Of the 8 players named only 3 were signed while Farke was Manager and 2 of those named were sold before the Promotion season . Interestingly players like Ampadu, Gruev , Tanaka who did contribute to Promotion and were bought for relatively modest fees were not mentioned . I agree with the point that ...

I agree that Gruev is often underrated because he is one of those unobtrusive midfield cogs who does much of his best work shutting down attacks by using awareness and good positional sense . He also showed at times last season a range of passing which may prove useful in releasing the wingbacks and ...

I don't believe that you should discount the morale boosting effect that a club can get from performances like this team have delivered over the last week . Our two defeats to bottom 6 teams came away from home and while disappointing I would suggest that perhaps a more defensive approach aimed at ...

Basically with the replacement of Gruev by Ampadu and James by Okafor neither of which changes the dynamic that is the side that was walloped by Arsenal . I'm not sure what people expected from this season but I was resigned from the outset to a tough and gruelling battle to eke out enough points to ...

I think it's clear that if he's fit and firing that James gets in ahead of Aaronson and the question then becomes whether he can make a difference in terms of getting goals off some of the DCL knockdowns . It seemed to me that against West Ham that there were particularly in the second half a number ...

It didn't seem to me that Tanaka did enough against West Ham to displace Stach particularly for an away game . Everybody characterises the Ampadu , Longstaff , Stach midfield as exclusively defensive/ball winning when Longstaff and Stach both up to Burnley had decent creative stats. Both Ampadu and ...

There is no job vacancy at Leeds nor should there be. Success for this season has been set by everyone as requiring survival and so far we are on course for that and we all knew that it would be neither pretty nor easy . The squad that was assembled was predicated on playing a style of football that ...

The problem with that stat is that for 48 of those games DF was given no reasonable prospect of success being constrained by the Delia Smith recipe for Premiership failure . Together with the recruitment team he has proven that they have learned some of the lessons both from the failures of Norwich ...

Given that there has been a significant change in both playing style and personnel in the transition to the Premiership it is flying in the face of reality to suggest that Farke is unable to change . It would be far more correct to state that he is not a believer in change for changes sake and he ...

All of our starting 11 play at full intensity as long as they are on the pitch and in many games they do so under ferocious pressure for long periods . Some of the better sides that we have played have the luxury of bringing off the bench very expensive signings to change games in the latter part of ...

It is truly disgusting that El Kapitans turgid garbage remains up and unanswered and I wonder what Lucas Radebe would say if he knew that a Leeds fan forum allows what is effectively an apologia for the foul and disgusting apartheid regime to be publicised here. That lesser men who took office after ...

I thought Solomon was our key signing last year despite the doubts expressed by many and in terms of his contribution was probably the Championship Loan signing of the Season ( for all the doubts expressed about our use of Loans ). It's a bit harsh to criticise him for hoping to get a crack at the ...

I would have thought the issue here was when Solomon was made available for loan as if it was after Okafor was bought the decision was probably that we needed a right side winger /no.10 more at that stage .

The fact that it is going to be a long hard grind of a season is yet another reason why you need players with Premiership experience (Harrison) and cover defensive midfielders who provide protection for your defence (Gruev) and the fact that both are familiar with the club is an added bonus for ...

I disagree with the proposition that Harrison and Gruev are surplus to requirements . Both have played a role this season already and apart from the shitshow at Arsenal neither have performed badly and I don't think anybody deserves to be judged on the Arsenal performance . For the digging in and ...

There seems to be a pattern developing which is partly due to clickbait fodder and partly done to the pessimism of Leeds fans. A month ago there were dire predictions that Ampadu & Tanaka were going to be out for months and a few weeks ago we were told that Bogle was going to be out for 4 weeks plus ...

Have either James or Tanaka done enough in the games played since promotion to justify changing a winning team ? To my mind they haven't and therefore Farke will probably go with his instinct and keep the winning team together despite the howls predominantly from the Anti-Aaronson faction ...

There's a case to be made that if Adams had avoided injury that Leeds might well have avoided relegation as his ball winning and leadership were sadly missed in the latter part of that season. I think a lot of the resentment comes from the Leeds fans sense of entitlement and the perception that ...

A little like West Brom last season sometimes there's nothing like a hard fought 0-0 draw to give a proper sense of perspective amidst all the doom mongering of the last week . Four points won in three games including two games against last season's top four is a decent return and it is hard to see ...

As all the stats were that Buonanotte had scored 5 for Leicester I was somewhat surprised at the suggestion that he had only one goal for them . He did score against Villa but also against Forest , Bournemouth , Southhampton and Brentford and apart from the missing one goals against the other 4 ...