I had a similar conversation with a similarly real life Leeds fan. The one he’s gutted about losing is Archie Gray. Said of Rutter ‘he’s either brilliant or totally rubbish and there’s nothing in between’. He can’t believe we spent £40m on him.
Positionally it seems like he’s effectively replaced Buononotte. So my bar is whether he is an upgrade on him. He can’t do anything about the fee we paid (which does seem extraordinarily high).
I wonder if the O’Riley thing is actually about Kadioglu. Get him and it frees Hinshelwood to play CM and we don’t need o’riley and then we can afford this bloke?
Checked with a Leeds mate and he said ‘he’s our 3rd best player. We’ve already sold the best two’. And also ‘he’s either absolutely brilliant or totally sh**e. Nothing in between.’
Hard to say who is a striker and who a #10 these days, but if you look at it as 4 attackers across STR, ACM, LW, RW, then we would have Ferguson, Welbeck, Pedro, Rutter, Gruda, Minteh, March, Mitoma, Adingra, Enciso. So 10 players for 4 positions. You could probably exclude March as he’s both...