FLO

[Roy]

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Flo considers future plans


Tore Andre Flo celebrates his goal against Port Vale

Tore Andre Flo is keen to begin working towards his coaching badges after being forced to consider the possibility of retirement.
The Leeds United striker scored his first goal for three months against Port Vale on Tuesday night after recovering from a second operation on his foot, but a series of injury problems during Flo's time at Elland Road has encouraged him to draw up plans for the future.
Flo has made a total of nine appearances - including only one league start - in almost a year with Leeds, and United's decision to send him for surgery in October left a slight question mark over his playing career.
The 34-year-old returned to Dennis Wise's first-team against Cheltenham Town last month and produced a glorious strike during Tuesday's 3-0 victory over Vale at Elland Road, but 12 months of fitness worries has encouraged Flo to prepare for his retirement.
Flo said: "I've been thinking about it a little bit but I haven't really worked out what to do.
"I'm going to take a coaching course and see if that could be something - otherwise I don't really know.
"But I love my football and I said 'I won't let it end like this'."
Flo is still a central and potentially influential member of Wise's squad, and both the striker and his manager were delighted to see him return from a second bout of surgery last month.
The former Norwegian striker admitted he had played at Cheltenham without pain for the first time since joining Leeds in January, and his latest operation appears to have successfully repaired a bone in his foot which Flo has broken twice while at Elland Road.
Amid constant doubts over his fitness, Flo has had few opportunities to break United's first-choice strike partnership of Tresor Kandol and Jermaine Beckford, but John Gannon, United's first-team coach, insisted a fully-fit Flo would present a serious threat to his in-form colleagues.
Gannon said: "He's obviously had problems but he's worked extremely hard. He's a great professional and he doesn't need too many chances to take one. Everyone at the club's pleased that Tore's back involved.
"Dennis told me what a wonderful finisher he is, and you can see what he's capable of.
"When he gets his fitness back he's going to be a threat to the front two, and that's how we need it. I think he's got a major role to play. We need pressure in all areas of the pitch if we're going to be successful."
Kandol and Beckford have scored 19 goals between them this season - the latter took his tally to 11 with a well-taken strike against Vale on Tuesday - and Flo said: "The strikers have done really well.
"It's for me to get my fitness back and do all I can for the team."

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Flo content with bench duty in Leeds's cause

THIS year has not been kind to Tore Andre Flo.
After being reunited with Dennis Wise and Gus Poyet at Leeds United in January, the former Norway international was hoping to score the goals that would help keep the Yorkshire club in the Championship.
The reality was that after just one start â€" Flo scoring in a 3-2 home defeat to West Brom â€" he broke a bone in his foot and was ruled out for the rest of the season. More misery followed towards the end of United's ultimately unsuccessful battle against relegation when he suffered another unfortunate break, this time to the other foot.
The new season did see the former Chelsea striker back in action, but after netting from the bench in the opening home game against Southend United, the injury problems returned with a vengeance.
So much so that until Tuesday night, Flo had managed just half-an-hour's playing time in three months, but after returning with a classy strike in the 3-0 win over Port Vale, the likeable 34-year-old is looking forward to happier times.
He told the Yorkshire Post: "It was a very good feeling to score after being out for such a long time. It was a particularly important goal for me. I have been having all these injuries and it has been a big fight to come back. And it is hard when you are 34.
"When I realised I needed another operation on this thing (foot), it was really hard. You always think it may be the end, especially when it is a second operation on the same place. They had to put screws in and things like that.
"I did start thinking about what I could do next (after retiring), but I have not really got anything in place. Maybe I will take a coaching course. I will see if that can lead to something.
"But I love football and I said to myself 'I will not let it end like this'."
United's victory over Vale ensured a positive start to a month of games that will go a long way towards defining the final make-up of the League One table.
Manager Dennis Wise has already set his players the target of being top by the start of 2008 and with 18 points up for grabs between now and the New Year's Day visit of Oldham, pole position is an achievable goal.
Flo is determined to do his bit, even if that means being used from the bench as he has been in all seven of his appearances this season. He said: "It will take a little while for me to be properly fit and the other strikers have done really, really well. Maybe I can keep coming on and scoring a goal at the end.
"It is up to me to get my fitness back and do all I can for the team."
United's league form â€" just 10 points having been dropped from an available 54 on the field this term â€" is in stark contrast to their results in the cups with early exits from the Johnstone's Paint Trophy and FA Cup having come against League Two opposition.
Flo, however, believes the defeats to Bury and Hereford could prove to be a blessing in disguise. "We have a lot of hard matches to come and it is 100 times more important to get back up to the Championship than be in the FA Cup third round."
The season continues on Saturday with the derby visit of Huddersfield Town when a crowd of around 32,000 is expected. Flo is hoping to play his part and keep Leeds moving up the table.
He said: "We now have a big derby on Saturday with the Christmas matches starting soon after that. It would be an unbelievable achievement to be top in January. We could not have imagined that in August. Back then, we were all thinking play-offs after we lost those 15 points."

