Wonder how JM sees our CB pairing. He knows Koch from his first time at Leipzig, so guess we should see Koch and Struijk as Llorente injured, but for Villa does he play his two Internationals in Koch and Llorente. Does he see Struijk as back up, does he see Struijk as a starter at CB or DM or even LB. in the Summer he will have to decide on Cooper, Struijk, Lorente, Koch, Cresswell, Hjelde and Kenneh so expecting our CBs to be sorted in some way
Leeds Supporters Group on Facebook. A guy took a selfie with Kalvin outside a hairdressers, he said Kalvin told him he is feeling great and two weeks away from a return
Mentioning wingers actually gives Marsch a bigger headache in the summer: Raphinha Harrison James Costa Summerville Poveda Davies You would say 3 or 4 of these will transferred out of the club we have a loans manager who will have reports on everyone and even Costa has spent most of the season warming the bench in Spain, and Davies has also spent most of ghe season as back up LWB/LW for Bournemouth
The cards seem to have fallen well for Cody Drameh, he still seems to be getting good reviews. OK just the championship but he appears to be doing well.
Drameh and Bogusz were the only Leeds players smashing it this season out on loan. Bogusz is now goosed and will be lucky to be fit fir the new season, but Drameh in a very tough league is having a great time defending and attacking. Been close to scoring a couple and also a couple of assists. Hes a fans fav, so that says to me he should come back in the summer and push Ayling. Poveda was doing well but got inured badly too. Kiko is now 2nd choice at Elche and forget the rest like Edmondson who seems to have killed his career?
Loan Players: Bogutsz ...............Club Ibiza Kiko ....................... Elche Edmondson ..........Fleetwood/Port Vale McCalmont ...........Morecambe Kun ...................... Real Union Elia Caprile .......Aurora Pro Patria Davies .................Bournemouth Poveda …………..Blackburn Costa …………….. Valencia Drameh ………….. Cardiff City In fairness to Caprile hes also having a great time as No1 but in the Italian 3rd division. He has always been great shot stopper, penalty expert snd decent distribution
He can’t rely on Llorente he is always injured, I’d hazard a guess Cresswell, Koch, Struijk, Hjelde and Cooper going forward. Personally I’d let Llorente go in the summer. He will surely take a long hard look at the U23s and decide two scenarios, a team to build around next season in the PL and where extra funds can be raised and a team to get us straight back up should the worst happen. Being positive he’ll have zero loyalty, no favourite players, he’ll make football decisions from the head not the heart
I'd agree, this job will give him more exposure than he's had before, he won't let his reputation be at risk by keeping players he doesn't believe in, personally, I'd keep Cresswell , Koch and Struijk with money permitting,get 2 more commanding CB's in.
He's promoted Jackson so hopefully we'll see more of the U23s playing. It's interesting to hear JM say that players had been playing with injuries. Maybe small injuries were aggravated and became long term?
Well we have players out on loan who should never come back as they can’t keep a place in lower league teams. I believe Bogusz will be sold to Legia Warsaw, and Davies my get sold to Bournemouth. Caprile could come back to replace a keeper, but Drameh is the only star who could return. Then we have the present U23s to look at who many have had a torrid time of not playing so JM will need to look at them, as some may have gone backward due to not playing enough. Jacko will be cruical here
Plenty of 23s on the coach today including, Shaks, Greenwood, Summerville, Joffy, Kenneh, Cresswell, Bate ….
Wonder how they will line up as Joffy not starting so assume Rodrigo and James or will it be Raphinha with Rodrigo? Loads of wingers today? DM? No Forshaw….
We deserved at least a draw and a point. Leicester were lucky but Barnes finish is what we lacked. Composure needed from Rodrigo, Raphinha, Harrison, James, Koch and more. Danish keeper was MoM so that says it all. Raphinha wasnt at it again, Joffy was and always manages to create something, just wish we could get the ball to him more. Bamford will probably get some minutes on Thursday, but we were much tighter and more creative Most Leeds players must have been 6s and 7s
Keeper was given MOM but reality was 2 regulation saves and another that hit him. barnes finish was good, but it went through aylings legs. 3x out of 4 that’s blocked. Relegation sides are rarely the lucky sides. can’t agree on joffy today. All I saw was Head down dribbling into people to lose the ball and a couple of scuffed shots. I like him, but today summed up to me why he likely hasn’t had the game time plenty have demanded.
