Report: Leeds United Sign Two-Time Premier League Champion

Leeds United have reportedly agreed a deal with former Manchester City and Arsenal goalkeeper Stuart Taylor, bringing him to Elland Road on a one-year deal.

The move comes with current first choice Paddy Kenny left in England as the rest of Leeds’s squad undergo pre-season training in Sardinia. Kenny has reportedly been told that he can find another club, although he is set to take time to make a decision over his future.

Taylor has only made 72 appearances over the last ten years, and is primarily a backup goalkeeper at every club that signs him.

Leeds were under a transfer embargo until yesterday, with no official confirmation that it has been lifted. It seems as though they are keen to tie up deals.

Taylor was pictured in the background of a photograph from Leeds’s Italian training camp, with speculation on social media over the identity of the player.

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This is the second time in recent days that a potential signing was pictured at a club event, with trialist Andre Blackman photographed at the club store on the day of the new kit launch.

Leeds are set to lose captain Ross McCormack to Fulham, with the striker having recently handed in a transfer request.

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24 thoughts on “Report: Leeds United Sign Two-Time Premier League Champion”

  1. Joke right? If this is the class of player we are going to sign the stuff buying a season ticket or membership…the club wont come out with any statement on ongoing things..I.e rmc but they come out asking you to buy season tickets and memberships today..for what I ask? This isturning into sunday league…hockadoodle joke and players who cant get into anyones first team..but wait andre blackman from the mighty bristol roverz is coming fear not….FARCICAL EVEN THEY DONT WANT HIM..LOSING PATIENCE NOW..LAUGHING STOCK OF THE FOOTBALL WORLD AT THE MOMENT AND NOT A DICKIE BIRD FROM THE CLUB…..SERIOUSLY ARE WE TO BE EXCITED OR EVEN APPEASED AT THIS NEWS AFTER ALL THATS HAPPENED…..JOKE JOKE JOKE

  2. AND TWO TIME CHAMPION???? FROM THE SIDELINES YEAH JUST AS WELL AS PROBABLY….SICK OF THIS NONSENSE..HOW DO THESE PLAYERS CONTINUE TO GET CONTRACTS PLAYING 72 TIMES IN 10 YEARS ?? GO WORK AT IKEA MATE WE DONT NEED SPECTATORS WE NEED GOOD PLAYERS…

  3. What an absolute bag of wank. its nearly as bad as that clown Andre Blackman, whos not fit to be at Elland Road other than being a paying spectator. add Wackaday to the other 2 and we will soon be in the premier, Aye! the fucking Krill Premiere. This guy needs to wise up and quick. its bad enough the bag of camels we had last season, but hes slowly dimantling them only to replace them with even bigger donkeys.

  4. You’ve probably never seen either of them.play so don’t judge yet you silly cunts. There’s been plenty of players not able to get into the Leeds and and done well elsewhere. Even McCormack wasn’t a regular til recently. Fuck off getting on peoples backs before they’ve even kicked a ball. Would you prefer we keep paying too dollar for.old has beens like Brown, tong, green etc. Might as well try and unearth potential instead of coming a week away from admin again

    1. YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT MATE OBVIOUSLY..IM NOT ONE TO PRE JUDGE BUT COME ON THIS GUYS BEEN AROUND 17 YEARS AND MADE 72 APPS AND CANT GET INTO ANYONES FIRST TEAM IS THAT GOOD ENOUGH REALLY ?? AND JOURNEYMAN BLACKMAN RELEASED BY BRISTOL ROVERS AND FREE BEEN KICKED OUT AROUND THE LOWER LEAGUES WHY??? THERES A REASON PAL..COS THEY JUST AINT GOOD ENOUGH!!!! HOCKADAY..HIGHEST BUDGET IN CONFERENCE AND GOT RELEGATED AND STAYED UP ON PURE DUMB LUCK…GET REAL…POINT IS MATE THESE PLAYERS HAVE HAD THEIR CHANCES AT LOWER LEVELS AND FAILED..WHY SHOULD WE TAKE A CHANCE? COS THEY ARE CHEAP? RATHER NOT THANKS..NOT AS IF THIS GUY IS AN UP AND COMING YOUNGSTER OR SOMEONE WITH A POINT TO PROVE IS IT ? JUST SEEMS A GUY HAPPY PLAYING IN RESERVES PICKING UP A WAGE HE DOESNT EARN …NOT WHAT I WANT TO SEE AT ELLAND ROAD I LIKE SEEING PLAYERS EARN THEIR MONEY..YES BROWN WASNT THE MOST TALENTED PLAYER BUT HIS PERFORMANCES AT THE END OF LAST SEASON SHOWED HE DESERVED ANOTHER YEAR EVEN IN A BIT PART ROLE AS FOR ME HE WAS JUST AS INSTRUMENTAL IN STAYING UP AS MCMACK WAS WE WERE IN FREEFALL TILL HE CAME BACK IN SQUAD…….OH AND WATCH THE LANGUAGE KIDS READ THESE IDIOT

