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01 Apr 2026 06:24:12
30 mill for Struik. Start the car.

01 Apr 2026 07:40:14
That's the starting price. You can only use the keys to unlock the car at that point! 😄

01 Apr 2026 11:04:37
April 1st, come early, Auzzy. 🤣

01 Apr 2026 13:28:15
Can't understand all those who want to sell him. I'd turn down all but any astronomical offers. If it happened, we then have to find a satisfactory replacement, and past experience should tell us that potential targets often turn out not as good as we hope.

He's not out of contract til summer 27, so I'd seek out his reaction to a possible contract extension and keep our powder dry for now.

01 Apr 2026 13:53:39
Amps. Bijol. Bourn Justin. That's enough, JR. Maybe bench one of our younguns. That's 5 replacements. I'd take 10 for Struijk.

01 Apr 2026 15:55:18
Not wise to sell one of your best players.
Agree with JR, unless he wants to leave, we should hold on to him at all costs.

Think it's mainly Aus who's got something against him, don't understand why either?

31 Mar 2026 14:13:20.
Looks like Spuds have brought in Rdz. Should we be worried?

31 Mar 2026 15:03:59
Concerned, yep.

But, I would have been even more worried if Dyche had come in for the 7 games.. Spuds need to stop shipping goals, and he would have probably improved them on that.

31 Mar 2026 15:36:25
Don't think it matters who they bring in, 7 games is no timescale to wave a wand. It's more about the players, who is fit, who is up for a scrap, where are their leaders.

A manager, whoever he is, will take time to instill his philosophy and ideas. Their enemy is time. The Forest game was huge. Lose the next game, it's 6 left, etc. Tick tock.

31 Mar 2026 16:02:22
No timescale, yes, but they don't need to win a whole lot of games to be safe.
Don't think we can pour scorn on our fellow bottom feeders, as we are all in a pickle.

Regardless of Zerbi needing time, we need goals, and that's a serious problem also.



It's going to wire, probably even last day.
I have never bought "we will win enough home games" narrative, so if we lose another 1-2 we could very well move into 3rd spot to drop.

Squeaky bum time for sure.

31 Mar 2026 16:27:23
Was just commenting on Spuds, Chris, our situation is equally perilous unless we can start scoring, as you rightly point out, and get some points in the bag. If I was pouring scorn I would have pointed out Spuds approached RDZ after he left Marseille in February; he turned them down. They approached him after the Liverpool game; he turned them down again.

Now he accepts? They must have, in the words of Don Corleone, made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Smacks of desperation. What others do is up to them, what Leeds do is another matter, but we have continuity and the squad to finish the job, in my opinion, of course.

31 Mar 2026 16:36:57
We may not have the quality in our team, but we have bags of fight in all our players.
Are all the Spurs players up for a fight?

31 Mar 2026 16:51:21
I think fight is certainly part of it, and in recent games Spuds look like they have just given up and are resigned to their fate. The immediate challenge for RDZ will be to make the players care again and want, really want, to fight for the team and themselves.

No doubt many think they will just be sold, and that might impact their desire for a scrap, but who knows?

31 Mar 2026 17:21:52
There's not just the fight but also the massive spotlight on them, with their new manager.
Nerves and pressure will be at their maximum, not just the players but their fans as well. If they go a goal down in any of their final games, the tension will be ramped up to its limits and beyond.
Rather be us than them.

31 Mar 2026 17:24:46
My coaching pal at Brighton confirmed Rdz certainly is not missed at Brighton, known to be very petulant and sulks if he doesn't get his own way, nobody doubted his talent and tactical nous, but nobody missed the mood swings.

Agree with Baz.

(Ouch!) I would be more worried had Arry or Dyche gone in there with only 7 games left.

I'm more worried about our own drop off in form, especially in terms of goals. We need a bit more bravery from our coach, draws won't cut it.

31 Mar 2026 17:57:12
Good man, Class. Makes sense.

01 Apr 2026 08:40:08
I doubt very much Sean Dyche would have got anything out that Spurs team of inflated egos.
He had the best squad of quality players at Forest and failed.
Dyche gets a better tune out of lower quality scrapers.
I wished they had chosen him because 100% they would've gone down.

30 Mar 2026 07:16:24
Shoulda signed a striker in January.

30 Mar 2026 09:50:32
Shoulda coulda woulda.

30 Mar 2026 10:02:13
Shoulda always played AO and Willy in preference to BA, Gruev and DJ, but, hey, time will tell if those decisions were wrong or.. lucky.

30 Mar 2026 12:01:21
Oh Class, that word lucky is a bit unfair on Farke if he does keep us up.
I fear for him on that one, that if the mission is accomplished, there will be a section of Leeds fans that will give Farke and his coaching staff zero credit for doing the extremely difficult task of keeping us up in our first season back, and, unfairly in my opinion, slap a lucky tag on his back.



Surely Leeds fans won't go that low?

30 Mar 2026 12:05:52
Time has already told us, Class.
If we stay up, it doesn't take away or excuse wrong decisions.

30 Mar 2026 12:39:49
Not necessarily lucky, but I think Farke has underperformed. Staying up is the bare minimum expectation and performance metric, so yes, well done, but could do better, and I think a more competent manager would have seen us safe already.

30 Mar 2026 13:55:07
Stats show, and I know a lot of you blokes like stats, that over the entire Premiership existence, I believe there is only approximately a one in three chance of staying up in the first season, and over three seasons, newly promoted teams have a 60% chance of returning to the Championship.

Why fans, and that is especially a number of Leeds fans, believe it is pretty much a given that we should stay up is, in my mind, quite incredible.

In fact, to some it should be quite easy to steer well clear of relegation!

Shall we just give underachieving Farke a slightly over average lucky label or a fully lucky label?

Nothing ever surprises me in football.

30 Mar 2026 14:25:39
Alf, with a more competent coach, as you call it, perhaps we are virtually down already, like Wolves and Burnley.
Competent coaches are overrated, didn't you know.

29 Mar 2026 22:09:28
44 days the same as Clough still not sure which was the worst decision, hiring Cloughy of firing him 😁😁.

29 Mar 2026 22:28:11
Hiring Clough (esp without Peter Taylor) was worst.

30 Mar 2026 15:08:17
After his well-known insults directed at Revie's team, he should have never got near the job. Johnny Giles was the man to take over.

30 Mar 2026 18:11:30
Definitely, Feath.

Clough may well have worked another couple of years down the line (as Baz said, needed Peter Taylor with him) .