Leeds Banter Archive July 09 2012

09 Jul 2012 23:10:04
I don't want to write our season off already but is anyone else a bit under excited about our squad
Paul green-average
Adam drury-average
Jason Pearce-average
Varney,Norris,kenny are not world beaters think we really need some marquee signings like beckford
Would have loved Danny murphy
Hope I'm wrong but it's not a top six squad do far
Come on warnock
Russjon

Drury will be the best left back we've had in years. pearce played well against us twice. green always played well against also his versatilty will prove an asset this season. as for the players linked norris, kenny peltier would be class three players in positions we desperately need and depending on warnock's backing we could players with a high reputation that might bring a bit of optimism to the leeds fans.

Keep the faith mot.

Totally agree except for Pearce I think is a great addition especially for the small fee we payed for him.

Now que the "stop being negative and get behind the team and we're not real fans".

Honesty is becoming a thing of the past with us Leeds fans and if we continue to pretend we're bigger than we are we're gonna be a laughing stock like Liverpool living on past glory.

I'm definitely with you, yes there is still talk left but were not half way from getting the amount of players we need, but got to say Pearce is class and will be the beat defender this club has seen for years, need a lot of more players of his class if were to get promoted which I'm seriously doubting

I'll take the opinions on Pearce and accept I may be wrong but varney is definately not class nor is peltier or kenny and I've seen lots of football from those 3 players
I'll always keep the faith but won't be putting my usual £10 on Leeds to win the league
Hope I'm wrong but think time will unfortunately prove me right
Let's take some risks and spend decent money on decent players cos once that crazy tv money kicks in next season it's gonna be the 3 that come down that go straight back up so it's s#t or bust this year I reckon
Russjon

I think we will have a few good players in before the start of the season. NW knows what sort of player he needs.

Maybe you'd be even more unimpressed with no new players.. ?

6 weeks ago we were looking dire, now the world is ahead of us and you still moan?

God, no wonder we suffer.........

Youve gotta think that these players played for average teams, Greens a good little player, even if he did play for Derby and one of the worst managers ive ever seen in Nigel Clough just trying to live off his dads name and failing

Talk to any qpr fan and they will tell you that kenny has been their player of the season for the last 3 seasons.

They probably won't seen as tarabt was the championship player of the year the year they went up and can't see him getting it last year with goals they shipped can you
Russjon

Well the three qpr fans in my local do, got them up and kept them up according to them, anyway do I have faith in warnock yes thanks, due to the little fact of 7 promotions out of this league, do I have faith in you? er how many promotions have you achieved?

Errm
I'm a plumber and I work for myself so I suppose I can promote myself to whatever I want
But your still talking s##%e because tarabt pretty much dragged qpr up to premier league and mark Hughes rates kenny that much he signed rob green
Also where's your local and how much of qpr have your friendly cockneys see from your local boozer
Stick to FIFA clown
Russjon

09 Jul 2012 22:29:30
Seems to have all gone quiet again on the takeover front. But no negative voices coming out of anywhere in regard to it not happening. A friend of mine who is trying to buy Bradford Bulls (despite nonsense by adminstrator) is a good friend of one of the Leeds players...they haven't been told any details apart from something is happening, but even they don't know. Obviously Warnock has been told (otherwise he would have walked) and the green light has certainly been given to sell Clayton. I can't see Warnock selling Clayton without a replacement in mind. In terms of buying players...not happened yet even though players lined up. Interesting point about confidentiality, the new owner must have some serious clout to maintain the secrecy for so long...he/they can't be lightweights to pull off of this, and secondly the names linked with Leeds are normal run of the mill ones, the proper marquee signings not been rumoured yet. By the way...everyone has gone quite today...wonder why that is...me think its imminent

I'd rather people go quiet than making absolute bull up and building everyones hopes up, takeover will happen when it happens, I think it's time now to just forget about it and stick to the player rumours, freebies as per usual

It has been a very quiet day although there are still signs that things wont happen for at least a couple more.
There has been no real mention of imminent signings from the media...especially from those who are close to the club.
The team are due back for training on Wednesday....certainly wont be the sort of team we were expecting.

Maybe warnock as seen green as claytons replacement which leaves us exactly where we was a month ago in terms of strength only difference we have some money from selling clayton

09 Jul 2012 22:16:22
Imo the signings NW is making are squad players and when the takeover is complete we will move for some better quality of player ie kilgallon, maybe beckford. So i wouldnt panic just yet, NW brought some good players to QPR and had a good chance of avoiding the drop. Maybe he dosent want the players that people on here are mentioning, i mean they are usually free for a reason. And the clayton situation is simple, NW dosent rate him as he played well as a free roll and looked like a headless chicken when Howson left, I mean NW did transfer list him to be fair. Also with Snoddy i would take 3 or 4 million for him as long as we have already got replacements in place as Gradels departure left a huge hole, we need more pace and snoddy cant run bless him. MOT. Vinny.

Very true. I love snoddy but when he moves up, i'm sorry to say but lack of pace always gets found out in prem. I would give him 2yrs at most before he would have to drop back down to the championship. Sorry snoddy but i speak the truth.
mot4life

Any manager with half a brain (including warnock) would look to develop snoddy and move into the middle of the park where his lack of pace will not matter as his brilliant passing and football intelligence will take over.pity you have none of these.

