Leeds banter 4

04 Oct 2025 21:58:02
So overall a good performance again from Leeds against a good team but the wrong result. A draw maybe would have been a fairer score. Again we had the chances to win this game and we dominated parts of the play. A slightly weakened Tottenham maybe but still with one or two players worth more than our squad!
Gudmundson played brilliantly until the kudus goal. A slightly awkward body position and a bit of a slip let a very good player through.
Òkafor blew hot and cold today but got a goal so we will let him off. Aaronson frustrated at times today. Against this better opposition he was bullied off the ball too much. Although he did get involved with the goal. Also stach again showed he struggles with the pace against better opponents. But he did have a better game pressing Tottenham.
Bit the main thing I gleaned from today was the balls into the box have to improve and the shots need be on target. And if we are going to be more direct then we need to pick and choose when to go direct. At times today we went long with no quality and it comes straight back.
I knew this season was going to be frustrating and yes it is.

04 Oct 2025 22:06:16
With Aaronson in front of Bogle it leaves him out to dry and very exposed. Yes lots of possession but nothing to show for it, as one commentator said lots of nice passing, but nothing comes of it . And as we all know Harrison still can't cross a freaking ball.

04 Oct 2025 22:15:27
Anyone at the game? It looked like all crosses from Bogle in 2nd half were way over hit, wonder if wind was strong in that direction as he's usually a good crosser?

04 Oct 2025 22:49:07
Excellent post Ben.
Aaronson had one of his better games but as you say was bullied off the ball to easily.
It all comes back to the summer recruitment. Not very good is the answer.
If I said on here back in May we should go all out and get DCL and make him our number 9 i'd have been slaughtered.
We have FOUR keepers in our squad of 25 and only ONE out n out number 9!

04 Oct 2025 23:57:31
To be fair to dcl he has missed a few but most of his chances he has got a head or foot on but direct at the keeper. But the crosses into the box on the whole have been terrible. Today even our balls forward were poor. We have to give Dcl better service.

05 Oct 2025 05:10:39
A few Ben? He has only scored one. Can’t recall an assist either. Woefully short of what we need and only playing cause we messed up transfer window and couldn’t get better. That’s the fact of the matter.

05 Oct 2025 09:20:26
Ben, I hope- A good performance but wrong result, is not our epitaph
come May.

05 Oct 2025 09:26:14
Don’t think we messed up the transfer window at all Aus, quality attackers who are Prem ready to not come cheap, in fact way out of our spending bracket plus that kind of quality that we need will not want to come to a newly promoted team from the Championship that has a high chance of being relegated.
DCL for all his past struggles with injuries etc is a Premiership ready quality number 9 and we are very fortunate that he actually wanted to come to Leeds.

My concern is with the state of our wingers, who I feel all lack that cutting edge in the Premiership. I hope for our sake that Okafor, James and Gnonto will when all fit push on and play a little more above themselves.

We are still at the end of the day, which I feel some forget, only a newly promoted Championship team and there is a big gap in quality compared to our counterparts. Considering that gap we are doing much better than I imagined and if it’s enough to survive this first season back, even if it’s by goal difference, then we will have achieved our objective for this season, that is the bottom line in my opinion.

05 Oct 2025 11:30:09
OP surely it’s not good to have 4 keepers and only one out n out striker in our 25 man squad?
We must be the only side to have 4 keepers in the squad which tells me the transfer window was effed up.

05 Oct 2025 13:02:43
Well it’s quite evident Cork that Meslier and Cairns will be leaving, either this January or in the summer. I think we all know the reasons why it is potentially difficult to offload Meslier and Cairns is not really considered back up if we’re honest about it.

I guess Farke and his staff view the striker situation differently to perhaps fans like yourself see it Cork. Whether you view Piroe or Nemcha as strikers or not, they still can play in that position, so technically we are not void of other number nine capabilities.

I don’t think we are in a position to pick and choose on out and out good quality Premiership players, but if we can survive in this league then opportunities will present themselves eventually to us.

05 Oct 2025 20:44:02
OP the point I was making is having four keepers in our 25 leaves us a man short in the squad.
If we had signed Wilson as we obviously wanted to do then Mez wouldn’t have been in the 25 man squad.
Even the club more or less said they screwed up the last day of the window. I’d go as far to say they effed up quite a lot of the window.

