Professional pride is an interesting concept - seems to me what is missing is the desire to grind games out even when they are not playing well.  How many times have you said Sheffield Utd are a poor side yet without a points deduction they would be leading the table.  You are correct on paper not as good a side as Leeds yet they keep winning!!  Burnley are a good side as good as Leeds much better defensively not as good up front.  Interesting run in.


Bonus if you are making £1m+ a year what kind of bonus is going to actually make any kind of financial difference to these players?


Aaronson - what has he actually created since Christmas other than a chance for the QPR player?  Lacks basic skills and seems incapable of winning a challenge.

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.