Good Morning. It's Wednesday 21st June, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road Llorente agrees personal terms with Roma Transfer guru Fabrizio Romano has announced that Diego Llorente is set to join Roma in an £8.5m move in the next few days The 29yo centre back, only signed a three and a half year contract extension last December, but spent the second half of last season in Italy's capital, and before long, expressed his desire to make the move permanent. Romano claims Llorente has agreed personal terms at the Stadio Olimpico, and is set to pen a multi-year deal. Leeds will be pleased to get him off their books. The Spanish International (10 caps) has been earning £56,000 a week (or just over £240,000 a move before tax). please log in to view this image Corberan not on Leeds radar West Brom Manager Carlos Corberan is not thought to be a serious contender for the vacant Managerial role at Leeds, according to Athletic journalist Phil Hay. The 40yo is one of dozens to be linked to the cursed position in recent weeks, yet have decided not to re-approach the Baggies since parting ways with Jesse Marsch, back in February. Their response at the time, was to award the former shot stopper with a new and improved contract, with a £2.5m release clause. It's six years ago to the day, that Carlos Corberan arrived at Elland Road, succeeding Jason Blunt as U23's Manager. The little known Spaniard was one of Victor Orta's first ever arrivals, having only joined the Whites several months earlier. Corberan certainly has the Midas touch; winning the PDL Northern League in the first time of asking, followed by National success for the U21's in the Professional Development League. In 2020, he leapt at the chance to fly the nest, and manage on his own. He joined Huddersfield Town and ever since has never looked back... According to Hay:- "Leeds also discussed Carlos Corberan initially, a coach they know well from his time on Bielsa’s staff and who they rated on account of his work at Huddersfield Town and West Bromwich Albion. Corberan is different to Parker and Farke, though, in that he is under contract at West Brom on a deal signed less than six months ago." "The contract includes a release clause, set at around £2.5million ($3.2m), but to this point, Leeds have not approached West Brom about activating that clause or asked the club for permission to formally interview Corberan. It suggests that, for now, the focus is elsewhere..... please log in to view this image Orta planning Rodrigo swoop Less than 24 hours after becoming Sevilla's Sporting Director, Victor Orta has already been strongly linked with a move for Leeds striker Rodrigo. The former Real Madrid and Valencia hit man, a £27m signing three years ago, was one of only a few success stories last season, having netted 15 times in all competitions. He has twelve months left on his contract, and at 32 has a limited shelf life, but if Leeds can keep hold of him, and keep him fit, he could be the difference between promotion, and a prolonged spell in the Championship. Real Madrid, Aston Villa and Brighton have all been credited with an interest in the Spanish International, and at £3m, who can blame them. please log in to view this image
Morning everyone i do not want corberan because he has achieved very little. Farke has been in our position twice so must be worth a go. As for Rodrigo would he jump ship for more money? Oh surely not. Loyalty means nothing to a footballer these days. They are just a bunch of overpaid prima Donna's with inflated egos.I do not trust any of our squad except dallas/cooper/ayling who will stay because no clubs will pay them more than Leeds. Call me cynical if you will but i can hear nero warming up.
Does anyone *know* that Rodrigo has a £3M release clause, or is this the usual 'man on the internet says' stuff?
Perhaps sevilla will pay his prem wages and give leeds a loan fee. I heard he was on best part of a hundred grand a week.
Morning all Orta said he sent Rodrigo a congratulations message regarding Spains result, he said as usual the media get the wrong idea and come up with incorrect assumptions I think Rodrigo and Llorente should both be offloaded, we’ve not had value for money from neither of them
I presume if you want a quality finisher like Rodrigo offloaded, you'd also want the useless Bamford offloaded also
Back on the manager merry-go-round people were saying that something dodgy had gone on at Palace and the board were using a former player to spy on what was happening on the training pitch and this former player was once accused of leaking our team sheets…….. Simon Jordan a former owner of Palace and now on Talk Sport yesterday said he was surprised at hearing Viera was on the list of candidates. He never said why, he just said he had heard some not very good things about Viera? I’m also waiting for my nephew to get back to me as he knows and has worked for Viera at Nice
As we’ve no idea who the new manager will be we also have no idea what system/formation he prefers. Maybe he prefers to play two up front? In which case he may well want to keep Rodrigo and buy another main striker. Which makes it even more weird that we’re looking at offloading players that he may well want to keep.
Hearing that all the time he had on hands out injured he read the Tyler Roberts bestseller “Cows behind and Banjo” so not expecting too much
£3m is the figure being banded about for an injury prone 32yo in the Championship with a year left on his contract.
Maybe manager has already been signed up unofficially as likely can't be announced until 49ers get final clearance. Will be interesting after their approval is announced how soon after the manager and signings appear
So with the fixtures being announced tomorrow, what's anyone's thoughts to who we get first at home. I'm hoping for the Wallies on the Friday 4th Aug
Give them a chance, their away support is bad enough and with Dave and his son Charlie in Benidorm they could drop to lowest away support at Elland Road! They came 2nd last in 19/20 just beating the mighty Brentford
