But Matt Smith got 13 goals "at this level" last season, despite being far from a regular starter. That means that the sales of McCormack and Smith have cost us the equivalent of 42 goals. It may be that Billy Sharp (five goals total last season) will find his scoring touch again, or that all these tyro midfielders will start pinging them in, but I fear that we'll become the equivalent of Spurs last season, who sold their one world-class player, the one who could often be counted on to rescue them with a goal out of nowhere, and bought a team's worth of mediocre players with the money.
Cheers! Sean -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Adams <[email protected]> To: Leeds List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Sep 1, 2014 8:51 pm Subject: Re: [LU] Full list of ins and outs - as at 9.30pm I for one think this has been one of the best transfer windows for us in a while. 11M for McCormack is beyond belief and I never really felt that Matt Smith was going to contribute meaningfully at this level. Poleon promised but never really delivered and now we have a slew of new signings that at leaf fill me with anticipation if not excitement yet. I LOVED Silvestri's reaction at the final whistle on Saturday, applauding the fans and pumping them up, he could be a real legend.Overall, I'm much more optimistic than I was three weeks ago, the Hoack has gone, we have new players in, if we can now get someone like Steve Clark or Grayson in to coach we could be a decent team and avoid relegation this year. Best, Jeremy > Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 21:44:24 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LU] Full list of ins and outs - as at 9.30pm > > http://www.thescratchingshed.com/2014/09/complete-round-up-of-leeds-uniteds-summer-transfers/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter > > > Looks decent - average age of incoming is 23 - outgoing is 28 and that is artificially low since it includes 4 youth team players released without a first team appearance between them > If you take them out the only one under 27 is Tom Lees (23) - of the incoming the average is increased by Taylor - 33- who is only back up keeper > Only McCormack, Lees and maybe Kenny are any loss and we have replaced Kenny and Lees with better (I hope) and with a bit of luck Sharp and the new strikers will be cover for McCormack > > > Add to the incoming the introduction of 17 year old Cook plus the 'return' of Byram and Mowatt 21 and 19 plus Charlie Taylor 21 and Dawson 20, and we are a really young team / squad > > We have spent £5m almost and taken £11m (all for McCormack) - so well done Massimo - get the right coach in now and things could really take off even though there are bound to be some bumps along the way - we have saved on wages and changed the whole feel of the playing staff - young hungry players with something to proof and room to improve rather than old journeymen seeing out their time and picking up their wages > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > Rest In Peace old lad > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