09 Jul 2012 20:40:50
Just fot back off holiday whats the latest rumours ?

Scroll down and see !!

Save your time
If you been away for less than 4 weeks
Still same rumours

09 Jul 2012 19:15:08
Is the site broken? {Ed003's Note - I've just put some new batteries in pal,everything is fine now}

09 Jul 2012 18:58:35
If snoddy goes then we should at least get 5million. I would say thats enough to put together a great squad for next year.
LufC

Does anybody really value snodgrass at £5 million
Massively overrated in my opinion and goes missing too often
Russjon

Snod is worth far more than 5 million to us right now, but unfortunately not to anyone else, so we would get ripped off, yet again....

How much is he worth then
He really is overrated and not worth anywhere near £5million
What would he be worth if he signed a new deal then
£10-£12 million
Get real
Russjon

09 Jul 2012 18:18:35
Come on Takeover!! We're missing out on all our targets for the new season due to the time it's taking for this takeover to happen.
Chambers has signed for Ipswich now that it's taken so long to sort out whether or not we were having him because of the delay in an announcement..... another target gone....how many is that we've missed out on now?..... We need a decent takeover now to make up for all this!! Plus Warnock selling Clayton was a very bad move!! :-( Come on Warnock show us all your success in promoting teams! Too many years of bad news for us LEEDS UNITED Fans!! In Warnock we trust!! MARCHING ON TOGETHER!! - Jonny C (Big Leeds Utd fan!)

Hi, I can comment from a position of complete ignorance, so I ask how is it that you know "we're missing out on all our targets....?"
Are they players you want, or players the manager wants?
I, unlike you, do not know Neil Warnock, so I all I can do is wait to see who he signs.
I must have missed your post on the Pearce, Green and Drury signings.

tRip

Get a grip mr patronising I think it was common knowledge that chambers was a target like ward and if he wasn't then there is summat up as a good centre half on a free
Russjon

Only Neil knows if we are missing our targets, I doubt seriously if we are....

09 Jul 2012 17:10:37
Not sure with all the rumours that we'll have a good enough team to win the championship, but what do you think would happen if we had a team like this?

Kenny
peltier Pearce Lees? Drury

Snodgrass Green/Norris Rogers

Varney Diouf

Becchio/Cox

In a 4-3-3 formation
I'm not sure if the team will end up anything like this just interested if people think it could win the championship? I haven't heard many rumours on another center back instead of lees so i put him in?

I will now post on here more often Ed

BURLEYwhite

09 Jul 2012 16:34:24
"We definitely need new players in if we are going to be successful next season and Neil certainly knows that.

Obviously, the takeover is still ongoing and when it happens, with money going into the football club, it will be a big help for Neil to entice the players he wants."

A quote from Eddie Gray.
Obviously, the takeover is still ongoing is music to my ears, coming from someone a little closer, perhaps to what's really going on.
JB

09 Jul 2012 16:10:42
I suggest reading Vince hilaires interview in the YEP about varney and Norris, few people including myself disagreed with signing older players but he strongly believe we'd have two very strong players there, especially in Varney, not a rumour but just thought some would be interested
LouisLeeds

Hilaire has an opinion I respect. He has made similar contributions to the YEP. Sounds like he knows wassup.

So why is there so much repeated rubbish on YEP? Just glad I am far enough away not to have to read it every day

09 Jul 2012 14:52:36
As the Bassheads once said... "Is there anybody out there? Doo... Doo.. Do.. Do.. Doo.. {Ed003's Note - da dah dah Dah}

09 Jul 2012 14:11:06
Something not right here.
Almost lost the will to live with all this waiting.
Think we are all going to be disappointed !!

09 Jul 2012 14:04:37
Hello.... anybody there?!? {Ed003's Note - hello}

09 Jul 2012 13:30:02
update please!! {Ed003's Note - Sorry mate,it's me covering again aswell as the main site which is really busy}

09 Jul 2012 13:21:08
When man city got taken over it was over night this period of due dilligance seems to take forever
If it was a billionaire I don't think they would be this period
For me I don't think its a billionaire even qprs tony Fernandez did not take this long
I think we are all in for disappointment

09 Jul 2012 12:17:03
Got to be worried about the proposed takeover/investment. If you were going to be able to buy fillet steak in the very near future would you fill your freezer with value burgers?

Yes! Bad example cos I just love food!

09 Jul 2012 11:03:11
Personally this 12 of July rumour I think is rubbish and people assuming dates in their head, money have to be paid to Creditors blah blah, ok so now we all wait till thursday, then waiting all day and ...... Nothing, so then we shall get told the buyout has been signed and bates has gone but.... We have to wait for an announcement from the club but that doesn't come, and then do we get told the buyers need a CEO again, dragging into next week and Woohoo a new date has been set for the takeover? This is just becoming an absolute joke, I think this rubbish should be just put to bed now and just keep quiet till something does happen

09 Jul 2012 09:45:42
How come Grayson now wants Lee Peltier and Sheff Weds and ipswich want all the players we go after.

When a player becomes free or transfer listed it's inevitable there will be more than one interested party, especially if they have an ounce of talent. So really it's nothing unusual.
JB