Transfer chills are multiplying
Leeds United, in the end, kept a grip on their own transfer window sanity. But what of the nine-figure no-brained Premier League around them?
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A collection of 27 posts
And Leeds have every right to go mad
Leeds United Football Club is being talked about as a home of sound common sense. But this is still football, where common sense is still very relative.
We're about to have the best time with Harry Wilson
Harry Wilson's skills should have put him in someone's pantheon by now. Someone more interesting than Fulham. There's nothing else for him to do, at Leeds, but to make it here.
You have to work hard to be unhappy about Pascal Struijk
Too often in football nobody is happy, or only the worst people are happy, so if Pascal Struijk is happy and Leeds and Brighton and Georginio Rutter, let's just be happy too.
Can't be sure (if I want any more)
It might just be the sicko in me, the thrilled kid when Carl Shutt, not Eric Cantona, was the hero in Camp Nou in 1992/93. But if Leeds United's season comes down to Joel Piroe's finishing to keep us from finishing in the bottom three, I'll feel that prospect like a bolt of energy.
Sitting on the dock of the Bay window
This is what you get for buying a football club in the 2020s. Your key performance indicator is now the most rotten of metrics, social media vibes, and you owe your livelihood to Fabrizio Romano tweeting something positive.
Fotherby on Tour: Faustino Asprilla
"I'd be very happy to join Leeds if the clubs can agree on a fee," said Asprilla, and knowing the player's willingness to come Fotherby was jetting off to Italy to do the deal not for £7m, not for £4m, but a bargain at £3.5m.
Fotherby on Tour: Paul Gascoigne
Bill Fotherby was keen to stress that this wasn't a spur of the moment urge. Buying Paul Gascoigne was the culmination of a plan that began when Howard Wilkinson took over at Leeds in 1988 and made headlines by taking his ball-clutching nemesis, Vinnie Jones, to Division Two.
Fotherby on Tour: Rubén Sosa
Gordon Strachan had been worth two players to Leeds, but Rubén Sosa could be the one to replace him. But he would cost two player's salaries.
Not ignoring Igor
Still and always footballers will yawn through the presentation, listen to a coach babbling down the phone, and then do what they want anyway.