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Viv Anderson
BJ played really well, but it was very friendly match. He can be true class one day.
It seems only a matter of time before he’s plying his trade in the top flight, although Orta has now admitted that Johnson might well have been a Leeds player had things panned out differently. In an interview with Marca, the Elland Road chief outlined his vision for bringing young players on board to the club, adding that they made a bid to sign the winger when he was still a teenager.
“We have a project with the full support of the entire board of directors and the CEO,” he said. “I identified that we had to anticipate and develop the ‘Anticipate Project Talent’ project with my scouting group of English people, who are the best in England.
“We had to reach the player much earlier because if we expected the player to make his debut, he would have minutes in the Championship. Like Brennan Johnson now, he is a new Welsh international, the best young player in the English second division, he is already at 20.
“My model was to have reached Brennan Johnson when he was 16 and we tried. But it could not be. It could have been Greenwood, Gelhardt, Lewis Bate… We have paid for these players between one and two million, so we reached about 20 players”.
Orta says Leeds tried to sign Brennan when he was 16. I knew Everton wanted him at the time.
Theres no short cuts and stealing other peoples talented kids when they are still very young should be banned...
How does that work if the kids are in Northern Ireland, for example? is that different?
I understand it’s not a very sophisticated argument I am making but you can forgive me for reacting to the arrogant suggestion/business model tgat everyone else acts as a feeder for Leeds United to exploit “value”.
He can f*** off!
It's part of our business model, without looking I'd guess that around the 50% of our u23s and 18s are not from Nottingham and were signed from other clubs.I understand it’s not a very sophisticated argument I am making but you can forgive me for reacting to the arrogant suggestion/business model tgat everyone else acts as a feeder for Leeds United to exploit “value”.
He can f*** off!
Always makes me laugh when people say "I tried to sign X player when he was young", it's like they have to justify how good they are at spotting talent.
I bet he tried to sign loads of players.
Wenger always used to bleat on about players he didn't sign.
You almost want to see Wales qualify for the World Cup, to see how he performs on that stage.
Wales or Ukraine anyway
He's a Rolls Royce and they don't come along very often. We should enjoy him while we have him.
Watch him fly today .
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I knew he would after watching him for Wales midweek, He looked on it and I knew he was going to have an influence on today's game.Cracking prediction