villalad21 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 (edited) I see the similar prediction to what people said about SU. They will go down because of bad players etc I think some people are massively overrating the Premier League. Newcastle finished mid table ffs under Bruce. I predict them to finish 10th I just think Bielsa's high intensive, pressing style will catch a lot of teams off guard. Edited August 8, 2020 by villalad21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 1 hour ago, villalad21 said: I see the similar prediction to what people said about SU. They will go down because of bad players etc I think some people are massively overrating the Premier League. Newcastle finished mid table ffs under Bruce. I predict them to finish 10th I just think Bielsa's high intensive, pressing style will catch a lot of teams off guard. Thought the same myself, Sheffield United have got to have one of the worst squads in the league on paper. Shows how important a settled squad, system and good manager is. Would love Bielsa to have his mid-season melt down though and for them to go straight back down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 56 minutes ago, penguin said: Thought the same myself, Sheffield United have got to have one of the worst squads in the league on paper. Shows how important a settled squad, system and good manager is. Would love Bielsa to have his mid-season melt down though and for them to go straight back down. That's the worry for them. But if they perform well the first part of the season they may already be on 27-33 points already which means they would only need to get 2 wins in half a season... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BleedClaretAndBlue Posted August 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 8, 2020 Hopefully they play all the big boys in succession in the first month and sit rock bottom on -15 GD, totally disillusioned and with their yorkshire pudding tails tucked between their dirty unwashed legs before we rock up at bellend road, batter them 0-3 and then Bielsa gives Bamford a roundhouse kick and hits him with his bucket like a WWF chairshot and then walks out on them. 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, villalad21 said: I see the similar prediction to what people said about SU. They will go down because of bad players etc I think some people are massively overrating the Premier League. Newcastle finished mid table ffs under Bruce. I predict them to finish 10th I just think Bielsa's high intensive, pressing style will catch a lot of teams off guard. Sheffield United were pretty solid defensively in the championship iirc which had them in good stead for the PL. Leeds on the other hand, will not have the same settled back line that they had in the championship. From what I read, most of them thought that Ben White was the most important part of the defense and he's back at Brighton. Liam Cooper is their only fit senior center back, and there will surely be questions of whether he can adapt to the PL (their other CB Berardi tore his ACL in the penultimate game of their season). Can't really compare them to Newcastle, as they have a team of premier league players already. I don't think they will be in trouble — provided they sign decent center backs and a striker who can actually score goals. Edited August 8, 2020 by Villaphan04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 Do Dirty Leeds have sufficient funds to spend on all these players? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 At the moment they've only got one central defender, Cooper, and one centre-forward Bamford, they trying to sign Ben White but have had two bids of £18.5m and £22m turned down, even if they sign him they're still going to be short in defence, they could get away with playing players out of position in the championship but won't work in the premier league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 21 hours ago, VillaChris said: Talk of Buendia. Think that would be a very smart signing for them. He starts in the number 10 role and then they give Pablo Hernandez 15 minutes at the end of games when there's more space. if they sign Buendia and we dont, i will scream. (unless we sign someone even better) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 39 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Do Dirty Leeds have sufficient funds to spend on all these players? generally speaking, if they want to go balls deep like we tried to, they could spend the entire 120-140m ish TV money in this window i suppose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 43 minutes ago, MaVilla said: generally speaking, if they want to go balls deep like we tried to, they could spend the entire 120-140m ish TV money in this window i suppose? Would be so Leeds to spend money they dont have 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan-scott Posted August 9, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted August 9, 2020 I think a lot of Leeds fans are in for a shock this season. It’s going to be a tough season for them. Surprised they’ve not yet signed anyone. I can’t see Brighton letting Ben White leave, even tho Leeds seem hell bent on bringing him in. Their record with transfers hasn’t been great looking at the big money for Augustin and Costa who’ve not contributed for them. Hopefully they piss more money up the wall this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 They are in for a real rude awakening. Just seen one of them on their forum say "I think the team we currently have would bulldoze Brighton as it stands." Their best players are a 35 year old Hernandez, Philips and a CB they loaned from Brighton. I don't think there is an area of the pitch they are stronger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 19 minutes ago, penguin said: They are in for a real rude awakening. Just seen one of them on their forum say "I think the team we currently have would bulldoze Brighton as it stands." Their best players are a 35 year old Hernandez, Philips and a CB they loaned from Brighton. I don't think there is an area of the pitch they are stronger. I actually think fulham have a better chance of staying up than leeds 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Norwich got a higher points total when they won the championship and looked what happened to them. I think Leeds will pick up a few points early but they'll be in the mix for relegation. They won't be doing a sheff United. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 29 minutes ago, DCJonah said: Norwich got a higher points total when they won the championship and looked what happened to them. I think Leeds will pick up a few points early but they'll be in the mix for relegation. They won't be doing a sheff United. Leeds weren't as leaky at the back. They are more similar to SU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Depends on their start I think. Their confidence will dwindle if they win one of their first six. To be honest I can't see them much lower than 13th. If Bielsa goes they'll collapse. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Another thing. Their White chase is identical to our Mings one last summer. Not sure they'll get their man though, which is good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 15 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: Another thing. Their White chase is identical to our Mings one last summer. Not sure they'll get their man though, which is good. I think the issue is that Mings was clearly not wanted by Bournemouth, Brighton have high hopes for White not to mention some bigger clubs are linked 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Yeah the reason mings was loaned to us in the first place was completely different to why white was loaned to Leeds Would also doubt that Bournemouth would have sold mings to us at any price with hindsight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Tomaszk said: Depends on their start I think. Their confidence will dwindle if they win one of their first six. To be honest I can't see them much lower than 13th. If Bielsa goes they'll collapse. Also add in them playing infront of empty stands at Elland Road. Bad for them if they have some winnable early home games. Newly promoted teams usually do o.k at home early on, think only one of opening 6 home games we lost last season was Bournemouth and that was due to the crazy opening 10 minutes and Norwich beat Newcastle and Man. City early last season. I doubt we'd have beaten Everton early on last season infront of an empty VP. While I think BCD at Elland Road last season actually helped them in the run in I think it will have the opposite effect this time. Edited August 9, 2020 by VillaChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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