New Leeds United deal for hotshot Beckford
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LEEDS UNITED striker Jermaine Beckford today agreed a new two-and-a-half year deal with the Elland Road club.
The 23-year-old, put pen to paper on his improved contract this morning, committing himself to United until the summer of 2010.
The revised terms are a reward for Beckford's electric form this season which saw the striker score six times during the first two months of the League One campaign.
United are also on the verge of agreeing a new deal with Jonathan Howson stretching until 2010, while Robert Bayly, Scott Gardner and Ben Parker are all poised to extend their contracts until 2009.
Leeds have been in contract negotiations with Beckford's strike partner Tresor Kandol and both parties are understood to be on the verge of an agreement.
YEP
Viktig å få disse tingene raskt på plass.
Som Svend Anders skrev (http://www.luscos.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8922&whichpage=4), så er det nok på høy tid. Beckford har tjent £700 i uka - og blir nå fulgt en flere PL- og CCC-klubber hver helg.
Dette er bra jobba av klubben.
Få dei unge og framadstormande til og signere for klubben. Om dei mot formodning blir solgt, blir det ein god slump i pengekassen siden de er under langtidskontrakter.
Men for all del!! Dei skal jo ikkje selgast
Gullet skal hem te Bergen!!
Dette var positivt. Viktig å sikre fremtiden
Veldig kjekt at desse unge lovende signer opp, lover bra for fortsettelsen!
Utfrå kamprapportene frå Darlo kampen kan Parker virkelig bli stor.
WE'RE LEEDS AND PROUD!!!
Vi skal selvsagt ikke gå mann av huse for at Parker spilte godt mot et L2-lag som ikke maktet stort i en uinteressant Mikke Mus-cup, men jeg er helt enig i at vi bør binde han til klubben. Han var da også Leeds' beste den kampen og det teller for noe! Han er enda ung og et egenprodusert talent, i likhet med Gardner, Bayly og Howson.
Beckford også var det viktig å få til å skrive under. En kontrakt som tilsvarer £700 i uka er for lavt for å holde en av våre to-tre viktigste spillere så langt fornøyd, spesielt nå som det ryktes om at store lag er ute å ser på han. Ikke bare gjør det at sjansen er større for at han blir, men en eventuelt salgspris bør stige også.
- Dennis
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Originally posted by kjelvi
New Leeds United deal for hotshot Beckford
Gratulerer både til Jermaine og Karl! [8D]
- Dennis
Veldig bra dette!
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Flotters! Er viktig å beholde både talentene og stjernespillerne våre.
-WE'LL BE BACK-
Da var det på papir...
http://www.football.co.uk/leeds_united/new_deals_for_leeds_four_253852.shtml
"I`m hard but fair-like Leeds United"
"We will be back"
Torgeir
Om Ben Parker:
Parker stays grounded
BEN PARKER'S man-of-the-match award at Darlington on Tuesday has been a cause celebre in Leeds this week.
The day after his consummate performance, Parker attended a reserve fixture at Elland Road where he discovered, in amongst the nods and winks of approval, that 19-year-olds do not receive compliments free of charge.
"It's a good job the lad giving the award was blind," came one friendly jibe. "It's a good job I slipped him a tenner," replied Parker instinctively. Survival in professional football comes down to ability, but a sense of humour and a level head can help a youngster along the way. Two things struck me about Parker's appearance at Elland Road on Wednesday. It was a surprise initially to see him there, but impressive to realise that he had made the effort to attend.
The defender was a little bleary-eyed after his involvement at Darlington, and United had called him into their training ground early on Wednesday morning to address a minor injury.
It would have been more convenient for him to spend the afternoon with his feet up at home.
Leeds named a young team for their reserve game against Rotherham United, and it is doubtful whether any of the players involved knew Parker was present in the stands. But that is not really the point.
Two years ago, Parker was himself a member of the reserves, and trapped in that exciting but nerve-enducing gulf between the academy and the first team.
It is a period of a player's career when moral support is vital, and it was impressive to see Parker providing it. Even if his career at Elland Road comes to nothing, which seems highly improbably, he will leave United with a grounded personality.
