Leeds Rumours Archive January 28 2012

28 Jan 2012 20:16:05
Leeds to sign Luke James from Hartlepool 17 year old striker lots of pace and energy and grayson had him watched today where he scored twice. MOT {Ed020's Note - is that just because he scored goals or do you actually have a source?}

They should be interested in Paul Johnson of Hartlepool massive talent!

Hi ed this is mentioned on another leeds forum

28 Jan 2012 17:01:07
Leicester boss nigel pearson has taken sean st ledger off the transfer list. Shame, improvements needed!

Leicester are the club to be looking at to buy players from as they are wanting to cut the size of there squad down so they can have space for new players. leeds wont bring anyone in until we get rid of deadwood

It's not a shame, he's awful. Leicester are welcome to him.

Improvement certainly needed, not sure if St Ledger would have been the answer. We have 2 fit CH at the mo by my calculation which is very worrying, we should be looking to bring at least 2 in by tuesday

28 Jan 2012 13:06:06
for me and this is just my own personal opinion i think 3 additions would do it for us with also the deadwood making way ie o'b, paynter,bruce,bromby,rachubka,brown...... i would also be bold as to letting either forsell or maybe mccormack go but only if fee was sufficient only because somma should hopefully be back soon, i would get in with the money and wages from the mysterious pot and sales/ wages from deadwood leaving, gunther,chambers and beckford. alot of people moan about beckford, i myself would welcome him back if we have fab till may he would have the supoply he had when he was deadly and im sure it would make a massive effect on becchio

------------------lonergan--------------------
gunther-------lees------chambers-------white

snoddy-----delp----clayton----rodgers/townsend

-----------beckford------becchio--------------


cant argue that beckford would score goals as he has proven it at our mighty fortress and scums!!

Is this gunter and chambers from forest? are they available for a few quid a week? dont think leicester will loan us beckford and ken definately wont buy him. i think if we strengthen the defence and get a quality holding midfielder then the strikers will get more passes to foot and therefore more chances on goal. we could give zac thompson a go in his proper midfield position if delph goes back to villa. we need 3 players rb, cb & dm

Think there is a lot of mileage in the rumour that Grayson will bring snoddy into the middle playing behind the striker in a 4 5 1. With rogers and Townsend out wide and clayton and Delph playing deeper.so add a new battling holding midfielder, a centre back and a right back.lots of options then at being able to change formations and approach. Worked last season we just needed a better defence, with these additions I think we will be very strong if we can win most games in feb we could even get on the tails of Southampton.mot

Also think he should keep hold of bruce as we desperately need defensive cover even if we sign a rb & cb, unless of course galaxy make a ridiculously high offer. larry needs to sort out the situations regarding connolly and o'brien as we cant afford to pay them wages if they will never play for us again

It depends we could just place thompson in centre mid and drop delph to right back if it came down to not bringing anyone else in .as far as i know delph came through most the youth system as a right back not sure what hes like there though

There's only 3 more days to shift the deadwood, and nobody wants em so there won't be any funds made available from that source.

Im original poster and if he does move snoddy playing 451 i do agree but if we got gunther and chambers then o'dea, thomson would be cover try rob a third in guy moussi for holding mid

Id rather have mccormack than beckford and becchio, younger and knows what to do when a ball gets to his feet.

I would have beckford back for his goals but im just wondering if it will upset the strikers we already have as beckford was a favourite and never got dropped if he had a poor game. if he come back it needs to be fair and based on each players performances or we would end up losing our other top players

I cant believe there is even talk of beckford coming back on here, have you all learned nothing over the last few years?

He would cost at least 4 million, we are not going to pay that, get your head out the clouds please, I for one would love him back but we will not spend that on 4 players let alone 1.

Beckford will not fit in our team, and he 'walked' therefore has proven he is not LEEDS.

Why upset the team we have and the team we are growing, and teach them the lesson that, yes walk away, we'll have you back anyway?

We need LEEDS players, not glory/money hunters.....

Think rogers plays on the right that's the thinking with snods going down the middle, anyhows a midfield from snods,clayton,Townsend,rogers,Delph,new signing with white,Thompson and Pugh as back up looks good.mot

Becchio to sign for bolton before this transfer window

Didnt kb say he was offered beckford but turned them down

McCormack has nearly scored what becchio got all last season, he is a lot better than him and if we, can get a holding midfielder who can feed him the ball, he could easily get 25-30 goals this season. Beckford signing would disrupt the squad and us, over rated, I'm sick of us jumping back to good times in the past everyone we aren't doing so well. I agree we need another striker and I think we should get rid of forsell. Maybe matt tubbs would new a good replacement, although a striker is definitely not a priority. Chambers and gunter would be brilliant, would not come cheap though.

28 Jan 2012 10:56:16
Leeds are in talks with Arsenal over the transfer of Craig Eastmond. The once highly rated youngster has had limited 1st team opportunities at the Emirates due to various injuries, and having now both Coquelin and Frimpong ahead of him in the pecking order. Leeds are looking for a loan with an option to buy, but Arsenal are willing to depart with the young midfielder on permanent basis, with the fee believed to be around £150k mark.