LEEDS SIGN KELLO
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Leeds United have signed Hearts goalkeeper Marian Kello on a free transfer. The 29-year-old had been signed on a pre-contract deal and completed the switch this morning following the expiry of his contract with Hearts yesterday.
Before joining Leeds the Slovakian had made 103 appearances for Hearts including 12 during a loan spell there before making his move to the Scottish outfit permanent. He appeared in all but 4 games last season, keeping 7 clean sheets.
PRE-SEASON 2012/13 PART ONE- TRANSFERS
Transfer Budget:£3.3m
IN:
Adrian Mariappa-Watford-£200,000
Gauthier Pinaud-Hearts-£425,000
Prince Buaben-Watford-£575,000
Martin Taylor-Watford-£200,000
Jordan Spence-West Ham-£325,000
David Wotherspoon-Hibernian-£600,000
Billy Sharp-Doncaster Rovers-£3m(inc £2m monthly installments)
Marian Kello-Hearts-Free
Peter Ramage-QPR-Free
Clint Hill-QPR-Free
David Gonzalez-Free Agent(previously at Man City)
Christian Derflinger-Free Agent(previously at Bayern Munich)
Total Spent: £5.5m (amazing when you consider who the chairman is)
OUT:
Paddy Kisnorbo-Southampton-£120,000
Paul Connolly-Ipswich Town-£160,000
Andy O'Brien-Sheffield Wednesday-£325,000
Andy Lonergan-West Brom-£525,000
Michael Brown-Free Agent
Zac Thompson-Free Agent
Joe McCann-Free Agent
Alex Cairns-Free Agent
Sanchez Payne-Free Agent
Ramon Nunez-Frosinone-Free
Mika Vayrynen-Feyenoord-Free
Ben Parker-Colchester United-Free
Mikael Forssell-Bielefeld-Free
Paul Rachubka-Crystal Palace-£85,000
Total Earned: £1.2m
Transfer Profit:-£1m
PRE-SEASON 2012/13 PART TWO- FRIENDLIES
Leeds 7-0 Leeds Reserves
Truro 0-4 Leeds
Bodmin 0-6 Leeds
Torquay 0-1 Leeds
Guiseley 0-5 Leeds
Aldershot 0-4 Leeds
Sandefjord 1-0 Leeds
Haugesund 2-0 Leeds
Sogndal 1-1 Leeds
Leeds 2-0 Zulte Waregem
All in all a positive pre-season, new signing Billy Sharp certainly lived up to his name scoring 8 goals in 10 appearances, hopefully a sign of things to come. The tour of Norway was a little disappointing but it was nice to round pre-season off with a home win to keep the confidence up going into the start of the season.
Feel free to comment guys!!
DUO SIGN FOR LEEDS
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Leeds United have pulled off surprise of the summer on deadline day by landing Reading's prominsing scotsman Jordan Rhodes for £3m as well as Fulham's in-form Northern Irish centre-back Aaron Hughes for £2m.
Jordan Rhodes struggled last season at Reading following his transfer from Huddersfield with just 4 goals from 20 appearances, but has started this season brightly with 3 goals in as many games. Aaron Hughes made 167 apppearances during his time with Fulham and scored one goal. He was particularly impressive last season, despite his side going down to the Championship. Both players claimed they wanted to be a part of the Townend Revolution at Leeds United, and are looking forward to taking the club to the Premier League.
AUGUST 2012
Coventry 1-1 Leeds
Leeds 3-1 Chesterfield (Capital One Cup)
Leeds 3-0 Peterborough
Swansea 1-2 Leeds
Leeds 1-1 Reading
Blackburn 1-0 Leeds (Capital One Cup)
The Townend Revolution definitely seems to be well under way, the Whites are unbeaten in the leage so far and put up a solid fight against Blackburn. They should've beaten Reading, but that's football- just have to move onwards and upwards starting the new month with a trip to Cardiff on the 1st.
doing good so far mate, great capture of jordan rhodes!
#64155 TheKopDiamond :
doing good so far mate, great capture of jordan rhodes!
The downside is he somehow passed a medical despite being injured which means im gonna be without him for a few weeks first.
SEPTEMBER 2012
Cardiff 0-0 Leeds
Leeds 2-0 Huddersfield
Derby 0-1 Leeds
Leeds 2-0 Brighton
Any younger Leeds fans suffering from the start of term blues were given something to shout about- not only are their team now top of the league but they're also unbeaten in 8. With Jordan Rhodes returning to match fitness after recovering from a broken arm, Leeds fans definitely have a lot to look to and finally, this thread is starting to live up to its name.
NB- my brother overwrote my save and after the Cardiff game was all I had left of it (gutted). So I'm going through the matches again and when I complete each month, you will see "*edited" at the start of the post.
*Edited
OCTOBER 2012
Leeds 2-1 Hull
Burnley 1-3 Leeds
Millwall 1-4 Leeds
Leeds 1-0 Sheffield United
Leicester 0-2 Leeds
A very pleasing month that has seen Leeds reach top spot in the division. Jordan Rhodes returned to full fitness in time for the Millwall game and bagged his first goal in the trip to Leicester. Just 7 games left until we get back to where we were before the game was overwritten...
TOWNEND BAGS OCTOBER AWARD WHILE KELLY GETS NOMINATION
Manager Josh Townend and centre-midfielder Liam Kelly were both listed for this month's awards.
Townend has won the Manager of the Month Award after his side's impressive 100% record over the course of the month whilst Kelly was nominated for Goal of the Month and came third after a sublime 30-yard strike against Burnley at Turf Moor.
how do you add pictures mate ?
PS great Story so far, Keep it up !!!
MOT
#64252 jay_jones06_LUFC :
how do you add pictures mate ?
PS great Story so far, Keep it up !!!
MOT
you find the image url and you copy and paste it before putting [img] on the left of the url and [/img] to the right.
Like this: [img]example.com/jpg[/img]
NOVEMBER 2012
Leeds 2-0 Nottingham Forest
Middlesbrough 1-2 Leeds
Leeds 3-0 Fulham
Leeds 3-2 Norwich
Another pleasing month for Townend's Leeds with another 100% record for the month as they extend their lead at the top of the table with a 45-36 advantage over 2nd placed Blackpool and 10 points clear ofn 3rd placed West Ham on 35 points. All home wins were particularly pleasing, Nottm Forest coming in front of a full house, Fulham being a bigger side and Norwich having come frombehind twice to win.
