Finnaly, maybe we ar looking at foreign talent hence no further signings yet (1st July) so maybe the 'old' max kruse rumor is correct, or maybe we are looking at the next bechio? Think wider ppl, maybe we are looking beyond our shores hence no action so far. Becchio came from a Serie 'B' club if I'm not mistaken, I think with the limited budget we are looking abroad for cheaper foreign flair . Just a thought but who knows
Grayson may have some tricks up his sleave. Leeds Leeds and sitting tight for jul1st.

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Has it not also occured to you however, that quite a few players wont be free agents until July 1st? I seem to recall it being said that free agents and those in the last year of their contract looking to be released from their contracts or have it paid up, won't become free until July 1st? May have got that wrong so don't shoot the messenger. Any ed want to clear that up? Cheers :) {Ed001's Note - they can negotiate a deal before then though, but teams usually hang on and only pick up freebies to fill gaps in a squad.}

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Agreed ED, people are just holding out hope for players that clearly arent returning, but wont take the hint. The players we will get probably havent even been mentioned on here because people are obsessing over the same few, Leeds always get their men but its done in private. Hopefully we are looking off shores, another Becchio would go down a treat or someone of his quality anyways :)

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Becchio signed from Spanish div 2B club UD Merida. I would like to see us bring in Kruse though Hertha Berlin are rumoured to be interested

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28 Jun 2011 20:12:20
I live In Rothwell and bumped into alan smiths mum on the highstreet outside
Hare an Hounds who when i asked if he was going to sign replied with " for the thousand time yes..medical tomorrow at bupa hospital in methley'

Fingers crossed

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No offence but im sick of hearing about rumours about Alan Smith. If he's come why doesn't he just say it himself.

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Because he'll probably get punched by quite a few people?
lol

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Relax, he's going to sign........for West Ham.

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Clearly he'll go where the money is....Which isnt Leeds. Sorry fangirls :p

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Quite a fair few people certainly dont want to see his mug never mind hear his lame excuses.
The reason he hasnt said anything is because their isnt anything to say, if he was returning to Leeds he'd be smoothing the path and trying to soften the blow as alot of Leeds fans dont want him to return to ER. Any theu wouldnt except the truth unless it came from his mouth, although in the past it isnt like he's been entirely truthful himself. The good PR would be out in full force, therefore it isnt happening. The only media covereage from this 'possibilty' has come from bates interview with YEP, its a money maker for all the gullible, nothing more. Leeds do their business behind closed doors why would they change that now? WHutd can have him, their welcme too him, I bet all the Geordies would pay for his train fair. sayz it all really.

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He hasnt said anything because he is in America..... fact

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Yes person we know, ever leeds fan does. That doesnt mean he hasnt got a mobile phone. What era do you ppl think we live in the dark ages.

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28 Jun 2011 19:54:41
All these rumours about players leaving, if they don't want to be here let them go, if there hearts not in it its no good.Leeds need players who are 100% commited, Simon could then use the money to bring in new talent, think about it if your not happy in your work you don't give 100%.

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Although Bates wouldnt give him any money to buy players even if we do need replacements. The issue isnt Grayson its Bates. We'll never move up from the CCC whilst he's at the helm.

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Ccc? its npower now matey

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Quicker/Easy to write mate
And who really gives a b*llocks about sponsorship? Its the same bloody league

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28 Jun 2011 19:46:55
Can I just say something regarding all these people who are slating grayson for selling kasper, mid season everybody was sayin our defence wasn't good enough he needs to sort it out, well now he is sorting it your having a pop, he can't win.Simon must see something in training to think he is not up to it so leave him alone get of his back and let him do the job he's paid to do , come on simon your doin a fine job keep it goin I believe in ya.

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28 Jun 2011 17:53:12
I hope we are just biding our time. For a club with high season ticket prices, large attendances, recent lucrative cup runs/ TV games and apparently no debt we SHOULD be able to compete very well for players this summer and show real ambition to get to the Prem. There are good players who are (or were) out of contract... Earnshaw anybody? Also, were we in for the likes of Neil Danns on a free....if not something is wrong. Hopefully promising signings will arrive soon. Not sure re Bowyer and Woody given their injury problems.

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Bowyer would be ideal, but Woody and the other has beens are all crocked. We#d be paying them to be on holiday

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28 Jun 2011 17:45:48
let me get this right, so far we're linked to approx 5 keepers, 2 forwards, 6 middle men and half a dozen defenders ? SG & KB must be wetting themselves.

I'm sure we will aquire solid, talented players to fill the gaps of last seasons weaknesses and replace those on the way out. We know how KB likes to conduct his business in private so where the hell are all these rumours coming from ?

Show faith, what we need WILL ARRIVE, i have no doubt.

Also thinking that Loanees will be key to taking us back up where we belong ?

M.O.T

Not the sharpest tool in the box but will last a lifetime......

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A Prem Team full off loanees.... as that ever happened.....I wonder why not?

