Leeds Rumours Archive June 10 2012

 

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10 Jun 2012 23:49:49
Billy paynter good striker, hard done by with injuries which have given him bad form since moving to Leeds, poor lad gets some abuse, hope he finds scoring form again

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I think he had just started playing better before he got another injury if he drops down a league im sure he will get the form back

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He will find a new club this year and smash 30 goals in you watch

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Ditto
great player, just unfortunate he did not get enough games
cracking striker!!

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Check his career record. has had one good season and a couple of average ones in his entire career. Nearly every team he's signed for has shipped him out on loan. A journeyman striker at best

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10 Jun 2012 23:01:34
I thought the potential buyer of our beloved club was daniel snyder the owner of the redskins in america. he seems ro be linked strongly to our club.. didnt he try to buy us in 2010. where as all this al hasawi business come from again.. its fact he dont have money to buy any team.. MOT.. leedsutdfan

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Well a strong rumour is tom ricketts who recently owned 11 %of derby county i heard the shared in derby has been transfered to his brother but thats just a rumour no proof

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I heard it was the Family trust of Joe Ricketts who owns the Chicago Cubs

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10 Jun 2012 22:05:03
Don't want to pee on your strawberries but it was mentioned in three papers al faswel was expecting to close the deal on forest plus the informationut out by most sites is the company interested in Leeds are American ??phil Bramley

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I heard the guy didnt have the cash i makes fridges for a living he said on kuwait he was in no position to buy an englis club plus what he said before that he intended to fetch a lot of kuwait under 20 players to save on transfers so i hope he dont come to us

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Is no news not good news. It means something is happening? We just want it sorted yesterday

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10 Jun 2012 21:11:37
on 21st june it will be announced al hasawi has taken over our club nw knew this when he joined and the budget was set then before he made his clear out list al hasawi wanted nw put in place then! you heard it here first that is the date so just relax

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What ever heard it all before just wish it was true

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Can you back this up with evidence?

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That mite be that maybe why simon grayson got sacked

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You heard it here first (ah)..has at best 2% chance of being true. please next time make something a little more believable...however 98% of me would like it to be true..mot

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First poster posting again, believe it or not my friend, but its going to happen on the 21st mr al hasawi wanted nw put in place he admired him very very much at queens park rangers believe me just relax and enjoy

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It sounds still very much that his main target is Forest though. Warnock also to follow.

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No Simon got sacked cos he was seeing o brian's wife hence the breakdown and fallout between them, larry was at last chance saloon then he was caught with ken's secretary, if you'd been to the away games at the time this will all make sense to you with the songs doing the rounds at the time. thats why Larry got the boot nowt to do with results

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Al Hasawi has no funds for such a deal, as has been discovered by various sources, so stop making up bull****!

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KB must be incontinent with laughter looking at this lot, rumours are fine but do understand that all these dealings will be covered by legally binding confidentiality clauses. This poster knows as much as i do, which is nothing.

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I believe it was proved not long back that hasawi doesn't have enough money to buy any team.

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Just a few things there mate thats wrong if his transfer budget is set why hasnt warnock got anyone but pearce he did say he wanted 3more players b4 he went on hols plus the kuwait gi=uy may be rich an estimated 400 million sterling he aint a billionair like some think of that 400 million over 360 million is tied up in his refrigeration business and some 15 to 20 in property which leaves him an estimated 20 million he will have to mortgage hios property to pay fopr leeds and we will end up paying his morgages hence part of his footballing ain is to fetch young kuwait players over

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10 Jun 2012 21:04:40
Takeover done deal - Monday
2 New Signings announced - Tuesday
Shaun Harvey leaves club - Wednesday
New owners buy TA and ER - Thursday
New Board are put in place - Friday

MOT

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Dream week for me or any other Leeds fan, just can't see it happening. As much as I'd love to be wrong.

LUFC-Bob

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You wake up - Saturday
Devise a new rumour - Sunday

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As long as the new owners are decent, sounds great! Better not be another Ridsdale job though...