05 Oct 2025 21:45:45
Well see come the end of season Cork, if we get relegated then perhaps there’s good argument for that but if we stay up then equally there’s a more than a good enough argument to say that their recruitment was bang on.
I’m not believing any stories that they screwed it up, I’ll leave that for the gossipers.
I’m only interested in us staying up and if we achieve that then it was a big success, even if it’s done marginally.
As far as i'm concerned finishing the season in a comfortable position is not going to happen in my opinion, it’s going to be a nerve wracking battle to the end, to believe it will be anything but would be a tad naive or over confident.

06 Oct 2025 09:33:03
It's a very pragmatic interpretation of the challenge OP, and one i totally agree with. Transfer wise, what more could be done within the constraints we have to navigate?
And as for the gaffer, I think it's time the "sack him" crew acknowledge that he has got another vastly changed team playing good football, and competing with some of the established PL teams.

06 Oct 2025 10:14:56
I think if you can’t see the positives in what we are achieving on the pitch then those fans i'm sorry to say are not being totally honest with themselves.
I think from what I’ve seen so far suggests to me we’ve got a very decent chance of staying up.
The players themselves look up for the task and Farke has his players psychologically it would seem in the right zone.
I’m personally very happy with what I’ve seen so far and Lady Luck owes us a bit which will come over the course of the season.

06 Oct 2025 20:02:23
Great last post OP and I agree we have a good chance of staying up.

04 Oct 2025 17:55:28
We deserved a draw today but in the end you can see that money talks. We played pretty well overall but hadn't the quality to transfer our god play into goals. We restricted them to just a few chances but they still managed to score twice. I like DCL ability in the air and link up play but a finisher he is not. Aaronson is quick and nippy and has skill bu the lacks balance and body strength and gets knocked off the ball easily. Compare that with some off the possessional play showed by the Spurs players. Time and again we had two or three players jostling a diminutive opponent who still had the strength and balance to hold the ball and drive through. Its a testament to our defensive organisation that we still restricted them to just a few chances. However, I was just berating DCl for failing to to hit the target when give a gift when we made a mistake at the other end and did exactly the same. The frustration was although we created many more chances we still came away with nothing. Labouring a point that I have made about 'lower order' teams - they tend to drop points in the last few minutes but fail to save points when given the chance. We often came away with points by scoring late when we were bossing it in the championship so far we have lost 3 points in the last few minutes and failed to convert chances to save them at the death. Its a common thread when teams play reasonably well but still flirt with relegation. However well you are organised you need quality finishers/ predators up front to make it count. That is what we haven't got at least till January at the earliest. Even so a good performance today. We should have come away with more.

04 Oct 2025 19:09:58
Can't argue with anything above Hess. Excellent post.

04 Oct 2025 19:33:53
Very well thought out post.

04 Oct 2025 20:30:44
Heads up boys - we won5 be getting a top finisher in January either.

04 Oct 2025 21:01:43
Thought it was a pretty even game all up. I genuinely believed we would get an equaliser.

We’ll get enough points if we continue to play like that.

In the end, our two deflections went against us, whilst theirs allowed their keeper to get a toe on it.

I know we were at home, but we didn’t look out of our depth at any time. It’s hard to judge how good this Spurs team is, but we more than matched them.

Harsh outcome (again) , but we’re going to click sooner than later.

04 Oct 2025 21:11:35
I doubt it 1970 we don’t have 80 million plus and that’s when they cost. Nice way to bring down a good thread.

04 Oct 2025 22:40:53
Bermo Raph cost 17 so there's that negated . bermo as much as the lengths you go to demonize any poster you feel sounds like. Baz ( which I always liked ) you can also be like a dog with bone at times.

05 Oct 2025 00:42:43
As you liked Baz so much Chris, here's his weekly quote to help you reminisce
The Burnley game is a 'must win'.

05 Oct 2025 08:32:40
Chris raph was a gem of a buy at 18 million but even in short space football has changed

Some bemoan no striker, I get that but look at the strikers being brought, arsenal, Newcastle, Man Utd and Liverpool all improved fire power but at what cost where these players?

