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Leeds United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2020/2021

  • 08-06-2017 12:49am
    #1
    dfx-
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    Marching on together into a new thread.

    Old one here.


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  • #2
    NuckChorris1
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    1st post!!!

    tenor.gif


  • #3
    Gaspode
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    Second post wootwhoot!!
    Doesnt have the same ring as first post really though :(


  • #4
    Mushy
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    Ah the new manager/promotion thread!


    And that's the last bit of optimism for here now.


  • #5
    purple hands
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    Mushy wrote: »
    Ah the new manager/promotion/new lawnmower thread!


    And that's the last bit of optimism for here now.

    Fyp

    Phil Hay has said Pardew is not being considered


  • #6
    Zaph
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    purple hands wrote: »
    Fyp

    Phil Hay has said Pardew is not being considered

    Thank Christ for that, can't stand that guy


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  • #7
    Ceist_Beag
    Registered Users Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Ceist_Beag


    Ok so we're not interested in Pardew (thankfully), Karanka (thankfully), Ranieri (which could have been fun) or Laudrup (doubt he would have been worth considering anyway). I've yet to hear any name that we are actually interested in! Either Rads is very good at keeping his cards close to his chest or he is flying a lot of kites to see how the fans react and is running out of options fast!


  • #8
    purple hands
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    Ceist_Beag wrote: »
    Ok so we're not interested in Pardew (thankfully), Karanka (thankfully), Ranieri (which could have been fun) or Laudrup (doubt he would have been worth considering anyway). I've yet to hear any name that we are actually interested in! Either Rads is very good at keeping his cards close to his chest or he is flying a lot of kites to see how the fans react and is running out of options fast!

    Rumours that Wagner was seriously considered too, but obviously that went down the drain after the play-off final

    Could be that they're after someone already at a club and negotiating a release fee is causing the delay


  • #9
    Shlippery
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    Ah that classic Leeds uncertainty to start a fresh thread! As long as we don't get another Hockaday in the door, I'm happy..


  • #10
    championc
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    purple hands wrote: »
    Could be that they're after someone already at a club and negotiating a release fee is causing the delay

    Grayson please. He continues to get average players to overperform. Imaging as to what he could do with half decent players


  • #11
    Gaspode
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    Clearing out some stuff from my Mums house and I found some of my old toys.
    I think childhood Gaspode pretty much nailed these plaster cast moulds!
    Wasnt too keen on Gordon Banks but I was stuck with him!

    4UVcY2m.jpg?1


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
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    You really captured Lorimer's famous deep blue eyes....


  • #13
    Shlippery
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    Monk to Middlesboro..


  • #14
    purple hands
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    Boourns

    Let's hope he keeps his sticky fingers off Bartley


  • #15
    Kristopherus
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    Shlippery wrote: »
    Monk to Middlesboro..

    Huge mistake to let him go. Hard to fathom those Italian moneymen at times.


  • #16
    championc
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    Kristopherus wrote: »
    Huge mistake to let him go. Hard to fathom those Italian moneymen at times.

    He wasn't let go, he walked.

    However, could more have been done to engage with him, especially after Massimo had exited - I reckon so.

    Maybe Clotet is actually the brains of the operation. Poyet clearly was, under Denis Wise. I just hope that we can entice Bartley to sign up.


  • #17
    purple hands
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    Jaap Stam and 3 others on the shortlist according to the oracle/phil hay

    An interesting one - got dogs abuse at ER and was quite critical of us afterwards iirc!

    85 points in his first season ain't so bad though


  • #18
    DoctaDee
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    I get the impression now that monk had no intention of looking at Leeds long term (other than if we got promoted), he set out to use the opportunity as a leg up when no one else was knocking his door down


  • #19
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    DoctaDee wrote: »
    I get the impression now that monk had no intention of looking at Leeds long term (other than if we got promoted), he set out to use the opportunity as a leg up when no one else was knocking his door down

    He was hardly using Leeds as a step to get to a club at Boro's level though. It's not really going up the food chain that much, at Leeds there is at least the potential to rise high, Boro can dream of maybe another league cup to appease their...thousands...of fans around the world. Though in fairness, Boro destroy Leeds in one crucial aspect, and that's ownership, Gibson is a model chairman.


