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leedslife

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #210 på: Mars 10, 2019, 12:49:18 »
Kan ikke være lenge til Southgate ringer nå

Jon R

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #211 på: Mars 10, 2019, 15:21:37 »
Kan ikke være lenge til Southgate ringer nå
Må nok bevise at han holder nivået i divisjonen over først.
Jon R.

leedslife

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #212 på: Mars 10, 2019, 15:36:19 »
Kan ikke være lenge til Southgate ringer nå
Må nok bevise at han holder nivået i divisjonen over først.

Får håpe det. 23 er fin alder å bli tatt inn i troppen på. Kaptein når han er 26 da 8)

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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #213 på: Mars 27, 2019, 20:31:44 »
Kalvin Phillips’ Agent Delivers Clear Message on Midfielder’s Future.

Agenten er vel den tidligere spilleren Kevin Sharp....


https://www.leedsallover.com/kalvin-phillips-agent-delivers-clear-message-on-midfielders-future/
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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #214 på: April 10, 2019, 23:50:03 »
Min første Leeds-kamp:
Strømsgodset vs Leeds, 19.september 1973

auren

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #215 på: April 11, 2019, 07:34:43 »
Er det dama, mammen og søstera?

auren
"Guardiola said: 'You know more about Barcelona than I do!'"
Marcelo Bielsa, 16.01.19, etter Spygate-foredraget sitt.

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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #216 på: April 11, 2019, 17:29:28 »
Se dette Instagram-bildet fra @kalvinphillips

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwFiZzfhhM9/?utm_source=ig_web_button_native_share

Ser litt skremt ut....

Håret står jo rett opp!
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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #217 på: April 14, 2019, 22:37:57 »
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Kalvin Phillips has won more defensive duels (372) than any other player in the entire Championship this season.

Phenomenal transformation under Marcelo Bielsa.  #LUFC #MOT

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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #218 på: April 23, 2019, 22:12:04 »
Phillips har vært benket i 4 kamper hittil i år:

Det har fort til 3 tap og 1 seier!
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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #219 på: April 23, 2019, 22:19:52 »
Phillips har vært benket i 4 kamper hittil i år:

Det har fort til 3 tap og 1 seier!

Selv er jeg 100 prosent sikker på at HVIS Kalvin hadde fullført kampen på fredag OG startet kampen i går, så hadde vi hatt 2.plassen nå... Dette vil selvsagt aldri kunne bevises...men jeg veit jeg har rett!!!


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MOT...

raggen

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #220 på: April 23, 2019, 23:16:59 »
Phillips har vært benket i 4 kamper hittil i år:

Det har fort til 3 tap og 1 seier!

Selv er jeg 100 prosent sikker på at HVIS Kalvin hadde fullført kampen på fredag OG startet kampen i går, så hadde vi hatt 2.plassen nå... Dette vil selvsagt aldri kunne bevises...men jeg veit jeg har rett!!!


MOT

kan fort vise seg og være rett det ja.. selv overrasket at han ble tatt av og benket hele forrige kamp
Forever Leeds United!!!!!!!!

Eriksen55

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #221 på: April 23, 2019, 23:30:46 »
Phillips har vært benket i 4 kamper hittil i år:

Det har fort til 3 tap og 1 seier!

Selv er jeg 100 prosent sikker på at HVIS Kalvin hadde fullført kampen på fredag OG startet kampen i går, så hadde vi hatt 2.plassen nå... Dette vil selvsagt aldri kunne bevises...men jeg veit jeg har rett!!!


MOT

Hvis du ser første målet til Wigan i reprise så ser du at Phillips selger seg billig og gir bort masse rom. Wigan kommer i overtall og scorer etterhvert. Alle gjør feil, så ingen krise sånn sett. Men med en annen spiller, f.eks Forshaw så er det ikke sikkert vi hadde sluppet inn det målet..like dum påstand det  :)

Ville ikke byttet ut Phillips mot Wigan og jeg ville startet han mot Brentford. Jeg vil også ha inn Forshaw i stedet for Klich. Forshaw vinner tilbake vannvittig mye baller høyt i banen og løper og er spillbar til enhver tid. Akkurat nå er han like målfarøig som Klich også. Bielsa vet selvfølgelig best. Men jeg har veldig lyst til å se Phillips i 4'ern, Forshaw i 8'er og Shackleton i 10'ern. Masse løpskraft pg energi. Akkurat det laget trenger.