Strikers ain’t cheap and gems are hard to find otherwise everyone would be getting them.

Dcl has scored one which for the price ain’t bad so far that’s my point.

04 Oct 2025 16:27:39
We're a newly promoted team holding off one of the big six while a ref tried his hardest to give them the game.

We made a few mistakes, but going toe-t-toe with the big guns is good to see.

We can't win them all and we were strapped by lack of attacking options.

I've defended arronson in the past but he was pretty poor today. Gave the ball away too many times.

Bogle RW and JJ RB if James/ Gnonto aren't played.

Yes it was another frustrating game we SHOULD have won. But you know? That we're even talking about how we should have won against the top dogs is some place to be. Certainly beats getting steamrolled in every game.

04 Oct 2025 16:33:32
Exactly mate well said reasons to be cheerful.

04 Oct 2025 17:23:40
Agree Mo, Brendan was poor esp after the break.
I said to the Mrs to put Bogle right wing and Justin at RB .
Don’t think Struijk covered himself in glory either, time to get Bijol a start.
Yes we’ve arguably been the best team in the last 2 games but ultimately we’ve taken 1 point from 6.
Individual mistakes get punished at this level.

04 Oct 2025 17:53:57
Struijk not at fault for 2nd goal, it was Gudmonsson who messed up.
Two unlucky deflections today. His passing was a lot better than last game.
Bijol has only played once and was poor, hopefully when needed that wasn't a fair reflection of his ability.

04 Oct 2025 17:59:09
Best thing is we are talking fine margins. While that is frustrating that is promising and makes me think we are not relegation fodder.

I remeber not too long ago when we was getting thrashed every week and the margined were far from fine, that’s when we need to worry.

04 Oct 2025 18:01:01
Dave you said that to your Mrs. I’ve been harping on here for weeks now about moving JB into right advanced position and JJ into right back. Clearly DF doesn’t read our posts. I like pascal but was he just unlucky not blocking both or one of their goals, or is it that he is lacking in agility and speed? Am I the only one who thinks Rodon missed a complete sitter? I know that the keeper came out flapping, but keep your eye on the ball and it’s an open goal. Same with DCL’s missed chances last week, if we give opposition those chances, including Rodon’s missed header today, they always seem to put them away.

04 Oct 2025 18:12:05
Absolutely MoT, frustrating, but we are holding our own against some very good teams (excluding the Arsenal game)

04 Oct 2025 15:23:19
It’s strange that we paid up Pats contract, did not resign Manor bought two extra centre backs, and obviously do not think Joel is good enough to lead, and DCL is clearly short of confidence in front of goal.

That aside, probably could not ask more in terms of effort from the boys today, and we gave them one hell of a game, two deflections and with the likes of Kudus they just that little bit more in terms of quality in their squad just now, not surprising given our relevant recent histories.

If we can play to that level every week then I see us being more than safe this season, but hopefully we can uncover a goal scoring rough diamond in January (there’s some in the championship) as it would be very welcome.

Obviously my brother is gloating from his holiday in Portugal but so a Spuds season ticket holder just said Bournemouth and ourselves were far and away spuds toughest opponents season to date.

Much to be positive about for me.

04 Oct 2025 15:51:35
Very well said mate as always. I fully agree.

One thing on. bamford though, I love him but he didn’t score for over a year in the best team in championship he was never a prem striker now.

Dcl scored one already linking up play, making good runs and causing a nounsense of himself

Let’s not write dcl off yet and let’s not forget how bad bamford was recently.

04 Oct 2025 16:32:28
Wasn’t saying keep bam bam Berm, thought we could have sold bam bam, Piroe, even Largir and not signed Bornauw and put all eggs in basket for a top striker but appreciate it’s easier said than done especially Patrick’s salary and isn’t it easy in hindsight.

I’d go after Hagi Wright in January if Coventry willing to sell think he’s capable at higher level and reminds me of Watkins at Villa.

Thomas-Asante or Monga great wide options too imo.

04 Oct 2025 17:15:22
Good options there Class but can’t see Cov offloading them players in particular as they are bang on course for the title and promotion the way they are going currently.

