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Post by terriers2000 on Jan 4, 2020 18:11:03 GMT 1
Ben Jackson has gone back to stockport and has signed a new contract. Left back coming in soon ?
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Post by midlander on Jan 4, 2020 18:11:36 GMT 1
Any chance that this thread can just be about the title rather than the tiresome regurgitation of some folks' opinions about Phil/Dean/past mistakes/etc...
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Post by kennyk2 on Jan 4, 2020 18:13:16 GMT 1
One for the future perhaps? Watching an impressive performance by Liam Kitching, 20 year old left sided defender for FGR. Brings the ball out well and cool under pressure. Turns out he’s from Harrogate, ex-Leeds youngster. I've seen him play a few times and no a few lads that no him and the family. Grown up in the Leeds academy and loaned out to Harrogate past season or two. Glad hes played well and wish him all the best but honestly, i dont think so. This window's business will indicate what the future holds. If we don't spend any money at the risk of being relegated from the Championship then we will know that we haven't two ha'penny to rub together. This type of signing might be the norm in the future. |
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Post by terriersyndrome on Jan 4, 2020 18:13:29 GMT 1
Ben Jackson has gone back to stockport and has signed a new contract. Left back coming in soon ? Experienced LB needed. |
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Post by kennyk2 on Jan 4, 2020 18:17:10 GMT 1
Any chance that this thread can just be about the title rather than the tiresome regurgitation of some folks' opinions about Phil/Dean/past mistakes/etc... I think that we are mainly back on track now after earlier in the day. BigDaddy started a "confirmed" thread for certified transfer gen. This thread is mostly regarding and people's opinions, wishlists and townrwe shite. |
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Post by Syran on Jan 4, 2020 18:17:36 GMT 1
If the cowleys are not backed in this window, I think they will walk at the end of the season.
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Post by Floyds on Jan 4, 2020 18:19:14 GMT 1
I've seen him play a few times and no a few lads that no him and the family. Grown up in the Leeds academy and loaned out to Harrogate past season or two. Glad hes played well and wish him all the best but honestly, i dont think so. This window's business will indicate what the future holds. If we don't spend any money at the risk of being relegated from the Championship then we will know that we haven't two ha'penny to rub together. This type of signing might be the norm in the future. I know where my money is on the transfer activity this January. A couple of inexperienced loans who’ve barely played a first team game at this level and that’ll be our lot. Hopefully we won’t loan Grant to anyone on transfer deadline day and (obviously) not have any time to replace him. 🤦♂️ |
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Post by kennyk2 on Jan 4, 2020 18:20:41 GMT 1
If the cowleys are not backed in this window, I think they will walk at the end of the season. Looking back at the history of Town, the overriding factor is that whoever has been in charge has NEVER been willing to push the boat out, just a bit, a tiny bit, and spend money. I sometimes think that this is something peculiar to this part of West Yorkshire. |
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Post by TommyTheTerrier on Jan 4, 2020 18:29:05 GMT 1
Schofield going out on loan, just Grabara and Coleman for the last half of the season?
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Post by willo on Jan 4, 2020 18:31:13 GMT 1
If the cowleys are not backed in this window, I think they will walk at the end of the season. Looking back at the history of Town, the overriding factor is that whoever has been in charge has NEVER been willing to push the boat out, just a bit, a tiny bit, and spend money. I sometimes think that this is something peculiar to this part of West Yorkshire. There have been instances where this hasn’t been the case (eg big money wasted recently on Mbenza & Diakhaby and funds found to pay Simpson’s wages) but I get what you’re saying and I go back to the days of Keith Longbottom being Chairman. Generally, we have as a club over the last 40 years never speculated to accumulate or pushed the boat out when it could have made the difference. Is it a Yorkshire thing? Well you know what they say about Yorkshire people and money... |
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Jan 4, 2020 18:36:35 GMT 1
If the cowleys are not backed in this window, I think they will walk at the end of the season. That would be one of three things really. Cowleys are promised to be backed in transfer windows so made the decision to join us, if they aren’t backed based on that then they should walk and rightly so. Cowleys are not promised to be backed but joined us anyway. Cowleys promised to be backed but greedy agents and players make incomings and outgoings impossible. I don’t think it’s as simple as ‘if you are backed you can sign the players’, he has already said they have been working on transfers since early December, it must be a right shit fight trying to sign a player nowadays, gone are the days of buying a player to fund new floodlights. |