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The rumours are coming from peoples rears, the names banded about will be the furthest thing from those we will actually sign.

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28 Jun 2011 16:20:55
Our new sponsor is SkyBet.

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Skybet is stopping bets being put on skybet bet becoming new sponsor?

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Source??

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28 Jun 2011 16:17:29
Bottom line lads... Let's all get off Grayson's back. It's not even the 1st July and people are calling for him to be sacked... Will these same people be saying that WHEN we get promoted. Because of the way that Leeds United do there business it's ALWAYS quiet this time of the year... I'm pretty certain the players that he gets in to replace the players that have left will do the job. Christ when Grayson took over we were getting beaten by Histon and just over a 2 years later we've beaten Manchester United (at Old Trafford).. got robbed of beating Liverpool (it was onside ref)... took Arsenal to the wire (divers) and given Spurs one hell of a run for their money... plus doing the double over QPR (which no other team did last season). If that's not proof enough that the manager is heading Leeds United in the right direction then all the doubters need their heads testing... We are LEEDS... We are UNITED... We are LEEDS UNITED
Marching on TOGETHER.

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MOT

DEAKKO

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Well said grayson will already have replacements for the players that have left, I know we will have a better starting 11 come august than last year and I can't wait for him to shut them doubters up, then when we are sat top of the league we can say we never lost the faith sayin that so will they liars

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So when we dont get promoted can we call you rose tinted lot liars or just gullible?

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28 Jun 2011 15:54:10
Really hope Bowyer re-signs for us. i think he still has another good 2 years at least to give. Fingers crossed. In Grayson we trust.

MOT

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Really hope Bowyer re-signs for us - disagree.
In Grayson we trust - agree.

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Bowyer to return out of any of the old boys At leats he's proven he still has something to offer unlike those still thinking their prem quality but actually aren't.

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28 Jun 2011 16:07:27
Like most of the TRUE Leeds supporters on here (personally having followed Leeds for 42 years now) I never cease to be amazed at the idiots on here who believe in rumours and spread crap themselves.

The 'facts' this season are that we finished a lot higher than anyoe first expected, we spent very little in doing so and we 'discovered' we had goalscorers instead of just 'Beckford' (fair credit to the guy though?

'Fact' is Schmeicel has left the club - fact

'Fact' is Johnson wants out - but still hasn't actually gone? Problem with the medical, or what?

'Fact' we have a new goalkeeper, who Simon Grayson has worked with before, and therefore knows what to expect from?

Whether this was a 'done deal' is conjecture, he's in the team now and part of aour future?

EVERYTHING ELSE is pure rumour or speculation until papers are signed?


Smithy, Woodgate, Robinson, everything, believe the LUFC website, not the Sun, EDP, Beano, Womans weekly, guy down the pub, etc, etc.....

As the saying goes, 'keep the faith' believe in what we have and lets all 'MOT' whatever......

We could be in a lot worse position we are....

Oh, and for those doubters who believ Bates is 'milking' Leeds, either put up or shut up?

Bates claims not to have taken a penny out of Leeds (why would he need to with all his money?)

His payday will come, maybe, when Leeds are back where they belong - at the top - if he wants out?

I have faith, and am here for the journey, am investing in a season ticket this year despite not being able to make a lot of the games due to personal reasons - but I BELIEVE

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Just stick to lufc.com then it clearly states in the name of this website 'RUMOURS' so dont tell me that your amazed by people spreading rumours how do you think transfers actually start??we all want leeds to do well or we wouldnt even be on here so jump down off that high horse mate you wrote so much and cleared up nothing we dont already know oh and i'l go to the games you get to lol MOT

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Good for you MOT :-D

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You don't have any right to tell any Leeds fan to shut up They are the people that have actually continued going to games whilst in League one

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Bates hasnt taken a penny out of Leeds LMAO Wheres the Delph money, the Tv money etc etc etc

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The Delph money? You prove Bates has had a penny of it, and I will back you 100% of the way He publicly claimed that he hasn't taken a penny out of Leeds and nobody has proved him wrong....

Why don't you do so if you are so sure of yourself?

Bates is in this long term, for the good of the club, and eevntually, for the good of his own pocket (maybe) when it's time to sell?

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My right to tell fans to shut up? I didn't I said PUT UP or shut up? Lets see you all 'putting up' then??

You think Bates has taken money out of Leeds 0 then prove it Simple??

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Oh and I actually went to games while we were in Division 2, Leeds is for life, not just for the good times

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Oh yeah becaus ethats liely to happen, moron. Simply because the facts arent made public doesnt mean the fans are all mugs. Wheres the money then, come on prove where it is if he hasnt pocketed it
Oh Bates has stated it so it MUST be true hahaha

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Cpt Birdseye is a compulsive liar

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28 Jun 2011 15:36:57
the new kit will be out by the start of the season my mate works in the retail shop and they havent even had a sample she said they normally have a sample by now so it can be out for pre season

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Newcastle friendly guaranteed, Bates wouldnt waste all those sales would he?

