Bully Wee Villa Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Leeds in a Yorkshire derby on a Friday night. What could possibly go wrong? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow Loon Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 (edited) Another ko change:- Our home match with Sheffield Wednesday will now kick off at 12.15pm and will be screened live on Sky Sports. The match which takes place on Saturday October 4 was originally scheduled for a 3pm start time but the game will now be the days early kick off. Edited July 16, 2014 by WE ARE LEEDS 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeSAFC Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Leeds in a Yorkshire derby on a Friday night. What could possibly go wrong? A keeper could get in the way of a celebrating fan? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Ah, good old Leeds. Only their supporters are incapable of celebrating without invading the pitch and assaulting people! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow Loon Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Cellino interview:- http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/latest-whites-news/leeds-united-the-town-has-a-new-sheriff-says-cellino-1-6736431 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeSAFC Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 I like Massimo Cellino 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repeat_offender Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Only their supporters are incapable of celebrating without invading the pitch and assaulting people! I suspect you'd like that to be the case but we both know it isn't. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow Loon Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 More from the YEP about Cellino's transfer policy:-Massimo Cellino has revealed that Leeds United’s summer signings were likely to run into double figures as he waited on the completion of a deal for Sampdoria’s Gaetano Berardi.In a lengthy interview with the YEP, the United owner said he planned to bring another “five or six” new players to Elland Road on top of the four already signed by the Championship club.His comments pointed to a major overhaul of the squad at Leeds and a sweeping response to the club’s mediocre performance in the Championship last season, a season in which they finished 15th.United have already signed goalkeepers Marco Silvestri and Stuart Taylor, midfielder Tommaso Bianchi and forward Souleymane Doukara, and Cellino confirmed that an offer for Sampdoria’s Berardi was virtually in place.The right-back, a Switzerland international, has been made available by Sampdoria and Carlo Osti, the Serie A club’s sporting director, appeared to indicate that a deal was done on Wednesday night, saying: “Berardi will go to Leeds.”Cellino said: “Berardi I haven’t signed yet but I hope to. He’s a good guy.“I’m offering less money than Sampdoria, he’s playing in Serie A and played 150 times in Serie A, and he’s a national team player but he’s wants to come.“The agent of Berardi is a good friend of mine. He (Berardi) said he wanted to go to Cellino in England. I said ‘how much do you want?’ and offered less. If you’re good, you’ll get a bonus. You have to show me that you want to come here, not for money.“When you sign players, you can always raise the wage. You can never lower the wage. So if you trust yourself then trust me. I’m not going to take advantage.”United have opted against the option of taking Brazilian defender Rodrigo Ely from AC Milan. Ely is moving on loan to Serie B side Avellino but Leeds are continue to chase Federico Viviani, Roma’s 22-year-old midfielder.Viviani’s agent told the YEP earlier this week that Viviani had a spate of offers from Serie A clubs to consider but Nicola Salerno, the former Cagliari sporting director who has joined Cellino at Leeds, was quoted tonight as saying: “We have good chances to take Viviani but the deal isn’t done yet”.Leeds have just three weeks to finalise their senior squad for the opening game of the Championship term, away to Millwall, but Cellino said: “We’ll sign another five or six. We need that. I don’t want to say names because you test your luck.“We’ve got more than 50 games next season and we need players, good players. We were missing that last season.”Cellino has made just one addition from the English league - keeper Taylor on a free transfer from Reading - and he said his current lack of knowledge about English players and the cost of signing domestic talent was likely to see further arrivals from abroad.“I’m just starting in British football,” he said. “I try to understand the best players over here but I don’t know much about them because you need time to watch games.“I love British players but if a forward scores 26 goals in France, he costs me four million euros. Here, they ask me for £9m.“At Cagliari we looked at players from France, Sweden, Germany, Argentina and Brazil but most of them I didn’t think were right to play in the Championship. Because here the players are like Vikings. They’re going to kill the other guy! So I need to decide which players have the right skills but are also strong enough to play in England. This is high-level, physical football.” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 I suspect you'd like that to be the case but we both know it isn't. Are you suggesting that he didn't assault the goalkeeper? If so, why did he plead guilty to... ermmm... assault? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repeat_offender Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Ah, good old Leeds. Only their supporters are incapable of celebrating without invading the pitch and assaulting people! I suspect you'd like that to be the case but we both know it isn't. Are you suggesting that he didn't assault the goalkeeper? If so, why did he plead guilty to... ermmm... assault? You said only Leeds supporters are incapable of celebrating without invading the pitch and assualting people. That isn't the case. