Marked for Ivan Ivaschenko
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market24 Sep 2035
“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.
Market24 Sep 2035
Amadou Diallo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leeds United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom24 Sep 2035
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Match22 Sep 2035
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad24 Sep 2035
Soumaïla Sylla falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad24 Sep 2035
Gustaf Bruzelius and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 Sep 2035
Queens Park Rangers left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout24 Sep 2035
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad24 Sep 2035
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Leeds United can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Back issues
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Steady
Market10 Sep 2035
“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.
Market10 Sep 2035
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Preston moved on, Santino Primante reports back to Leeds United, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market10 Sep 2035
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ivan Ivaschenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leeds United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Sep 2035
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolò Zaniolo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 Sep 2035
Matteo Malafronte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Sep 2035
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Boardroom10 Sep 2035
The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.
Boardroom10 Sep 2035
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
Squad10 Sep 2035
The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Matthew Scott, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Upbeat
Market13 Aug 2035
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Leeds United have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market13 Aug 2035
“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.
The dugout13 Aug 2035
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market13 Aug 2035
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leeds United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market13 Aug 2035
Add another name to the list: Preston have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Santino Primante. The answer from Leeds United has not changed — yet.
Squad13 Aug 2035
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.
Squad13 Aug 2035
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Soumaïla Sylla was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets13 Aug 2035
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Liverpool have kept their man, and Leeds United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match11 Aug 2035
0‑1 to Gillingham, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Upbeat
Boardroom6 Aug 2035
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom6 Aug 2035
The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.
Market6 Aug 2035
The name of Ellis Simms has come up in conversations Leeds United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market6 Aug 2035
Liam Ward has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leeds United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Aug 2035
Words at Leeds United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolò Zaniolo 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.
Boardroom6 Aug 2035
$13.3M from the owner keeps Leeds United afloat
The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2035
Leeds United asked and Brentford said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad6 Aug 2035
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.
Boardroom6 Aug 2035
No fees may be paid for anybody, whatever the squad needs. Every rumour about this club until it lifts is a rumour about a deal that cannot be done.
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Upbeat
Market30 Jul 2035
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Leeds United people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market30 Jul 2035
Tije Vos has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leeds United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2035
Everything agreed with Manchester City, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad30 Jul 2035
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolò Zaniolo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad30 Jul 2035
Everybody at Leeds United saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2035
Leeds United asked and Crystal Palace said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad30 Jul 2035
Agustín Amicone and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Loan watch30 Jul 2035
“I watch every Leeds United game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Liverpool runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout30 Jul 2035
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Leeds United, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Market16 Jul 2035
“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.
Market16 Jul 2035
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leeds United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom16 Jul 2035
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. William Unadike has agreed terms with Huddersfield Town for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad16 Jul 2035
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Leeds United can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad16 Jul 2035
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolò Zaniolo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets16 Jul 2035
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad16 Jul 2035
Aaron Spetale and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout16 Jul 2035
Nicolò Zaniolo knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nicolò Zaniolo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Boardroom25 Jun 2035
Pressure builds in the Leeds United boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market25 Jun 2035
“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.
Market25 Jun 2035
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market25 Jun 2035
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Leeds United have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolò Zaniolo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market25 Jun 2035
Jayden Bogle has left for Aston Villa in a $510.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad25 Jun 2035
A move Brayan Sánchez would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Brayan Sánchez is living that version at Leeds United, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Ivan Ivaschenko and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Upbeat
Market18 Jun 2035
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Aston Villa waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Leeds United is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market18 Jun 2035
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leeds United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Words at Leeds United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolò Zaniolo 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.
Squad18 Jun 2035
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Leeds United are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets18 Jun 2035
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Ivan Ivaschenko 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.
Market18 Jun 2035
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout18 Jun 2035
No hiding place for Tije Vos
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tije Vos, and the manager let it.
In brief
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The dugout
Tije Vos is still being punished for one mistake
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The terraces
The stands have heard the Jayden Bogle talk too
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The dugout
The manager makes Ivan Ivaschenko a promise
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Upbeat
Boardroom28 May 2035
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Leeds United
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad28 May 2035
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Leeds United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market28 May 2035
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leeds United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market28 May 2035
“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.
Squad28 May 2035
Words at Leeds United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolò Zaniolo 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.
Market28 May 2035
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Adam Lawrence has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market28 May 2035
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stephen Cooper has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout28 May 2035
The manager makes an example of Ivan Ivaschenko
“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.
Squad28 May 2035
João Goulart and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Upbeat
Squad21 May 2035
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market21 May 2035
“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.
Market21 May 2035
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leeds United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 May 2035
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.
