We hold all the cards with gnonto. He has 4 years left, no relegation clause, he’s young, full Italy international and proven to do well in the premier league. We can demand a sizeable fee. Unless he wants out though we are under no pressure to sell and imo we need to keep at all costs. If we don’t go up this season then we will have to sell I would imagine

Ryan Manning has signed for Southampton. He’s one of the left backs we had interest in. On a free too! I wonder if we’re going for Charlie Taylor now.. both were very good in championship last year

Rasmus going to Roma on loan.

it's about time players started to come in. it's getting ridiculous

Yep. It looked for all the money in the world Manning was the sensible choice and would be the first in. As I've said before, all these delays will cost us players, both out and in. Radrizanni's dithering has damaged our chances of a quick return imo (i'm not saying we won't do it but it's made it a damn sight harder than it should have been). The new players also need time to bed in ! season starts 3 weeks on Sunday !!

Apparently Burnley are sniffing around Hamer now too from a credible source... he could be another one we will miss out on. Southampton new manager is also ex Swansea where Piroe plays....... we need to get a move on big time! As i understand it, we can sign players whilst we wait for the EFL green light.

Rodrigo to Qatar. Done deal.

yeah. had a text off someone earlier saying that.

Good move for him, with a big pay day, but really sad to see him go. Fought like hell for Leeds. Top fella. Goodness me we have some recruitment to do...

yes. he certainly gave everything. unlike some....

I`m pleased Rodrigo has gone to Qatar as would hate to see him bang in a few goals against us.
Shame about Manning although inevitable he was going to go to Southampton to team up with Martin.
We were told 6 signings were already in the bag and as we don`t need to wait for EFL approval it beggars the question why if we have signed 6 we haven`t announced it yet.
Desperately need those signings in this week for sure.

Not half. So far we've lost,

Rodrigo
Rasmus
Llorente
Koch
Aaronson
Roca

only got about £5m in fees. big reduction in wage bill however.

Then these are expected to leave according to Phil Hay

Messlier
Summerville
Harrison - though we would like to keep if at all possible.

Adams is wanted by Villa and will take some keeping....

quite the turnover of players....

Anyone else watch the game today against MU?

not me. working. building a new prison. interesting.
I digress. is it right ayling looked as bad as last year? difficult with a game this early. some good signs from what I've read but we need some quality in

No but heard we did well first half. Sinesterra very good and Drameh good. Can’t judge anyone’s performance though really.

Farke sounds a touch concerned about the season start and the clauses in place meaning players have been going out on loan (what the hell has Ortra done!!) He’s asking for time a patience from the fans. He knows we face a huge challenge to get a good squad together. I like his honesty though. Apparently he’s working the player very very hard in training

Saw it from about 65 mins so cant really judge fully as apparently we were half decent first half.
Didnt look that good what I saw but again, very early days and cant really base anything off this.

That being said, Ayling again was AWOL on his man marking.

Watched the full 90 and whilst you can`t read too much into preseason with most only training a week I would say the positives were Moore, Drameh, Gray, Bate and Joseph.
Negatives Ayling, poor distribution from both keepers, Struijk, Greenwood, James, Shackleton and Bamford.
Rutter to me just doesn`t look like a footballer.
He looks more like Bambi, no aggression, little strength but does have awareness.
Play him out wide and he might do ok.
The 19 year old MU centre half had Bamford in his pocket which says it all and Ayling should not be playing first team even though we are in the Championship probably same goes for Struijk and to some extent Cooper.

don't forget leeds had a tough training session the morning of the game. agree about bamford and ayling though

Don`t get me wrong Tad I wasn`t expecting a right lot and actually thought we would do well to contain them to 4.
But basics like positioning, marking the man, awareness especially from our so called senior players in defence was alarming and no wonder we conceded so many last year.
Same goes for Greenwood who I had high hopes for.
He just doesn`t seem to get it and was totally outplayed by some very good youngsters.
Hugil and Williams if available would be good signings for us.

wasn't making excuses as I agree. the old guard are finished. long finished.
might take farke a season to sort out the squad but let's hope not

I think it’s a two season job is promotion. I think Farke and the new owners just have too much crap to sort out and not enough time to get an immediate return. I hope im wrong though as we will lose Gnonto and Sinesterra after a year

rumour is brentfords technical director is the new director of football. that's a brilliant coup if it happens

Yes seen that too. Would be a cracking appointment. Extremely well run club Brentford and recruit very smartly

Didn't think we offered much going forward, but there were some moments from Sini. Thought Rutter had some good touches and can certainly pick out a pass. Drameh was decent at RB before moving to the left at half time and Gyabi looks a player if the the right experience can be put in there with him. We seemed to be worse when the experience came on.

Would like to see Greenwood given a run up top in the position he played when we signed him. Just can't see why he keeps getting put in midfield, offers very little in there. In terms of getting some running in the legs, job done. Not much more to take from it

I thought the Rhinos recruitment looked slow, united have a few weeks to the start of the season and barely have a team. What a shambles.

Edit:sorry they've signed 2 16 year olds, look forward to seeing them debut in 2029/30.

I suspect they can't fund any significant transfers until takeover is rubber stamped by EFL because we've no money from the outgoings thanks to Orta and Radrizanni. I think people will start realising we're in a spot of bother for season start shortly..