Vi har vel tilgode å se Phillips og Forshaw samtidig på midten?

jaho

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #222 på: April 23, 2019, 23:41:18 »
Phillips har vært benket i 4 kamper hittil i år:

Det har fort til 3 tap og 1 seier!

Selv er jeg 100 prosent sikker på at HVIS Kalvin hadde fullført kampen på fredag OG startet kampen i går, så hadde vi hatt 2.plassen nå... Dette vil selvsagt aldri kunne bevises...men jeg veit jeg har rett!!!


MOT

Hvis du ser første målet til Wigan i reprise så ser du at Phillips selger seg billig og gir bort masse rom. Wigan kommer i overtall og scorer etterhvert. Alle gjør feil, så ingen krise sånn sett. Men med en annen spiller, f.eks Forshaw så er det ikke sikkert vi hadde sluppet inn det målet..like dum påstand det  :)

Ville ikke byttet ut Phillips mot Wigan og jeg ville startet han mot Brentford. Jeg vil også ha inn Forshaw i stedet for Klich. Forshaw vinner tilbake vannvittig mye baller høyt i banen og løper og er spillbar til enhver tid. Akkurat nå er han like målfarøig som Klich også. Bielsa vet selvfølgelig best. Men jeg har veldig lyst til å se Phillips i 4'ern, Forshaw i 8'er og Shackleton i 10'ern. Masse løpskraft pg energi. Akkurat det laget trenger.

Vi har vel tilgode å se Phillips og Forshaw samtidig på midten?

Vi hadde vel Phillips, Klich og Forshaw som trio på midten i høst mener jeg..da saiz ble vraket. Fungerte bra det..

Eriksen55

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #223 på: April 23, 2019, 23:53:39 »
Phillips har vært benket i 4 kamper hittil i år:

Det har fort til 3 tap og 1 seier!

Selv er jeg 100 prosent sikker på at HVIS Kalvin hadde fullført kampen på fredag OG startet kampen i går, så hadde vi hatt 2.plassen nå... Dette vil selvsagt aldri kunne bevises...men jeg veit jeg har rett!!!


MOT

Hvis du ser første målet til Wigan i reprise så ser du at Phillips selger seg billig og gir bort masse rom. Wigan kommer i overtall og scorer etterhvert. Alle gjør feil, så ingen krise sånn sett. Men med en annen spiller, f.eks Forshaw så er det ikke sikkert vi hadde sluppet inn det målet..like dum påstand det  :)

Ville ikke byttet ut Phillips mot Wigan og jeg ville startet han mot Brentford. Jeg vil også ha inn Forshaw i stedet for Klich. Forshaw vinner tilbake vannvittig mye baller høyt i banen og løper og er spillbar til enhver tid. Akkurat nå er han like målfarøig som Klich også. Bielsa vet selvfølgelig best. Men jeg har veldig lyst til å se Phillips i 4'ern, Forshaw i 8'er og Shackleton i 10'ern. Masse løpskraft pg energi. Akkurat det laget trenger.

Vi har vel tilgode å se Phillips og Forshaw samtidig på midten?

Vi hadde vel Phillips, Klich og Forshaw som trio på midten i høst mener jeg..da saiz ble vraket. Fungerte bra det..

Forshaw var skadet i starten og Phillips spilte mye stopper da Berardi og Cooper var skadet. Men stemmer det så erindrer jeg at høsten var vannvittig bra ja! :)

jaho

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #224 på: April 24, 2019, 11:39:45 »
Phillips har vært benket i 4 kamper hittil i år:

Det har fort til 3 tap og 1 seier!