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 More from the YEP about Cellino's transfer policy:- Massimo Cellino has revealed that Leeds United’s summer signings were likely to run into double figures as he waited on the completion of a deal for Sampdoria’s Gaetano Berardi. In a lengthy interview with the YEP, the United owner said he planned to bring another “five or six” new players to Elland Road on top of the four already signed by the Championship club. His comments pointed to a major overhaul of the squad at Leeds and a sweeping response to the club’s mediocre performance in the Championship last season, a season in which they finished 15th. United have already signed goalkeepers Marco Silvestri and Stuart Taylor, midfielder Tommaso Bianchi and forward Souleymane Doukara, and Cellino confirmed that an offer for Sampdoria’s Berardi was virtually in place. The right-back, a Switzerland international, has been made available by Sampdoria and Carlo Osti, the Serie A club’s sporting director, appeared to indicate that a deal was done on Wednesday night, saying: “Berardi will go to Leeds.” Cellino said: “Berardi I haven’t signed yet but I hope to. He’s a good guy. “I’m offering less money than Sampdoria, he’s playing in Serie A and played 150 times in Serie A, and he’s a national team player but he’s wants to come. “The agent of Berardi is a good friend of mine. He (Berardi) said he wanted to go to Cellino in England. I said ‘how much do you want?’ and offered less. If you’re good, you’ll get a bonus. You have to show me that you want to come here, not for money. “When you sign players, you can always raise the wage. You can never lower the wage. So if you trust yourself then trust me. I’m not going to take advantage.” United have opted against the option of taking Brazilian defender Rodrigo Ely from AC Milan. Ely is moving on loan to Serie B side Avellino but Leeds are continue to chase Federico Viviani, Roma’s 22-year-old midfielder. Viviani’s agent told the YEP earlier this week that Viviani had a spate of offers from Serie A clubs to consider but Nicola Salerno, the former Cagliari sporting director who has joined Cellino at Leeds, was quoted tonight as saying: “We have good chances to take Viviani but the deal isn’t done yet”. Leeds have just three weeks to finalise their senior squad for the opening game of the Championship term, away to Millwall, but Cellino said: “We’ll sign another five or six. We need that. I don’t want to say names because you test your luck. “We’ve got more than 50 games next season and we need players, good players. We were missing that last season.” Cellino has made just one addition from the English league - keeper Taylor on a free transfer from Reading - and he said his current lack of knowledge about English players and the cost of signing domestic talent was likely to see further arrivals from abroad. “I’m just starting in British football,” he said. “I try to understand the best players over here but I don’t know much about them because you need time to watch games. “I love British players but if a forward scores 26 goals in France, he costs me four million euros. Here, they ask me for £9m. “At Cagliari we looked at players from France, Sweden, Germany, Argentina and Brazil but most of them I didn’t think were right to play in the Championship. Because here the players are like Vikings. They’re going to kill the other guy! So I need to decide which players have the right skills but are also strong enough to play in England. This is high-level, physical football.” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Naitch Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Chancer. (That's Cellino, not you) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow Loon Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Simon Austin Interview with Cellino:- Cellino on new signings, Hockaday, Elland Road and packed lunches I've interviewed Massimo Cellino for ITV Calendar and you can see some clips here. It's impossible to capture a 45-minute interview in five one-minute chunks though, so I thought I'd expand. I interviewed Cellino in the stands at Elland Road on Thursday and he was looking rather like a middle-aged rocker, with beige leather jacket, jeans and trainers, rather than his usual outfit of dark suit and open-necked shirt. And he was in good form - energetic, open and positive. Perhaps one reason was he was pleased with how pre-season has gone for his team. Admittedly, it's hard to draw too many conclusions from the matches Leeds played in Italy - beating a very poor FC Gherdina team 16-0 before two Leeds XIs went head to head after their Romanian opposition failed to turn up. But the training sessions were tough, certainly proving too much for one player. Jonathan Rossini was forced to pull up during one running drill because he just couldn't cope with the physical demands. Cellino had been keen to sign the Swiss defender, but his body and mind just didn't seem right (he has recently had to contend with some family issues), so it was decided best for Leeds to pull out of the deal to sign him. There's been a back to basics approach at Leeds this summer. Hockaday is a tracksuit coach who's happiest putting his players through their paces on the training pitch, and Cellino insists he's struck up a good rapport with his new head coach. "We speak the same language, the language of football," he says. "Dave really understands the game and so do I. In fact sometimes he doesn't even need to say anything for me to understand what he means." Cellino has demanded humility from his players. He admits he deliberately closed the Thorp Arch canteen before the team left for Italy, because they were taking their privileges for granted . "They were talking about their apple pie, their jacuzzi, their spinning classes before. You need to earn these things." So they did have to make their own arrangements for lunch for a couple of days, with many of them bringing in packed lunches. And it was a shock to the system. The Italian says he was impressed by what he saw during the pre-season tour to Italy though. "In the hotel, they told me 'your best Cagliari team never behaved as good like these guys.' "And this is why I was proud. A lot of