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Post by Essex Terrier on Jan 4, 2020 18:48:13 GMT 1
If the cowleys are not backed in this window, I think they will walk at the end of the season. Interesting comment, the biggest problems being the use of the words "I" and "think". |
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Post by Tiro on Jan 4, 2020 18:49:25 GMT 1
If the cowleys are not backed in this window, I think they will walk at the end of the season. They’re used to working within financial constraints. If you listen to their rhetoric, they understand the situation at the club and buy into it. Departing would be hypocritical, akin to Kongolo and crew - that’s not the Cowleys. |
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Post by kennyk2 on Jan 4, 2020 19:00:16 GMT 1
Looking back at the history of Town, the overriding factor is that whoever has been in charge has NEVER been willing to push the boat out, just a bit, a tiny bit, and spend money. I sometimes think that this is something peculiar to this part of West Yorkshire. There have been instances where this hasn’t been the case (eg big money wasted recently on Mbenza & Diakhaby and funds found to pay Simpson’s wages) but I get what you’re saying and I go back to the days of Keith Longbottom being Chairman. Generally, we have as a club over the last 40 years never speculated to accumulate or pushed the boat out when it could have made the difference. Is it a Yorkshire thing? Well you know what they say about Yorkshire people and money... Rubery did and the club was loaded for 6 months. Then it imploded. Just when we should have been strengthening in the January transfer window we got rid of Stewart.  |
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jan 4, 2020 19:10:23 GMT 1
Looking back at the history of Town, the overriding factor is that whoever has been in charge has NEVER been willing to push the boat out, just a bit, a tiny bit, and spend money. I sometimes think that this is something peculiar to this part of West Yorkshire. There have been instances where this hasn’t been the case (eg big money wasted recently on Mbenza & Diakhaby and funds found to pay Simpson’s wages) but I get what you’re saying and I go back to the days of Keith Longbottom being Chairman. Generally, we have as a club over the last 40 years never speculated to accumulate or pushed the boat out when it could have made the difference. Is it a Yorkshire thing? Well you know what they say about Yorkshire people and money... The fact you think signing Simpson on a free was a sign of pushing the boat out shows just how much of a disaster the last couple of years have been. That should have been small change on the back of two seasons in the Premier League |
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Post by shawsie on Jan 4, 2020 19:15:50 GMT 1
There have been instances where this hasn’t been the case (eg big money wasted recently on Mbenza & Diakhaby and funds found to pay Simpson’s wages) but I get what you’re saying and I go back to the days of Keith Longbottom being Chairman. Generally, we have as a club over the last 40 years never speculated to accumulate or pushed the boat out when it could have made the difference. Is it a Yorkshire thing? Well you know what they say about Yorkshire people and money... The fact you think signing Simpson on a free was a sign of pushing the boat out shows just how much of a disaster the last couple of years have been. That should have been small change on the back of two seasons in the Premier League It's not the transfer fees which are the problem. Some will get a shock I think when the accounts show our latest wage bill! |
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Post by specialun on Jan 4, 2020 19:16:34 GMT 1
I expected us to have signed players now and surprised we haven’t but let’s judge this window middle / end
I’d expect Hodgkinson to realise the errors of previous window decisions i.e. we can’t turn conference / league 2 players into championship quality players immediately ... and backing his new HOF Operations / manager. To be clear I’m not suggesting spending millions
Let’s take comfort from Phil’s comments in July and have confidence in him delivering
He said it was a three window transition and we hadn’t appointed a HOF Operations at the last - given the first was a disaster let’s call it three from now to be fair
Let’s also not believe this talk all of a sudden we’re over our budget. Why?
Phil explained in July why we didn’t need to sell...
‘’All the players had relegation clauses in their contracts, which other clubs have not done.
We have done it the right way
We are comfortable, we will be profitable in the Championship.’’
