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Louth Branch Magazine articles
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This is the Louth Branch website. Always Leeds always loyal ! Edited by Gerry Cunningham.
Our First official trip of the season will bring the Louth Branch to the Bristol City game on Friday 12th of November and return on Sunday November 14th 2010. Deposits of €100to be lodged with Secretary before Monday, September 6th. Sep 2nd. The ins and the outs and the nearly man. The Yorkshire Post has reported that Leeds have parted company with Callum Davenport. Simon Grayson has mentioned how hungry and deserving Nunez and Clayton were of contracts, but also the one that got away. Re Nunez, Larry commented : "The lad came over on trial and wanted to prove himself to us and he's done that. It takes a lot of bottle sometimes to come over on trial and get yourself an opportunity. I think he had a few other clubs who wanted to sign him, but he wanted to test himself here. He's done well in the period he's been with us and he's been very lively in training and got some good technique and qualities. He's represented Honduras in the World Cup and shown what type of player he is. He's a lively, bubbly sort of player who we want to look at a bit longer .He's still slightly down on his fitness levels with the rest of the players, but he's shown in training there's something about him. It's up to me to decide whether there is a right time to throw him in amongst the first team. He's added something different to the squad." But who was the one that got away ? The manager teased fans with the following information regarding a good signing that we just missed. "We were close, very close to bringing in another player but the deal fell at the last hurdle which was unfortunate because I thought he would have been a good signing for us. But at the last minute he decided he wanted to stay where he was which he was entitled to do". He added that the search was far from finished. "We are looking all the time. We are looking at players who are out of contract, who have had their contracts cancelled Sept 1st. Bates at it again. Love him or hate some times you can't ignore him. Leeds have a bonus system in place where by the rewards are greater for each individual based on the team's position. The team is now in 6th position there by qualifying that week for the bonus. Of course Ken says we are in 6th position alphabetically, but being the nice guy that he is the bonus was implemented. What a man ! Sept 1st. The ins and outs during the Championship transfer window. The following is a run down of the Championship transfers for season 2010/11. Occasional guesstimates are provided for undisclosed fees which is becoming more and more frequent. For example I don’t believe that Leeds United paid more than £300,000 for any player this Summer. Why ? Because Ken Bates is our chairman and I just don’t have that feeling or perhaps hard evidence he has speculated £500,000 on any player this year. That said, we certainly increased our wage bill to a large degree, and perhaps there are add ons that we currently know little about. Whilst new regulations have come into affect for home grown players, the values of player transfers between Premier League clubs and player transfers from Football League clubs are much reduced compared to each of 2007 to 2009. Football League clubs have reportedly spent around £30M in summer 2010. Net of amounts received from Premier League and overseas clubs, the Football League clubs benefit from a net inflow of around £25M this summer; significantly down on recent years (summer 2009: £70M) and not a result that will help alleviate challenging financial circumstances amongst the Football League clubs. I have summarised the transfers and loans at the bottom. BARNSLEY IN Liam Dickinson (pic'd left) Brighton & Hove Albion £150,000, Goran Lovre FC Groningen undisclosed , Jason Shackell Index Nov 14th 08 to Dec 31st 08 For Archived Files for December 07 click here For Archived Files from October to November 07 click here For Archived Files from August to September 07 click here For previous news stories, please click here. For what you think of Leeds, click here to send in your rants and I'll include them in the "Rants" page. |
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before the deadline day, which means they can train with us or other clubs and sign afterwards, and of course the loan market opens soon".
Wolverhampton Wanderers Undisc, Jeronimo Morales Neumann Estudiantes Free , Jay McEveley Derby County Free, Jim O'Brien Motherwell Free , Diego Arismendi Stoke City Season Loan , Kieran Tripper Manchester City Six Month Loan OUT Daniel Bogdanovic Sheffield United Free , Michael Coulsen Grimsby Town Free ulian Gray Walsall Free , Simon Heslop Oxford United Free , Rob Kozluk Sheffield United Free , Jon Macken Walsall Free , Darren Moore Burton Albion Free , O'Neil Thompson Hereford United Season Loan , Anderson De Silva Released , Mounir El Haimour Released. 
