The Leeds United Courier
Market5 Jul 2027
Jayden Bogle moves on
Crystal Palace pay $15.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market5 Jul 2027
Júnior Tavares puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Leeds United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Mateo Joseph signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mateo Joseph commits to Leeds United for another 4 years.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Anton Stach in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leeds United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market5 Jul 2027
Ao Tanaka has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Leeds United can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Market5 Jul 2027
Lucas Perri comes home with the gloves
36 games away and 21 of them without conceding. Leeds United sent a goalkeeper out to find him some football and have been handed a selection problem instead: the man in possession of the shirt now has somebody behind him who has spent a season being picked.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Leeds United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Harry Wilson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Alex Baird out for 37 days
The medical room confirms 37 days on the sidelines for Alex Baird, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Sean Longstaff
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Boardroom Intake day at the Leeds United academy
- The dugout Sebastiaan Bornauw asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout A door opens for Joe Worrall