Weekend is screwed for obvious reasons, sad day yesterday when it happened but a little peed off about the footy being binned.
This week its worth having a look at the performances from some of our loan players. Dan James came on as a second half sub on his debut. Cresswell after a flying start for the Wall came back down to earth with a bump and has spent time on the bench, but was brought on at the weekend and scored yet again and got an assist. Shackelton has been doing well for the Wall too playing in the middle since he arrived but went to RWB last weekend and played the full 90. Roberts has been non stop injured so QPR not seeing him at his best yet. Lewis Bate has spent time on the bench and being introduced to league football slowly, he started at the weekend in a win and was replaced on 80 mins. Poveda has started his first game for Blackpool and got a MOM performance. Costa played the full 90 in the desert and Jack Jenkins scored on his debut for Salford. McKinstry is doing bench duties at Motherwell.
Last week we saw a post showing all the top spending clubs in the Premier League. Elland posted a list of all 20 clubs in the league and shows the net spend. Net spend means the difference between spend and sales which may surprise some, but in summary Newcastle are top of the net spend league but from 17th to 20th clubs who made a profit on sales with Brighton doing best. Leicester profited as not spent much but the foxes owners businesses have been killed in the pandemic as it revolves around airlines in SE Asia. Leicester cannot even afford to sack Rodgers, not that he deserves it because the Leicester model is now broken because no players coming in to replace players sold
17/ Leeds Utd £1.75m, yes less than £2m
18/ Man City made a profit of £53m
19/ Leicester made a profit of £57m
20/ Brighton made a profit of £58m
Ristac mentioned something relevant after Elland posted a version of the above net spend list. He said it should be worth looking at our spend over a 3 year period to see if it had been worth the millions spent. We can say that we have spent circa £250m and the meagre £50m spent last summer was at the heart of last seasons issues. If we survive this season maybe we could say an average of £83m per season is actually brilliant value and money well spent? However if we go down it looks like £250m flushed down the bog.
So all the bollox talked about following the Leicester model has shown that we spent nothing this summer and all the new players were paid for out of money received for Raphinha and Phillips. My Question is this 1/ if Phillips and Raphinha our 2 best players wanted to stay, how would the club have performed in the transfer market this summer, knowing the team needed new blood? And 2/ its now obvious that the club would have had to find £35m for CDK which means Radz 49ers putting cash in. There is obviously no chance of Cody Gakpo coming to Leeds because his value is already rocketing out of our league with 8 goals and 6 assists from only 10 games.
The club made a £25m profit in the latest accounts. “It included £21.3m in waived shareholder loans, most likely owed to Andrea Radrizzani, all of which were repayable in May 2021.
“Adding that amount to the balance sheet significantly improved the bottom line. Strictly speaking, Leeds made £4.6m overall on a total turnover of £171m. It was a massive step forward from the losses they were used to posting in the Championship but still a small gain in the grand scheme of Premier League expenditure.”
26 players out of the door this summer with only a couple expected back, but what about Alfie? Hes still here and played as an overage player for the 21s, even scoring in the last match, but he needs to be gone somewhere because his career is floundering. Still got a couple of years on his contract but should have been sold. He has been one of the success's out on loan but only in L1 level but its pointless keeping him as he has no chance of playing for the club now
New headlines now coming out that we have done a deal for a LB? “Leeds United reached an agreement this summer with Serie A club Empoli to sign their left-back Fabiano Parisi, according to his agent.” This only confirms we couldn't afford to do it this summer so had Marsch say he was happy with Struijk and Firpo, then hope we could get through to January?
BHA tied Potter to a contract worth £2m pa and had him until 2026. Chelsea need to pay Tuchel £13m in compensation as he was on £7m pa. You can see why Potter could be attracted to changing jobs
This week its worth having a look at the performances from some of our loan players. Dan James came on as a second half sub on his debut. Cresswell after a flying start for the Wall came back down to earth with a bump and has spent time on the bench, but was brought on at the weekend and scored yet again and got an assist. Shackelton has been doing well for the Wall too playing in the middle since he arrived but went to RWB last weekend and played the full 90. Roberts has been non stop injured so QPR not seeing him at his best yet. Lewis Bate has spent time on the bench and being introduced to league football slowly, he started at the weekend in a win and was replaced on 80 mins. Poveda has started his first game for Blackpool and got a MOM performance. Costa played the full 90 in the desert and Jack Jenkins scored on his debut for Salford. McKinstry is doing bench duties at Motherwell.
Last week we saw a post showing all the top spending clubs in the Premier League. Elland posted a list of all 20 clubs in the league and shows the net spend. Net spend means the difference between spend and sales which may surprise some, but in summary Newcastle are top of the net spend league but from 17th to 20th clubs who made a profit on sales with Brighton doing best. Leicester profited as not spent much but the foxes owners businesses have been killed in the pandemic as it revolves around airlines in SE Asia. Leicester cannot even afford to sack Rodgers, not that he deserves it because the Leicester model is now broken because no players coming in to replace players sold
17/ Leeds Utd £1.75m, yes less than £2m
18/ Man City made a profit of £53m
19/ Leicester made a profit of £57m
20/ Brighton made a profit of £58m
Ristac mentioned something relevant after Elland posted a version of the above net spend list. He said it should be worth looking at our spend over a 3 year period to see if it had been worth the millions spent. We can say that we have spent circa £250m and the meagre £50m spent last summer was at the heart of last seasons issues. If we survive this season maybe we could say an average of £83m per season is actually brilliant value and money well spent? However if we go down it looks like £250m flushed down the bog.
So all the bollox talked about following the Leicester model has shown that we spent nothing this summer and all the new players were paid for out of money received for Raphinha and Phillips. My Question is this 1/ if Phillips and Raphinha our 2 best players wanted to stay, how would the club have performed in the transfer market this summer, knowing the team needed new blood? And 2/ its now obvious that the club would have had to find £35m for CDK which means Radz 49ers putting cash in. There is obviously no chance of Cody Gakpo coming to Leeds because his value is already rocketing out of our league with 8 goals and 6 assists from only 10 games.
The club made a £25m profit in the latest accounts. “It included £21.3m in waived shareholder loans, most likely owed to Andrea Radrizzani, all of which were repayable in May 2021.
“Adding that amount to the balance sheet significantly improved the bottom line. Strictly speaking, Leeds made £4.6m overall on a total turnover of £171m. It was a massive step forward from the losses they were used to posting in the Championship but still a small gain in the grand scheme of Premier League expenditure.”
26 players out of the door this summer with only a couple expected back, but what about Alfie? Hes still here and played as an overage player for the 21s, even scoring in the last match, but he needs to be gone somewhere because his career is floundering. Still got a couple of years on his contract but should have been sold. He has been one of the success's out on loan but only in L1 level but its pointless keeping him as he has no chance of playing for the club now
New headlines now coming out that we have done a deal for a LB? “Leeds United reached an agreement this summer with Serie A club Empoli to sign their left-back Fabiano Parisi, according to his agent.” This only confirms we couldn't afford to do it this summer so had Marsch say he was happy with Struijk and Firpo, then hope we could get through to January?
BHA tied Potter to a contract worth £2m pa and had him until 2026. Chelsea need to pay Tuchel £13m in compensation as he was on £7m pa. You can see why Potter could be attracted to changing jobs
sorry, despite the
.........bar closed meester