Selv er jeg 100 prosent sikker på at HVIS Kalvin hadde fullført kampen på fredag OG startet kampen i går, så hadde vi hatt 2.plassen nå... Dette vil selvsagt aldri kunne bevises...men jeg veit jeg har rett!!!


MOT

Hvis du ser første målet til Wigan i reprise så ser du at Phillips selger seg billig og gir bort masse rom. Wigan kommer i overtall og scorer etterhvert. Alle gjør feil, så ingen krise sånn sett. Men med en annen spiller, f.eks Forshaw så er det ikke sikkert vi hadde sluppet inn det målet..like dum påstand det  :)

Ville ikke byttet ut Phillips mot Wigan og jeg ville startet han mot Brentford. Jeg vil også ha inn Forshaw i stedet for Klich. Forshaw vinner tilbake vannvittig mye baller høyt i banen og løper og er spillbar til enhver tid. Akkurat nå er han like målfarøig som Klich også. Bielsa vet selvfølgelig best. Men jeg har veldig lyst til å se Phillips i 4'ern, Forshaw i 8'er og Shackleton i 10'ern. Masse løpskraft pg energi. Akkurat det laget trenger.

Vi har vel tilgode å se Phillips og Forshaw samtidig på midten?

Vi hadde vel Phillips, Klich og Forshaw som trio på midten i høst mener jeg..da saiz ble vraket. Fungerte bra det..

Forshaw var skadet i starten og Phillips spilte mye stopper da Berardi og Cooper var skadet. Men stemmer det så erindrer jeg at høsten var vannvittig bra ja! :)

Stemmer det du sier, Phillips vikarierte en del som stopper, særlig i desember. Så fikk han det røde mot Nottingham, sto over tre kamper, benken en kamp etter det..(mot Norwich) så ble da Forshaw skadet igjen, så ikke fått sett den trioen så mye som ønskelig..
Men de spilte noe sammen på høsten..Forshaw kom inn som innbytter i seierne mot Hull og Ipswich. Deretter spilte de som trio mot Nottingham, Wigan, WBA (huff..) Bristol C og Sheff U (1. desember) Kampene ga 3-1-1. Skulle gjerne sett mer til den trioen i innspurten..men usikker om Klich form gjør han til noe bedre alternativ en Roberts..

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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #225 på: April 28, 2019, 00:24:13 »
Leeds Uniteds Supporters club

Congratulations to @Kalvinphillips who has been voted as Leeds United Supporters Club Player of the Year for the 2018/19 season. Kalvin has had an absolutely amazing season and the honour is very well deserved.  #lufc #AlwaysLeedsAlwaysLoyal

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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #226 på: April 28, 2019, 00:27:39 »
Leeds Uniteds Supporters club

Congratulations to @Kalvinphillips who has been voted as Leeds United Supporters Club Player of the Year for the 2018/19 season. Kalvin has had an absolutely amazing season and the honour is very well deserved.  #lufc #AlwaysLeedsAlwaysLoyal
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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #227 på: Mai 04, 2019, 11:18:05 »
Så lenge og så kort siden.....

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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #228 på: Mai 04, 2019, 11:50:07 »
Exclusive: From Armley kickabouts to the brink of the Premier League - the rise of Leeds United star Kalvin Phillips

Phil Hay
Published: 06:00 Saturday 04 May 2019
 Leeds United midfielder Kalvin Phillips.
Leeds United midfielder Kalvin Phillips.
It was Kalvin Phillips’ Sliding Doors moment. He was 16 years old and Leeds United were offering him a scholarship, one of 11 players who made the grade in their academy that summer.


His mother wrote to his school to ask for their permission but was sent a reply asking her to reconsider the whole idea.

 Kalvin Phillips with representatives of Jackson Trophies of Crossgates, long-time sponsors of the YEP's player of the year award.
Kalvin Phillips with representatives of Jackson Trophies of Crossgates, long-time sponsors of the YEP's player of the year award.
“My mum got a letter from school,” Phillips recalls.

“It said they hoped I realised that not many people make it as a professional footballer. There was me and a friend, in the same age group, and they were threatening not to let us go. But they did and when I look back now I think…”

How different life could have been?