  • #20
    Q_Ball
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    He was hardly using Leeds as a step to get to a club at Boro's level though. It's not really going up the food chain that much, at Leeds there is at least the potential to rise high, Boro can dream of maybe another league cup to appease their...thousands...of fans around the world. Though in fairness, Boro destroy Leeds in one crucial aspect, and that's ownership, Gibson is a model chairman.

    Boro have just come down from the prem, they have championship-to-premiership players and parachute payments to spend to get promoted again. We dragged out heels on providing a three​ year deal, probably wouldn't commit as much to transfers as he'd like and are introducing a director of football who would take some control away from monk.

    Can't blame the guy for walking despite how much I dislike putting him in that position


  • #21
    NuckChorris1
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    Saw yesterday that Daryl Murphy isn't wanted at Newcastle despite having another year on this contract. Think he'd be a great back-up to Wood with similar style and he had goals in him at our level for sure. Whether he wants to be a super-sub is another thing.


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  • #22
    jacool
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    Ranieri to Nantes - ah well.


  • #23
    jacool
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    latest odds: 15/8 sanchez, 3/1 pardew, 7/2 sanchez flores, 9/2 stam, 8/1 clotet


  • #24
    Ceist_Beag
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    Only one of those that looks anyway positive would be Flores as he did a decent job at Watford and from what I remember they played a nice brand of football.


  • #25
    DoctaDee
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    I can't help but feel that the reporting structure into the new director of football will inhibit some of the English managers taking up the position - I'd have a personal preference of Grayson or Nigel Pearson tbh, but I've a feeling we'll get a continental coach


  • #26
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    Sanchez got sacked 3 times within a year! That's gotta be some kind of record.


  • #27
    kfrp
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    DoctaDee wrote: »
    I can't help but feel that the reporting structure into the new director of football will inhibit some of the English managers taking up the position - I'd have a personal preference of Grayson or Nigel Pearson tbh, but I've a feeling we'll get a continental coach

    I'd agree that a foreign coach is the most likely due to any decent english managers not wanting to work under a director of football.

    Could do with getting someone in soon though, good few players available at the moment so it would be great to have a new manager in place so he can make some signings.

    Need a couple of center halfs badly and another striker.


  • #28
    DoctaDee
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    kfrp wrote: »
    I'd agree that a foreign coach is the most likely due to any decent english managers not wanting to work under a director of football.

    Could do with getting someone in soon though, good few players available at the moment so it would be great to have a new manager in place so he can make some signings.

    Need a couple of center halfs badly and another striker.

    Yeah this'll be the 4th pre season in a row that we've to find a coach/manager prior to getting ourselves up and ready in the transfer market for the season ahead - it's hard to quantify how that uncertainty works itself into points - but we must be hobbled between 6-10 points - even last year under Monk we didn't pull up trees early on


  • #29
    kfrp
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    I think its important to hit the ground running for us to have a chance of promotion this year.

    Could really see us being mid table again though.

    No manager as of yet so its hard to see what kind of a pre-season we could have as the new manager won't have had a chance to have their say.

    Hard to see Wood scoring as many next year too if hes still with Leeds and no back-ups at the moment anyway.


  • #30
    adaminho
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Sanchez got sacked 3 times within a year! That's gotta be some kind of record.

    You do realise our record of manager's under Cellnio?


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  • #31
    NuckChorris1
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    Checking twitter every two hours for news on Leeds next manager like...

    2015-02-25-joelmchalethrowingphone.gif

    Fernando Hierro latest favourite as he quit job at 2nd division Real Oviedo. He may have been let go though as 8th place finish wasn't great. Possible he is a link in chain as he could replace Sanchez Flores at Espanyol and he comes to us. All random speculation. Any Spanish or Real Madrid linked managers seem to be linked to us no matter if they are actually any use. Praying Radz has an ace up his sleeve but the silence and wait is pure torture!


  • #32
    purple hands
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    kfrp wrote: »

    No manager as of yet so its hard to see what kind of a pre-season we could have as the new manager won't have had a chance to have their say.

    This is so annoying - I've probably said this before but it is years since they've had a normal pre-season. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail!

