Quote Originally Posted by spaldy View Post
can't speak for WTF but I don't think he hates every signing.

Just hates every non English signing. Nothing would ensure relegation faster than building an ethnically pure team of Brits to represent Leeds. I guess we'd also have to fire the coach and some of the staff while we are at it.

No single country produces the worlds best players. If one did it certainly would not be the UK. I think their last world cup was 1966 and more that a few are way overpaid and really not that motivated. Once they get the big checks coming in and a taste for pies and pints they have a hard time keeping up on the pitch.

Fat Lampard is making the most concerted effort to build a Brit based team and even they will have more than a handful of foreign players. of course, he has a budget 5 times what ours is and still won't have a league championship.
Sorry Spaldy that's not right.

I hate every signing that wastes the clubs limited funds, and despite what others might assert, I've been right a hell of a lot more times than wrong (want me to list them all, happy to, but you would get bored) and when I have been wrong (Harrison, White, Bielsa as examples), I've said so, unlike certain other contributors who think any signing is a good one as long as it's for LUFC, and look what dross that philosophy has brought to the club.

The right player, for the right position, either able to "hit the ground running" in positions we need that, or able to contribute immediately but with potential to grow as required, preferably with experience either of the PL or the Championship but that's not an absolute. Nationality is irrelevant.