04 Oct 2025 17:22:57
Fair class can’t argue with any of that. Good post and well said.

04 Oct 2025 17:50:48
Oh it’s a Hail Mary long shot OP, but a £10 million offer would be tempting for Coventry and Wright would definitely want the opportunity, I believe.

It’s happened to us enough times.

04 Oct 2025 18:04:39
Was watching game today me and my good mate Robbo sadly not at church both Wakey lads!
He said Paddy would of got a goal today he's usually the Lord Bamford hater!
We deserved a point today. Darlows face was a peach when he couldn't reach that ball. Up The Whites Down The Pints.

04 Oct 2025 18:13:21
Come Jan we will buy.

04 Oct 2025 14:46:12
Do we really have Lewin on payroll for 3 years at £12K a week - beginning to see how he became a free.

04 Oct 2025 15:01:29
Sorry, that’s £120K.

04 Oct 2025 15:22:36
Try £100k a week!

04 Oct 2025 14:37:41
Tough one to take today.
Spurs have a squad miles better than ours.
We’ve pushed them all the way today, we all know we lack quality in the final 3rd.
That’s the only real difference between the teams today, Struijk has to do better for both goals, maybe time to start Bijol after the international break.
I kind of get the frustration with DCL, but neither Nmecha or Piroe would get those chances as neither would be in those positions.
2 deflections = 2 goals but those are the margins in this league.
We need a win again soon just to pick the lads up.

04 Oct 2025 14:50:22
Piroe would bury convinces lol. Easy peezy. Get rid of him .
They were better and beat us. Simple.
But.
We coulda won that.

04 Oct 2025 15:52:28
Agree Dave I think darlow at struijk at fault last two games maybe time to rotate.

04 Oct 2025 14:34:25
Completely out managed and out played second half.
That's like clueless what to do.
DO NOT take off your worst players. Keep them on whole game.
TAKE OFF your goal scorer.
And jj for Bogle U kidding me.
What you reckon berm. Logical subs?

04 Oct 2025 14:40:20
I think after a long unbeaten run at home after selling 120 million pounds worth of players and going on our best ever season in the championship you got no right questioning a manager for losing in a close flight game against spurs

I think you should just pack it in and go on another site . I think your moaning has no place on a leeds forum but that’s just my opinion.

04 Oct 2025 15:51:04
Yup. That's just prattling nonsense, and not like the old Aus sadly. Can't even deduce what point you're trying to make? And why only address Bermo? Very Bazesque, and suitably lacking in integrity styleee.

04 Oct 2025 17:23:40
Cheers bright well said and I do agree.

04 Oct 2025 14:30:33
Great undefeated home record gone but we have a decent account today against a good team.

If after we sold 120 million pounds worth of players you’d of told me we go on a great unbeaten home run before losing in the prem I’d of bite your hand off

If you then told me people might moan at the end of the run. Ungreatful and idiots might be words that spring to mind.

04 Oct 2025 14:52:37
How much we buy berm.
Shoulda spent the pennies on a decent manager.

04 Oct 2025 15:01:47
Laughable, well I’d laugh if I didn’t find your comments so sad. My heartfelt feelings go out to you. Someone give the fella a hug.

04 Oct 2025 13:50:58
DCL is worse than barn door billy.

04 Oct 2025 14:05:51
Welcome back baz, could of picked a less obvious name.

04 Oct 2025 14:10:36
At last. Sub at best. Absolute waste of money. I can’t believe a professional outfit can be so useless. To sign him
Desperation 101.

04 Oct 2025 14:18:41
Waste of money? Free transfer

If only we had 127 million to spend on isaka or 100 million to spend on Newcastle bloke.

04 Oct 2025 14:54:04
See the likes berm? Way out numbered. Drongo.

04 Oct 2025 16:10:53
Don’t know what drongo means, I adobo speak Aussie my family were successful criminals and didn’t get caught… well apart from one 6 stretch.

04 Oct 2025 17:49:41
The Irony is Aus, that those "likes" are likely to be from the minority support that also liked the soon forgotten gruesome twosome's posts.

04 Oct 2025 18:00:30
Thank you bright I honestly really appreciate your support and I agree fully.

04 Oct 2025 13:39:53
Get him off. Worse than bam.