    I still suspect that they're after someone in employment and its negotiating a settlement that is holding things up


  • #33
    championc
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    I would certainly prefer someone already in employment. I can never understand how some managers live off the back of a success at one stage of their careers. If you get sacked for being crap, but then get rewarded by getting re-employed. That sounds overly harsh but rarely has a failed manager somewhere suddenly become a world beater later on.

    I would make allowances for Grayson since he lasted a long time at Leeds and it would appear that he operated with a small and tight budget and realistically, as I've said in the past many times, got average players to over perform - And I think he's done the same at Preston


  • #34
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    championc wrote: »
    I would make allowances for Grayson since he lasted a long time at Leeds and it would appear that he operated with a small and tight budget and realistically, as I've said in the past many times, got average players to over perform - And I think he's done the same at Preston

    Leeds actually finished 2 points nearer the Championship playoffs under Grayson than under Monk.


  • #35
    purple hands
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    And scoring goals was never the issue for Grayson's teams iirc, it was the defence that was troubling

    Imagine what he could do if the guts of this season's back five stick around (except Taylor obviously)


  • #36
    adaminho
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    championc wrote: »
    If you get sacked for being crap, but then get rewarded by getting re-employed. That sounds overly harsh but rarely has a failed manager somewhere suddenly become a world beater later on.

    Garry Monk?

    It seems to me that Radrizzani was hoping that Monk would stay hence no quick appointment.


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  • #37
    GoldFour4
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    New manager to be announced today according to Radrizzani on twitter.


  • #38
    NuckChorris1
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    malistheman wrote: »
    New manager to be announced today according to Radrizzani on twitter.
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  • #39
    kfrp
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    malistheman wrote: »
    New manager to be announced today according to Radrizzani on twitter.

    Anyone guess as to who it is, betting still very open?


  • #40
    Ceist_Beag
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    I'm hoping for someone with a proven track record but I won't at all be surprised if it is Clotet.


  • #41
    kfrp
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    Ceist_Beag wrote: »
    I'm hoping for someone with a proven track record but I won't at all be surprised if it is Clotet.


    Ramos has went odds on.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juande_Ramos
    No guarantees its him though, big name but similar job record to Moyes recently


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  • #42
    Shlippery
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    Everything pointing to Ramos at the moment.


  • #43
    RacoonQueen
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    The best part of this is he uses the word manager...


  • #44
    NuckChorris1
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    Ceist_Beag wrote: »
    I'm hoping for someone with a proven track record but I won't at all be surprised if it is Clotet.

    Foreign coach coming from abroad (so not Stam or Clotet) according to Phil Hay who seems to know exactly who it is. Said it's not Sanchez, Ramos, Flores, Hierro, Lopez or a couple of German names. Frank De Boer would be good move and name mentioned. Prob be a complete surprise tho given that every name linked by bookies has been ruled out.


  • #45
    Ceist_Beag
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    According to Phil Hay just now
    EXCLUSIVE - Leeds United set to name former Barcelona striker and ex-APOEL boss Thomas Christiansen as new manager:
    http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/exclusive-leeds-united-whites-set-to-name-ex-apoel-boss-as-new-manager-1-8597151


  • #46
    Zaph
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    Who the fcuk is he? Not exactly what anyone was hoping for.


  • #47
    Ceist_Beag
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    Never heard of the chap so can't really comment but his stint at Apoel sounds promising enough, just strange that they chose not to renew his contract there!


  • #48
    Trend Setter in Training
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    I do like the term manager and he is young and hungry with no ego. Hopefully he gets as much of a pre-season in as possible and adds a few bodies to the roster.


  • #49
    Shlippery
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    Well, that was unexpected, but let's see I guess. Maybe we'll be surprised :/


  • #50
    purple hands
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    Underwhelming.

    His record last year is better than decent, but how does the Cypriot league compare to the Championship?


  • #51
    stryker mcqueen
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    Awful appointment , AR has spoofed , he's basically hired a yes man that will have no say on Transfers , basically working under Victor Orta.

    Of course i hope im wrong and will gladly eat humble pie, but i've been saying that a lot over the last few years.

    I wonder what odds you'll get on him sacked by christmas??


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