“A good point” said Daniel Farke,  “ Is Keir Starmer managing Leeds now” replied one of the readers. Got to agree. Listened on the radio, Jon  Newsome not happy with the Firpo/Solomon combo, Firpo constantly playing balls into tight areas for Solomon who’s coming short all the time. Got to agree Jon, been saying it for weeks. Doesn’t see what Piroe offers at centre forward, same problem, dropping short all the time, condensing play, making it easy for defenders, not putting himself about. Got to agree Jon, been saying it all season. As one of the posters said earlier on this season, Piroe is like a traffic cone most of the time. If Farke knew what was good for him he’d bite the bullet and play Bamford up top, at least give him the game time to be a viable option. Not enough mongrel in the team when we come to places like this noted Newsome, only Ampadu and Bogle getting into people hard enough, can’t disagree. Wish Rodon would stop poncing about with his arms behind his back off balance when he’s trying to challenge someone, don’t wonder he didn’t stop the cross for the goal. And as for Tanaka tackling like a 6 year old girl for the second week running….either get stuck in or get off the pitch. Only real threat coming from Dan James said Newsome….been the case in far too many matches. Over to you Daniel.

Farke confirmed as staying. He deserves a chance, but I think he'll be gone in 6 months 

Wow what a weekend, still recovering from Saturday if im honest  

Unbelievable. what a turnout yesterday.. Police reckon conservatively 200k there, but probably nearer 300k. Passed without incident too which is a huge credit to the fans. Apparently the city centre is a bomb site though.. LOL


Pleased Farke staying, he deserves a chance. Apparently Marathe told him privately a week or so back. See the transfer window opens 1st June for 10 days then reopens again 16th... lets hope we get some early business done, Farke was saying he wants players in early and not last minute.. Marathe also saying we will spend max allowed under FFP rules which is great to hear, lets hope they can get creative with it also and create some more room.. it will be interesting to see what spending power we have.  

Strong rumour doing the rounds that Marathe approached Mourihno who turned him down.
I`m 50/50 wrt Farke.
On one hand he deserves a chance and the players seem to like him.
On the other hand he has tried and failed in the PL before without the financial backing.
We will find out by the end of November if it was a shrewd decision.

Can't see them looking at Mourihno, he doens't fit the way the club has been built to play football these last 6 years since Bielsa was hired. He totally changed the clubs philosophy and the fans love the possession based football that Farke has continued with (albeit a bit more reserved than Bielsa style), don't think the fans would put up with it, would be a bigger gamble imo. 


On another note, listened to a very interesting piece on Talksport from a football financial expert about the FFP impact on clubs coming up into the Prem. They are majorly hamstrung by the rules and the only way to get it changed is the PL clubs voting to change it, which won't happen as it would be Turkey's voting for Xmas... the rules are absolutely ridiculous and it's widening the gap between promoted teams and the established Prem teams. 


Leeds will need to do some very very smart recruitment.