Most liked posts in thread: Rumarn Burrell - Why sign him?

Aye you won’t get every signing right, but our ratio atm is particularly bad. Our best is one many thought what’s the point in that loan and he only came in to cover Novak’s injury Cook, felt more luck than anything that Mansfield were desperate to ship off high earners and Novak got injured.

Even some of our less fancied loanees under Parky have gone on to have decent careers tbf; Charlie Taylor at Burnley, Mason Bennett at Derby and Craig Forsyth, Oliver Burke, Kyle Bennett at Donny and Portsmouth. Even Matt Penney broke into the Sheffield Wednesday team who we had in McCalls second spell. I’ve probably missed a few as well tbf.

So some who didn’t contribute much clearly had talent , and the rest were mostly just to cover injuries on short term loans.

 

If Staunton ever plays for a club in Leeds it will be Guiseley or Farsley.

 

I doubt we’ll get that sort of quality for a while. Clubs and young players only want to send / go to clubs as high in the pyramid as they can. Add to that we’ve two inexperienced managers at the helm who didn’t improve Stevens or even use Burrell. I think the best we can hope for will be final year 23’s trying to earn a contract elsewhere. The other sticking point is the lack of top teams around us. Only Leeds and maybe Sheff Utd could have surplus stock that might do a job for us, because they can’t get into their 1st team.