The Leeds United Courier
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ethan Ampadu damages knee ligaments — 102 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 102 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Largie Ramazani
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ryan Fredericks 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Joe Rodon 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Leeds United find a way past Fulham
Fulham made Leeds United work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ethan Ampadu in the eights
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Squad Rafik Guitane gets it from the manager
- Player ratings Jaka Bijol shuts the door
- Market The Wilfried Gnonto talk will not go away