[Albion] Deluded Leeds (an EFL club) fans

[father_and_son]

BBC News - Leeds United defend open-top bus celebration after stay home plea
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-53493960

Every team who have spent so long in the wilderness deserve to enjoy finally getting promoted... However this is neither the time nor the way to do it.

 

[GT49er]

why oh why is this debate still going on .

'Cos it's fun!


Next question ......................

 

[GT49er]

The absolute 100% positive with all this furore around White and Leeds posturing is it makes me 100% confident Tony won’t sell him to them. It would make us appear pretty tinpot and weak in the market whereas as we all know this club is anything but now.

Every player (yes, every player) has a price. I'm sure we don't want to sell him, and I hope we don't, but £50-60M+ with massive add-ons and a 50% sell on clause ............. would we be tempted?

A few snippets from the Leeds forum

"My player of the season, and would be the first on my list of players to come in permanently. Brighton may be asking silly money, but if we could get him for circa £20 million then I would snap their hands off. He is going to go right to the top. Hopefully, when Radz says we are going to break our record transfer fee, then it is on this guy."

See above: £20M doesn't even get your offer past TB's receptionist!

 

[Mackenzie]

A few snippets from the Leeds forum



"My player of the season, and would be the first on my list of players to come in permanently. Brighton may be asking silly money, but if we could get him for circa £20 million then I would snap their hands off. He is going to go right to the top. Hopefully, when Radz says we are going to break our record transfer fee, then it is on this guy."



"Has been tremendous for us this season, to the point that all those crying about us letting Pontus go had to admit that Ben was an upgrade. Would love him to stay, and I think he'd fancy it, but unless Brighton will sell for £20m or less, than I fear it's a non-runner"



"Hes a fantastic player already with the potential to get even better and I would love us to get him here permanently but at probably 30 million It would take up a sizeable chunk of the transfer kitty and whilst I think he would be good, he is unproven at top level. Brighton and their fans do annoy me constantly reminding us he is their player - there fans didn't even know who he was and they have done naff all for him in terms of development but are happy to reap the rewards - that's football though."



"Will be interesting. Not sure how long is left on his contract but if he hands in a transfer request then it really forces the matter, especially if Brighton cannot offer him guaranteed first team football. He could hand in a transfer request and basically say he only wants to sign for.

The ball is in his court no matter what Brighton say as unless they offer him first team football it would be a lose-lose situation as he would go down in value by not playing, would see his contract length shortening and White would be unhappy too.

So Brighton realistically have to offer him first team football if they want to keep him. If not then yes he could go anywhere but would he want to go to a Man City or Liverpool who probably wouldn't give him first team football. The other options are teams who could offer him starting football but they would be clubs that weren't bigger than Leeds so would it appeal to him to go them instead of Leeds where he has progressed and knows the manager and team etc."

Oh yes we did!

 

[bhanutz]

Huddersfield have just announced their new manager. I’m 99% certain he was the one who acts as Bielsa’s translator in interviews, which strikes very highly that Bielsa is not signing a new contract. Been talk of him missing home and family for a long while.

Surely the best coach in the world should be at the biggest club in the world... he will never leave Leeds

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Huddersfield have just announced their new manager. I’m 99% certain he was the one who acts as Bielsa’s translator in interviews, which strikes very highly that Bielsa is not signing a new contract. Been talk of him missing home and family for a long while.

Yes, he was the first team coach at Leeds.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/football/news/live-huddersfield-town-carlos-corberan-18646035

 

[Gwylan]

One thing that all the Leeds fans have missed is not just what we've done for BW but how good the club is at turning out centre backs. It could be argued that we're one of the best in the country, if not the best for centre back development.

Just look who we've produced in the last 20 years: Virgo (went for big money), Hinshelwood (England U21 international, career cut short by injury), Lynch (Welsh international, 300 league appearances), Cook, (umpteen PL appearances, club captain), Elphick (ditto), El Abd (nearly 500 league appearances, Egypt international), Dunk (club captain, England international) and then White and Roberts (England U17 and U18 international).

Throw in Grant Hall who went to Tottenham who couldn't develop his career and that's some record that Brighton have.

If there's one thing the club knows really well, it's CB development. Now, if we could only produce a striker ...