  5. Give the new owner a chance,at least he’s spending his own money,not like the previous owners who in my opinion have used lufc as a cash cow, (ex direcor on £260.000 salary and a £400.000 bonus,thats nearly £15.000 per week) and if it was still in their hands it would be bust (after collecting the money of the season ticktet holders) it needs a cleanout and a fresh start. MOT

  6. I can F and Blind as good as anyone-one but I dont when posting comments,the younger end read these comments so can you cut it out,your better than that

  7. Got to admit, i’m a bit torn here. I agree that previous owners have always been self interested and looking to line own pockets, and to be fair, i think mc is in for the long haul. I agree we need to cut costs and almost start from scratch, but there has to be a limit. It appears that we are cutting back on high wage earners. I think rmc should be sold if we can get 10m and he wants to go, but we need to be reinvesting into some quality aswell as young and inexperienced players on the relative cheap. I hope thats whats happening but at the moment am getting a touch sceptical. Will wait and see with fingers crossed!

  8. Keep calm and carry on! Give the club a chance and wait to see how it goes before damning everyone. – you just might be pleasantly surprised come August.

  9. Hes spending his own money to do another Bates, when are you going to wake up and smell the coffee. apart from buying the club and a few quid on debt. hes done no more than Bates in fact Bates did more in keeping some of the staff. hes making us look a like a cheap boot sale club. Redundancies, sacking all the legends( that cost us more in people turning away from corporate hospitatlity), closing the training ground, Wackaday, Andre Blackman. And I can absolutely guarantee you the money from our only asset we had will not be spent on the team. You can look forward next season to a team full of non lge donkeys and Serie B camels. Theres optimism and then theres stupid blindness. Im sick of all the devotess who blindly follow and wont hear one thing said against Mr wonderfull. These are the same sycophants who wouldnt have a word said against Bates, and then moved on to GFH. This fellow will turn out exactly the same.
    He’s meant to be worth all this money, and hes made this 25m investment for what??? we are 6 weeks off the beginning of the season and the team of garbage we had last season has just got even worse. WHERE IS THE INVESTMENT INTO THE TEAM???????. THATS ALL THAT MATTERS, you can leave all the rest of the club, its small change when it comes to a successful LUFC. neigh not even successful. we dont have to even be on the top, 2-6th all season would generate more than enough income for a stable club.
    Debt Debt Debt such a dirty word at LUFC. go and google where we are in the debt list. Its nearly an impossibility to run a club debt free, go look at the debt lists of the championship clubs where Bolton lead the list with £153, and there another 10 clubs with over 50m debt we are at 14m, its absolute peanuts for a club this size, We only need 1 season, just 1 season playing in the top 2-3-4-5th position and a bit of stability and that would be wiped in an instance.
    But no!! lets nit pick, lets get our finances right first, lets start from the bottom, lets get rid of Doris the tea lady. Lets get rid of Alice in admin. Lets get rid of all the legends , even though half the people who buy packages buy them for that reason. Lets get a bloke from on the dole as he was sacked from his non lge team in as coach, Lets get Andre Blackman a first rate camel whose contract has been terminated at another non lge team, Is this where we are setting the bar for LUFC?. This is the English Championship not non league.
    The gravest danger LUFC face is the many older Leeds fans like myself in the 45-65 bracket who actually make up 50% of the support. for obvious reasons of the Revie days. who are getting totally hacked of with 2 bob conmen coming in and abusing the club. and starting to give up the ghost. not out of being unloyal or plastic fans . But out of such a love of the club, and they cant stand the heartbreak any more.
    Football now is a simple process, very simple! you invest or fail. Now and again you get the odd team like Burnley who manage it. But the majority like Leicester WHU etc etc. got back to the premier by investing simples. If this man thinks he is going to get LUFC moving forward with the tripe hes fetching in, and minus our talisman Ross hes deluded.