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Are u kb? ! Where do u get these stories from and do u actually think we will believe them!

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Carlsberg don't make weeks but if they did........ RT

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Monday - New board fly out to the Euros and sign
Schweinsteiger
Xabi
Hart
Mexes
Benzema

Oh and Rooney................to sweep out the changing rooms and wash the kit!

KTJ - Kent

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2nd reply should have left a name with that that was hilarious RT

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Dunno why but i was singing that Craig David song as I was reading original post ha ha

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Woo woo wooo calm down your running away with yourself . You hardley think our dream is going to happen in a week and who are the 2 signings .

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That was me pal 'MOT maverick' at your service, just shootin the bulls**t down!
LLHB

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Not as funny as the Craig David posting now that made me chuckle

Hold on I have just been hit by a lightning bolt and it has given me the power to look into the future

the first signing is ..... messi followed by some guy in a white robe and big grey beard oppps no that God telling me to go into the light

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I really think new owners may be announce sometime this week i think they have been warnock to come back from hols to get the transfers rolling

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I actually heard that one of the 2 signings is Roy of the Rovers! He will give us 30 goals a season and his wife Penny would make a great Elland Road WAG! Trouble is, would Melchester Rovers be willing to sell? Apologies to all fans under 35 who have not heard of him! :-)

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Saturday-Win the league
Sunday- the saviour rested

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And there was i thinking it was all just a dream!!!

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That'll explain why I've just got a text from the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and Elvis asking if I fancy coming out for a pint. MOT

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10 Jun 2012 20:31:21
Leeds to announce paddy kenny and Derry on Tuesday morning heard it from warnock his self he came to watch Rothwell juniors tdy

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Kids leagues still playing they all stopped round me

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Was a friendly Rothwell v oulton don't they have freindlys near u

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Yeh they start in july there is pre season trainking and a few small tournaments than a big one at butlins

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Paddy Kenny is in Kusadasi with the kids so i guess he isnt talking shop until he returns....

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10 Jun 2012 19:45:47
here's 5 possible Leeds targets, a contact of mine works close to someone at the club. Theses are rumours and not gospel but he has got many of his targets correct in the past.

k Lo Kwan-yee - 27 year old full back, crowned hong kong footballer of the year - 1.75m

Lee Barnard - Southampton frontman likely to come on a 6 month loan initianally but if all goes well will be extended to a year.

Carlos Edwards - Ipswich - 1.5m, great attacking option from the back.

André Schembri - 26 year old Malta international. Attacking midfielder with great eye for goal, currently smashing the goals in for greek team pananios. 500k

EMMANUELE smith - Walsall - supporters player of the year and fans favourite, midfield hardman who don't
Shunt a challenge. Just what we need, 350 - 500k

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These are good targets and there not out of our range.

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The the maltese guy please do ya research smashing the goals in i hardley call 4 goals in 21 games smashing them in

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I cant see NW taking a punt on a 27 yr old fullback from Hong Kong with no experience in european leagues to be honest

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Where is the money coming from for these signings?.

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10 Jun 2012 19:18:53
Good luck Ireland phil Bramley {Ed013's Note - I second that and thanks for everyone that has followed us so far on twitter. Its early days and the trial period is going well. @LeedsEditors}

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10 Jun 2012 19:15:52
Just a rumour I heard from a friend but apparently the situation regarding investment/takeover has stalled because Ken Bates is evaluating two offers. Decision is apparently going to be made in next week. Just a rumour do don't bite my head off

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Not gonna bite ya head off but i hope its untrue because its taken a month so far if there ius another offer on the table it will take another month and then iot will be pre seaSOn and that will mean buying players just because we need em not becuase they good for club

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10 Jun 2012 18:04:44
Have heard from a friend, a PA for one of the many lawyers working on the deal that although a basic price has been agreed, talks wouldn't be going on if they hadn't, one of the biggest sticking points to the completion of any deal is ownership of Elland Road and Thorp Arch.

