Saints also have a new stadium to pay for! A reasonable transfer fee and Leon off the wage bill might pay for some nice curtains

Ive read this thread and if im being honest, it's pretty funny.

IMO leon will be at saints next season. He may be a bull in 2012 but i think he will sign a two year deal at saints if his injury is ok.

The is no facts to this thread, it's all hear say.

Only time will tell but im pretty certain he will be a saints for 1 more full season.

Talking of his injury, i spoke to leon at the giants game in the club after the match, he told me he will be back in training at the start of the year and said he should be fit for the cardiff games, and also looking forward to playing the world club challenge if we win at old trafford.

Well time will tell people.

So your "conversation" with Leon is any more meaningful than the one Mick had at the beginning of this thread? You're as much in the dark as he is, so don't pretend.

I'd be far more inclined to believe Connor Murphy, who has become a respected journalist under our eyes, and a very credible one. Trust us on that one, he wouldn't put it in the T&A if it didn't have substance.

We aren't saying we will, we are saying it's a possibility. We are all in the dark here you know just as much about it as us and you would be daft to say it's not a possibility

Of course it is a possibility, Bradford is his home town club and he will always have ties to you. I do however feel that some fans are blowing it far out of proportion and making much more out of it than there really is.

Connor has established very considerable credibility amongst the fans since his arrival from the wet side of the Pennines a year ago.

I can't see him jeopardising that for a story without any foundation.

Agree he's no Dave Craven.

Is it just me or is anyone else getting a tad annoyed with players jumping ship early in their contracts? Burgess I can understand - going to the NRL was slightly different and he's a young man who was always going to give it a go at some stage.

But Eastwood at Leeds, Johnson at Cats and possibly Orford just seem to be saying 'I'm homesick, let me leave or I'll pout'. Players bleat about loyalty a lot. Some of them obviously believe its a one-way street.

Hear hear. Integrity is withering.

Also, didn't he make mention of a number of rumours he'd been asked about on twitter? Said something about most are rubbish and the reason he's not run stories on them is for just that reason

I understand what you are saying, but at the same time I don't recall any of these players stating that they "won't come back / play".

OK - they might have the monk on, but Eastwood has still been one of your best players, even after all this came out about him wanting to go home.

Clubs aren't daft. It's rare that they can generate a transfer fee for a player, and by getting details into the open about a player not being 100% happy they lose a player 12 months earlier than planned, but at the same time receive a fee and move on.

I'm sure Burgess would have stayed at Bradford for that last year, but I can't see any way we'd have got him to stay beyond that. We needed the money to pay off other "debts" shall we say, but Leeds and Catalan probably don't have that problem.

It's all money into the coffers and an opportunity to refresh the squad or give healthy re-signing bonuses to ageing squad players (ie at Leeds)

I would be surprised if Saints let Leon go to you guys.
This season at Saints up to his injury he has probably been one of our best performers.
If he did leave Saints I would imagine they would ask for around 100K minimum but that's my opinion.