Quote Originally Posted by Monaco_Totty View Post
By learning from tough times & committing to improvement for the future you'll become mentally stronger & thus in football a better player, all ex-players say it & Coaches too

Those that may want away now ?
Then let them - as they won't have the mentality required for the next fight in their career path for sure, as talent alone aint good enough in getting to the top peaks.

As an athlete you're the sum total of "everything you put into your sport" & those that don't put in enough either learn from results like today or they don't - hopefully now there is a pathway for our younger ones to force their way into several positions as they'll be older & wiser & gaps in the squad will be available for sure now to grab & fill.

If Farke goes then it'll be another rebuild via another work in progression job which aint really the answer,imo, but we'll see what develops in key departments of defence, midfield & attack.

For sure, a direct no nonsense Teemu Pukki type centre-forward this season "was" the difference between Farkes Norwich & Farkes Leeds Championship teams !

An interesting few weeks ahead now, no time for moaning, shed the dead wood, regroup & get the tools for Championship winning needs using more direct methods if need be style wise before any 'pretty boys' arrivals to satisfy the PL tippy-tappy fluffball borefests which aint the answer to getting outta the EFL Championship.
And just where in any professional league is the first of those homiles demonstrated? Very few of those at Leeds who think they are better than the Championship show even the faintest of humility and self awareness, never mind the strength of character to show their willingness to treat failure as an opportunity to learn, in any sense whatsoever, and I don't just refer to the playing community.

Those who "want away" aren't one homogenous mass, as my earlier post suggests, they will have differing dynamics affecting their wish to find a new club, of which only a minority wil be missed, whilst the majority would be a club asset, if only they could be persuaded to stay, but that won't happen.

The younger players could have been used to rotate a squad which by the time of the international break was leggy and in need of relief. It wasn't provided and bench-warming continued to be their main activity, to the frustration of just about everyone but Der Fuhrer. That won't change unless and until he goes, and therefore if younger players wish to have more game time, they must leave LUFC, reducing our ability to develop home-grown/club=developed talent.

Not an "interesting" few weeks, there are several existentially threatening ones ahead. We have very little genuine "dead wood" amongst the playing staff (until the likes of Aaronsson, Kristensen etc return), and those who want out as I've said, will go come whatever the club does. It's more v i t a l that we clear out the sh1te that has infested those levels of management who have little or no tactical naus, and further up the management chain those who can't see that chnage is essential when all the supporters can. Top to bottom there is a root and branch clear out required, but as I have said before, the 49-ers Enterprises have not the single faintest idea as to what they are doing, nor how to make whatever it is that they see as their "vision" (whatever that might be, as I for one have no idea what it is) realised. If you have no target, you have no chance of hitting it.