New owners are not interested in paying large amounts of rent to a faceless shadow company and the current administration are being 'very cagey' on who owns this company. I'm guessing this shadow company are reluctant to sell up too due to the nice pay checks there getting from the rent.

Thorp Arch apparently isn't a major problem, other sites have already been looked at. Building a new training centre wouldn't be massively expensive, but to get a new stadium would be prohibitivly expensive to the new group who while there rich don't want to pay for a new stadium as well as the team.

This is just one of the sticking points, KB (or someone of his choosing) still wanting some role on the board at Leeds after the takeover being another.

MOT

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Unless bates keeps at least 10% shares he wont be able to have a seat on the board also where you are wron is if any lawter involved in this is breaking a confidentiality agreement thats where y0u make things up again and any sale of the clube will involve elland road for the simple fact leeds united really dont have an assets apart from yorkshire radio and an estimated curent value of the squadt id 15 to 20 million with yorkshire radio being thrown in too

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Does not Leeds City Council own Thorp Arch and Elland Road not an Unknown Company !

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The new owners can buy elland road for just short of 15 million as agreed in the long term lease which was negotiated so thats not a stumbling blockcoupled to the club assets 20 million should be a 35 million

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At least talks are being made! When do you think the takeover will finalise? Like 1 month? MOT

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I have a mate at elland road and he says nobody is allowed to disclose anything, so all these rumours on here are just make believe, we will all just have to sit tight and wait. sorry. oh by the way, a friend of a friend of a friend of mine has good knowledge that mr blobby is going to be next england manager !!!!!! {Ed013's Note - Thats why its a rumours site and not a 100% confirmed site!}

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When did Leeds city council become a faceless shadow company?

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So your mate has disclosed to you that he is not allowed to disclose anything to you.

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Leeds city councill dont own elland road and thorpe arch leds baught elland road back from the councill early in the risdale era and we built thorpe arh during the rissdale era too both was sold by the krasner group to reduce clube debts although its rumoured that bayes owns both elland road and thorpe arch through off shore companies thios this cannot be confirmed

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You will prob find ken bates owned eland road and thorp arch you know how he likes to run things!
JK

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Any new owners can buy back Elland Road for 12-15Million at any time . That is watertight non transferable contract owned by Leeds utd NOT Ken bates or whoever else owns the ground. If the new owners want the ground they just need to factor that in to any purchase of the club.As for thorpe arch ,well that horse has bolted thanks to Bates and it may be a cheaper option in the future to start from scratch and leave the owners (Bates?) with nothing except the land for housing or other redevelopment.

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10 Jun 2012 16:24:08
Neil Warnock is being lined up by the consortium trying to gain control of Nottingham Forest to replace Steve Cotterill.

Souce: People

Steve cotterill is favourite to replace Houghton at birmingham

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The people are just reading sites like this, the fact is Forrest aren't in the middle of a takeover they came out and said that

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Funny all i could see was were goin to bid 500k for bamba.

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Okay, let's say this is all true. I'd take it!

Leeds are going through a takeover too, and are a (in my opinion) far more attractive proposition than Forest! So if Forest get taken over too, which, again in my opinion, doesn't look imminent, then I wouldn't be particularly bothered if they take Warnock, as I'm sure our new owners would have everything covered!

MOT - WMS!

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Good if forest want him bye bye NW.If we get taken over we dont need a manager that wants to retire in a seasons time.New owner,new manager and new season.

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@origional poster is this only in the people you read as ive not seen that ive read a lot in other papers with paul ince being favourite to take over @birmingham @last poster we better off keeping warnock he knows the squad and who he wants in if the new owners decide on a new manager he will need to get to know his squad which will mean pre season training b4 he can make a move warnock has his list of players and whevers been branded in the press he is about to leave because we not signed anyone since pierce its not lack of funds its all to do with talks las said the funds was put aside for ward but he decided in the end he wanted to remain near family our offer was 1 of 3 offers on the table he had accepted contracts with nall 3 clubs he just needed a signiture

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10 Jun 2012 22:08:43
Gianni Paladini is getting linked to Forest today, he appointed Warnock at QPR, so you never know

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10 Jun 2012 16:13:03
Okay, time for my rare post again.

