Max Wober…

comment by LeedsMRU (U22367)
posted 13 hours, 44 minutes ago

Lee Chapman comes to mind....or Becchio

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as much as I love these players MRU, theres no way they'd could play a Bielsa number 9 ... no where near mobile enough for me...

also, Chapman, Becchio, Beckford all left on good terms...

nothing like Wober

comment by White as Snow (U22893)
posted 12 hours, 37 minutes ago

comment by LeedsMRU (U22367)
posted 2 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by The Spanish Italians - Its all coming home again (U21595)
posted 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
I actually never disliked Wober, I thought a lot was overblown by a few...

when I was younger I would have more than probably be in the camp of 'never wear a Leeds shirt again", but I think now I'm older I don't seem to have this tribalness about me so much when it comes to football...

we need to be promoted this season, anyone who can help with that is ok in my book.

if it helped the team get promoted, I'd even have Eric Cantona back
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What about Beckford ??
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Beckford in a heartbeat. He did nothing wrong in the first place.

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Snow, I'm not overly sure BEckford would even start for us tho...

I think MRU was joking also, as I'm well known to have an issue with Beckford ... having said that I think MRU missed exactly why

always said Beckford a great player for us at that time.. scored some very important goals... my issue with Beckford is how he goes about his 'love for Leeds' these days, as a pundit... its cringy at best.... I just can't take to it... the way he carry's on you'd think he played for us all his career, and the fans buy it too... I listen to him sometimes and I'm like mate you played for us for 5 minutes and left on a free

Wöber was one of the players that I thought held PL standard, when he played for Leeds in that division.

One of the few in the backline

comment by The Spanish Italians - Its all coming home again (U21595)
posted 5 hours, 41 minutes ago
comment by White as Snow (U22893)
posted 12 hours, 37 minutes ago

comment by LeedsMRU (U22367)
posted 2 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by The Spanish Italians - Its all coming home again (U21595)
posted 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
I actually never disliked Wober, I thought a lot was overblown by a few...

when I was younger I would have more than probably be in the camp of 'never wear a Leeds shirt again", but I think now I'm older I don't seem to have this tribalness about me so much when it comes to football...

we need to be promoted this season, anyone who can help with that is ok in my book.

if it helped the team get promoted, I'd even have Eric Cantona back
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What about Beckford ??
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Beckford in a heartbeat. He did nothing wrong in the first place.

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Snow, I'm not overly sure BEckford would even start for us tho...

I think MRU was joking also, as I'm well known to have an issue with Beckford... having said that I think MRU missed exactly why

always said Beckford a great player for us at that time.. scored some very important goals... my issue with Beckford is how he goes about his 'love for Leeds' these days, as a pundit... its cringy at best.... I just can't take to it... the way he carry's on you'd think he played for us all his career, and the fans buy it too... I listen to him sometimes and I'm like mate you played for us for 5 minutes and left on a free
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I know what you mean. I find a lot of what he says a bit cringe. His ‘banter’ is cringe too.

But I think he does genuinely have affection for Leeds, good memories, success and most of all Leeds changed his life. Plucking him from nowhere. I think that’s what makes the difference.

I also think he comes across as a decent bloke.

He just lays it on a bit thick for his media persona

comment by Loidis-Norvegicus (U9680)
posted 1 hour, 13 minutes ago
Wöber was one of the players that I thought held PL standard, when he played for Leeds in that division.

One of the few in the backline
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Decent enough for the prem. Great level to have on the bench in the Championship.

Not as good as some hyped though and a fair bit behind Struijk for me

I also think he comes across as a decent bloke.

He just lays it on a bit thick for his media persona

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Agree faithy 👍

comment by Real Estate - Podemos ser Top Four de nuevo (U21471)
posted 23 hours, 24 minutes ago
comment by milkyboy (U12731)
posted 2 hours, 6 minutes ago
Never been bothered by ‘the rats’. The club put contractual clauses in that more than halved salaries on relegation. They were designed to ‘push’ players out to save money. We’re fans so it’s easy to say we’d play for free. They’re not - in their shoes most of us would do the same.

Back to Wober. Good footballer - certainly at this level. Plenty of experience at left back…. But he’s clearly a natural centre back and his lack of pace will be exposed by quality wingers. If he plays tomorrow, in Ben Doak, he’ll face the championship’s trickiest winger so will be a test… Hopefully not an ordeal.
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So who would you pick of the two to handle Doak tomorrow…Wober or Byram? I feel Wober, being a centre back, would provide greater physicality against Doak to muscle him off the ball, so I would go with him.
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I think due to injuries Byram is forced to play right back, so it will have to be wober. If bogle was fit - for this particular game I’d play Byram… just a bit more mobile and a bit more experienced at full back.

As it is we’ll have to cut off the supply where we can and double team Doak - think that’s what most sides have been doing recently.

Turns out wober did a great job, shows what I know

comment by milkyboy (U12731)
posted 54 minutes ago
Turns out wober did a great job, shows what I know
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Yes…Max didn’t let me down and out in another good shift. Unlucky with the o.g.

Now the question is, with Wober successfully filling Firpo‘s shoes at the moment would you allow Firpo to leave in January before the end of his contract and save some money on wages?

Real - think we surely have to keep him until the end of the season?

if we sold him now, and for whatever reason we needed cover we'd have to rely on another squad player, or worse still, a newly bought 'squad player', who we'd be lucky if was better than Firpo.. better the devil you know.. and he;s been good recently..

having said that, I'm not overly sure of the contract or financial implications of letting his contract run down.. be a shame to let him leave for free tbh