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Christian Pulisic from Chelsea is a name that's popped up a few times lately. Chelsea have said they won't lend him to "the Manchester side" (with some weird rumours of him being involved in a swap deal with Harry Maguire). It looks like they want to sell him if anything. Pulisic looks go...

Bears, bring them back. For the culture.

Kalimeundo joining Rennes instead.

I think that because Kalvin Phillips is a Leeds boy, we feel a closer relationship of sorts to him, like we know him in a personal way because there was a sense of him truly representing us. Hence why we tend to refer to him by his first name, unlike some of the other players.

Phillips - like all the main men of Bielsa's team - are all definitely legends to me. I understand the sentiment not being harboured by people who saw Revie's and Wilkinson's teams, but I didn't, so this is, or was, the iconic team to me; at least currently. Therefore, Phillips leaves with a great d...

NottinghamWhite wrote:Is there a reason that this hasn’t been announced yet ?

He's only just come back from his holiday after the international period. He's having his medical today, so I assume it'll be announced later on.

Thank you, Kalvin. I'll miss you a great deal. I hope he achieves a great deal of success at Manchester City... before returning to Leeds in 2-3 years.

I think we were always on the lookout for an additional CM, so if Phillips leaves we'll see another CM come in (Tyler Adams, perhaps).

From what I can make out, Aaronson is more in the mould of a more mobile Klich, than Hernandez.

Having done some more thinking: GK: Meslier, NEW (Johnstone) RB: Drameh, Ayling CB: Koch/Llorente, Cresswell CB: Cooper, Struijk LB: NEW (Sergio Gomez), Dallas, Hjelde CM: NEW (Maitland-Niles), Forshaw/Klich CM: Phillips/NEW (Grillitsch), Bate AM: Aaronson, James/Roberts AM: Harrison, NEW (Minamino)...