The #LUFC Breakfast Debate (Mon 9th Sept)

Good Morning. It's Monday 9th September, and here are the Leeds Utd headlines


Leeds leading the way in many of the Championship Stats

After 6 league games, Leeds have had 106 shots at goal; more than any other Championship team. They also lead the way for shots on target with 31. Realistically, what kind of conversion would you be looking with?

Here is a list of various statistics taken from the Championship after 6 league games.

Shots at goal

Leeds 106
WBA 99
Cardiff 93
QPR 92
Brentford 87
Boro 86
Fulham 86
Hull 81
Reading 81
Barnsley 77
Wednesday 77
Swansea 73
Derby 72
Forest 70
Stoke 68
B'burn 68
Luton 68
Bristol City 66
PNE 66
Wigan 63
Huddersfield 57
Millwall 56
Birmingham 53
Charlton 50

Shots on target

Leeds 31
Fulham 31
Cardiff 29
Sheffield Wednesday 29
Swansea 28

Fewest shots on target

Huddersfield 15
Birmingham 16
Stoke 16
Blackburn 17
Millwall 17

Most successful passes in opposition half

Romaine Sawyers West Brom 214
Filip Krovinovic West Brom 192
Pablo Hernandez Leeds 183
Matt Grimes, Swansea 167
Tom Cairney, Fulham 163 Fulham 1,348

West Brom 1,313
Leeds 1,212
QPR 1,089
Brentford 1,044

Most chances created in the Championship so far this season

John Swift Reading 23
Mateusz Klich Leeds 17
Stewart Downing Blackburn 16
Pablo Hernandez Leeds 16
Barry Bannan Sheffield Wednesday 14
Ryan Manning, QPR 14

Most chances created from open play

Mateusz Klich Leeds 15
John Swift Reading 14
Pablo Hernandez Leeds 12
Tom Cairney Fulham 12
Henrik Dalsgaard Brentford 10
Sergi Canos Brentford 10

Most shots on target so far this season

Jarrod Bowe, Hull 9
Martyn Waghorn Derby 8
Patrick Bamford Leeds
Lyle Taylor Charlton 7
Aleksandar Mitrovic Fulham 7
Pablo Hernandez Leeds 7

Most headed shots on target so far this season

Lukas Jutkiewicz Birmingham 5
Borja Baston Swansea 4
Aleksandar Mitrovic Fulham 4
Kristian Pedersen Birmingham 4
Matt Smith Millwall 4

Most fouls conceded this season

Barnsley 53
Huddersfield 51
Blackburn 46
Brentford 45
Wigan 44
Charlton 44
Hull 44
Leeds 43
Stoke 42
Boro 41
Sheffield Wednesday 41
Preston - 41

Most successful passes overall this season

Leeds 1,384
Fulham 1,341
West Brom 1,321
Brentford 1,238
Swansea 1,058




Phillips about to put pen to paper

We are waiting for official confirmation that Kalvin Phillips has agreed a new five year deal with the club which will see him become one of the highest earners at the club. After months of painstaking negotiations, both sides have reached a compromise, and the 23yo who has been at Leeds since 2010 is due to commit the next five years of his playing career to the Whites.

Meanwhile, Stuart Dallas is in the last year of his contract at Elland Road. The 28yo Northern Ireland International is keen to remain part of Bielsa's plans for the future.

Is Dallas good enough for the Premiership? If not, will we see the end of a Dynasty?



Which players are going to be good enough to step up to the Premiership?

Courtesy of Doc, here is a list of players who will be out of contract by 2021. Should Leeds go up, who would you keep, and extend their contracts?

2020

• Berardi
• Pablo
• Klich
• As
• Huffer
• Stevens
• Coyle
• Kun
• Male
• Huggins
• Hudson
• Hosannah
• Miazek
• Casey
• Kamwa

2021

• Ayling
• Cooper
• Douglas
• Alioski
• Phillips
• Shackelton
• Bogusz
• McCalmont
• O'Kane
• Nessy
• Davies
• Bouy
• Edmondson
• Cibicki
• Amor
• Grot
• Struijk
• Jenkins
• Kenneh

Doc said:

Morning all

Looking at the stats the things that stand out for me are WBA and Fulham along with Leeds are by far the best footballing teams. WBA have 2 players ahead of Pablo in passing stats. Also notice that chances created is headed by Klich and we have already done the Bamford stats to death yesterday and think we agree that a fit Patrick means we get a lot of goals.

2 other stories today are interesting and one is very true and one I hope is true. Hope the story about Bielsa now decided to start Costa is true but he intriguing story is about the player Ouasim Bouy a player we got from Juventus in 2017. Bouy was in the Dutch league playing for PEC Zwolle where is turned in some fantastic stats from 26 games, 7 goals and 24 assists and then Juve came in for him. He didn't get a start with them only a few sub appearances but did nothing so they offloaded him. Orta obviously had seen something of his time in the Holland and decided Leeds could get him back to what he did so took him on a free transfer. He was sent out on loan to Cultural Leonasa in Spain and played 4 times and to be frank wasn't even good enough for Spanish 3rd Division. Last season we sent him on loan back to Zwolle where he was a hero but he only started 19 games with no assists or goals. We now have him back and nobody wants to know him and we can't offload him unless we cancel his contract BUT HE STILL HAS 2 YEARS LEFT!! I can only assume this bloke has no self respect, or is unbalanced or just a lazy twat wanting a nice wage without doing anything. We terminated Anita's contract but that was after a negotiation, and Anita has now got himself another club. Bouy is deffo a strange signing

Also looks like somebody has copied and pasted my contract sticky into whoever makes the Breakfast thread which Elland uses

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You do get an honourable mention!!!

'I am heartbroken': Graffiti group claim responsibility for covering up 14 'Burley Banksy' Leeds United murals


The 'Burley Banksy' has been left devastated after 14 of his Leeds United murals were painted over by a graffiti group - including a Gary Speed tribute on what would have been his 50th birthday.
Andy McVeigh, 49, has spent the last 12 months coming up with creative designs to paint over graffiti or brighten up the dull electrical boxes and bollards.

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Dubbed the 'Burley Banksy' by his friends due to his art-style and elusiveness, Andy creates pieces for iconic moments throughout the history of the club.

However, 14 pieces of Andy's work has been covered over the weekend.

The pieces covered include a poignant mural tribute to Gary Speed - which was painted over on the morning of his birthday by the group.

Now, 'Leeds Residents Against Graffiti' have claimed responsibility for the cover-up.



In an email sent to the Yorkshire Evening Post, a member of the anonymous group said: "We had a trial run using red hammerite on two boxes which had been covered by graffiti.

"The vandal then decided to repaint them, which was a foolish decision.

"This looks much more dignified than the childish scrawl of a man who should be old enough to know better.

"Let's have an end to this graffiti."



Andy has been left in disbelief by the group's actions.

He said: "I am gutted for the fans.

"I didn't sleep a wink last night after I found out, I just feel sick.
"So many people say the pieces are part of their match day experience.

"I can't believe it."

The group said they have covered the art - which Andy believes is the entire Leeds United section of his work - with 'black paint'.

They added: "It is horrible stuff but nothing will stick to it now.