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28 Jun 2011 15:05:05
Kirkland would be a great shout for a replacement of Kasper who was brilliant last year and NOT the reason we conceded 70 last year but the reason we DIDN'T concede 100, im behind Grayson all the way but blaming Kasper for goals conceded last year is idiotic.

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We need new defenders, KS shouldn't be used as an excuse for all the goals we conceded. The back 4 were ridiculous at times and that had nothing to do with the keeper.

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28 Jun 2011 15:03:39
Probably 99% WON'T happen but Thomas Sorensen is wanting first team football and with Asmir Begovic the number 1 at Stoke; maybe guaranteed first team football at ER may lure him to us? Hope SG can pull it off but with KB wanting to save all his penny's for a coffee maker in the new hotel he's building, can't see it happening.

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28 Jun 2011 13:28:13
ross mccormack is my top scorer in first season on footie manager, 13 in 13 and becchio has 11 in 15. top of league, only signed 1 mid on a free to shove out kilkenny, i play the 4-5-1 with mccormack playing gradel or snoddys position and them 2 battling it out for starting position.

no rumour, just thought u should know

ps nunez has banged few in from the bench

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Cheers for that usefull information

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I heard SG plays this all the time

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Clearly not, mccormack played last 2 games of season. i play formation as i have always done on footie manager through the years. ken bates is happy with the job im doing and so are the fans.

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28 Jun 2011 10:58:13
What more do you want from Becchio ffs? He works harder for Leeds United than any striker I have ever seen wear the white shirt and last season scored 20 goals too The man's a star.

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Agree, becchio the man is a legend, anyway if Dik Kyte can do it in the prem for Liverpool becchio can do it for Leeds utd in any league, they're in the same mould those guys, Except becchio has a better name lol

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He is a good player...what i meant was we need another big scorer with him....he has been injured a few times and its good to have more big scorers...

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McCormack has been known to stick a few in the net, if we can get him fully fit, which he will be next season, he is easiy a 20 goal a season man. Just cause he has slipped under the radar due to injury is why he is no longer touted as a 3/4 mill striker which is what he was priced at coue of seasons ago before he fell down the pecking order a bit at Cardiff. We as a team tend to get quite a few goals fro
Our attacking wingers and mid field so I can't see An issue.

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Totally agree, Becchio and McCormack up front together next season should be good for plenty of goals with Somma coming off the bench. The only issue for me is people saying give Paynter a chance. I'm afraid he had plenty of chances last season and proved that he is no more than a League One player. We need to replace him to give us 4 quality strikers.

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McCormack will be awesome this season, just you watch

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Somma doesnt get enough chances, the lad will do brilliantly and Grayson still wont give him the time of day. I wonder why that may be?

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28 Jun 2011 09:23:45
I reckon Grayson should sign Kasper Schmeichel from Leicester city for £5m. He would be a quality goalkeeper. One for the future as well. Could see him been number one for many many years to come. I think then he should go down to specsavers and re watch the all the games Schmeichel played for leeds, And show him what Preston did to Higgs, and the back 4 and the mid 2. Schmeichel was our third defender when the likes of rob hulse were knocking our defence into touch, he was solid and deserved a bit of loyalty for another years promotion push. IF we got promoted this year, Schmeichel would have begged for a new longterm contract. class goalie. Good luck Kasper.

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He's full of himself apparently. Good riddance I say.

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He is good, but i have heard he causes unrest in the dressing room. Due to his attitude

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I will some kasper up.when we played forest at home last year .Keown went to shake his hand kasper refused i know keown is ugley n his dads team had many battels whith him but it sounds to me like kasper thinks hes better than he thinks.City dumped; Leeds now sell at first chance must be something going on . not as fantastic a player as he thinks he is or he would be still playing in prem .And refusing to shake ex players hands. BIG HEAD

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28 Jun 2011 09:10:09
THIS IS NOT TRUE JUST MY OPINION

leeds to field a 4-2-3-1

Keeper yet to be decided (hoping kirkland or kuszczak)

need a new RB (maybe lichaj) and LB; o brien kisnorbo (if fit) and bruce all ok to start CB; need to think about a new decent CB (maybe woodgate or some1 less injury prone)

two CM's hopefully one DM to help leaky defence; hoping frings will come and think clayton should be given a chance

then play snoddy, howson and gradel as ur 3AMs

Becchio as a lone striker (with somma as 2nd choice)

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Personally i think we need a better striker than Becchio...he is good but we need more goals...

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He was top scorer last year so his goals not a problem, but his link up to the team isnt top notch, but a bit more pace would do us nicely.

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I'd play 4-2-2-2

Smithies
Conolly Kisnorbo woodgate Parker

Howson. Smith

Snodgrass. Gradel

Becchio. McCormack {Ed015's Note - thats basically what we played in L1, not so much tho since the departure of Beckford}

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