Dirty LOLeeds

[Pepe the Horseman]

Notice they were too scared to get 17.

[Avon Royal]

Notice they were too scared to get 17.

[winchester_royal]

[paultheroyal]

[floyd__streete]

"Is that Leeds? This is Fulham. We want to offer you 8million for Ross McCormack."

Loving the idea that football clubs ring each other and have to double-check they have the right club.

Leeds: "4291?"
Fulham: "Is that Leeds? This is Fulham. We want to offer you 8million for Ross McCormack."
Leeds: "Erm no velly solly this is Blackburn Rovers, goodbye" <click>

[floyd__streete]

Leeds: "The Cellino residence, master of the house speaking"
Plymouth: "Hi, we're enquiring about the availability of Noel Hunt on loan, its John Sheridan at Plymouth"
Leeds: "She-ri-daaaaan!"

[TFF]

They've give Nile Ranger a trial*

*obvious jokes are obvious

[soggy biscuit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2717222/Leeds-United-don-t-chairs-owner-Massimo-Cellino-mess-engulfed-Elland-Road.html

Cellino said: ‘I had more or less 50 coaches in my existence, they are all the same. I used to have a boat, I used to pay the captain of the boat. You know what my strategy was? If he doesn’t do what I like to do with my boat, then I can drive my boat on my own.

‘David Hockaday, the first day he heard McCormack wanted to go he said, “I don’t want him in pre- season, sell him”. I told Hockaday, “Did I ask your f****** advice? No. So shut the f*** up”.’

[winchester_royal]

I liked this bit too

Hockaday, paid between £80-90,000 compared to the £750,000 salary his predecessor McDermott had earned, wanted a 31-year-old defender available on a free, but Cellino refused.
‘He has asked me about five or six players,’ said the Italian before unintentionally damning his new manager: ‘Don’t forget where he came from; league five.
‘Talking with managers of Premier League clubs, Championship clubs, is a new thing. He’s like a baby, who is in a toy shop.’

[Big Foot]

New manager Dave Hockaday has replaced Brian McDermott on approximately one tenth of his predecessor’s salary.

High probability that I earn more than Leeds United's manager

[Big Foot]

Later in the article....

Hockaday, paid between £80-90,000 compared to the £750,000 salary his predecessor McDermott had earned, wanted a 31-year-old defender available on a free, but Cellino refused.

Maybe not then!

[From Despair To Where?]

He's clearly mental BUT there does appear to be method in the madness.

[Big Foot]

He explained: ‘Ross McCormack is a beautiful player. I didn’t come to Leeds to sell Ross McCormack. But for him I was nothing, a new owner, he’s got a lot of money from Fulham, the chance to live in London. What can I say? I love you McCormack, stay with me?
‘He doesn’t give a f***. He didn’t show up to training. He didn’t fly with the club to pre-season. I was so p***** off that when Fulham called me I asked them for £10m to make them not buy the player. They said yes! Bloody hell.

[Pepe the Horseman]

I think I love him.

[genome]

He explained: ‘Ross McCormack is a beautiful player. I didn’t come to Leeds to sell Ross McCormack. But for him I was nothing, a new owner, he’s got a lot of money from Fulham, the chance to live in London. What can I say? I love you McCormack, stay with me?
‘He doesn’t give a f***. He didn’t show up to training. He didn’t fly with the club to pre-season. I was so p***** off that when Fulham called me I asked them for £10m to make them not buy the player. They said yes! Bloody hell.

Brilliant

[sandman]

Slightly interesting that Carbone has left Leeds after two months with the explanation from Cellino being that he went off without permission to see his sick mother, same thing he accused McD of doing.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Are you suggesting he's been poisoning their mothers?

[Royal Lady]

Cellini sounds like E-P!

[sandman]

Yes, yes I am.

[Winston Smith]

Another one down