I assume it's because he was 1 of their better players and has ended up on loan for 2 years rather than trying to get them promoted. That's down to the daft contract the club agreed to though
TheRam wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 8:07 am
We’re in terrible shape.
That right hand side yet again is awful.
Can’t see moyes picking the young lad at left back so that’s going to be another square peg in the team for Leeds.
To get to this point with not one right back or right winger in the team is a massive failure.
It's an absolute disgrace that nothing has been done about the right hand side defensively and offensively.
Five years we have been waiting for a decent right back instead of make do's.
Yet here we are just over a week away from starting and fuck all again
It's shameful.
Stumpy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 1:02 pm
It's an absolute disgrace that nothing has been done about the right hand side defensively and offensively.
Five years we have been waiting for a decent right back instead of make do's.
Yet here we are just over a week away from starting and fuck all again
It's shameful.
They definitely tried to address it with Patterson, I think the plan would be to get him in, nice little loan for his first full season and get him ready after about 18 months. Unfortunately injuries to him meant it wouldn't happen then injuries to others and a poor squad meant we needed him to bulk out the squad and his development's been fucked. The intention was there but it hasn't worked and we're now back to square one. After all these years there's a chance Seamus starts next week.
Gash wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 1:08 pm
They definitely tried to address it with Patterson, I think the plan would be to get him in, nice little loan for his first full season and get him ready after about 18 months. Unfortunately injuries to him meant it wouldn't happen then injuries to others and a poor squad meant we needed him to bulk out the squad and his development's been fucked. The intention was there but it hasn't worked and we're now back to square one. After all these years there's a chance Seamus starts next week.
Yeah it's easy to forget we got patterson in because it just hasn't worked out for one reason or another.
It just feels like forever we have been making do there.
It's such an important position and it's been holding us back.
Every window is like groundhog day, window opens, you hope that an decent established right back is got in, but it never happens.
And here we are again, for the umpteenth time nothings changed.
There was a brief split second where it felt like Benitez had pulled a master stroke in bringing in two full backs and sorting a pretty big hole in the finances (and PSR calculations) with the sale of Digne.
Obviously it was Benitez though, so it all turned to shit pretty quickly