07 Aug 2025 00:37:09
Is Le bris a better salesman. We have said before that farkes personality might be a hindrance in attracting quality flair players.
07 Aug 2025 05:15:52
We've let quality players go without replacement and back up.
We've seen good players leave because of arguements with Farke.
We've seen good quality players sit on the bench because Farke won't play them.
I don't think he is entirely to blame for not bringing in players but he is partly to blame. One because players may not want to play under him, two because they may not believe he has the chops to keep the team in the premiership.
07 Aug 2025 06:28:49
How do you know this information?
07 Aug 2025 06:56:15
I can only take this as Bazesque conspiracy theory, I'm afraid.
07 Aug 2025 07:52:46
It’s a banter site ladies. It’s all about opinions right or wrong. Where as you offer neither. If we just discussed fact it would be pointless and boring.
07 Aug 2025 08:19:27
I would think that there is a lot more consideration than just an opinion of a manager they have no experience of. Its the appeal of the club in its entirety. As alluded to by others we can only sell a project, the biggest hindrances being a newly promoted club with the millstone of "relegation fodder" and no European football to offer. Yet players have chosen to come, ex players extol our virtues. I really don't know what more DF could have done in his 2 years to counter the doubters. Yes players leave and some are not happy while others stay and show commitment, it's a trend that runs through life. Recruitment seems to have been tough for a lot of clubs this summer so we are not alone in finding it a puzzle.
07 Aug 2025 08:28:16
Mot again, can’t really put the missed transfers on Farke mate.
I’m not his biggest fan but as a potential new signing you would also be thinking IF he isn’t the one and we have a rough start then he’s probably gone by game 8’ish.
But here was a lot of talk of Raul early in the summer.
I’m pretty sure none of the signing have come because of Farke or the ones that haven’t come because of Farke either.
It’s more about money these days and I’d rather us not be held to ransom like we seemed to be under Radz and Orta.
07 Aug 2025 09:14:26
I'm not saying it's entirely farke's fault, that would be daft. But there are a few players that he has put off, which is fact. There are players which he has benched due to personal disagreements. (Schmidt, ramazani, Gnonto, creswell)
We know the 49ers were looking for managers before the start of the season and abandoned the plan because none would come (mourinho) or were picked for Rangers (Parker) .
These are observable occurrences which the club has spoken openly about, not conspiracy theories.
As I said in the post that you've skim read, it can't all be blamed on Farke but there is enough reasonable doubt to safely assume that some players may not want to come to Leeds because of the manager, because of the risk of relegation or because of the package the 49ers have put forward, or all of the above.
If we wanted to get into conspiracy theory territory, you could consider that the 49ers want to spend big in January if Farke doesn't make it that far, which may explain the reluctance to sell players in favour of a loan (Joseph, Schmidt)
07 Aug 2025 09:16:19
Just to be clear, I'm not farke's biggest fan but I absolutely stand by him and his decisions. What he has achieved and how he improves players' abilities cannot be argued against. He is brilliant in those regards.
Holjund, for example, would be a world class player under Farke, for that I have no doubts.
07 Aug 2025 12:04:32
Fair, and good follow up imo Mo!
07 Aug 2025 14:09:22
I've re read my post and I apologise for the snipey/ arsy way which I came off, that wasn't the intention.
I appreciate the community and posters here and don't want to bring down the atmosphere with bitchy posts or back and forth's. I was in the wrong for that style of reply and I hold my hands up to that.
Next time I'll have my morning cupper before replying :)
07 Aug 2025 14:29:03
Mo, wasn’t calling you out pal.
I do agree with some of what you said.
I’m also not really a huge Farke fan, he has many strengths and many faults as do most manager.
I do agree with you that at around £30m Hoijland would/ could be very good for us, certainly better than he has been at Man Poo.
To be honest I think k he would get as many as Muniz would and Fulham have quoted £43m to Atalanta for Muniz so Rasmus would save us £13m straight off the bat.
By what we were told about the £30m per the 5 key signings + the filler on top of that then we have currently spent circa £73m so still have half the remaining budget available.
Rasmus/ muniz + El Khannouss + fullback+ right winger
Don’t forget we can have some loans in that.