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If we let Dunk and Duffy both go, I wonder if we'd try to bring an experienced Premier League defender in (ideally on a free transfer) for a season or two to bring through the less experienced defenders but not impact their development and also not reduce the transfer budget too much (although...

Exactly. These things happen when you achieve your aim. We'd been up the top for two seasons and just missed out on promotion the previous season. We may have lost a bit of focus but it was understandable. As you say Liverpool did it. The question is why would a Leeds fan care that much about...

We finished 17th in 2019 and then sacked our manager due to an unacceptable run of form. Graham Potter came in and, in his first season, kept us up much more comfortably (and we scored more and conceded less goals), played a number of younger players and developed them and changed the style. Not...

Impressive to include so much rubbish in your first post on here. Normally people wait until they are a few posts in before showing their true colours. No proof he wants to stay there. He has just bought a house down here. No need to break up Dunk and Webster partnership. Play a back three. £25...

Agreed. They ended up with 93 points at the end of the season. I think we had the same, despite winning promotion with three games to go and not really focusing after that. It was also widely agreed that it was the weakest Championship in a long time last season. The standard was poor compared...

I know. But I assumed we just rolled a dice to see whether we would accept a loan to buy clause and got lucky

I know. It's almost like he didn't want to take the risk on a player jumping two divisions. But, after seeing him do well at Peterborough, he was suddenly keen on him. Almost like our development of him. Loans going up a division each year and now ready to feature for us in the Premier League...

To be fair, in these weird times, it is at least comforting to see that decisions on light/rain in cricket are as random as ever. And they are as ridiculous about lunch/tea timings as they have always been

Another club we loaned a player to last season. So we must be huge then :lolol:

It may be a coup but doesn't mean he'd be a success. Edouard has done very well at Celtic. I am not debating that. My point is he has not been tested and, in my view, it would be a massive gamble to spend such a big proportion of our transfer budget on a player who has only so far played in the...

To be fair, Maupay and Trossard were both around that level (Maupay maybe nearer £20 million). I think this is probably more of a realistic option than some suggestions

I definitely agree with you there. Bielsa is clearly a good coach but not at the level Leeds rate him at

To be fair, it's been two years since Celtic actually got to the group stages of the Champions League. They've been knocked out by CFR Cluj and AEK Athens in the last two seasons so it's only his first season there he played in the group stages. He's obviously played in the Europa League too but...

You forget Leeds are the rightful Champions of Europe and one of the biggest clubs in the universe

Fair enough. I am not saying they don't deserve credit. What I'm saying is they knew what would happen if he did well and that we didn't want to sell

I was merely suggesting there's no reason any of this should 'stick in the craw' of the Leeds recruitment team (not the rest of the post)

They completely knew the situation when they signed him though so there is no reason it should stick in the craw. They knew we had refused to include an option to buy. So they would have known that, if he had a good season, it would either massively increase his transfer fee or mean he is...

That is a fair point. French league is much stronger than Scottish league

Sounds interesting. Maybe we are going to take a couple of gambles like him rather than buy a very expensive striker for £25 million or £30 million. Maupay did well last season and Connolly will improve. If we take a couple of gambles at £15 million or so and one pays off, we'd have done well

I thought you weren't a Leeds fan. If you aren't, it is odd that you come on to another club's forum and only talk about them (not the two players from Brighton you claim to follow).