The current situation shows that KB is not looking for 'investment'. It must be a takeover bid. If it were investment, details would be released to the public / media on a day to day basis. With a takeover, details aren't released until a conclusive outcome. So, we are going through a takeover. The bid (whatever it may be) must have been accepted, otherwise Bates would have come straight out and said something along the lines of 'there was a derisory bid' blah blah.

The hold up then, is from the FA with the diligence etc. Fair enough. I would say make sure they go through it with a fine-toothed comb, and don't let the takeover happen if there is ANYTHING out of place finance wise. We don't want to go through what we went through in the Ridsdale era.

I'm hopeful, but still wary. Nevertheless, we are an attractive proposition, and would be worth at least double the price in the PL, so let's hope these guys, whoever they are, want to do their damn utmost to get us there!

Keep faith, and I can see some sort of announcement during the next 7 days, and if that is the case, then, I hope, the transfers will commence (albeit a little late).

MOT - WMS!

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Mmmm!
It reads like you're in the know, but in real time clutching at straws and reading the same puzzles, as are we all.
Hopr you're right though.
JB

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Eloquently put.in addition your comments do make a great deal of sense. I think the thing is the lack of news outlining the clubs stance. There is no detremental effect to stating we are involved in a takeover or investment. If takeover, announce we cannot involve ourselves in transfers. The stories of disunity is what is kiiling the fans. Let us know the position. Phil Bramley

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Ah I see my post did go through, I was viewing the wrong page. I'm giving my opinion, that's basically it. But being a former business student, and semi-pro footballer with Barry Town (I was there when the Fashanu stuff was going on), the silence seems to make sense, IF it is a takeover.....

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Your comment makes sense and i hope you are right supporting leeds is never boring mot

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Sensible post, backed up with good reasons. These are too rare.

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10 Jun 2012 11:49:11
Don't know the validity of this but my mates dad was part of krasner's administration and is still good friends with shaun harvey, he told me that there have been 4 bids for leeds but bates is putting an extortionate valuation on the club which is why things have stalled

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Team worth £10-15m. We dont own ground or training area and Bates has used the next three years revenue from season tickets. 'We' cant finance diddly in present state and Bates will be forced to sell out of he doesnt get investment in. Fans will force his hand as new season begins and lack of attendance to watch a pointless season of no hopers will see him out. Pity because I think he's stabilised the club well, but KEN YOUR TIME IS UP

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Bids aren't put in without knowing the price. There is only 1 bid currently progressing but at least 1 more waiting in the wings

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LOVE LEEDS..HATE BATES. If no takeover then DONT GO TO ELLAND ROAD.
Its all that tw*t understands.
He would undoubtedly get the message when LUFC are playing in front of 10k instead of the usual 20k+

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Oh dear oh dear you dont agree to buy anything then argue the price just like buying a house you veiw the property yopu agree a price the lawyers take old and do all relevent checks so price is agreed already

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To the one who says don't go if no take over surely you understand that an empty stadium would not be good for the team? It wasn't bates who first talked about a take over it was LUST and the club haven't once mentioned a take over just investment. I would like a take over but to stay away if one doesnt happen surely is going to be detrimental to the team and in the long run not good for the club.

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If we don't get a takeover/investment we won't have a team worth watching anyway.
So i agree stay away and force him out.
Before anyone jumps on me i'm a loyal a fan as you can get but i have had enough of Bates bull.MOT TREVO

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10 Jun 2012 09:47:27
heard lorrimer talking to a mate in commertial he said reason no signing have nbeen made is just afte the pearce deal talk of takeover have been ongoing and although money was put aside for the ward deal ward decided he wanted to stay close to to family down south

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10 Jun 2012 09:13:09
Just spoke with my contact who works for the BBC and they have said they haven't heard anything more on the developments. However they said they will ask there colleagues.

