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Leeds United: ‘I’d want to stay’ – Evans opens up

The managerial/head coach position surrounding Steve Evans is one shrouded in mystery, with the Scot effectively in limbo until the club tell him of their plans.

However, in an interview with BBC Radio Leeds reporter Adam Pope, Evans admits that whilst it has required a show of fortitude on his part in putting up with the situation around him, he still would accept the job of Leeds United head…

Leeds United: Social FC in plea from Italy over Cellino abuse

WARNING: IMAGES USED CONTAIN GRAPHIC SWEARING Leeds United is a club with a fanbase divided. The love of the club is still there, from the massive majority anyway, but there is still division in the ranks. That division comes from the presence of Massimo Cellino – a man who has come to symbolise a lot of what some have said is wrong with the Whites. Secrecy, smoke and mirrors, growing discourtesy…

Newcastle fans delight at Benitez signing – burger break out

Newcastle United fans, whilst no doubt down in the mouth over relegation t othe Championship will at least be consoled that world-class coach Rafa Benitez has signed on to guide the team back to the Premier League. Benitez, who counts football giants Liverpool and Chelsea as well as Real Madrid amongst his former charges, has been given a three-year deal and a £40m transfer kittyin order to…

Leeds United: Cellino promises a season of football

If Massimo Cellino were Pinocchio, he’d trip over his ridiculously long nose what with all the promises that he has made that have proven fruitless. I will buy back Elland Road. I promise the fans a beautiful season. Promises such as these have broken over tired Leeds United fans like rough seas. And yet they still continue to issue forth, according to the following Tweets on Phil Hay’s Twitter…

Leeds United – stop being s***houses and do the decent thing

I didn’t want to write this, but feel that I have to and, in doing so, I realise that I will be repeating the title of this piece. Leeds United, it’s time that a little decency was brought back to the shambling mess that our beloved club is becoming. Aside from the lack of any discernible structure to the club, apart from there being no sign of any player weaknesses being addressed by the club…

VIDEO: a look at Middlesbrough target Lucas Perez

According to a report in the Gazette Live, and something picked up on The72 earlier, Middlesbrough are in the market and interested in Deportivo La Coruña’s exciting and prolific striker Lucas Pérez. The 27-year-old La Coruña-born striker has notched 17 goals this season in La Liga for his hometown club, who he joined in August of last year from Greek side PAOK Saloniki for a fee that website…

Leeds United: ex-MD says Elland Road purchase was near

Ex-Leeds United MD and one-time potential investor in the club David Haigh has given a no-holds barred interview with TV Yorkshire entitled ‘David Haigh: GFH, Leeds United and Me’, an interview that is being released as a number of self-contained episodes. The second episode in the serieswhere Haigh opens up on the petulance of GFH, the need to go cap-in-hand to former Leeds owner Ken Bates to…

Leeds United: GFH “no one knowing what they were doing” – Haigh

In the previous installment of TV Yorkshire’s interview with David Haigh, which we wrote about of The72 under the title of ‘Leeds United buyers GFH: clueless, potless, corrupt – Haigh’, the former Whites MD opened up about the financing of the Elland Road club and where the money came from. Talking about the arrogance of GFH’s soon-to-be CEO Hisham Alreyes, it soon became aware that Haigh was…

Bradford City: Vorsprung Durch Takeover

Mark Lawn and Julian Rhodes, co-chairmen of Bradford City have built a club that they should be inherently proud of.Bradford City are a club in the heart of the community. Built up after taking over from Geoffrey Richmond, and with Lawn’s arrival in 2007coinciding with wiping out “all the debts apart from a small overdraft facility”, Lawn and Rhodes’ power-sharing has seen the club flourish and…

VIDEO: In Focus – Midlesbrough capture Viktor Fischer

Promoted Middlesbrough have dipped into the Dutch transfer market to bring in young Dane Viktor Fischerwith Boro set to pay £3.8m to bring the youngster in from Ajax. The Aarhus-born 21-year-old was a regular in the Ajax side before Christmas, scoring seven goals before Christmas, before falling out of full-time favour and playing only a bit-part over the rest of Ajax’s Eredivisie 2015/16…

Leeds United: job offers, interested parties and Steve Evans

Massimo Cellino is like a whirlwind, a one-man wrecking ball of a hurricane – yet we knew that all along. He became Leeds United owner on the back of a record of long-service at Cagliari, service that left I Rossblu fans long-suffering his propensity for weilding the axe.

Becoming known as il mangia allenatori, ‘the manager eater’, Cellino chewed up managers/head coaches and spat them out with…

Leeds United buyers GFH: clueless, potless, corrupt – Haigh

My old English teacher said that a powerful opening to anything would set your stall out to your audience, leaving them no room for manouevre nor misunderstanding. This approach is clearly evident in the first instalment of TV Yorkshire’s interview with ex-Leeds United MD David Haigh, where he lays his cards out on the table regarding former employers Gulf Finance House Capital (GFH Capital) –…

Leeds United: 5 things Haigh tells on GFH purchase

When GFH Capital, a Bahraini investment group, took Leeds United from the grasping of Ken Bates’ raking fingers in January 2013, there  were audible sighs of relief. With the purchase came hope that Leeds were free of nefarious grasping, with Bates gone things would be better.

However, the hope has since turned to rancour with Leeds United fans realising  that, despite the purchase of £1m man…

Leeds United prepare six-figure bid for exciting winger

The only things to come out of Elland Road’s famous board meeting late last week were: news of a main shirt sponsor in 32Red, news of a secondary shirt sponsor in Clipper Logistics and the club’s retained list. Other news has been sparse to the point of deafening silence. No news on new coaching staff, no news on the future of head coach Steve Evans. There are some rumblings on the transfer front…

Former Ipswich and Rotherham player oldest Wembley final scorer

When 45-year-old centre back Chris Swailes bundled home an equaliser in today’s FA Vase at Wembley he gained one distinction that might take some breaking as his Morpeth side emerged 4-1 victors. In bundling in what was a typical centre-half goal, Swailes became the oldest player to score in a final at Wembley Stadium, the home of English football.

Swailes’ career began at Ipswich where he…

Leeds United plot move for defensive midfielder – player keen

One player who emerged with almost universal acclaim from fans of Leeds United after a series of consistent displays was on-loan Sunderland midfielder Liam Bridcutt. After a bit of a nightmarish debut in the game against QPR at the end of November 2015, Bridcutt put in a series of assured displays before his loan ended and the Scotland player went back to his parent club.

The motivation behind…

Leeds United: transfer rumour round up

Silence, that’s the sound of the only thing really coming out of Elland Road and Leeds United at the moment. However, elsewhere there is noise regarding Leeds United – thankfully not on the legal front as much as previously this year. The noise coming from various media sources this time seems to be focused around transfers – both in and out of the club.

The usual rumours are there regarding…