The Official Leeds United Thread

[RobGT81]

Positive start to the season. I think we were playing one of the worse teams in the league though. We were hampered by the injuries. I reckon Alioski could be quite handy once he realises rolling around on the floor doesn't cut it in the Championship.

[Zad]

The reports of the game did seem very positive about our attacking. Better that they realise now that defence needs reinforcing and get some loans in! Hopefully a couple more decent games will allow us to build some inertia.

[Killer2005]

2 x bids for Chris Wood tonight. Either Radz won't sell or its a short time until we receive a bid high enough for him to go.

[JNW1]

Killer2005 said:

2 x bids for Chris Wood tonight. Either Radz won't sell or its a short time until we receive a bid high enough for him to go.

We're making all the right noises about keeping him and not selling our best players but if a Premier League side comes knocking on the door with an improved offer I can still see him going. Rumour is Burnley will be back with another bid this week and I guess much depends on Wood himself; if he wants to stay that's great but if he wants to try his hand in the top flight - and who could blame him if he does - we could easily end-up in a similar situation to Liverpool with Coutinho if we're not careful.

To give credit to Chris Wood there's been no hint of him trying to engineer a move but if it reaches a point where a Premier League club wants him and he wants to go then I think we should sell and move on; just need to be sure we extract a very high price from whoever buys him and then reinvest that money quickly to strengthen the squad!

[FN2TypeR]

Killer2005 said:

2 x bids for Chris Wood tonight. Either Radz won't sell or its a short time until we receive a bid high enough for him to go.

Not in the squad v Sunderland tonight

[JNW1]

FN2TypeR said:

Killer2005 said:

2 x bids for Chris Wood tonight. Either Radz won't sell or its a short time until we receive a bid high enough for him to go.

Not in the squad v Sunderland tonight

Nope, looks like he's destined for Burnley. Suppose all you can say is good luck to him as you can't criticise anyone for wanting to take an opportunity to play in the Premier League; perhaps that might have come with Leeds but bird in the hand and all that.

Just hope we've extracted a very full price for him from his new club and that the money received is reinvested in full to strengthen the squad!

[FN2TypeR]

JNW1 said:

FN2TypeR said:

Killer2005 said:

2 x bids for Chris Wood tonight. Either Radz won't sell or its a short time until we receive a bid high enough for him to go.

Not in the squad v Sunderland tonight

Nope, looks like he's destined for Burnley. Suppose all you can say is good luck to him as you can't criticise anyone for wanting to take an opportunity to play in the Premier League; perhaps that might have come with Leeds but bird in the hand and all that.

Just hope we've extracted a very full price for him from his new club and that the money received is reinvested in full to strengthen the squad!

Gotta be a tasty fee in this day and age, surely

[Killer2005]

FN2TypeR said:

JNW1 said:

FN2TypeR said:

Killer2005 said:

2 x bids for Chris Wood tonight. Either Radz won't sell or its a short time until we receive a bid high enough for him to go.

Not in the squad v Sunderland tonight

Nope, looks like he's destined for Burnley. Suppose all you can say is good luck to him as you can't criticise anyone for wanting to take an opportunity to play in the Premier League; perhaps that might have come with Leeds but bird in the hand and all that.

Just hope we've extracted a very full price for him from his new club and that the money received is reinvested in full to strengthen the squad!

Gotta be a tasty fee in this day and age, surely

£15m plus add ons apparently.

Good win last night too without him.

[Zad]

£15M seems a bit low. Still, if he doesn't want to be there, so be it. We don't seem to be doing badly so far, from what I hear we perhaps have a better balanced team now. That leaky defence in the first game seems to have got shored up, even if it is only work in progress, that £15M should help bring in some more proper talent.

[RobGT81]

It does seem a bit low. He will end up being stuck at Burnley or shipped off to another Championship team in a year or two for about £4 million. Sad to see him go but we will find someone else. It was nice to see Becchio at the game on Saturday supporting Leeds, never looked the same player during his whole 13 games at Norwich.

[JNW1]

RobGT81 said:

It does seem a bit low. He will end up being stuck at Burnley or shipped off to another Championship team in a year or two for about £4 million. Sad to see him go but we will find someone else. It was nice to see Becchio at the game on Saturday supporting Leeds, never looked the same player during his whole 13 games at Norwich.

