Crawley-Crewe L2 final is a good watch, showing among other things that VAR can actually be used properly.
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My predictions have been terrible.
So luckily I can’t actually call the playoff final, hope it’s the usual worth watch.
Leeds in trouble.
Good.
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Now that Leeds have failed to go up we should try and get Summerville,Gray and Rutter from them
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Thought that myself…
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I think Gray would be too soon.
Might be worth buying and loaning back if allowed.
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Our interest in Archie Gray has been mentioned since he first broke through. We clearly like him. I mentioned him in one of the transfer threads as someone to bring in. With Leeds now failing to secure promotion, and needing to sell, there’s no better time than now (if he wants to leave, of course).
Our transfer strategy has been to wait until players have had experience in the bigger leagues, with more data to look at, and paying big fees, rather than taking the risk on signing them before their value goes up.
I guess it depends on how keen we really are, but a versatile English talent, who can cover RB, DM, CM, just turned 18 years old, and capped at England U21 level in March, it just seems like something we really should be exploring.
The key issue is room in the squad, which is already unbalanced and possibly bloated in midfield, as well as whether we’d want to allocate the funds needed for someone like Gray, who is still incredibly young, and not yet proven at the highest level, despite his talent. I guess it’d depend on whether the data shows he’s on a trajectory that you can’t simply dismiss.
Ideally, like matthurst said, we’d buy him and loan him back to Leeds, but again, that depends on how much money we have, and what we need to bring in. We could use Morton and Carvalho to sweeten the pot perhaps?
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But he’s very " Leeds at heart" with family connections…so would it be which ruled …the heart or the head…I wouldn’t count on him moving…
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Seems to be someone in the Gomez mould. While he may not be playing in CB , he can provide cover for a lot of areas before the coaches figure out what’s the best place for him.
If we can get him at a good price (without exchanging any of our other high rated youngsters talents - looking at Morton / Carvalho) , that should be a good deal for the future.
Push comes to shove the likes of Beck / Ramsay can be considered
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Leeds will get into FFP issues soon if they do not get promoted the next season.
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Red Bull Leeds
Red Bullshit Leeds
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Millwall goalkeeper Matija Sarkic, 26, was found dead in his apartment while on international duty. Former Aston Villa and Wolves goalkeeper, was Montenegro’s #1 and first choice for Millwall also playing 32 times last season.
No official cause of death listed but I’ve seen suggestions he had an undiagnosed heart defect and died in his sleep.
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Does make you wonder if we should start screening for this.
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Former Trump lawyer seems to be in the process of buying Tranmere Rovers according to
liverpoolpost@substack.com.
Make Tranmere Rovers Great Again
By Jack Walton
It’s been a busy 2024 for Joe Tacopina. In January, he walked away from Donald Trump’s legal team, on which he had been serving in the former president’s case regarding hush money payments to the porn star Stormy Daniels. By April, he was… well, a long way from the courthouses of New York City. Tacopina was stood in Tranmere Rovers’ Prenton Park watching the Wirral side triumph 3-2 over Wimbledon in English Football’s lowest professional tier, League Two. The few eagle-eyed Rovers fans who spotted him had plenty of questions, namely, what the hell is Joe Tacopina doing at Prenton Park?
Good question. Aside from Trump, Tacopina has worked for American news personality Kimberly Guilfoyle, Jay-Z, and John Gotti, the former boss of New York’s Gambino crime family. A New York Post article from 2011 described Tacopina as “the devil’s advocate” and quoted a prosecutor who had some choice words about him: “He’s slick, he’s got a big ego, and he’ll represent any scumbag.” An Irish Times journalist recalled a colleague describing Tacopina in even more entertaining terms: “a Tyrannosaurus Rex in shark’s clothing with the mind of Perry Mason”.
But when he’s not breaking bread with the rich and famous, Tacopina has another interest — he loves acquiring football teams.
Tacopina has mostly done this in Italy. He was part of a 2011 consortium that purchased AS Roma; he became involved with Bologna FC in 2014; he bought Venezia FC in 2015; he became president and owner of SPAL in 2021.
According to sources close to the Tranmere top brass, it’s a “done deal”, with Tacopina part of a syndicate attempting to take over the club. The Post has been told Tranmere are simply waiting on approval from the English Football League (EFL).
None of this has been officially confirmed by the club. Quite the opposite. An Instagram post went out a few weeks ago from a company called Bluebird Mutual announcing they were now minority investors in both Tranmere and SPAL (Tacopina is SPAL’s owner — so it seemed to confirm the connection) but Nicola Pallios, co-owner alongside her husband Mark Pallios, replied to a fan on X saying she had “no idea why it was posted”.
Tacopina’s appearance at Preston Park has yet to draw any media coverage, which feels surprising — Donald Trump’s lawyer and Tranmere Rovers at least makes for an eyebrow-raising headline. Nor has the fact that Tacopina has just set up a new UK-registered company, with the nature of the business listed as “activities of sports clubs”. The company is called Tac 1884. Have a guess what year Tranmere Rovers was founded?..
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Is he one of those who have been trying to deny that Trump lost in 2020 and have faced several court battles?
Flashscore have Nat Phillips starting today for Cardiff which is odd because he doesn’t play for Cardiff.
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Hull also have Carvalho starting up front with Morton in midfield 
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Hull’s goalkeeper is called Ivor Pandur. Better let him know that China want it back.
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