Pub breath Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 2 hours ago, Mickyblueeyes said: This. Maybe I’ve got my blue tinted glasses on but the players that they have signed are good but not one is good enough to get in our first team. Which is what these players would want. Koch - decent but not as good as Soy or Evans. Rodrigo - not fit to lace Vards boots. De Paul decent again but tielemans, Madders and Ndidi stand ahead. Sometimes we forget that we hold some very very good footballers. I'm not sure anyone is suggesting that Leeds are trying to overtake Leicester this season. You are years ahead of us, you're recent league winners for Christ's sake! You having better or equivalent players to the ones we are signing is not really relevant. Our ambitions are different. We want to consolidate and then have some talent and a base to push on from. You want Europe. You SHOULD have better players. The acquisitions so far have been superb and very well judged. The one thing with Bielsa-far more than any manager I've ever seen-is that he improves every player he works with, by degrees. You cant judge the signings on what they are now, you need to see them after a few months of being Bielsa'd! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickyblueeyes Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 1 minute ago, Pub breath said: I'm not sure anyone is suggesting that Leeds are trying to overtake Leicester this season. You are years ahead of us, you're recent league winners for Christ's sake! You having better or equivalent players to the ones we are signing is not really relevant. Our ambitions are different. We want to consolidate and then have some talent and a base to push on from. You want Europe. You SHOULD have better players. The acquisitions so far have been superb and very well judged. The one thing with Bielsa-far more than any manager I've ever seen-is that he improves every player he works with, by degrees. You cant judge the signings on what they are now, you need to see them after a few months of being Bielsa'd! My response was with respect to whether the signings you or anyone else in the premier league has made signings that would improve us. I suspect they will improve you. I don’t think they would improve us. That was the point. Not having a go at your transfer business. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pub breath Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 2 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said: My response was with respect to whether the signings you or anyone else in the premier league has made signings that would improve us. I suspect they will improve you. I don’t think they would improve us. That was the point. Not having a go at your transfer business. Ah fair enough, perhaps I misunderstood. It is kind of a moot point really as we won't be troubling you aside from the two games we play. I'd say you should be more concerned about who Spurs and Arsenal are signing and whether you are keeping pace with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue ROI Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 When available a defence with Ricardo, Evans and Soyuncu is as solid as any club outside the elite 12 or so could wish for. Chilwells departure is a concern yes but a winger and to a lesser extent an able striker to compliment Vardy have been our biggest issues post-Mahrez and is still something we need to sort out not the defence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wymsey Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 Some good news, at last, on this front. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53960784 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Shep Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 1 minute ago, Wymsey said: Some good news, at last, on this front. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53960784 Don’t be going all positive Wymsey! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UniFox21 Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 1 minute ago, Wymsey said: Some good news, at last, on this front. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53960784 There was a post on reddit with someone who went to the game. Pretty interesting to read how he experienced it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Oxlong Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 SSN reporting that Donny van de Beek is close to signing for Man Utd I imagine their fans will be pretty chirpy about that news 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 Leeds taking huge risks - similar to Villa last season. You’ve simply needed PL experience to survive. It took us to sign Huth in realising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 5 hours ago, Paninistickers said: Odd transfer. Right up there with us going for Bennett. Spurs will play three at the back next season. Doherty at RWB. Will do well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudulike Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 Liverpool FC: the 30 year wait. Prime time BBC2 Sunday night. They think we all love them as much as they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pub breath Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 7 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said: Leeds taking huge risks - similar to Villa last season. You’ve simply needed PL experience to survive. It took us to sign Huth in realising. How much PL experience did the Sheffield United squad have last season? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 4 minutes ago, Pub breath said: How much PL experience did the Sheffield United squad have last season? Fair dues but slight difference being there, they signed Jagielka to play a background role and had a predominantly British based team. Villa, Fulham, Huddersfield, QPR - all examples in recent years of teams going big on signings from abroad only to struggle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry96 Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 Leeds aren’t taking huge risks . Imagine thinking pl experience is a thing, it’s such a myth really. Leeds are buying smartly if anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 Just now, Harry96 said: Leeds aren’t taking huge risks . Imagine thinking pl experience is a thing, it’s such a myth really. Leeds are buying smartly if anything. What makes the signing of De Paul any different from say Vietto at Fulham? Koch’s a decent signing - coming from a league which has similarities to the PL. Rodrigo has a hint of that lad from Malaga who joined Everton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pub breath Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said: Fair dues but slight difference being there, they signed Jagielka to play a background role and had a predominantly British based team. Villa, Fulham, Huddersfield, QPR - all examples in recent years of teams going big on signings from abroad only to struggle Some of the best teams in PL history have been almost entirely full of foreigners and I'd say the PL today is less different to any other league than it ever has been. Those teams who struggled made lots of very poor signings. Where they came from is not the deciding factor. Edited 30 August 2020 by Pub breath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 48 minutes ago, Mike Oxlong said: SSN reporting that Donny van de Beek is close to signing for Man Utd I imagine their fans will be pretty chirpy about that news He was going to join us but apparently someone from the club called him ‘me duck’ and he got all offended. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 Just now, Pub breath said: Some of the best teams in PL history have been almost entirely full of foreigners and I'd say the PL today is less different to any other league than it ever has been. Those teams made lots of very poor signings. Where they came from is not the deciding factor. Aye but we are talking world class foreigners aren’t we in those best teams Not three lads who played for teams in the mid table or even lower of the European leagues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pub breath Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 1 minute ago, Cardiff_Fox said: Aye but we are talking world class foreigners aren’t we in those best teams Not three lads who played for teams in the mid table or even lower of the European leagues Well Barca and Athletico wanted Rodrigo. Juve are our competition for De Paul and we are in talks for a Croatian defender who Bayern have been eyeing up. Why would they be OK for those clubs but not Leeds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry96 Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 4 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said: Aye but we are talking world class foreigners aren’t we in those best teams Not three lads who played for teams in the mid table or even lower of the European leagues Trust me Rodrigo and de paul can both easily play for sides in that top 6. Seen them both a fair few times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester_Loyal Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 It's good that fans are returning to games, but just reading that Brighton fans experience makes me feel depressed, I have zero interest in attending a football game in those circumstances. I'd rather stick £50 (ticket cost and travel to game cost) on a tab in a pub and sit with all my mates watching it on the tv. At least we'd get a decent day out of it rather than 90 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 29 minutes ago, Spudulike said: Liverpool FC: the 30 year wait. Prime time BBC2 Sunday night. They think we all love them as much as they do. Stevie G desperate to leave at one stage. I reckon, secretly, he regrets not joining Chelsea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CosbehFox Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 4 minutes ago, Harry96 said: Trust me Rodrigo and de paul can both easily play for sides in that top 6. Seen them both a fair few times. Ahh so there’s a risk there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 30 August 2020 Share Posted 30 August 2020 5 minutes ago, Pub breath said: Well Barca and Athletico wanted Rodrigo. Juve are our competition for De Paul and we are in talks for a Croatian defender who Bayern have been eyeing up. Why would they be OK for those clubs but not Leeds? So why didn’t they sign them then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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