To be honest if someone had said to me this time last year they'd give us £15 million for Chris Wood (£18 million including potential add-ons?) I wouldn't have believed them but would have bitten their hand off if I thought they were serious! A year later the market seems to have gone crazy but I still think £15 million plus is a pretty good deal for us for someone who isn't proven at Premier League level.

At the end of the day Wood gave us decent service and you can't blame him for wanting to play and test himself at the top level; therefore, I say good luck to him and hope the club invests the proceeds wisely (and the vibes are good in the sense the owner's saying the money will be reinvested in the squad).

Perhaps a shame he didn't play against Sunderland on Saturday given he was still being paid by Leeds but I'm still not clear whether he refused or it was just agreed that it was better he didn't. Get the feeling it might have been more the latter and in the after-match interview I personally thought Christiansen handled questions on the issue very well.

Edited by JNW1 on Monday 21st August 17:03

[RobGT81]

We looked really good at the weekend. I'm not sure if we have a new scouting team but they seem to be on fire at the moment. There's no way that Grot is 19, he's massive. Horse meat?

[Zad]

5-0

Undefeated after 6, up to clear 2nd in the table, 2 points short of the top and +10 on goal difference. I'll take that! For now...

From the Radio Leeds commentary, we seemed to be absolutely on fire, really going after the ball and playing some attractive footie. 69% possession and 30 shots versus 1. I know it was "only" Burton, but in the past Leeds have been massively guilty of just not turning up to matches like that. The new lads certainly seem to be settling in nicely.

[giblet]

What a game, what a fking game!

Yes we were playing against a side who weren't great but like you said we've been guilty of being complacent and scraping a point against sides like that in previous seasons.

Started off well, this new passing lark is a joy to watch. Lasogga looked good considering he hasn't played much football this year. The little flicks and passes from Saiz and Hernandez were amazing to watch.

Cracking atmosphere, over 33k in attendance. With over 20k season tickets sold this year and plenty of changes behind the scenes it's apparent that Andrea Radrizzani knows what he's doing. The £10k cheque that was present to Gary Speed's parents for the Gary Speed foundation was a nice touch too.

[Winky151]

10 different scorers so far this season makes life difficult for teams to mark someone out of the game. Roofe getting a run is finally showing a return. I'd read some reports on Lasogga saying there were question marks as he wasn't that fruitful in front of goal last season but 2 on his debut will knock that back.

Edited by Winky151 on Sunday 10th September 20:42

[Zad]

A bit more of a test tonight, but that was only to be expected given Brum's spending on players. At times we could have conceded but, rather importantly, we didn't. Cardiff lost so...

Top of the table!

When teams get on a roll like this, they get scared of losing, and winning (hopefully) becomes a habit. Of course it can't last for another 39 games, but by crikey we seem to have the core of an absolutely cracking team. We only usually get these sorts of teams just before the transfer window opens and we lose everyone!

[MegaCat]

Zad said:

A bit more of a test tonight, but that was only to be expected given Brum's spending on players. At times we could have conceded but, rather importantly, we didn't. Cardiff lost so...

Top of the table!

When teams get on a roll like this, they get scared of losing, and winning (hopefully) becomes a habit. Of course it can't last for another 39 games, but by crikey we seem to have the core of an absolutely cracking team. We only usually get these sorts of teams just before the transfer window opens and we lose everyone!

Spot on! It's a great feeling, every part of the team seems to be pulling together, we have a great bench, have a great defence, midfield and the attack will score goals now against anyone. I cannot wait till the Reading game as I want to be at more than one home game this season!

& we are already planning to boost the squad in January, we lost out last January by not boosting a thin squad. This time it looks like we will be enhancing a strong squad - Really looking forward to Saturday & hopefully also beating Burney next Tuesday

[Winky151]

Didn't you just know that was going to happen against Millwall. If any team was going to take great pleasure in beating us especially as we're top it was going to be them. By all accounts though we didn't turn up. Shot count 20 - 1. Now lets see what the reaction is.

[Zad]

It had to be them didn't it!

I saw the stats at half time and couldn't believe it! Was there a big party in North Leeds last night or something?

[giblet]

Much better tonight, good way to bounce back. Need to demolish Ipswich on Saturday