Good Morning. It's Thursday 4th April, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road Championship in uproar after true extent of LCFC accounts disclosed Championship clubs including Leeds Utd have reacted with outrage after the true extent of Leicester City's financial mess was disclosed on Tuesday. Foxes Chief Executive Susan Whelan delivered the news during a press release, revealing a pre-tax loss of £89.7m, on the back of a record £92.5m loss the season before. Investigations have shown that the East Midlands outfit had the highest wage bill outside of the Premier League's top six last season, plus none of their players had relegation clauses in their contracts. Therefor, Leicester City's wage bill this season stands at £60,190,000, considerably higher than Southampton (£40,014,000) and Leeds (£39,513,000) or ten times higher than the likes of Rotherham Utd and Plymouth Argyle! It also allowed Leicester City more leverage when negotiating the departures of James Maddison (£46.3m) and Harvey Barnes (£44m), even though they only had one and two years respectively left on their contracts. please log in to view this image Gruev on the mend Leeds-live have this morning suggested that Ilia Gruev has returned to training ahead of the Whites visit to Coventry City at the weekend. The 23yo midfielder missed the games against Watford and Hull City after injuring his ankle whilst on International duty with Bulgaria. The news comes on the back of Manchester Evening News reporter Conor McGilligan revealing yesterday (on his One Leeds Fan YouTube channel) that Gruev is expected to be passed fit to play on Saturday afternoon. Daniel Farke should reveal all during his pre-match press conference later today, including Glen Kamara (illness) and Joe Rodon (back spasms) who got through the Hull City match aided by pain killing injections. please log in to view this image James to re-find mojo after wonder strike Dan James' audacious strike against Hull on Easter Monday may give him the shot in the arm needed to re-find his mojo. The 26yo hasn't hit the form we've been used to, since coming back from International Duty with Wales. Rob Page's Dragon's lost a penalty shoot out (to Poland) and the chance to play at the Euro's this Summer, after James failed to convert from twelve yards. Scoring is one thing, but scoring from the half-way line, whilst being chased by half a dozen deranged Hull players is something else. Anyone who has watched the Crossbar Challenge will know how difficult it is to even hit the target from that far out from a stationary position! please log in to view this image
Should be an interesting game at Elland Road tonight when the Lion Cubs take on the Leeds under 18's on the 20th anniversary of Millwall beating Sunderland to reach the Cup Final. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68698526
Chelsea were the ones to beat by all accounts and we should had done them in 90 minutes in the last round so I think it will be close tonight
enjoyed watching our previous game in the quarters when we done over the scousers we should win but you never know with the pressure cooker of a final at stake.
I think he would have flicked it up turned round and donkey kicked it in ..... it's from 6 inches he's found a tad wanting
No decision on Gruev until closer to the game. I'd love to know whose idea it was to put an international break for FRIENDLIES (mostly) in the calendar so close to the end of the season. Absolute madness.