Talking to him afterwards, he was transparently honest about his immediate aims. The full-back admitted that he would consider this season a success for him personally if he made 20 appearances or more, a target which is refreshingly ambitious.
Youngsters with talent are common enough, but talented youngsters with natural motivation are a slightly rarer breed.
With appropriate timing, yesterday afternoon arrived with the news that Parker had extended his contract at Elland Road until summer 2009.
He was not alone in doing so. Robert Bayly and Scott Gardner have agreed new deals of the same length, and Jonathan Howson is now on United's books until 2010. A revised contract for Jermaine Beckford monopolised attention yesterday, but it is no less encouraging to see Leeds place renewed faith in what is a reassuring crop of inexperienced players.
The contract offered to Howson was particularly telling. Running for three years, the midfielder's deal is longer than those held by the vast majority of senior players in Dennis Wise's squad.
Alan Thompson is out of contract next summer, as is Tore Andre Flo, and only a handful of deals stretch beyond two seasons.
Howson may in fact be the most secure midfielder at Elland Road in terms of the length of the contract in his possession, and the announcement of five new deals yesterday displayed as much long-term vision as United have shown since the club began to disintegrate four years ago.
Football clubs benefit from investing money in the right places, and United are clearly in a more satisfactory financial position than they were two months ago. Their gate receipts this season will outweigh those of most teams in the country, let alone League One, and few if any clubs in their division would have had the necessary resources to react to the recent suspensions of Jermaine Beckford and Tresor Kandol by signing two experienced strikers from the Championship.
It made sense at the time to temporarily recruit Mark De Vries and Wayne Andrews, and their involvement in last week's 1-0 win at Oldham made the investment worthwhile.
Troubled times are usually the moments when clubs neglect youth development, but United's present position is precisely why their historical investment in an academy was so crucial, and so worthwhile. This is when it counts.
Premiership clubs do not always plan for the future, whatever their executives might say; many bounce from season-to-season. But the potential cost of inherent immediacy to Football League sides is always high, as it was for United last term.
Long-term plans at Elland Road have been overdue for some time.
The idea, it seems, is that Parker, Howson et al will receive United's baton in two or three years time.
Whether they are ready and able by that stage is less important than the fact that they might be. (.....)
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/leeds-united-columnists/Parker-stays-grounded.3373548.jp
Virker som om det er fornuftig lengde på disse kontraktene, selv om det er litt overraskende at Beckford ikke ble bundet for mer enn 2 og et halvt år. [8)]
Jon R.
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Originally posted by Jon R
Virker som om det er fornuftig lengde på disse kontraktene, selv om det er litt overraskende at Beckford ikke ble bundet for mer enn 2 og et halvt år. [8)]
Jon R.
Det er fordi alle er dønn enig i at Beckford ikke har noe i høyere divisjoner å gjøre! [8)]
- Dennis
Kontraktene står på denne siden:
http://www.luscos.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5503&whichpage=4&SearchTerms=Spiller
Prutton earns new Leeds United deal
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David Prutton
Leeds United midfielder David Prutton has extended his contract at Elland Road until the summer of 2009.
The midfielder agreed a one-year deal when he moved to Leeds on a free transfer from Southampton in August, but his deal contained a clause guaranteeing him an additional 12 months after his 15th league appearance.
Prutton passed that mark during Saturday's 2-0 win over Swindon Town, and United today extended his contract until the end of next season.
The former Nottingham Forest trainee has made 18 outings in all this term, scoring twice in United's League One victories over Swansea City and Millwall.
Prutton will miss tomorrow's FA Cup first-round replay with Hereford United, however, after incurring a one-match ban for five bookings.
YEP
Flottings pottings. Prutton er en av bare få spillere med Premier League potensiale i dagens Leeds United. :)
Kjekt at Prutton blir med videre. Blir viktig utover i sesongen
Goa greie :) Prutton får me bruk fø framøve.
...og igjen:
Kontraktene finnes her!!! http://www.leedsunited.no/forum/index.php?topic=5503.msg84383#msg84383
;D
Goodie :)
...og vi har neppe sett det beste av ham enda...
Herlig å lese at vår kanskje beste spiller signerer forlenget kontrakt!
Prutton blir nok med heilt opp i PL!!