The Leeds United Courier
Squad6 Sep 2027
Maximilian Wöber damages knee ligaments — 67 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 67 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Liverpool come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Leeds United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market6 Sep 2027
Anton Stach raises the bar for Leeds United
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Leeds United heard it as anything else.
Match4 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Leeds United
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad6 Sep 2027
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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Lucas Perri has improved at 29, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Jaka Bijol 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
A bad afternoon for Leeds United against Burnley
1‑2 to Burnley, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Ninety minutes of Ethan Ampadu at his very best
Marked 8.29. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Leeds United.
In brief
- Player ratings The one thing Dominic Calvert-Lewin could not do
- Player ratings Theo runs at them all day
- Market The Brenden Aaronson question follows Leeds United around