Good move for him, with a big pay day, but really sad to see him go. Fought like hell for Leeds. Top fella. Goodness me we have some recruitment to do...

yes. he certainly gave everything. unlike some....

I`m pleased Rodrigo has gone to Qatar as would hate to see him bang in a few goals against us.
Shame about Manning although inevitable he was going to go to Southampton to team up with Martin.
We were told 6 signings were already in the bag and as we don`t need to wait for EFL approval it beggars the question why if we have signed 6 we haven`t announced it yet.
Desperately need those signings in this week for sure.

Not half. So far we've lost,

Rodrigo
Rasmus
Llorente
Koch
Aaronson
Roca

only got about £5m in fees. big reduction in wage bill however.

Then these are expected to leave according to Phil Hay

Messlier
Summerville
Harrison - though we would like to keep if at all possible.

Adams is wanted by Villa and will take some keeping....

quite the turnover of players....

Anyone else watch the game today against MU?

not me. working. building a new prison. interesting.
I digress. is it right ayling looked as bad as last year? difficult with a game this early. some good signs from what I've read but we need some quality in

No but heard we did well first half. Sinesterra very good and Drameh good. Can’t judge anyone’s performance though really.

Farke sounds a touch concerned about the season start and the clauses in place meaning players have been going out on loan (what the hell has Ortra done!!) He’s asking for time a patience from the fans. He knows we face a huge challenge to get a good squad together. I like his honesty though. Apparently he’s working the player very very hard in training

Saw it from about 65 mins so cant really judge fully as apparently we were half decent first half.
Didnt look that good what I saw but again, very early days and cant really base anything off this.

That being said, Ayling again was AWOL on his man marking.

Watched the full 90 and whilst you can`t read too much into preseason with most only training a week I would say the positives were Moore, Drameh, Gray, Bate and Joseph.
Negatives Ayling, poor distribution from both keepers, Struijk, Greenwood, James, Shackleton and Bamford.
Rutter to me just doesn`t look like a footballer.
He looks more like Bambi, no aggression, little strength but does have awareness.
Play him out wide and he might do ok.
The 19 year old MU centre half had Bamford in his pocket which says it all and Ayling should not be playing first team even though we are in the Championship probably same goes for Struijk and to some extent Cooper.

don't forget leeds had a tough training session the morning of the game. agree about bamford and ayling though

Don`t get me wrong Tad I wasn`t expecting a right lot and actually thought we would do well to contain them to 4.
But basics like positioning, marking the man, awareness especially from our so called senior players in defence was alarming and no wonder we conceded so many last year.
Same goes for Greenwood who I had high hopes for.
He just doesn`t seem to get it and was totally outplayed by some very good youngsters.
Hugil and Williams if available would be good signings for us.

wasn't making excuses as I agree. the old guard are finished. long finished.
might take farke a season to sort out the squad but let's hope not