I have to say I am already pretty concerned at our preparations for coming season. Our manager says the players were delivered a wake-up call after the Bury result/performance. I think the Manager and the Chairman were delivered a wake-up call which they appear to be ignoring. The squad is not good enough.
Lets look at a few facts. The Leeds team that completed the 2009/10 season hobbled over the winning line and had been out of sorts since last January. On form we were a lower league side and we had been easily beaten by most of our promotion challengers. Has that squad been improved significantly with new and better players being brought in? The short answer is no. Our bargain basement strategy continues and none of the players we have brought in are much better than what we already have. Our 3 most pressing areas for improvement are centre of defence, central midfield and a striker. Neither Collins or Paynter inspire me. Collins did not impress me last year and Paynter's previous would suggest he will struggle in the Championship. The others are a mix of players who werent wanted by the likes of Charlton & Derby in which case why would we want them. Grayshon may have something up his sleeve but is he really banking on Somma replacing Beckford - that is a big gamble. I am very disappointed to see us losing out (apparently) on Hooper to the barcodes. This lad was certainly worth a punt of £2.5m but yet again, Bates refuses to put his hand in his pocket. Championship strikers are going to be wetting themselves at the prospect of playing against Collins, Naylor &/or Bromby. I want to see Bates invest the extra income he has got in season tickets, money paid before we knew what division we would be in, on some quality players. As things stand, and I don't enjoy saying this, we will struggle next season. If Grayshon goes on a spending spree in next few weeks and gers some quality in I will of course be happy to retract all this. I doubt it though. Phill :-( LOT (Limping on Together) > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:00:25 -0500 > Subject: Re: [LU] Bury - bit of match report > > > After sleeping on our result...I'm starting to get alarmed...mostly because > I'm moving into Mad Mike's camp! > > > > I'm glad to hear Grayson gave the team a good verbal lashing. > > > Cheers > Mark > El Presidente Wisconsin Whites > Leeds United > Chicago Fire > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with > Hotmail. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 > _______________________________________________ > the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators > accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. > Leedslist mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > and the hardest time in a sailor's day is to watch the sun as it sails away _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist and the hardest time in a sailor's day is to watch the sun as it sails away