 

[Surport Local Team]

One thing that all the Leeds fans have missed is not just what we've done for BW but how good the club is at turning out centre backs. It could be argued that we're one of the best in the country, if not the best for centre back development.

Just look who we've produced in the last 20 years: Virgo (went for big money), Hinshelwood (England U21 international, career cut short by injury), Lynch (Welsh international, 300 league appearances), Cook, (umpteen PL appearances, club captain), Elphick (ditto), El Abd (nearly 500 league appearances, Egypt international), Dunk (club captain, England international) and then White and Roberts (England U17 and U18 international).

Throw in Grant Hall who went to Tottenham who couldn't develop his career and that's some record that Brighton have.

If there's one thing the club knows really well, it's CB development. Now, if we could only produce a striker ...

Add to that Connor Goldson who was very good, and we were very close to getting VVD for about 3.75mill. Who ever Scouts centre backs is sh1t hot. What a dream it would be if we could find a scout that was as good at finding strikers!

 

[Washie]

Add to that Connor Goldson who was very good, and we were very close to getting VVD for about 3.75mill. Who ever Scouts centre backs is sh1t hot. What a dream it would be if we could find a scout that was as good at finding strikers!

If our scouts and Arsenal's joined forces, that team would be unstoppable.

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

BBC News - Leeds United defend open-top bus celebration after stay home plea
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-53493960

Every team who have spent so long in the wilderness deserve to enjoy finally getting promoted... However this is neither the time nor the way to do it.

Much better to smash up Bournemouth town centre to celebrate promotion to the topflight.

 

[nwgull]

Add to that Connor Goldson who was very good, and we were very close to getting VVD for about 3.75mill. Who ever Scouts centre backs is sh1t hot. What a dream it would be if we could find a scout that was as good at finding strikers!

Leo Ostigaard is another that’s looking a tidy prospect.

Strikers are overrated. Look what happened to Liverpool when they sold their best attacking player and bough VVD for about half the price. Going back a bit further, Everton’s last title was the season they sold Lineker to Barca and bought Dave Watson!

 

[Stato]

Oh yes we did!

Indeed.

The 2017 thread when he went to Newport:

https://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?354435-Ben-White&highlight=ben+white

There is only one group of fans who had no clue who Ben White was before he joined Leeds:

 

[AZ Gull]

In all of this Ben White saga, I feel that there hasn't been nearly enough trolling of Southampton, who released him to the footballing scrap heap as a 16 year old.

I like to mention it once in a while.

To be fair, Ben White himself was there WAY before either of you...

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[Biscuit Barrel]

3 years ago Michael Flynn (then Newport manager) said Ben White would be a Premier League regular and play for England.

https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/s...of-praise-for-brighton-hove-albion-loan-star/

Maybe Leeds did not discover Ben White after all. Maybe him playing for clubs in the lower divisions for a couple of seasons to gain experience was part of the master plan all along

 

[atomised]

3 years ago Michael Flynn (then Newport manager) said Ben White would be a Premier League regular and play for England.

https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/s...of-praise-for-brighton-hove-albion-loan-star/

Maybe Leeds did not discover Ben White after all. Maybe him playing for clubs in the lower divisions for a couple of seasons to gain experience was part of the master plan all along

So Newport were key to his development and not Leeds, now that gives a different angle

 

[dazzer6666]

That lot over on WACCOE are very easily triggered - it's hilarious.

 

[Bry Nylon]

To be fair, imagine being from Leeds FFS

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Indeed.

The 2017 thread when he went to Newport:

https://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?354435-Ben-White&highlight=ben+white

There is only one group of fans who had no clue who Ben White was before he joined Leeds:

There were threads on here from 2016 onwards titled 'Ben White'. Weird how we didn't know about him.

 

[nwgull]

There were threads on here from 2016 onwards titled 'Ben White'. Weird how we didn't know about him.

Reading just the first page of that thread and notice that Big Gully was typically negative about the academy, and in this case their decision to give White senior experience. Always wondered what was behind it, but he seemed to have a real axe to grind about the academy from day 1.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

That lot over on WACCOE are very easily triggered - it's hilarious.

Don't you need to sign up to see it?