English players drink and don't behave themselves. "They worked three times a day and are really nice guys. They are driving really hard. "A few of those are very beautiful players. I am very impressed. I saw Morrison, Hunt - they didn't play last year, but if you asked me now they are the last ones I would want to sell." Someone who didn't meet Cellino's standards was goalkeeper Paddy Kenny though, who didn't even make the tour. Cellino says the player's condition was poor when he turned up for pre-season in Leeds, and that he wasn't willing to meet the standards of the new regime when he was spoken to. According to the 57-year-old, the goalkeeping position shouldn't be a problem this season. Cellino says new signing Marco Silvestri is an absolute gem. He expects the 23-year-old to be the best keeper in the Championship and one of the very best in the whole country. The other new signings are midfielder Tommaso Bianchi, forward Souleymane Doukara - who Cellino says is fast, skilful and will become a fans' favourite - and right back Gaetano Berardi, as well as another keeper, Stuart Taylor. Cellino also said he was in advanced talks to sign two more defenders - one Scottish and one English, although he wouldn't give names. Another good source at the club told me a deal is expected to go through for Roma midfielder Federico Viviani, although the player's agent has played down the link. One player Cellino says won't be joining is former Newcastle striker Nile Ranger. There clearly were some discussions about the striker, perhaps just between Cellino and Hockaday, who knew the player during his time at Swindon. Cellino describes him as "the bad boy", which is certainly accurate when you consider his string of arrests and that infamous photo of him posing with a replica gun. Cellino explains: "The players are like a family and I can't afford to spend too much time on one of them who has problems." So the transfer will not happen, he says. Another player who won't be at Elland Road next season is, of course, Ross McCormack, the hero of the last campaign. Cellino says the striker wanted to leave for Cardiff in January and that he stopped him at the 11th hour. He says the player's agent then agitated for an improved contract and subsequently a move almost as soon as the season had ended. When McCormack and his agent told Cellino, face to face, that he wanted to leave, the game was pretty much up. However, Cellino still turned down a £10m offer from Fulham, eventually managing to get £10.75m for him. "I didn't like that someone else from the Championship came to get our best player," he admits. Money from the sale will be used to help buy back Elland Road though, which Cellino says will happen in November. However, he's not so keen on Thorp Arch, which he says is "like an amusement park" and too far from the stadium. The Italian wants a training centre close to Elland Road which he can drive to within five minutes. He's already actively looking for land for the new training centre. The other big piece of news, which has been well reported by the excellent Phil Hay of the Yorkshire Evening Post, is that Cellino has reached an agreement with previous owners GFH to wipe out a lot of the debt at the club. When the Italian purchased Leeds, he agreed to service a debt of £24m built up during GFH’s tenure as majority shareholder. Cellino argued that GFH had not fully disclosed the state of the financial problems at Elland Road though, and demanded that they compromise on the agreement. So under the terms of a new agreement, GFH is willing to wipe out half of the debt immediately and take repayment of the remaining money if and when Leeds are promoted to the Premier League. So far so good perhaps, but the real days of judgement will come on the pitch, starting with Millwall away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Do the Leeds fans on here not realise that literally nobody outwith them on this site gives a single f**k about whats happening there 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeSAFC Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Do the Leeds fans on here not realise that literally nobody outwith them on this site gives a single f**k about whats happening there Yes you do, just admit it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repeat_offender Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Do the Leeds fans on here not realise that literally nobody outwith them on this site gives a single f**k about whats happening there Wouldn't bother me either way. This thread is for Leeds fans and those with an interest in Leeds to exchange views and to post & read info relating to the club. Those that aren't interested can simply choose not to open the thread if that's the way they feel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow Loon Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Yesterdays goals:- http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21sj3o_guiseley-0-v-2-leeds-united-lufc_sport 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow Loon Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Do the Leeds fans on here not realise that literally nobody outwith them on this site gives a single f**k about whats happening there The same can be said of any thread on the forum, so just stick to your own teams thread if your not interested in Leeds 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gannonball Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Do the Leeds fans on here not realise that literally nobody outwith them on this site gives a single f**k about whats happening there A St.Johnstone fan giving it the I big I am, yup, seen it all now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 A St.Johnstone fan giving it the I big I am, yup, seen it all now I'm making the point that this thread is pretty much just constant posts from one supporter posting newspaper articles. Look at the top posters in this thead, theres one with 700+ posts, then the next person is just over 100, its ridiculous 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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