The Leeds United Courier
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Will Firth
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leeds United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Leeds United do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jaka Bijol 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Ao Tanaka 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.
Squad12 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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Wages eat 95% 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Jayden Bogle
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jayden Bogle, and the manager let it.
Match10 Oct 2026
Leeds United and Birmingham take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Brenden Aaronson
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Player ratings Joël Piroe changes it off the bench
- Market Thiago Ennes placed on the list
- Player ratings Ao Tanaka spends the afternoon fouling