Reports suggest we're allowing other clubs to get into the race for Joel Ward because we're "slow in financing a £400,000 fee". Surely this on it's own dashes any thoughts that Bates might be financing one final push for promotion? Not to mention the clear signs resulting from us still only chasing freebies.
Bates has told Warnock we "need" (yeah right: http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/leeds-united-marching-on-together.html) to sell players before we bring players in. This has resulted in one of our best players being put on the transfer list and the other being offered a contract so low it was known he would reject it, this has been done to paint Ross as the bad guy in this situation, and I can see it's clearly working on some people. This strategy is also likely to result in Snodgrass leaving as well as Aiden White, who is also already being set up as the "greedy footballer". This means there is an incredibly high chance none of the players we were looking to sign new contracts are going to stay.
Even if Bates gives Warnock all the money we get from these players, we can either try to replace them with players of the same quality, unlikely, but it would also still leave us with massive holes in the squad. The other path would be to use the money to rebuild the entire squad, however this couldn't possibly leave us with any players of the same quality as the ones departed. In either scenario we're left with a squad yet again weaker than the one of the season before.
Doubtless there will be some people asking me to "wait and see", and I was like that last season, but I'm not going to make that mistake again. It's incredibly difficult to see out forthcoming season as anything other than a train wreck waiting to happen. I'm not going to give up on the season, and I still love Leeds United as much as I ever have and always will, but as long as Bates is in charge we will follow this pattern until we either finally die after all our efforts to stay alive, or at best become a mid-table Championship side existing in mediocrity for the foreseeable future.
In my opinion we can either sit back and just back Neil and the lads like Ken has told us to, or we can channel our anger and do the utmost to save the Leeds United we knew for future generations.
Bates has told Warnock we "need" (yeah right: http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/leeds-united-marching-on-together.html) to sell players before we bring players in. This has resulted in one of our best players being put on the transfer list and the other being offered a contract so low it was known he would reject it, this has been done to paint Ross as the bad guy in this situation, and I can see it's clearly working on some people. This strategy is also likely to result in Snodgrass leaving as well as Aiden White, who is also already being set up as the "greedy footballer". This means there is an incredibly high chance none of the players we were looking to sign new contracts are going to stay.
Even if Bates gives Warnock all the money we get from these players, we can either try to replace them with players of the same quality, unlikely, but it would also still leave us with massive holes in the squad. The other path would be to use the money to rebuild the entire squad, however this couldn't possibly leave us with any players of the same quality as the ones departed. In either scenario we're left with a squad yet again weaker than the one of the season before.
Doubtless there will be some people asking me to "wait and see", and I was like that last season, but I'm not going to make that mistake again. It's incredibly difficult to see out forthcoming season as anything other than a train wreck waiting to happen. I'm not going to give up on the season, and I still love Leeds United as much as I ever have and always will, but as long as Bates is in charge we will follow this pattern until we either finally die after all our efforts to stay alive, or at best become a mid-table Championship side existing in mediocrity for the foreseeable future.
In my opinion we can either sit back and just back Neil and the lads like Ken has told us to, or we can channel our anger and do the utmost to save the Leeds United we knew for future generations.
oh the irony
