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Premier League Here We Come Transfer Thread

Discussion in 'Leeds United' started by ristac, Apr 21, 2025.

  1. Gessa

    Gessa Well-Known Member

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    Exactly but if they're serious with regard staying up to fulfill their promise to shareholders, then that's the minimum requirement.
     
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    Agreed. Still interesting from a financial point of view..
     
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    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    Yeah we know. Whereas you’re expected to beat them by a few goals?
     
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    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    I don’t believe we’ve paid over the odds for any player yet. Time will tell, though.
     
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    Figure I’ve seen in numerous places is 60m plus whatever we get on sales to stay within psr
     
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  6. Saf

    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    Yes mate but we plan on only needing a handful of points to secure safety by that point ;)
     
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    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    Why does youth not equal experience?

    We have loads of ‘kids’ that have now played well in excess of 100 league games. We’ve just signed an outstanding 20 year old from Club Brugge who has been tearing it up in the champions league. He’ll have gained so much from playing against the best players the world has to offer.
     
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    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    Decent player Longstaff. Think he’ll be steady for you.
     
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    But no games in the PL, which as we all know is completely different to the levels your boys have played at. Enough for Bellingham to take one look and hot foot it off to Dortmund.
     
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    <laugh>

    He was average at best. I read it quite a few times on here. We had their eyes out mate.

    Anyway, I’ve heard that we wouldn’t get promoted because the squad is too young and lacked experience. We were told, we’d lose at Wembley as we had no players with big game experience against a load of players with premiership experience.

    It’s getting boring now, tbh.
     
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    Hope you’re right (as long as it’s not at our expense). Good luck.
     
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    Same to you, mate. I’ve got no cross to bear with Leeds. Good luck to you guys <ok>
     
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    Non have played the required level for the PL though saf, its a totally different animal. There's many an experienced player in leagues 1 and 2 with 400+ appearances under their belts, non of those would be good enough. Only time will tell whether your new additions coupled with last seasons squad will be enough to keep you updated.

    I'm not knocking Sunderland per se, id be saying the same if we made those signings, as with ours non so far have got the pulse racing, just seem good steady players who should be in their prime age wise and again o ly time will tell if they're good enough.
     
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    Champions league isn’t the required level? Being an Athletico Madrid first team player isn’t the required level?

    I’m struggling here with what the required level is if Champions league and La Liga aren’t that.
     
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    How many of those do you have/ signed
     
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    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    We’ve signed 5 players and three of them have top level experience.
     
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    As I say time will tell and if you add some older heads it could see you up above 18th, if not I can't see you doing it
     
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    Fair enough, mate. Obviously it’s against us but we’ve been knocked constantly about our squads age and lack of experience, yet we improve year on year. I’ve been guilty of doubting them in the past, but not anymore.
     
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    Some reports say we bid £8.5m for Sadiki, other reports say we enquired and never placed a bid, the Yorkshire Evening Post are claiming we never made an offer.

    Sunderland come in and go full asking, £15m with a possible £5m add ons, are you seriously saying that’s not too much, do you think he’ll even get much game time.

    Top level experience, you could say every player at Ipswich and Southampton now have that, it matters not sometimes. Belgian top tier football only 2-3 teams would make top 6 in the Championship

    For the record I want you to do well and take points off teams like Bournemouth, Everton, West Ham, I do feel some of your fans are going way over the top with excitement regarding the quality you are signing, actually quite comical how excited some get when they see a player sign who we’d enquired or low balled on.

    Leeds, Sunderland, Burnley, we’re all virtually shopping on the same shelf, I’m hoping we get Longstaff and Stach as they’re next shelf up
     
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