Boardroom21 May 2035
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ivan Ivaschenko has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad21 May 2035
Words at Leeds United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matheus França 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.
Squad21 May 2035
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Leeds United can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout21 May 2035
Nicolò Zaniolo knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nicolò Zaniolo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market21 May 2035
Still no signature from Selu Diallo
1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Leeds United could get for him.
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Upbeat
Squad7 May 2035
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Leeds United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom7 May 2035
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Leeds United can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market7 May 2035
“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.
Squad7 May 2035
Nicolò Zaniolo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom7 May 2035
The owner puts $15.5M into Leeds United
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Boardroom7 May 2035
Wages eat 147% 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.
Squad7 May 2035
Ivan Ivaschenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market7 May 2035
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 May 2035
Martin Sherif named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Martin Sherif is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Upbeat
Squad30 Apr 2035
A fracture rules Santino Primante out for 17 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.
Boardroom30 Apr 2035
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Leeds United
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match30 Apr 2035
Full time on the season at Leeds United
Position 13 on 63 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
Squad30 Apr 2035
Nicolò Zaniolo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Apr 2035
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad30 Apr 2035
Words at Leeds United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matheus França 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.
Match28 Apr 2035
Three points for Leeds United, 2‑1 the final word against Gillingham in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings30 Apr 2035
Marked 8.38 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout30 Apr 2035
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Apr 2035
A fracture rules Santino Primante out for 45 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.
Boardroom2 Apr 2035
The scrutiny sharpens at Leeds United
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Leeds United is running low.
Boardroom2 Apr 2035
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market2 Apr 2035
“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.
The dugout2 Apr 2035
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Leeds United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Apr 2035
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolò Zaniolo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Apr 2035
Selu Diallo 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.
Boardroom2 Apr 2035
$17.0M from the owner keeps Leeds United afloat
The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.
Squad2 Apr 2035
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Leeds United are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Mar 2035
A fracture rules Santino Primante out for 59 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.
Market19 Mar 2035
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leeds United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout19 Mar 2035
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market19 Mar 2035
“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.
Squad19 Mar 2035
Nicolò Zaniolo 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.
Squad19 Mar 2035
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Soumaïla Sylla was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Mar 2035
West Bromwich Albion left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 Mar 2035
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Soumaïla Sylla, and the manager let it.
Boardroom19 Mar 2035
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
In brief
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Boardroom
The Leeds United debt reaches $291.0M
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
6 new faces, and Leeds United are still learning each other
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Feb 2035
80 days out for Santino Primante after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Leeds United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market26 Feb 2035
“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.
The dugout26 Feb 2035
Killian Camélé: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Leeds United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market26 Feb 2035
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leeds United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Feb 2035
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.
Squad26 Feb 2035
Agustín Amicone arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Agustín Amicone has, at Leeds United, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad26 Feb 2035
Soumaïla Sylla falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout26 Feb 2035
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Ivaschenko, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Feb 2035
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market29 Jan 2035
“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.
Market29 Jan 2035
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Leeds United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market29 Jan 2035
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leeds United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad29 Jan 2035
Nicolò Zaniolo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets29 Jan 2035
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Crystal Palace have kept their man, and Leeds United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad29 Jan 2035
Ivan Ivaschenko 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.
Transfer targets29 Jan 2035
Hull City have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets29 Jan 2035
A loan move for Nathan Williams is in the works
Leeds United have made the call to Sunderland. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad29 Jan 2035
Too much change too quickly at Leeds United
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Steady
Match12 Dec 2034
Fulham go through and Leeds United go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces18 Dec 2034
A cup embarrassment at Fulham follows Leeds United home
0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
The dugout18 Dec 2034
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Leeds United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market18 Dec 2034
Only the photograph left for Killian Camélé
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Killian Camélé will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leeds United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad18 Dec 2034
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolò Zaniolo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Dec 2034
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ellis Simms, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Dec 2034
Ivan Ivaschenko and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match16 Dec 2034
It finished 2‑0, and it was Ellis Simms’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Leeds United.
Boardroom18 Dec 2034
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom2 Oct 2034
The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.
Squad2 Oct 2034
Michael Pearson damages knee ligaments — 37 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market2 Oct 2034
Micah Olabiyi 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.
Squad2 Oct 2034
Ivan Ivaschenko gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ivan Ivaschenko has just signed for Leeds United, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad2 Oct 2034
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.
Market2 Oct 2034
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leeds United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom2 Oct 2034
$17.2M from the owner keeps Leeds United afloat
The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.
Squad2 Oct 2034
Luke Faxon falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout2 Oct 2034
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Santino Primante, and the manager let it.