The transfer window closed last night at 11pm with Leeds managing
to hang on to their key players for once, however they failed to add to a
depressingly small squad. Fans had to endure one time targets sign for our
Championship rivals, and with so many teams strengthening it’s hard to see us
challenging this season. Of course there is always the hope that we are taken
over and that we strengthen in January and do a Reading. Or that the takeover
is concluded in time for us to delve into the oh so familiar emergency loan market
and acquire players with a view to permanent deals either in January or at the
end of the season. But the frightening reality is that our squad cannot handle
back to back Saturday and midweek games. It is too small and the quality
outside of the first eleven too average for us to hope we can go to the likes
of Forest, Cardiff and even Bristol City and continue to pick up results.
Warnock is no doubt as annoyed as us that he hasn’t been
able to strengthen. A poster on WACCOE who is well respected and was deemed ‘kosher’
by the LUST chairman Gary Cooper confirmed as much last night when he posted
that Warnock has already resigned ‘once this summer, but was persuaded by
Harvey and the buyers to stay’ and that ‘he will be gone if bates is still
presiding over next summer’. This to me proves that the Warnock resigning
rumours earlier this summer were certainly true, whilst the poster also revealed
rather interestingly that the ‘buyers have been in contact with Chelsea owner
Roman Abramovich. Presumably this is to get information on how to deal with Ken
Bates and the best tactics if you will to acquire the club. This to me is a
great sign, I think that it shows that our potential new owners are business savvy
and doing all they can to purchase the club.
There is of course other information given by that poster
and others on WACCOE but I’ll let you seek that out for yourself, I would
recommend every Leeds fan to do so as there is information that many of you
should, but probably do not know. Moving back to the transfer window, I can’t
help but look back and imagine what sort of team we could have had right now. I
do think that the back five is the best we had in years, but imagine adding the
likes of Howson, Snodgrass and Gradel to our midfield, whilst having players
such as Beckford, Johnson, Clayton and Delph in reserve. Whilst I think that
the situations with Beckford and Delph can be excused if not condoned, as I feel
that Beckford was always going to end up in the Premiership and we should be
glad that we held on for as long as we did. Whilst Delph was the first in a
long line of players to leave and we couldn’t really turn down the reported
amount of money whilst in League 1. The situation with the other players could
have easily been avoided. Instead of signing the likes of Vayrynen and Pugh we
should have been offering new contracts to our best players.
It really is inexcusable what has happened at Elland Road over
the past few years and there isn’t any words that exist that could describe how
we all feel about the current situation and what we have had to suffer over the
last seven years. Fans are sick of it and many have ideas of how to try and
show our feelings. Chants, banners, flags, peaceful protests and ideas such as
sitting in the centre circle before a game or lining up outside Elland Road and
not going into the games, but the main problem is that many are struggling to
agree on what the right course of action is. We aren’t marching on together in
the same direction at the moment and that is all down to one thing, and until
that disappears the majority of supporters will not be happy and we will not be
united as one.
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