Stewart Queens Park Rangers Undisc, Albert Adomah Barnet Tribunal, David James 
Iwelumo Wolves £500,000 , Ross Wallace 
eason Loan 
Free, Gary McSheffrey Birmingham City Free, Roy O'Donovan Sunderland Free, Stephen O'Halloran Aston Villa Free , Colin Doyle Birmingham City One Month Loan , Iain Turner Everton One Month Loan, 
oderingham Fulham Free, Owen Garvan Ipswich Town Free, Stuart O'Keefe Southend United Free, Lewis Price Derby County Free , Veliche Shumulikoski Preston North End Free, David Wright Ipswich Town Free , Pablo Counago Ipswich Town Season Loan ,Jonathan Obika Tottenham Hotspur Season Loan, Julian Bennett Nottingham Forest Six Month, Loan Alex Marrow Blackburn Rovers Five Month Loan, Anthony Gardner Hull loan. 
Alexandra , David Martin Millwall £200,000, Conor Doyle Bluejays, USA Undisc, Tomasz Cywka Wigan Athletic Free, Paul Connolly Leeds United Free, Gareth Roberts Doncaster Rovers Free 
st Ham United Free, Ryan Mason Tottenham Hotspur One Month Loan. 
Hotspur Season Loan. 
land Undisclosed, Jason Scotland Wigan Athletic Undisc (circa £500,000), Andros Townsend Tottenham Hotspur Season Loan, Darren O'Dea Celtic Five Month Loan, 
Ipswich Town £200,000 rising to £300,000, Neil Collins Preston North End Undisc. (circa £250,000), Federico Bessone Swansea City Free, Paul Connolly Derby County Free, Ramon Nunez Free, Billy Paynter Swindon Town Free, Lloyd Sam Charlton Athletic Free, Kasper Schmeichel Notts County Free, Sanchez Watt Arsenal Season Loan, Adam Clayton Manchester City Undisc. Circa £100,000, 
Vitoria Guimaraes £330,000, Yuki Abe Urawa Reds Undisc., Leon Crncic Atalanta Free, Tom Kennedy Rochdale Free, Franck Moussa Southend United Free, Alie Sesay ArsenalFree, Miguel Vitor Benfica Season Loan, Carl Ikeme Wolves One Month Loan . 
letic £1.4m, Tarmo Kink Gyori ETO £835,000, Andy Halliday Livingston Undisc., Kris Boyd Rangers Free, Matthew Kilgallon Sunderland Season Loan. 
Undisc., James Henry 
Undisclosed, John Ruddy Everton Undisc., Stevie Smith Rangers Free, Elliott Ward Coventry City Free, Leon Barnett WBA Five Month Loan, 
Radoslav Majewski 
as part of Kevin Wilson deal to Soke City, 
£400,000, Andreas Arestidou Shrewsbury Town Free, Wayne Brown Leicester City Free, David Gray Manchester United Free, Paul Hayes Scunthorpe United Free, Darel Russell Norwich City Free, Matthew James Manchester United Season Loan, Josh King Manchester United Three Month Loan, 
adley Orr Bristol City £500,000, Jamie Mackie Plymouth Argyle Undisc., Leon Clarke Sheffield Wednesday Free, Shaun Derry Crystal Palace Free, Clint Hill Crystal Palace Free, Rob Hulse Derby County Undisc (circa £700,000), Tommy Smith Watfiord £1.5M. 
Carlisle Undisc., Zurab Khizanishvilli Blackburn loan. 
uddersfield Town Undisc., Jim McNulty Brighton Six Month Loan, Trent McClenahan West Ham Six Month Loan, Eddie Nolan Preston Six Month Loan, Chris Dagnall Rochdale Free, Patrick Hobane Mervue Free, Jimmy Keohane Wessex United Free, 
Bogdanovic Barnsley Free, Leon Britton Swansea City Free, Johannes Ertl Crystal Palace Free, Stephen Jordan Burnley Free, Rob Kozluk Barnsley Free, Steve Simonsen Stoke City Free, Kyle Bartley Arsenal Season Loan, Jean Calve Nancy Season Loan, Nyron Nosworthy Sunderland Season Loan, Simon Walton Plymouth Argyle Season Loan. 
ershot Town Undisc., Neil Taylor Wrexham Free, 
Andrew Taylor M’bro loan. 
