Good to get back to it after the longest international break of all our lives - one of the running things so far this season has been the bench. At what point do we need more? Where are contributions going to come from? #LUFC lsxi.substack.com/p/if-leeds…

In a word… no.

I’d argue that it’s negative to be happy with what’s been served up. We’ve played 4 of the bottom 5, one of which is the world’s worst run football club. It is aspirational and realistic to expect more in those games from the group of players we have, no?

Our bench had a winger we bought from ac Milan who he’s happy to start every week. We have the fastest player ever recorded in Germany. We started Fulham’s POTY from last year. We are choosing to play 5 defenders and also Brenden Aaronson. We can get better results than this

2 points out of 6 now and performances that are so boring they’re starting to be ableist against the adhd community. I know we’re 7th but surely there has to be more than this? This is meant to be a form of entertainment

I’m so bored man just chuck him on so I can feel something

Are we ready for the bahoya chat now? Teams basically fine, can of course argue that we’re missing some ballast in midfield, but then we get to the LHS and… why? What’s Brenden going to bring to this that any other player won’t? Why won’t we use our most exciting signing?

Of all Daniel farke’s gifts his biggest might be managing expectations. We’ve done so well just by having good players and being hard to beat. Man U last weekend would have been beaten with a bit more bravery - we’ve got a strong setup, for sure, but could we gamble a bit more?

How long before we go back to a 433? I can’t say there’s loads of games I’ve felt in need of the extra centre back this season

That is as an excellent example of away team football from us - remember all that nonsense about tanaka not being able to mix it at this level before this season? Look at the boy now

They said we’re playing WHAT?

It’s been 24 hours and every credible suggestion is a club or level below ours… interesting

If we were to sell Brenden Aaronson and Dan James, where are their most likely destinations?

He’s been very good - it’s been really interesting to see the discourse round him though versus his predecessor. They’ve been pretty similar in terms of performance so far

That was a hard watch. Another where the consensus will be ‘good point’ I guess. Now I’ve watched him though, it just makes Bahoya’s absence all the weirder, even if it was only two minutes, he looked far better than the men who came before him

Today I think we’d benefit from 2 proper wide men - especially since Stach just isn’t really in the game. Worked against Newcastle, might need more dynamism today Wonder who we could bring on

Posting this one last time as a bit of pre-match reading - and if we could have a 90 minutes like this one, that would be great. Please do share/subscribe if you like it etc. #LUFC #MOT lsxi.substack.com/p/leeds-4-…