  10. ask the FA where the investment is. the embargo has made it impossible to bring anyone in. the only player who has left or is leaving who we will miss is ross mc, so the only major change from last season apart from ross is the reduction in costs. anyone who joins the club who is better than the dross we are getting rid of will improve the squad. lets face it last season was not our best so give them the chance to prove they are worthy of our club.

  11. Hm now where djd beckford come from oh yes worked fo aa and radebe was he a top player before he came to leeds say no more

  12. MC is systematically weeding out all shite baggage of last season’s squad (can anyone say that didn’t need to happen) – once Kenny goes we’ll have no keepers (Taylor’s an experienced backup that’s all) – how can we sign anyone with a transfer embargo (stop moaning about not signing anyone we havn’t been able to) – Blackman is a free agent and is essentially on trial if he IS shite Massimo won’t give him a contract see how quickly he’s gettin rid of Peltier, Warnock, Brown, Varney, Kenny, Green, Stewart, Zaliukas, Diouf, Ashdown……, they all needed to go and have or are doing if We can get £10 million for Ross then great, take it (really had 1 very good season) – give your heads a shake people have some faith – last person to sweep the playing debris away & start afresh was Wilkinson……

  13. Becford didnt startthe game till late and excelled very quickly he wasnt a proven journeyman that noone wants….YES the deadwood needed to go..but look surely this is like for like..deadwood for deadwood..is this guy gonna take us to the premier or sit and watch as we try and get paid? POINTLESS EXCERCISE..I agrood jobat it lastee with comments regarding MCM if we get 10 million thats good business but it HAS to be put back into the team and not invested in jokers like this. IF as you say above that he is only being brought in to warm the bench then why cant alex Cairns do that ? did a pretty good job at it last season and at least has potential..take off those rose tinted glasses its starting to get old..cost cutting and cheaper dross for the more expensive dross is all thats happening so far!!!

  14. Listen up you cunts,

    Make no mistake this is a poor signing… I’m with Matty, why are we making signingings like this? Backup keeper? Possibly?

    But even so we need players who are already proven not taking a gamble on a player who hasn’t even played at Championship level!

    It literally makes no sense… If we want to gamble we should be gambling on younger players not player 30+ who we already know are complete shit…. And as for Ross well 10m and he can go for me… But we have to replace him with a striker who is at least as good, someone who can finish….

    And lets face it, money is getting spent! You guys are all too negative…. Cunts….

  15. I HEAR GIGGS IS GOING TO SIGN FOR LEEDS UNITED AND GARY MABBUT IS ALSO BEING SIGNED HA HA THIS IS A JOKE WE NEED PLAYERS WHO ARE CLASS ACTS AND WHO CAN GET US OUT OF THIS DIVISION NOT KEEP US THERE OR EVEN RELEGATED

    1. I think Taylor is a better keeper than Kenny….there I said it. The Hockster (apparently that is what he calls himself) is a nice bloke (according to Luke Murphy (who wants to be next captain)) and just needs time to get his ‘football philosophy’ across. We will be playing the ball on the deck and looking solid at the back by Halloween.

  16. You lot are the same old whingers who were effing and blinding at last seasons fiasco, effing and blinding at the state of the club, effing and blinding at the w*****s who owned and run it (sorry, morgaged to the hilt). Now you EFF and blind because somebody is trying to sort out the utter shambles that is LUFC. You cannot be a laughing stock when most punters think we are a bloody joke. None of you so called loyal fans, experts in all fields have the slightest idea what is going on so don’t knock what is taking place. We will all find out long before we get RELEGATED. For crying out loud wait and see the big picture.

    1. Well said, Bruce. The Hockster will prevail…… all hail The Hockster!! the shrivel faced saviour of LUFC. If the fans want him out quickly then set-up one of those awful ‘In Hockaday we trust’ sign things…that usually does puts the mockers on it…..

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