Good Morning. It's Wednesday 16th October, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road Coops returns to Thorp Arch, but only for MOT Liam Cooper made a surprise return to Thorp Arch during the International break to the total surprise of his former team-mate. A month has passed since the 33yo joined CSKA Sofia, and the former ER stalwart has already picked up an injury. Bizzarely, on his way to see his club doctor, he took a wrong turn and ended up in Wetherby (easy mistake to make). He tore muscle fibre in his abdomen during the shock 1-0 defeat to Septemvri Sofia, and wanted to get his injury checked out by his former medical team. Cooper, who made 262 appearances for the Whites over a ten year tenure wanted advice about pain killing medication that may allow him to return to action quicker. please log in to view this image Aaronson set to miss Yorkshire derby USA International Brenden Arronson looks set to miss the Yorkshire Derby on Friday night after the Mexico v USA friendly in Guadalajara earlier this morning. The 23yo now faces a sixteen hour flight just to get back to blighty, let alone the time it takes to get through customs, and get back home (from London). Supposedly, he impressed new boss Mauricio Pochettino, and was only one of four players to complete the entire 90 minutes. please log in to view this image Piroe or Joseph to start Matteo Joseph will be hoping he can replicate his International for, when Sheffield Utd come to town on Friday evening. The Spanish U21 star netted a hat-trick against Kazakhstan last week, the shot in the arm the 20yo may need to rediscover his golden touch for the Whites. He has gone five matches since netting late on, against Hull City 46 days ago, which remains his only goal of the season so far. In contract Piroe has already found the back of the net four times, in just 248 minutes of game time, 427 minutes less than his team mate. Despite this, Joseph's work rate off the ball has been significantly better than Piroe's, which poses a dilemma for Farke ahead of the Yorkshire derby. please log in to view this image
Morning. Nice to be talking about proper football. We got any midfielders left if we can’t play Aaronson? Got to be Piroe for me, we need a goal and they don’t let many in.
Morning Leeds fans. International breaks are pissing me off. I thought the whole point of the "breaks" is to ensure players on international duty won't miss any games yet now we look like missing out on Aaronson and Tanaka. Bloody joke.
Has Aaronson been transmogrified? He looks different in the photo. Joseph seems to be a confidence player, like Gnonto. Gnonto now seems to have reasonable self confidence (rather than being cocky)
Afternoon all Hopefully no further injuries to report after the break, hope Cooper is paying for the doctors appointment
It does seem stupid playing on a friday after the international matches. No team should have to play before 15-00 on the saturday. But of course the greedy tv companies couldn’t care less.
From the spanish sports press, Story about barca still owing money for players they have signed. The bit that relates to us, El Barcelona también debe cantidades importantes por el fichaje de Raphinha. Debe pagar al Leeds 559.000 euros a corto plazo y casi 42 millones a largo plazo y algo de dinero a sus primeros clubs como el Sporting Club y el Stade Rennes. Barcelona still owe important amounts to Leeds for the signing of raphinha 559000€ short term and nearly 42m€ long term!
Correct Eire Clubs last set of audited accounts showed we were owed approximately £2m in transfer fees. The Barcelona issue relates to monies owed to 3rd parties who financed the transfer on Barcelona's behalf Just as an addendum, Barcelona last audited accounts of June 2023 show that they owe approx €38m in respect of the Raphina transfer, but that Leeds elected to be paid by a finance company, rather than directly from Barcelona.