a hefty age bill to boot. Shun Derry and Clint Hill who arrived on frees from Crystal Palace don’t come cheap in the wages stakes. The Shepherd's Bush side have huge financial muscle right now. Throw in goalkeeper Paddy Kenny and Tarber for whom Rangers paid £1M to Spurs, and this a squad as good as any in the Championship. In contrast Middlesbro, the hot favourites for the Championship have had a poor start despite spending heavily on half of the old firm. Cardiff City, another side who have started brightly and will no doubt be well up there at the finish have added sheer quality instead of quantity. We all know that Bellamy is world class and yet they commit just £15,000 per week of his £95,000 weekly wage. Throw in some of the quality season long loanees they have recruited and you can see why the bookmakers have slashed their odds. Players such as Heaton and Drinkwater from Manchester United Naylor from Celtic, Andy Keogh Wolves, Jason Koumas from Wigan and Olofinjana from Hull City if they all gell, will be a handful for any side. Then ask where is the money coming from to support these high wages in a club that is £24M in debt ? Burnley FC is a club on a sound financial footing. The Clarets have been boosted to the tune of £6.5M with the sale of Steve Fletcher to Wolves. In have come Lee Grant Sheffield Wednesday £1m Dean Marney Hull City £500,000 ,Chris Iwelumo Wolves £500,000 , Ross Wallace Preston North End close £1.2M, and Jack Cork Chelsea Season Loan. They will rightfully feel that they won’t be far away. Bristol City splashed big on wages to bring in David James. The side still rocking from losing manager, Steve Coppell also spent nearly £1.5m on players as well as big wages on Nicky Hunt on loan from Bolton and Sam Vokes from Wolves. Hull City, another side heavily in debt and after sinking from the luxury of the Premiership have yet too offload Jimmy Bullard who earns £40,000 per week for sitting on his backside. That said, £1.2M was paid for Jay Simpson, the player whose agent allegedly demanded £12,000 per week from Leeds, and hadn’t started a Premiership game with Arsenal. It’s not all doom and gloom for Hull who received £8M for the players they off loaded, as they signed some quality players either on loans or on frees in the form of Robert Koren (Slovenian international) Nobby Solano and Jon Bostock from Spurs. Nigel Pearson didn’t leave Leicester to go to Hull just for the scenery. Back at Leicester, they are the only Championship side to have spent £3m on any one player this window, when Waghorn arrived from Sunderland on deadline day. Even Norwich City spent around £2.5m with virtually no net cash received for players who left Carrow Road. Notts Forest in contrast have been virtual hermits in the transfer window, with Majewski coming in for £1M from Poland but Perch left for Newcastle for £1.5M. An uneasy stand off is visible at the City Ground between Billy Davies and his chairman over their transfer policy. Don’t be surprised if “Job Done” vacates the premises 
soon, and a speculative move for Martin O’Neill is under way. Roy Keane's Ipswich netted around £4M in player sales and spent less that £2M on players coming in. Keane is never a shrinking violet in the transfer market and done most of his wheeling and dealing last Summer. However, he believes Jason Scotland, Martin Fulop and Mark Kennedy will add to the tasty start his side has enjoyed thus far. Sheff United have had more leaving than arriving. Coventry, Swansea, Reading, and Millwall have all taken a cautious approach. Scunthorpe, Watford, Barnsley, Portsmouth, and Preston may well end up in a dog fight for survival. Then there are the curious moves. Luke Varney has been loaned to Blackpool f
or a whole season where he scored against Fulham on his debut, and yet he can’t break into a mid-table Championship side, whose deadline day sale of their top striker, Rob Hulse certainly landed under the radar. This all signals that Derby County have major cash flow problems and are desperate to get the high earners off their books. And what of Leeds United ? Simon Grayson and Ken Bates have certainly been the busiest club over the whole summer regarding players coming in. Eleven have arrived. Is it quantity over quality ? Transfer dealings are changing drastically and it may not be an exaggeration to say that the clubs who utilise the loan system the best, (particularly from the Premiership) may be the ones who will be top of the perch come May. Cardiff have certainly gone that route. Leeds United are the biggest attraction in the Premiership for any Premiership loanee, and I suspect one more will arrive next week. Sanchez Watt has already proved a good loan signing and the pick of the free transfers has been Schmeichel and Lloyd Sam. McCormack, Bruce, Clayton and even Collins who all cost money are surely value for money while Connolly, Bessone, Nunez and Paynter have all been free. That elusive holding player may 
yet come when the loan market reopens for Championship clubs on Tuesday, September 7th. On the debit side Ankergren, Rui Marques, Sheehan, and Beckford have all left while several others are out on loan. Micke Grella needs to go out on loan and Fat Boy Robsinon is either unable or unwilling to find a club because of his high salary. This has been a season so far where you can’t really say that any one club is head and shoulders above another. QPR and Cardiff look really good. Burnley look strong. M’bro’s blend doesn’t seem to fit and Keane at Ipswich fancies his chances. Which other club should Leeds United fear in a race for the Play-Offs or do they not think that they can challenge any of the aforementioned ? It should be an interesting season and I just wonder where the clubs will be when we enter the next transfer window in January ?