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[Promotion 2010]

Kjenner jeg Hot Shot rett, ble han veldig glad og humret litt i skjegget, mens han startet planleggingen av nye innlegg egnet til å røske litt opp i det nokså dølle forumet vårt. 

Du skal nå alltid glatte over du da, Jon. 

[Jon R]

Kjenner jeg Hot Shot rett, ble han veldig glad og humret litt i skjegget, mens han startet planleggingen av nye innlegg egnet til å røske litt opp i det nokså dølle forumet vårt. 

Du skal nå alltid glatte over du da, Jon. 

Nei, det er sant. 

[Tom S]

Hørte gjennom intervju med Kenneth på LUTV nettopp.
Ikkje like lett å fange opp alt den mannen seier, men meiner han sa at TA Flo "is paid per minute". Det er ein meget fornuftig deal med den porselensdokka.

Men, for all del når TA er skadefri kan han tilføre Leeds ein god del i denne divisjonen. Det har han allerede bevist med sine tre skåringer.

[berlin]

Sakset fra
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/md.holmes/maverickwhites.html

Flo - customary goal 6.5

United's second half showing was possibly the best of the season, especially with the quite treacherous conditions. The irresponsible act by Kandol that earned him his booking and subsequent suspension, could well cost himself his place in the team. If Flo is eventually somewhere near full fitness, he could well strike up an interesting partnership with the freescoring Beckford, who also showed another side to his game today, rather than just his ability to find the net. Bring on the Saddlers !

[Sølvreven]

Og så blir Leeds jevnig omtalt i riksavisene igjen. Takket være Flo.
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=188921

[Per-Stian]

Tore Andre Flo is fast becoming United's 'super-sub' after he came on in the last two games and quickly found the target to set the seal on successive victories.

The Norwegian striker, who has had a lengthy spell out of action through injury, appeared as a 67th minute sub against Port Vale and made an appearance in the game against Huddersfield Town and again scored, shortly after coming on in the last few minutes.

"That is what Tore is capable of, I think his goal against Huddersfield was his first touch of the ball. That's the way it is sometimes," United boss Dennis Wise said.

"But I think you have to look a little further than that - to the assists, to the ball that is flicked on and the passes that are laid on by Tresor Kandol. I think people don't realise just how much Tres does.

"He is fantastic for Becks and for any other striker who plays with him," he added.

Wisey, however, knows the value of having strikers such as Beckford, Flo and Kandol. "When you have players like those three you have a real chance of getting goals, which showed against Huddersfield.

Flo, however, is still seeking full fitness. "He has been out a long time and at the moment we cannot get 90 minutes out of him. He will give me half an hour or maybe 40 minutes. He is working harder and harder in training and maybe in a couple of weeks he will be fine," said Wisey.

The one blot on United's display against Huddersfield was the booking late on of Kandol. It was his fifth of the season and he will miss the visit to Walsall on Saturday as a result.

"I had a word with Tres about that because he didn't need to do what he did. I was going to sub him and I wish I had subbed him a few minutes earlier," the United boss said.

http://www.leedsunited.com/page/NewsroomDetail/0,,10273~1188249,00.html

[Roy]

Dette betyr vel at Flo starter på benken til helgen.

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TORE ANDRE FLO'S transfers to Rangers and Sunderland were never regarded as great examples of value for money, but a poll conducted by the website Sportingo.com has revealed the depth of feeling created by his move from Norwegian club Brann to Chelsea in 1997.
Conducted on the eve of the January transfer window, Sportingo.com's search for the worst transfers involving English clubs has called the usual suspects to account, starting with the £28million paid by Manchester United for Juan Veron.
It goes without saying that Harry Kewell's move from Elland Road to Anfield is listed, although the survey does not confirm whether the joke is on Leeds United or Liverpool. Neither club have cause to celebrate that transaction. But Flo's inclusion is more peculiar. His transfer to Chelsea was not famed for its controversy but the natives of Brann have apparently struggled to forgive the fee of £300,000, which many considered a pittance for a player of his ability.
A decade after the deal was struck, their frustration prompted a block vote from Norway which raised Flo's transfer into seventh place in Sportingo's poll.
The fact that he would have been entitled to move for nothing six months later is a good example of why a large percentage of surveys are meaningless, but it does confirm that supporters are like elephants â€" they never forget.

Fra Phil Hay's kommentarspalte 'Inside Elland Road' i YEP