Sunday, December 23, 2012

Merry X-mas from Around My Leeds United


I'd like to thank you all for following my blog, both here, on twitter (https://twitter.com/KimLeeds) , facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Around-my-Leeds-United/159102904168923) and on http://www.weallloveleeds.co.uk/.

I want to wish you all a very merry christmas and a happy new year, lets hope that that coming months will give us Leeds fans what we want the most - The Leeds United promotion party in May.

Enjoy the holidays and stay safe everyone!

Marching on together



Tuesday, December 18, 2012

January transfer market coming up...

So LUFC fans favorite time of year is coming up, yup the transfer window. I hope that frases like "Irons in the fire" "Like a new signing" "Just couldnt get it over the line" & "The agent fucked us over" are gone after new ownership has arrived at the club.

One thing is on most Leeds fans minds though, how much cash have GFH made available for NW to spend.. Some seem to think were filthy rich and will be able to take our pick from every clubs in the Championsship and from some in Premier League too, I'm more cautious, I think were lucky if NW gets £1,5-2M for players.
There's a few reasons for that, I cant see us signing many players that can play in the prem right now, so why "waste" £5-6M on guys we'll have to sell when/if promoted. If NW is serious about retiring in the summer, why would GFH give him cash to spend on players a new manager might not want, and finally I'm not sure that GFH are as loaded as some fans think, I don't know, but I think they would have pushed the TO though ages before if they had "money to burn"

So who will we sign?

There's been plenty of rumours on both twitter and facebook, since the Alan Smith story has died it seems that Beckford and Gradel have taken his place in former players been linked with a return.
I'd love to see Gradel return to Leeds, but I honestly can't see it happening, his team in France are fighting for Champions League football for next season, I don't think his love for Leeds is big enough for him to quit that to, maybe just maybe, play for us in the Premier League. The Beckford story is never happening, we had the chance in the summer to get him on loan and NW never thought about it I think, he's not a NW kind of player, he's too lazy, so I really dont believe that.

So now that I've shot down the stories, I should put down my guesses on who's coming in.
I can see us signing Michael Tonge (wish SG had done that when he signed Pugh a few years ago), I think that Alan Tate will stick around as well. I really hope that Jerome Thomas stays too, but I'm not to sure that WBA are prepared to let him go, and his wages could prove a stumbling block too.
I'd like to see us add a left back and another striker too, Ross McCormack seems unlikely to score at the moment, and could be put to better use on the wing, he's after all one of our most creative players in recent years. NW dosent seem to like Aidy White or Adam Drury on the LB and no one likes Peltier out there (or anywhere really) so thats probably something we should look at, I have no idea however who we could sign.

Jermaine, my friend, we'll always have January 3rd 2010!

MOT!

Monday, December 3, 2012

Lee Peltier; Unlucky or Captain Calamity?


I was pretty happy when we managed to sign Lee Peltier this summer, after the Joel Ward failure where we all thought we were totally broke it was nice to get a proven player into the team. I was however, like most fans, pretty surprised when Lee was named captain, in my eyes he seems like a quiet guy and not much of a leader. A player like Jason Pearce or even Rodolph Austin seemed a much more likely choice, and more of a Leeds United type captain.

My biggest issue however is not that I don't agree with him being captain, my biggest issue is that after four months I still have no idea what his best position is, is he a RB, a CB or, doubtful, a LB?

In my head he's a RB, but young Sam Byram has done extremely well and made the position his own, so what to do? You can't put your captain on the bench, so you play him out of position and make him look like a fool.. Can't say I agree with that decision NW. Neil makes very few mistakes, but picking Lee as captain and playing him out of position is a pretty big one.
No one expected Sam Byram to play like he has, and we're all well impressed with him, and his progress actually means the purchase of Peltier is wasted in my opinion - but like I said, no one could know.

So in one way Lee Peltier is unlucky, because have came to a club that already had a better RB then him in the team, in many other ways he's just captain calamity because he plays out of position and makes a lot of errors, errors that might end us costing us in the long run.
I hope we get rid of Pelts in the transfer window, if we can get the money spent on him back, there are other spots in the team that those money could be better spent.

Before it all sounds to negative I'd like to thank NW for getting team spirit back in the recent games and getting my favorite player Luciano Becchio back to his best.

Marching On Together