Good Morning Everyone, Its been a busy weekend... Cellino has turned down a bid of 4.5m from an unknown club for Sam Byram. (believed to be Sunderland) If the price were right would you let him go, or should we be trying to keep hold of the youngsters? Leeds are in the process of securing the signing of 23 year old right back Tendayi Darikwa. He was the club’s Player of the Year, and has attracted the interests from a host of Championship Clubs. Right back has been an issue last season, and with Byram playing wide right midfield, could Darikwa be the player we have been looking for? Where does this leave Wootton and Coyle? It is expected that Sol Bamba will complete his formalities and become a Leeds Utd player later today. It was reported by Selerno and a hot of sporting journalists that Leeds had successfully captured the 29 year old central defender last Wednesday, but due to the fact that the Ivory Coast international had been on holiday, the formalities could not be completed. Should football players have more protection from social media? It was reported over the weekend from a Sunderland fan that she bumped into Sam Byram and Alex Mowatt in a club in Ibiza. She had asked Byram if he was making a move to the Mackems, and he responded (allegedly) 'Hopefully'! There is nothing to prove where this is true or false, but within minutes scores of fans were taking to twitter to voice their opinions? Yes football players get paid extortionate amounts of money to play the sport we all love, and therefor be thrown into the public spotlight, but does this give us the right to judge them?
Morning elland an all. Like all celebrities footballers will need to be more aware of Twitter. I actually thought I'd read somewhere that it was Byram that happened to but obviously not. Great to get 5 or 6 million for Byram providing it's all spent on team strengthening unlike the Ross 11m
Morning Eire. So, if someone offered 6m for Sam, you'd let him go? It was Byram, oooops, Mowatt was with Byram...
Byram is a good kid but has a price, especially when we know he has to cope with an injury for the rest of his career, take the cash but spend it on a decent player please. Mowatt and all the kids at ER would not have had this happen to them in the past because they would have been 'boarders' at TA and the housekeeper would have made sure her boys were well schooled in social media. All part of their education, but scary to think that I've seen countless tweets from our kids, all either with a dolly bird or on a sun lounger at some exclusive resort. Billy Sharp tweeted a couple of weeks ago about wanting to find out where the local golf courses were in Dubai ffs, one of our kids sent an instagram photo of himself in an exclusive poolside bar in Miami with the "Come on ladies" tag. Discipline required otherwise clubs will lose the use of their charges if they get into bother
I see Derby are showing ambition this season and new manager Clement is spending £3.5m on Tom Ince and now got Scott Carson one of our kids, which we could have got. I don't see us signing any top players again, so hope the likes of Erwin come good quickly. Who is our No2 keeper ffs a new unplayed 18-y-o from Cardiff? Oh I forgot we're close to signing a rght back from Chesterfield so we can sell Byram. We're still fishing in the downstream pools instead of being ambitious. Rosler you better befucking good mate
Morning all... Byram is decent playing RM and I have never felt comfortable seeing him in the RB position, he also lacks pace, £5m plus I would take it. Rosler/Cellino will be going 4-3-3 or 5-3-2 Tendayi would make more sense as he could be the RB or WB, same for Taylor on the opposite side. I would imagine Tendayi would spell the end for Byram and Wootton, Berardi able to cover both RB and LB positions. If the Moore on a season long loan rumours were true and if Bamba puts pen to paper that is us sorted at the back, just need a couple of attacking options, I am hopefull we will see a lot more of Sloth next season if Rosler can get the best out of him.
Derby had Tom Ince last season along with the rest and went from promotion certs to not even making the play offs. Its not always about who you sign. As for Clement who's to say he will be any good. So he has been at Real Madrid, big deal. He will be working with a lot less talented squad now.
Good lad, so now, thanks to you, Mowatt will be getting twitter abuse as well As for Byram, Id be happy with the 6m but only if we get 6m worth of players in return. Sadly that wont happen
Yorkie you could well be correct mate, however Ince was on loan last season and now they are buying him. As for Clement I would say he is a much better bet than Rosler on paper, and yes I know top expensive players don't guarantee promotion, but they do make the fans feel good, and when was the last time our fans felt good about things at this club. That's why I said I hope Erwin comes good fast so we can see a cheap player performing like an expensive top player, which means money well spent.
Elland you are always quoting twitter it is less accurate in it's information than the sceptic one! You should think twice about posting it, I know it's good to have things to discuss but the B/S from twitter causes too much angst and aggro for us natives.
Looks a lot like we are spending time slashing the wage bill and hoping we get good results. If we make top 6 it will be because Rosler and the squad gelled together and outperformed expectations. I wish us luck but don't expect to make it because a lot of players cannot play under the added pressure of letting pour fans down.
Good morning all Wouldn't be surprised if Celino is trying to start a bidding for Byram just to ramp his price up. There are supposedly at least 2 club going for him according to rumours those being Norwich and Sunderland. Where does that leave Wootton going back to Rotherham is my guess. They almost got him back in January but Warnock leaving the club him a stat of execution. I expect Wootton will be gone in the next few weeks. I'll believe the Bamba thing when it's on the club Website. No players shouldn't get Social Media training. They need to be less stupid. If we put something stupid on Facebook and Twitter that our employers don't like then we would get bollocked for it. If we're going to make players go through Social Media training then let's have it for all.
Leeds United would like to welcome Martyn Glover to the club as head of Recruitment http://www.leedsunited.com/news/art...cjra9/title/new-head-of-recruitment-appointed
At least we get the impression that the club is being properly run unlike last summer. Whether it is or not, only time will tell
I'm not going to jump on the 'YAY Celino' band wagon just yet but yeah this summer has a more positive feeling going forward. We aren't bring in random ex-Wendies players who has no specific role, we've got a coach who has managed in this division and the back room staff is being built up. Perhaps just perhaps Celino has learnt from the massive balls up of last season. GRANTED TIME WILL TELL!!!!!!!!!!!
