A couple of weeks into the 2023/24 Championship season and things are still not showing any sign of settling down for Daniel Farke and Leeds United.
With two and a half weeks of the summer transfer window left, there’s plenty of time for more players to be signed or leave the club, and that’s unlikely to suit the German manager as he seeks to gain a foothold in the English second-tier.
It’s important for a club as big as Leeds to be getting points on the board early so that they are not playing catch up later in the campaign.
Both results from their opening two league games of the season were settled in the final moments, a 2-2 draw that included an injury time Leeds equaliser and a last-minute loss to Birmingham City.
With West Brom, Ipswich Town and Sheffield Wednesday to come in their next three matches, picking up points isn’t going to get any easier for the all whites.
They could arguably do with the services of exciting attacker, Willy Gnonto, but according to the Daily Mail, Gnonto, who is being forced to train alone at present after effectively going on strike and refusing to play, is upset that the club are refusing to enter into negotiations with Everton for a move back to the Premier League.
That would appear to be the express desire of the youngster and his representatives, however, at this point the owners are remaining firm in their decision to keep him.
Gnonto has to accept Everton are potless they don’t have the resources to buy him outright.
Gnonto has to realise what an employment contract is! He is contacted to Leeds (without any release clause), therefore suck it up buttercup and do the job you’re paid to do! Until such time you can leave the club.
Side before self #ALAW
Don’t understand who players think they are these days, trying to hold a club to ransom to get their own way, does he not realise he is just making himself look like an absolute twat!!
Love to see 49ers have the bottle and financial clout to ignore Gnonto and leave him out on a limb for the season to set an example, clearly he’s overpaid and a spoilt bret with no ethics after accepting a contract when it suits only to ignore it when things don’t.
Give him a deadline to play or a deadline to remain adrift for the season.
This would give the 49ers massive kudos amongst Leeds supporters