Coban Bird

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Marked for Coban Bird

8 Edition

The Leeds United Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Sep 2026

Coban Bird breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Anton Stach shuts the door

Defensive actions: 27, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Brenden Aaronson

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 Sep 2026

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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Ellis Lehane is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad21 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Joe Rodon

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joe Rodon, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Leeds United Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad14 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Coban Bird out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Leeds United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Alberto Moreno pulls a muscle — 15 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Teddie Lamb at Leeds United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Teddie Lamb is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Leeds United

Alberto Moreno was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market14 Sep 2026

The Joe Rodon question follows Leeds United around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Joe Rodon’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Loan watch14 Sep 2026

The goals keep arriving from Joe Gelhardt’s exile

3 goals in 5 games at Hull City — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Leeds United updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

6 Edition

The Leeds United Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Joe Rodon was immovable

38 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Coban Bird out for 34 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Leeds United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A one-man rearguard from Karl Darlow

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match5 Sep 2026

Leeds United make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Leeds United have 4 straight wins of it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Hakim Guenouche gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Hakim Guenouche has just signed for Leeds United, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Leeds United

Jaka Bijol was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Ethan Ampadu was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.11. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Wages eat 401% of everything Leeds United earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Match5 Sep 2026

Leeds United see off Bolton Wanderers

Three points for Leeds United, 2‑0 the final word against Bolton Wanderers in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

5 Edition

The Leeds United Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Anton Stach shuts the door

Defensive actions: 33, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Coban Bird breaks a bone — 42 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Facundo Buonanotte, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.33

A mark of 8.33 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Jaka Bijol shuts the door

Defensive actions: 28, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Market31 Aug 2026

Jonny Howson hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Leeds United can pretend not to have heard.

Market31 Aug 2026

Leeds United may not be able to give Anton Stach what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Anton Stach wants continental football; whether Leeds United can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Match29 Aug 2026

Leeds United make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Leeds United have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Jaka Bijol 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Rhys Chadwick moves on

Cardiff City pay $730.0K, 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Leeds United Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad24 Aug 2026

Coban Bird breaks a bone — 51 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Jaka Bijol

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 31 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A defender's afternoon for Anton Stach

Defensive actions: 31. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market24 Aug 2026

Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s move to VfL Wolfsburg falls through

The deal that would have taken Dominic Calvert-Lewin to VfL Wolfsburg has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Leeds United with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Market24 Aug 2026

Sam Byram asks to leave Leeds United

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Leeds United

Jaka Bijol was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Brenden Aaronson in the eights

A performance of 9.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

One of those days for Ethan Ampadu

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market24 Aug 2026

Eyes on Sam Byram again

The phone has started ringing about Sam Byram again, and this time the name on the line is Reading. Leeds United are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief