Re: ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD : Fri Jan 24, 2025 10:17 pm  

Huge game now on Monday, chance to go 4 clear

Re: ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD : Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:21 pm  

Joffy is a talented lad, just needs games and to find his position. Brilliant result for us. Takes pressure off us a bit but yes big chance to get some real daylight between us and the rest

Re: ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD : Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:58 pm  

Reports in Germany saying Leverkusen are in for Buendia on loan. Villa want an obligation to buy, so it's not agreed yet. But Leeds are also in for him, and could still get him if they manage to agree a fee depending on promotion. I doubt he drops to the championship, though.

Re: ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD : Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:59 pm  

Geldhart for me was the best striker and finisher at the club. He just didn’t fit the brief for a centre forward nowadays that spends 99% of his time outside the box. He would have been great pre 2010 as part of a big man / little man combo such as Quinn/Phillips , Toshack/Keegan or Chapman/Rod Wallace. I hope he does well at Hull and finally starts enjoying the game. Was great to see the poison dwarf spitting his bile after the game and moaning about the 50/50’s as usual. Wilder is a poor man’s Warnock without the character.

Re: ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD : Sat Jan 25, 2025 2:11 pm  

not sure he was the best striker and finisher but he is immensely talented.
he's never found a proper position but I wish him every success at hull.

Re: ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD : Sat Jan 25, 2025 5:58 pm  

tad rhino wrote:

not sure he was the best striker and finisher but he is immensely talented.
he's never found a proper position but I wish him every success at hull.

I don’t see the real competition from anyone currently playing at Elland Road in the finishing stakes. If Geldhart had the 3 or 4 chances Piroe had on Wednesday night against Norwich at least one would have been nestling in the back of the net. Piroe was painfully slow with all those chances, we all know Joseph has not lived up to expectations and Bamford’s finishing over the last couple of years has been erratic and downright poor at times. Geldhart has better feet than all of them in the box and is more instinctive as a finisher. Like I said before though, he couldn’t do enough outside the box for Farke to ever get a sniff.

Re: ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD : Sun Jan 26, 2025 11:46 am  

I watched the Sheffield/Hull game and Joffy spent most of the time on the left cutting in.
I`m sure he would have done a job as a 10 if given the minutes.
Like Tad has said on here in the past Farke is stubborn and it was anyone of Piroe, Joseph and even the fast declining Bamford who would always get in ahead of Geldhart regardless of how bad they were playing.

Re: ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD : Sun Jan 26, 2025 11:58 am  

no manager from bielsa to farke has given him much time, if any.
they can't all be wrong

Re: ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD : Sun Jan 26, 2025 2:18 pm  

tad rhino wrote:

no manager from bielsa to farke has given him much time, if any.
they can't all be wrong

Yeh that did cross my mind Tad and depending on how you look at it you could say they were both stubborn barstewards and wouldn`t budge.
Or he just wasn`t good enough hence why they didn`t select him.
The odd 10 minutes he was given he was underwhelming for sure.
Again was that down to the lack of minutes or he isn`t that good?

Re: ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD : Sun Jan 26, 2025 2:37 pm  

Geldhart's issue at Leeds is/was that he's never fit the tactical systems of the managers we've had. He's not athletic enough to play as a lone 9, which also means he isn't that effective in a high press, and can't really be effective as a winger either.

He's a 2nd striker or wide 10 in a narrow tactical set up. There's not many managers who play those types of systems anymore.