Okay the ambition of Leeds United should be promotion, survive, challenge for a European slot and build a better team season after season. To do that we need a nucleus of players who are good enough to get us promotion, who are at the right age and who can make the step up. Prior to yesterday; Gradel, Snodgrass, Nunez, Clayton, Becchio - Half the team, add a decent defender this year and we would have been over half way there. So we say we have a wage cap yet we have tons of dead wood. Bessone who has now departed along with Gradel. Paynter who we could have allowed to depart with Parker and Bruce and O'Brien Six players that I don't care for and who make no positive contribution to the team, they are not good enough Championship players not alone Premier League. Would the answer not be plain and simple, divide their wages between our main players. We give Becchio, Gradel, Snodgrass new contracts at lets say £20k a week. We sit Clayton and Nunez down and tell him continue like this and you are going to be earning yourself a new contract. Other players come knocking on the door, you tell them play as well as those on more money and yes you will get a new contract. If the whole team played on par with our top 5 we would walk promotion. Bessone, Gradel, Parker, Bruce, Paynter playing in the reserves or hold on to the likes of Gradel and let other top players know yes sign for Leeds Utd and do the business and you will be one of the higher earners in the division.
I think just one or 2 of those players could have been cut to provide the necessary difference between what we were willing to offer and what Gradel wanted. But no, "we won't be held to ransom". You don't hold a club like Leeds to ransom - we are the biggest club in the division with the highest turnover, being able to pay players what they actually want should be a perk of that. We're left paying mid table wages.
Like I have said before, just re-investing what the club makes would be nice. Genuinely makes, not what it makes after Bates has taken out legal fee's and **** knows what expenses.
I've never been able to understand (I don't know most of the details) why on earth the club had to pay £1.5 million in legal fees for charges against him personally. It was him that whoever tried to sue or whatever, not the club. He's a ****ing ****.
