Kouyate

[whitestomper45]

If, if, if. We're thin for sure, but only because our manager is about as likely to give the likes of Crew and other youth players an opportunity as I am to be the next Pope.

We are for certain a fair way through the first part of the season and whereas Crew and others are already versed in how we play (whether you agree with how we play or not), Kouyate isn't and we have critical games coming up that ought not to be treated as training/acclimitisation sessions. Decisions made in a panic are rarely good ones.

Then we shouldn’t be signing anyone in January either with your reckoning.
How do you know Florists didn’t want him.
We have probably the youngest squad in the division and lack leaders/experience. As we see with Joseph, he might be familiar with how we play, is a great prospect but was never the quick answer to our frontline.

Btw: in case you forgot Liverpool signed Gary McAllister on a free at age 35….

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Think we got Pablo on a free and Paddy Kisnorbo and in the current squad Sam Byram.

[WTF11]

Then we shouldn’t be signing anyone in January either with your reckoning.
How do you know Florists didn’t want him.
We have probably the youngest squad in the division and lack leaders/experience. As we see with Joseph, he might be familiar with how we play, is a great prospect but was never the quick answer to our frontline.

Btw: in case you forgot Liverpool signed Gary McAllister on a free at age 35….

I'd prefer that we didn't sign during the winter window, for sure. We have a very poor record of such signings, but that probably won't stop us again this time round.

As to Florists not wanting Kouyate, ok I'll give you that he left when is contract expired with a club announcement in June. Make of that what you will, he still left without a club to go to.

And so you would suggest, given the acknowledged youthful nature of the squad, that not only do we bring in a player with no previous experience at Leeds at a critical juncture in the season, but we're to expect that he becomes some kind of leader? No pressure there then, in getting any kind of "quick answer", which I have never suggested we should get, in any position (and my comments elsewhere on Joseph apply).

Oh and McAllister, you're comparing him to Kouyate, really?

And for the record, I don't object to free transfers, I object to knee-jerk decisions made because we have a manager who has little or no faith in the product of what is rumoured to be one of the best Academies/youth/U21 team structures in any English division