Dear Mr Bates

bang on jonty! same old drabness!

i fear Ken Bates will be the first man to live to 200 and still be the owner of Leeds

no i see a club who came up from league 1 last season and should be happy with where they finished last season. You are not yet in the position to be promoted. it's all very nice having a season in the premiership but when you come back down you are in a worse position. this happened to burnley and hull and will happen to blackpool and norwich. Yet all I see and hear from leeds fans is moaning. you have one of the best young english managers in the game and plenty of you still moan about him and call for his head! The sad fact is, and it's the same for Boro, being in the championship/league 1, if a club comes in from a higher division with a decent offer, players will want to go and be sold. This is referring to snodgrass, the schmeichal thing is different.

Krusty-we all know what happened last time leeds paid over the odds for players. You cannot be held to ransom over wages. saying that, I can't see why johnson would have wanted to stay when he will be in the premiership next year.

Boro i know full well about what happened when we paid well over the odds but surely we can keep our players its joke! were making profit and yet they won't gamble a few grand to lets say Beckford 2 years ago just frustrating every year!

it's all very nice having a season in the premiership but when you come back down you are in a worse position. this happened to burnley and hull and will happen to blackpool and norwich.
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So what about newcastle and west brom?
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you have one of the best young english managers in the game and plenty of you still moan about him and call for his head!
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Explain your comment in full detail? Why o why is he best young english managers in the game?

we all know what happened last time leeds paid over the odds for players.
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That was years and years ago and that was silly money not second division money for a club that gets over 27k average a season with the 5th most expensive season tickets in england! The club is a gold mine and we can not keep anyone.

Krusty, calm down.
Breathe in, breathe out & repeat ......

newcastle and west brom are different. they had premiership squads in the championship and didn't need massive investment to survive.

grayson took over when you were out of the play offs, guided you to play off final where you narrowly lost, the next season you won the league and this year you finished one place outside of the play offs. not a bad record.

it seems to me that beckford and johnson were very similar-have amazing games and shockers, were greedy and believe they are better than they are. players like that could easily be world beaters one season and donkeys the next.

believe me, i know the frustration. As a boro fan, in the 90s we were offering more wages than anyone in england and now we are going to get out-bidded in wages by cardiff for an average player. I just think it's better to have players who want to be at the club and give their all every game rather than players who would leave in a heartbeat.

grayson took over when you were out of the play offs, guided you to play off final where you narrowly lost, the next season you won the league and this year you finished one place outside of the play offs. not a bad record.
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You can't even get your facts straight.

We never made it to play off final with Grayson we fell at earlier stage than previous manager.

We did not go up as Champions.

Please, stick to commenting on Boro as you obviously don;t know anything about Leeds.

ok my bad, still not the worst record. final or no final, didn't go up, champions or not, still went up. doesn't make a difference.

i'll leave you to your pathetic grumbling. you'd of thought the last few years would of taught you to count your blessings! instead you're moaning because you've lost a very average keeper.

But that is in the lower leagues and means nothing now. This is big boys stuff now something sg has never done or ever look like doing.