Good Morning Everyone It's fair to say Ian Harte's reputation has taken a knock or two since becoming Jack Clarke's agent. The former fans favourite came under increasing pressure yesterday when reports began to appear linking Clarke with a move to Spurs. One familiar face on social media that Leeds fans will recognise is Simon O'Rourke. His criticism of the former Republic of Ireland left back led him to be blocked. Rourke then issued the following tweet:- Simon O'Rourke@simon_orourke Blocked by Ian Harte - must have searched his own name bless him. His antics prior to today re: Clarke have been silly and unprofessional. It’s all well and good saying he’s staying when it’s 48 hours before the window shuts and the club have turned down approaches. Interestingly Leeds owner Andrea Radrizzani 'liked' O'Rourke's tweet leading many Leeds fans to believe that Harte was not looking after Leeds Utd's best interest! Then yesterday evening Harte issued the following statement :- Ian Harte Ricky just to keep you updated. Jack will be staying at Leeds and wants to get the club back to where it belongs!!! #MOT. So, it looks like Clarke's future is clar, at least until the Summer! Speculation was rife last night that the James deal was off as Swansea had managed to get significant wage earner Leroy Fer off their books. This meant that their money worries were significantly less important, and their would be no need to sell their prized asset. However at 11.20pm last night Phil Hay clarified things, when replying to the following tweet:- J.J@jjbtdc247 Close to an agreement or nowhere near? Phil Hay@PhilHayYEP Replying to @jjbtdc247 @AllLoveLeeds @LUFC it’s like this. Club have been confident but even forgetting them, I spoke to someone close to James yesterday who said it will “100% get done” (his words not mine, just so we’re clear). It’s been hanging that way since last week. Question now is whether it’ll actually go through.
Morning Elland and all. Just to be clear Ian Harte’s now first and foremost a football agent. Just happens to be an ex Leeds player in a former life. In my eyes, all football agents are the dregs of football much like boxing and they’ve done far more harm to the game than sky tv or silly stuff pundits say. You don’t see anyone whingeing much about the agents though. I would take what all these parasites say with a pinch of salt
Morning all Swansea picked him to play because Fer was due to leave and Bony could also be going so pressure on wages considerably less as Bony alone earns £100k per week. Dan James then goes and scores last night too, which has caused Swansea fans to explode about the sale of James. Yes it could still happen but we may have invested a lot of time and effort on this for no gain. I understand Bielsa said he wanted him and thats why the club have spent a lot of time on it. Fingers crossed but dealing with Hew Jenkins ..... There is little other tranny activity on the wires besides rumors and paper talk, so lets see if we have anything under the radar. Goodbye to Sacko as he moves to Turkey to try and square it over there, but he will deffo never play for Leeds again even though there are some fans saying he should get another chance. If Bielsa wanted a black Aidy White maybe.....
Morning all from frosty wakey usually when a move is near the players is removed from the team. It leaves little time for a medical and finding a place to stay.when does the loan market open again or is this the only chance we have.
Good Morning to Matt and co from a frosty Bardsey I believe Hay when he says we will get our man after all the hard work that's been put in to get him.Well we will know soon enough to add to this Hay mentioned that we still may sign a number 10 I wonder if our learned friend Doc can shine a light on this
Thursday is it until the Summer mate. This window system is a joke and the January window especially as its a sellers market with huge increases in player valuations. Is Dan James worth more than Bamford? not a chance, is he worth double the price of Saiz?
Not so sure a tranny'll be able to play for us Doc, even they don't don't know if they're Arthur or Martha..........
The only things that may surprise us are Ezequiele Ponce who Bielsa knows and has had watched twice. Another ex Bielsa player is Athletico Bilboa's winger Susaeta. Tyrone Mings or one of 3 Fulham players not required by Tinkerman. It is however very quiet
A few of the academy fringe players are going to be offloaded and it seems Oliver Sarkic will be the first later today
What are people's views on Charlie Austin as it seems he is going out on loan to a Championship club. Stoke and Blackburn spoken about so far. I expect he is on big wages but could he do a job and as Bielsa says, anyone coming in must be an improvement. Is he better than Roofe
Eleven sports owned by our chairman has got problems. It has lost seria A dutch and chinese coverage due to lack of subscribers. It has kept la liga till end of season but may not get it back. It seems our mr moneybags has taken steps too far and needs us to be promoted. Leeds are now his most likely way of making millions. So maybe we will be up for sale upon reaching the promised land.
I was star letter winner on the Dennis the menace fan club page in the beano back in 1983. Now that makes me rather young for this forum compared to the majority of the regular posters or rather juvenile. I will let you decide
