The #LUFC Breakfast Debate (Tuesday 24th March)

Good Morning. It's Tuesday 24th March, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road

Leeds came close to signing Erling Haaland

According to Phil Hay, Leeds came very close to signing striking sensation Erling Haaland, son of former Leeds midfielder Alfe Inge Haaland.

The 19yo has netted nine times in eight appearance for German giants Borussia Dortmund since his 20m transfer from Red Bull Salzburg where he scored sixteen times in only 14 appearances.

Erling was born in Leeds, and often claimed he was not only a Leeds fan, but wanted to play for the Whites one day.

According to Hay, Leeds made an approach for Haaland 18 months ago.

“Haaland, then just turning 18, would have sat behind Leeds’ highest earners on the wage behind at the time, players such as Pontus Jansson and Samuel Saiz, but they were willing to offer a salary above that of many of their first-team players.

“The pitch from Elland Road came with the usual promise of regular games and a pathway to bigger things.”

Unfortunately for Leeds, Salzburg came in with a massive offer, and Haaland moved to Austria instead!

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Season to be postponed til 1st June

It has been announced that the Championship season is unlikely to resume before 1 June, with players returning to their clubs at the beginning of May to give them time to get fully match fit.

The news was reported to 'Football Insider' by an unnamed Championship club.

If this is correct, shouldn't the Leeds players take a well deserved break? No, I'm not talking about a fortnight in Italy, but a break from training to allow their bodies to repair themselves from months of rigorous torture?

If they stop training, is is like starting from stage one again?

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Neville - playing against Leeds was brutal

Soccer pundit Gary Neville has told Sky Sports that playing against Leeds United was 'brutal', but wants to see the Whites back in the top fight.

The former Manchester United legend went on to say that the rivalry with Leeds was even nastier than the rivalry with Liverpool.

“Particularly when we went to play at Leeds, it was brutal,” “Probably more brutal than Liverpool in some ways. The rivalry between Liverpool and United is huge, but the Leeds-Manchester United rivalry is almost like a deep hatred. There’s a little bit of respect between Liverpool and Manchester, but with Leeds, it just felt like there was a real nastiness - like they would come on the pitch if they could, it was that type of feeling.”

“Leeds, I always felt was a huge club when we were playing against them, I always felt it was a big club. You want them back, absolutely. When people ask ‘what is a big club?’, I always think Leeds United, because it’s just the feeling you get when you go and play football there, it’s unbelievable, it’s different, it’s a different place to play football.”

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Morning Elland...hope all's well in lockdown I'd say we will follow over here, maybe even from today. In hindsight yes it would have been nice to sign young Haaland, but we could never compete with moneybags Red Bull Salzburg.

 

Morning Matt and all. Haaland wouldn't have been able to get in team ahed of super Paddy anyway so irrelevant. Doubt he's any better than Paddy, from two fee out from goals anyway. Theres not a chance in hell of football before September at best. Football authorities will just continue to make these monthly updates. Bit like the Olympics, a week ago the clowns were insisting it would still go ahead. Not fooling anyone

 

Morning all. Hope you're all ok.

I'm the last one to talk about fitness, but I've been watching a ridiculous amount of Sky Sports News lately and "Leeds Legend" Stephen Warnock seems to be getting a lot of air time. He was saying that even two weeks of missing training would have a massive effect on a players fitness. Not sure whether that means Leeds players would be at a disadvantage or advantage compared to other clubs. Would they be better off because they've kept a higher level of fitness throughout the season, hence it won't take as long to get back up to speed ? Or would they need to keep up the harsher fitness regime in order to keep at that level, meaning they'd need longer to get back up to speed after an enforced period at home. Maybe I'm worrying too much but I've got a lot of extra time to worry about ****.

 

That’s another bee in my bonnet that I believe I have expressed before
The IOC are not fit for purpose
They should have come out weeks ago and postponed the games until summer 2021
This would have helped to get the message across about what a serious situation the world is in
IOC = Self Serving MORONS
Regarding Football I agree if anyone expects football at the end of June they need to wake up and open their eyes

 

Has anyone else recieved a text from the Government saying

You have been identified that you are someone ar risk of severe illness if you catch coronavirus.

Please remain home for a minimum of 12 weeks.

 

No I didn't, but I did get a message saying that my local Tescos are reducing my ale from 14.50 x 8 pack to 12.00 euro Also I just froze Sky Sports for two months, but although I won't be charged, I'll still be able to watch it.(although there's feck all on it)

 

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/leeds-united-fan-garden-coronavirus-17969381

 

They let you keep the channels without paying?

 

Morning all

 

Yep just go on to your account and freeze payment for the sports package.

 

Apparently Lee, unless I read it wrong. I get the Sky Sports bundle through Virgin and they give you the option of cancelling altogether or freezing payments for two months.

How is my Sky Sports subscription affected?
Sporting events globally have been affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, but we’ve made sure our Sky Sports channels are still available to you. If you need to avail of a payment break, we’ve made it possible for you to do so for 2 months by submitting a request form. You'll still be able to view Sky Sports channels during this time.

 

Sky Sports
Whilst we expect that many of the recently postponed sports events will go ahead, if you wish to pause your Sky Sports subscription in the meantime you will not be charged a fee to do so or be held to any notice period. Meanwhile we continue to provide high quality content across all of our 11 Sky Sports channels.

You can find out more about how to pause your Sky Sports subscription here.

 

Sounds like you're 1 of the 1.5m they identified. Good luck with the isolation.

 

Another goalie being looked at if we make the prem (allegedly) Leeds United keeping close tabs on AFC Bournemouth keeper Aaron Ramsdale, claims report

 

I think that message is being sent to all

 

I have a lot more respect and time for Gary Neville the sportscaster than Gary Neville the player.

Seems to talk a lot of sense.