The #LUFC Breakfast Debate - TRANSFER SPECIAL

Good Morning, its Monday 1st September, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road

Deadline Day Special

Leeds have until 7pm this evening to bring in reinforcements.

Leading up to the transfer window finale, the Whites have missed out on Bilal El Khannouss, Christantus Uche, Facundo Buonanotte and Dilane Bakwa, but hold genuine interest in Eduard Spertsyan and Gus Hamer

The Gus Hamer rumours are interesting. He's being strongly linked with a move to PSV. He was seen at the Dutch Grand Prix yesterday, but returned to Yorkshire last night. Zandvoort (the location of the Grand Prix) to Eindhoven typically takes around 2 hours and 4 minutes. He would have stayed in Holland if he was planning on joining the 'Red and Whites'.

Saturday's performance, although disciplined showed a complete lack of creativity in the final third. Adam Underwood and his team have been working tirelessly. We can expect to see at-least one loan signing before the window slams shut, and a permanent one.

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What really happened with Buonanotte deal

Leeds believed they had found one of their remaining missing pieces of their jigsaw in Brighton’s Facundo Buonanotte. A loan deal for the promising Argentinian had been agreed, and flight to Leeds East Airport Church Fenton, (formerly RAF Church Fenton) booked.

However, in a cruel late twist, Chelsea—having failed in their own pursuit of RB Leipzig forward Xavi Simons, hijacked the move at the eleventh hour, and Buonanotte never turned up for his flight. With mere hours remaining, the pressure is on to find an alternative and complete their ambitious squad overhaul before the window slams shuts at 7pm tonight.

Leeds United's business is far from complete. Manager Daniel Farke remains keen on securing at least one more attacking reinforcement, specifically a creative winger who can also operate as a playmaker to offer a different dimension to his squad.

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Longstaff stole the show

It had been a truly rotten week for Leeds. The euphoric relief from the win against Everton had all but evaporated, washed away by the heavy defeat at the Emirates and diabolical performance at Hillsborough. Fear had begun to creep in; and Daniel Farke needed a big performance from his boys in white. Fortunately for the gaffer, Sean Longstaff had a point to prove and picked up that mantle.

Forced by injuries to midfield mainstays Ethan Ampadu and Ao Tanaka, Farke handed Longstaff his full league debut. The narrative was poetic; a Geordie making his first start, against the club where he had spent his entire career, since joining the Magpies back in 2006, aged just eight.

He was a whirlwind of controlled aggression, using his inside knowledge of the visitors to torment his former teammates. Bruno Guimaraes and Sandro Tonali were given no time to breathe, as Longstaff snapped at their heels, read their every move, and consistently turned over possession.

Crucially, his performance was not merely combative. Once on the ball, he provided the forward thrust Leeds had been sorely lacking, playing snappy, positive passes that broke lines and moved the team upfield with purpose.

The match itself, probably did little to spark the attention of neutrals. Pundit Andy Gray even apologised to viewers for what he called "a poor game of football; poor in terms of quality and pretty much everything”. Leeds won't care. A point against a team with European aspirations is as much as they could have hoped for.

All in all, Leeds were good value for their point. Dominic Calvert-Lewin could have nicked it late on, only Nick Pope's outstretched boot to save the Magpies from what they would have seen as a humiliating defeat. The real test comes in a fortnight, with visits to Fulham and Wolves; two team languishing at the bottom of the table.

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Media say Spertsyan says no to Leeds. Sunderland and Burnley spending big again

 

Longstaff was impressive. A good signing. Decisive tackles which won the ball and upended the man. Quality.

 

Looks like Sunderland are after Josh Sargent. Can't see that he'd be any better than Piroe tbh.

 

Looks like domestic signings for Leeds. Time quickly running out for international signings.

Buendia, Hamer, Sargent type players. Maybe a loan deal from somewhere. If Forest get a right winger the Jota Silva might be available. Thats a big come down from some of the names linked.

 

Liverpool take their spending to the 500m mark with the arrival of there Newcastle lad. You got to love this fair play league. Its a fckin joke. and one of the biggest jokes is that when the bin dippers stuff us four or five nil our own fans will be calling for Farkes head. Wake up and see where the real problem lies. The sooner the top six fck off to a super league and leave the rest of us to compete for the crumbs the better. I wonder did Gray apologise for the Arsenal bin dippers yesterday. 90 minutes of muck served up by supposedly two best teams in league

 

Guiu is now back at Chelsea all done and dusted, Sunderland now need a new striker. openda has gone to Juve so Leeds had no chance

 

Jota Silva, Forest back up right winger, is going to Spain on loan. His agent wanted Leeds. We need a right winger. We can't even get him now as a last option.

 

Sunderland have gone for Brobbey from Ajax. Pretty much done deal. He is one off my list at the start of the summer.

Sunderland also linked with Sargent.

 

If we end up in the local market all this could have been done during pre season. It looks like Underwood and Co don’t have a scooby on forwards. It’s either the thought of relegation or working under Farke that hurts us

 

That would be disastrous for a club like Leeds. There’s no reason we can’t survive at the top table feeding off scraps for a few seasons improving ourselves.

Rather that to being forever classed as second class citizens with no hope of reaching the top tier. Even if we won this PL2 it would be a hollow victory.

 

49ers are out of their depth, employing Underwood was a massive mistake but the easy option for them, him and Farke don't see eye to eye. Unless something big happens today which is very unlikely then I can honestly see us finishing bottom, you can't go a season relying on trying to sneak 1-0 wins at home then settling for a 0-0 after 60 minutes. I'm not Farke's biggesr fan but I'm not calling g for his head either, now as at Norwich he's been dealt a **** hand but we all know he'll be the one paying the price for it.
I still wouldn't be surprised to see Mourinho here in the next few weeks, the hierarchy wanted him at the end of last season, now he's available and as said he would like a bottom end PL teams as his next job.

 

Better than never winning everything and spending a decade avoiding relegation though. At least we wouldn't be getting any hammerings

 

Morning all

I expect nobody to come in to day

 

The thing is too, these clubs wanted their cake and eat it, they wanted to be part of a super league but still wanted a team in the premiership too

 

Whispers Leeds are looking at Harry Wilson

 

Gyabi to Hull

 

I was a little concerned that Piroe was not used at all on Saturday.
I know he's not been at his best v Arsenal, and was played out of position at Hillsborough. Hope he's not off.......

 

Did you get that off Joe Tiffany, blokes a fraud