The Leeds United Courier
Player ratings19 Aug 2030
Lisandro Piñero runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Marcus Edwards breaks a bone — 52 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Tarik Muharemović says Leeds United went back on their word
“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 Aug 2030
Luca Nocerino 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.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Noah Okafor 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.
Market19 Aug 2030
Lisandro Piñero wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Josh Hamilton is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Boardroom19 Aug 2030
Graduation day at Leeds United
6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market19 Aug 2030
Jason Spencer steps up from the Leeds United academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jason Spencer 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Peter Bennett joins the Leeds United first team
- Loan watch Jacob Howard wants to come home
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Gabriel Gudmundsson