Mikey

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This is the news we've all been waiting for. :@)
JB

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@ jb god you made my morning mate cant stop laughing at that post ! i mean what a waste of time posting that!! irish leeds fan! p.s great soursce you have my daughter could of told my that and she's a week old!

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Glad to cheer you up Irish Leeds fan.
We've nowt else to laugh at, at the moment.
JB

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10 Jun 2012 08:13:55
A Newspaper Reports that QPR will
release PADDY KENNY for £500k. He's been making all kinds of messages hinting he's Leeds bound. So where is the £500k going to come from if we couldnt do £400k for WARD ? Gonna be an interesting week when NW gets back. Something is imminent and its either money on the table or the departure of KB (who personally I think has done a good job to stablise the club but should either stump up of hand over to someone who can)

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I've heard a few rumours that we had agreed the fee for ward but he chose not to come here. I don't think any official word has come out saying we didn't have the funds, just more doom and gloom from Leeds fans.

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To be fair to Leeds fans it was Phil Hay in the Yorks Evening post who first wrote that the club couldnt raise the money.
So any doom and gloom as you put it originated from the local press.

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Duncan Castles reported that Leeds had agreed few and terms with Ward. He chose to stay down south

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Ward decided to stay down south, simple as that...don't post things that you have no concrete evidence about

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If you follow @VaughanCricket on twitter PK is nailed onto sign when he comes back from his holidays

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10 Jun 2012 01:29:50
Heard from a top, top source that Leeds will unveil the signings of Montgomery and Quinn from Sheff Utd as soon as the takeover is complete. Let the good times roll! Finally some top class additions. They will rip up the Championship.

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Personally I think your going a bit over the top about Sheffield United players who did not rip up league one, never mind the championship. We need to hold tight, see if we get the investment/takeover we all obviously want and then this great club can go forward!

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What planet you on mate? They are average. They wouldnt "Rip Up" the championship at all

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Oh not again! Tom soars too I suppose?
God help us!

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They barely managed to 'rip' up league 1 let alone the championship! If there such class players where were they when they got to Wembley a few weeks back - they went missing!

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Thats sounds about right for bates montgomery hardly started any games for sheff utd cheap and cheerful league 1 here we come

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Monty was released by them weeks ago I believe, tbh he is not good enough for what we need.

Quinn is decent though!

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Top, top source? top class? lots of tops here?

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Montgomery and Quinn i dnt think so..well i hope not, if we do get taken over we need to atract better players than them 2

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If thats as good as we can do i will eat my hat both no where near good enuff

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Are you the same guy who'd been saying this for 3 years?

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Ime sure if the investment is a takeover ime sure warnockk will have a better quality of players to aim for than the liked of montgomery and quin if its only an investment as some have suggested i can see montgomery and quin coming

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Agree with the last poster. Monty's been around for years -if we do get some investment, there are definitely better, younger players out there (remember we also have the great Michael Brown ticking the gnarly old pro from Sheff who leaves his foot in). But that's a detail -fingers crossed for an infusion of cash and hope (however small!)...Chapel A

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Help me, I've had an accident and woken up in 2010...welcome to Life on..The Moon!

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Top class....??? Well.....more caeveman...if you asks me....

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Weeaaaheeeyy the monty and Quinn guy is back from last season, wondered what happened to you, welcome back

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My top,top,top source says this is a load of bo***x.

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Ha Montgomery who couldn't get in the Sheffield utd team last season cos of a certain Michael Doyle who couldn't get in Leeds team for a certain Neil Kilkenny
Joker

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Rip up the championship?? Would struggle to rip up a piece of paper! Sooo not what Leeds need!

Sussex White! MOT!

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