St Etienne announce on their website the've agreed a deal for Gradel: http://www.asse.fr/index.php?page=detail_actu&id=7976
Tried to make sense of it with Google Translate and it appears what it says is this: Maybe LeedsInEssex or some other Francophone can help us out, but I think you get the gist. ****ty, ****ty stuff. Really ****ty stuff.
We confirm it: http://www.leedsunited.com/news/20110830/gradel-departs-after-transfer-request_2247585_2436793 Also that Fench translation is roughly accurate.
If so reluctant, don't accept it. He's a player contracted to us. You can keep a player against their will, you know. We've even done it before, not two years ago! He publicly said before the transfer window that he wanted to stay at Leeds. Was he lying? Or was this your congenital incapacity to communicate with other human beings that has led to this sorry situation? If Mr Harvey had promised Gradel there would be a contract offer forthcoming, or indeed one was made last season after January or before the July window, this situation would surely have been avoided. Well that's so bloody kind of you. Thanks, Leeds United, I think I'll go out and celebrate. I don't deserve a club so generous to its fans as you, honestly. It will remain undisclosed because Grayson rejected a 2.5m offer from West Ham which he then asked other potential suitors to triple. St Etienne barely even doubled it, did they? It was a derisory offer for one of the best talents outside the Premiership and you accepted it like idiots. Will the money ever find its way into transfers or player funding again? I think we all know the answer to that one already. Thanks for this useless little outro. Makes me feel really proud that we're a developing ground for players who are at the transitory stage between nobody and somebody. It's such an honour to support a club which hones raw talent into skilful gemstones and then, altruistically, selflessly, out of the goodness of its heart, allows top-flight clubs to come in and take them. I can't even muster a 'thank you' which is heartfelt enough to express my gratitude towards this most kindly of gestures. Sarcasm aside, I am absolutely ****ing furious. **** off Bates you scumbag. Just go away so I never have to hear of you again. I want my football club back.
Oh for f**k sake!! I guess Nunez will get in the starting 11 now or perhaps Sam but Gradel gave us pace!! This transfer window just gets worse!!
In the words of Bob Tappin - what's wrong with you Leeds!! Gutted to see talent like that leave the championship
Then stop buying season tickets,don`t attend games,don`t buy from the shop,don`t buy programmes,etc,etc simples,that`ll hurt bates more than little protests
At least the Leeds fans will look back in admiration of Mr Ken Bates in five years time, when we have a less than 12,000 people paying £60 to attend home games at the fantastic Elland Road Village Complex. League Two will be full of the kind of teams you want to see week in and week out an we should all be grateful that it was the master planning of Mr Bates that we have the empty shops and non used hotel complex in the deprived areas around Elland Road Stadium, whilst the city centre hotels continue to prosper with people coming to Leeds for the social scene and shops. If anyone really believes Mr Bates has the future of Leeds United as a priority, then the sale of Gradel AND SNODGRASS (It appears this is likely in January) should surely concern you.
I'd rather the club folded and the fans started a new club, i.e. AFC Wimbledon, than pay anything to the bastard that is Ken Bates, tiz a pity more don't feel like I do.
i new we would ****ing sell him so close to the window closing...twats why not sell him to Fulham or stoke two weeks ago...more piss poor planning...i can now see the response.."we did not have time to buy a replacement" Bates ur a ****ing joke... god im so
Already bought my season ticket and therefore boycotting games isn't going to hurt him very much. I would urge Members and unsubscribed fans to do it though, not that I'm claiming any right over their purchasing power! Hopefully the protests will continue and some sort of mass boycotting campaign can be arranged which will inspire those like me who have inhibitions about missing games to do so.
This course of action may go over Bates head (that's what he likes to appear to suggest) but it doesn't go over the other Directors and financial backers, they are very concerned about the way the club has been run recently and specifically Bates, so keep the pressure up, hit the club HARD, with lack of money towards other "projects". Be strong, don't give up, BATES TIME IS UP AND WE NEED TO KEEP THE PRESSURE UP MORE AND MORE EVERYDAY.
F**K Ken Bates, F**k his £7 million East Stand face lift, F**k his lack of ambition for anything other than Leeds Village! GET BATES THE F**K OUT OF LEEDS UNITED
eurgh. So much about this has pissed me off. Okay, so we're selling one of our best players. He has pace, direct dribbling, goals, work rate. He's probably the best out and out attacking winger in the Championship. If there was no chance to sell him, why the **** do we wait until there's a day left of the transfer window to sell him?!! If we'd have done this right at the start of the transfer window, transfer listed him, moved him on and brought in a replacement. But no, we wait until the end of it. Who are we going to bring in now that even remotely replaces this guy? We pay the 5th highest season ticket prices in English football, yet we've just sold our best player...
