The Leeds United Courier
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ao Tanaka damages knee ligaments — 48 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 48 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Gabriel Gudmundsson out for 64 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Ao Tanaka 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 The request is on a desk at Leeds United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Daniel James runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Leeds United
Anton Stach 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Hindolo Mustapha at Leeds United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Hindolo Mustapha is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Leeds United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Edward Clarke joins the Leeds United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Edward Clarke is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Edward Wood joins the Leeds United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Edward Wood is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Benjamin Simmons joins the Leeds United first team
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Brenden Aaronson at his very best
- Boardroom A promise the Leeds United board did not keep