Leonickroberts wrote:Me and all. Do you get anything from supporting Leeds ISR? Of course things can always get better, but you don't seem to rate the squad, you hate Victor Orta, you complain about Bielsa's tactical rigidity (in spite of the fact we're second in the league), and you constantly complain about Radrizzani even though we're in an infinitely better position than we have been for 15 years both on and off the pitch.Wigan White wrote:You beat me to it bgd.bgd wrote:Oh come on, give it a rest for a day, ISR. It sounds like Bielsa identified a top target from day one, we've gone after him since, matched their requirements, but will be stumped by the manager holding his ground. What else could they have done in your opinion, just up to this point, this month? It sounds like we're pre-empting it with going after additional targets already even before they've rejected the second bid, so what much more can they do, when Bielsa is notoriously particular about what players he wants anyway?isrodger wrote:If we have failed to sign Adams as widely reported, then it appears to be yet another example of what an absolute shambles we appear to be in the transfer market. It’s not the fact we shoot ourself in the foot - it’s the speed we reload and do it again!
The bringing up of Roofe so frequently is tiresome too, even going by the consideration it was wrong call (not that it would have been a binary call that wouldn't have influenced subsequent transfers), why not just judge the club on what they do here and now, rather than constantly rehashing the same discontent from last summer? I can't be the only one that finds it really tiresome, and I only just land on the odd post on here every once in a while.
We must be the only team with a song that explicitly references the "ups and downs" of supporting a football club, and that's how many of us see it. Your analysis is always well considered and insightful, but its universally negative, and genuinely discourages me from reading these threads, which are otherwise full of nuanced and balanced opinions.
I will come back to you on that in terms of the squad, with the exception of the kids & Hernandez too old. I only believe we have 2 real premiership quality players in Philips and White. Ayling & Harrison may cut the mustard at a lower level Prem team, Costa has better raw ingredients than Harrison, so may progress next season.
I have consistently called bielsa a genius & the team is only where it is as a result of him, in my opinion. He’s not without faults, which is why he’s at Leeds not Mardrid & why he’s won very few trophies. He imo lacks a degree of pragmatism on occasions, and fails to address weaknesses that most of us agree are plain to see. Our conversion stats at both ends of the pitch are lower quartile. I think he made a bad call as regards Jansson & I believe he should have managed the player better.
I don’t get why you said I hate Orta, his recruitment approach at junior level is yet to reap dividends, so has to be questioned. At a more senior level he has been hamstrung as a result of a lack of funding; which led us to missing out on some real talents his analytics / recruitment team identified - Keane, Haaland and the one he uses at lectures James. I would argue that the best 11 players to play for the club over the past 3 years (white apart) were at the club before he arrived.
Radz - yes the club is in a healthier position. However, I would expect any owner who purchases the club to have sufficient funding to see the job through. He clearly hasn’t. Would you have a deal in place to buy a car for £5k today and back out in favour of a deal to pay £1.5k today and a further £5k in July? He has sold every player with the exception of Philips who he’s received decent money offers for, he raked in £30m in the summer and spent £250k on transfer fees. Having purchased the club and the ground (in a separate legal entity) I don’t believe he’s invested a penny bar diluting himself with the sale of shares to the 49rs.
He made great play of him having the opportunity to follow the Wolves model given his connections. I’m not sure their model actually was based upon selling in excess of £60m of players and relying on loan to buys. That said if he sells to his Qatari mate I will applaud just as City Fans did Shinawatra.