Marching On Together

Boyd: "But I think a lot of is overhyped as well, when you take into consideration what Leeds are spending, there's a lot of their players probably having their best season ever. "I think Patrick Bamford is only a couple of goals away from his best season ever which is fantastic but there's a lot of things pointing here to the fact they might, a lot of their players might be overachieving.

"All we here is Marcelo Bielsa is this master tactician, Chris Wilder did the exact same last season. "I know there were some plaudits there but when you take into consideration at what Leeds are spending, I think they maybe should be doing even better."

Stelling: "Kris, where have they spent big, who have they spent big on?"

Boyd: "Look at their transfer in the summer, I'll let you work it out and come back to me Jeff. You go and look at the money they spent in the summer.

Stelling: "Yeah, you tell me, what money did they spend in the summer? Raphinha cost £17m, Isn't that, you know...?"

Boyd: "It was nearly £100m in the summer they spent coming up. They spent a lot of money and a lot of people are speaking about Bielsa and the way they've gone about it. They've been a fantastic watch but it is so open. The games are so open. "A lot of people are delighted with the job Bielsa has done...next season, next season we will see."

Stelling: "Kris, some of the sides they are playing against have spent as much on one player as Leeds United have spent on their entire squad."

Boyd: "Jeff, I think if you go and look at the goal scored against..."

Stelling: "Just over £100m on nine players. Is that a huge amount?"

Boyd: "Jeff, now we are getting there, because you said what money did they spend, a £100m is a lot of money."

Stelling: "Well, you've gone up the Premier League, you've bought nine players, you've not gone up and bought a 50, 60, £70m player, have they? "What, not spend any money and go straight back down again? What about when they've gone to Leicester and won, gone to Aston Villa and won? "They've been brilliant at times."

I’m going 1) Stuart Dallas 2) Patrick Bamford 3) Raphinha. I went for Dallas as player of the year last season as well. I’ve almost run out of things to say about him. He’s like the T-1000 from Terminator. Tell him to be a goalkeeper and he turns himself into one (without indiscriminately killing people at the same time).

That probably depends on two things — whether Klich can rediscover his mojo and which midfielders arrive in the transfer window. But in this form, it would be very difficult to drop him. From right winger through right-back and left-back, he’s actually starting to look like a quality centre-mid.

Cjay wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:35 am Talk that Raph was seen on crutches and The Athletic reporting that he will miss a few weeks.

Not Phil Hay saying it but even so.

Cjay wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:33 am

Phil's top 3.

The Leon's coach people will explode with rage because he hasnt picked KP

I think that 3 is fair.

1964white wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:15 am Asked for an update on the Brazilian, Bielsa said: “I haven’t asked, but don’t have the feeling it is anything serious.”

1964white wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:44 am Difficult to pin it down to three imo!

Important players & those we miss when unavailable + my best six of the season are:

Dallas
Raphinha
Phillips
Bamford
Llorente
Ayling

First names on the team sheet imo!

Then there's Meslier of course, you wouldn't trust Kiko between the sticks for a sustained period.

Irish Ian wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:23 am



Centre backs? Really?
I would be happy for us to sell Cooper and bring through one of the other U23s

Cjay wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:33 am You missed out Alioski

So who would you give Player of the year to?

If you had to pick now.

I think after much thought id go for Raphinha.

I think his consistency alone wins it for me, he hasnt had a bad game and is right up there for all the stats.

Goals, assiss, sprints, chances created etc.

danhirons wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:17 pm any of dallas, paddy, raph, phillips and meslier have been different gravy

llorente has been recently too,