Since those comments let’s not forget we’ve sold Billing & Zanka, lost Mooy & brought in Campbell & Simpson’s frees and Chalobah loan
... so clearly we must be far better off than when Phil made those positive comments in July
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jan 4, 2020 19:20:10 GMT 1
The fact you think signing Simpson on a free was a sign of pushing the boat out shows just how much of a disaster the last couple of years have been. That should have been small change on the back of two seasons in the Premier League It's not the transfer fees which are the problem. Some will get a shock I think when the accounts show our latest wage bill! I don't think they will. It was very modest by Premier League standards Since relegation we've lost the wages of Mooy, Billing, Lossl, Zanka, Depoitre, Durm, Smith, VLP, Hamer, Williams, Sabiri. That's a massive amount of money and our wage bill will now be quite modest by Championship standards and tiny compared to most newly relegated Premier League sides. Once Diakhaby, Mbenza, Kongolo and Pritchard (maybe) are gone, I think it will be shock to people at how small our wage bill is when receiving parachute payments |
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Post by shawsie on Jan 4, 2020 19:29:02 GMT 1
It's not the transfer fees which are the problem. Some will get a shock I think when the accounts show our latest wage bill! I don't think they will. It was very modest by Premier League standards Since relegation we've lost the wages of Mooy, Billing, Lossl, Zanka, Depoitre, Durm, Smith, VLP, Hamer, Williams, Sabiri. That's a massive amount of money and our wage bill will now be quite modest by Championship standards and tiny compared to most newly relegated Premier League sides. Once Diakhaby, Mbenza, Kongolo and Pritchard (maybe) are gone, I think it will be shock to people at how small our wage bill is when receiving parachute payments But they wont be going off the bill yet.....most if not all of the above will go on loan with wages subsidised here initially. Who's seriously going to pay for the sprint bros?! Kongolo may go but will clubs pay him more than here and an eight figure tf fee? I doubt it. |
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Post by tepidterrier on Jan 4, 2020 19:34:18 GMT 1
We must have a lot of over 22s with contracts running out this summer and no sign of negotiations, therefore open to talk to other clubs if they want to. Can think of Kachunga and Stankovic, but surely there's more. Would be nice to have some players left
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jan 4, 2020 19:34:41 GMT 1
I don't think they will. It was very modest by Premier League standards Since relegation we've lost the wages of Mooy, Billing, Lossl, Zanka, Depoitre, Durm, Smith, VLP, Hamer, Williams, Sabiri. That's a massive amount of money and our wage bill will now be quite modest by Championship standards and tiny compared to most newly relegated Premier League sides. Once Diakhaby, Mbenza, Kongolo and Pritchard (maybe) are gone, I think it will be shock to people at how small our wage bill is when receiving parachute payments But they wont be going off the bill yet.....most if not all of the above will go on loan with wages subsidised here initially. Who's seriously going to pay for the sprint bros?! Kongolo may go but will clubs pay him more than here and an eight figure tf fee? I doubt it. Even with them on the wage bill it's still well on the right side when we're receiving £40+ million in parachute payments plus the £20 odd million we've received in transfer fees so far. I'd be surprised if our current wage bill is much over £25 million The only reason money is tight is because we're having to find £50million to give back to Dean |
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Post by JonsonClarkParis on Jan 4, 2020 19:40:33 GMT 1
I hope Schofield goes to a league 1 side rather than league 2 or non league.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2020 19:51:14 GMT 1
Not a member, what does it say mate? |
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Post by terriers2000 on Jan 4, 2020 19:53:30 GMT 1
Not a member, what does it say mate? Karlan grant is a overhyped kachunga I’ll drive to whatever club brings 5 million quid to table we need to focus on mounie and keeping him at the club. |
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Post by Kenny irons on Jan 4, 2020 19:56:39 GMT 1
Jesus
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Post by Tiro on Jan 4, 2020 20:04:22 GMT 1
Not a member, what does it say mate? Karlan grant is a overhyped kachunga I’ll drive to whatever club brings 5 million quid to table we need to focus on mounie and keeping him at the club. That’s what it says or that’s your opinion? Either way, it’s utter shite. |
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Post by richhtfc on Jan 4, 2020 20:07:55 GMT 1
If the cowleys are not backed in this window, I think they will walk at the end of the season. Looking back at the history of Town, the overriding factor is that whoever has been in charge has NEVER been willing to push the boat out, just a bit, a tiny bit, and spend money. I sometimes think that this is something peculiar to this part of West Yorkshire. I’d guess by this point in footballing circles we’re pretty much known for it. Still better than being seen as mugs or a soft touch. |
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Post by Porrohman on Jan 4, 2020 20:22:26 GMT 1
Karlan grant is a overhyped kachunga I’ll drive to whatever club brings 5 million quid to table we need to focus on mounie and keeping him at the club. That’s what it says or that’s your opinion? Either way, it’s utter shite. That's the opinion of the prick on FB but he usually spouts shit as far as I can remember |
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Post by Dan on Jan 4, 2020 20:28:03 GMT 1
Danny confirms "we're very close to 1 or 2" on Radio Leeds
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