Most footballers have stories like that, of breaks and openings which appeared on a whim or were almost lost for various reasons, but Phillips’ timeline is unusual in sport which harvests kids at a younger and younger age.

Many of his peers, the players he rubbed shoulders with at Thorp Arch, were in the building before their 10th birthdays.

Phillips was a late starter at 14, picked up by Leeds midway through secondary school after being scouted in a tournament he had gone along to watch.

“I was at Wortley Juniors until I was about 12 and then left for a season at Farsley,” he says.

“I’d gone to watch Wortley play in their home tournament but they didn’t have enough players so I played for them. I got scouted by a guy called Sonny Sweeney and went to Leeds City Boys.

“After that, he came and watched me again and got me on a six-week trial at Leeds. It all went from there.”

Playing for Wortley was itself a chance occurrence, presenting itself after a friend’s father who coached the club saw Phillips kicking a ball around the same park and asked him to join a training session.

Phillips says that since that evening “I haven’t taken a football out of my hand.”

He never saw himself as exceptional or obviously gifted, though some of the boys around him did.

“My team-mates thought of me as one of their best players,” he says.

“They’d give me the ball all the time and I’d do what I did but I never used to think ‘I’m better than him or I’m a good player.’ That’s not how I felt.”

Phillips is 23 now and the strengths which were spotted in him in 2010 have poured out at Leeds this season. He grew up in Armley, close enough to Elland Road to smell it, and was raised by his mother in a large family, a triplet who lost one of his sisters to illness at a very young age.

The other, Phillips’ twin, lives in London and works in the prison service, a world away from Thorp Arch but a proud career in its own right. Her job is an open goal when it comes to teasing Phillips about life as a footballer being easy.

“She tells me that every time she sees me,” he jokes. “But she’s proud of me as much as I’m proud of her. I don’t think she realises how proud of her I am.”

Phillips and his brother played in the streets, football mad and Leeds United daft.

“I remember getting my first Leeds shirt, me and my brother,” he says.

“It was the yellow one with Strongbow on the front. I had Alan Smith on the back. We’d play outside whenever we got the chance, from 10 in the morning until six at night when my mum shouted us in for tea. You’re just a kid and you enjoy running about. I never got tired.”

Walter ‘Sonny’ Sweeney was a Glaswegian full-back who Don Revie brought south to Leeds in the 1960s. Before the Scot pointed him towards United, Phillips had taken a trial at Huddersfield Town but found the experience underwhelming.

“As soon as I went there, I thought ‘I don’t like it. It’s not for me’. I was growing up around Leeds and I idolised Leeds. I went to Huddersfield and thought it was a good chance but I got there and felt like I didn’t really fancy it.

"A couple of weeks later I went to Leeds and I haven’t looked back.”

Nothing in what Phillips says betrays much stress about the reality of chasing a dream which disappoints thousands of teenagers. Even when his school suggested his mother said no to a scholarship at Leeds, he felt philosophical.

“I was so laid back that I just let it happen,” he says. “If they said no and it didn’t happen then it didn’t happen. But I’d keep on trying.”

At Leeds, the general opinion of Phillips was that considerable pedigree lay behind the broadest and most infectious of smiles.

Coaches in the academy gave him good odds for a first-team debut once he settled in as Under-18s captain and Neil Redfearn blooded him in 2015 during a 4-3 defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers, a swashbuckling game in which Leeds’ junior core – Phillips, Charlie Taylor, Sam Byram and Alex Mowatt – made a dramatic fist of what threatened at one stage to be a heavy loss.

“Neil Redfearn knew what kind of player I was,” Phillips said.

“He gave me my chance at Wolves, which is probably one of the best games I’ve played in with everything that went on. I trusted him and I’m grateful to him for bringing me through. Look where it’s got me.”

It got him here despite Phillips arriving at the academy when he did.

“I knew I’d joined late but in a way it was better because I got to enjoy my football more when I was younger. There wasn’t as much pressure. Me coming here late probably made me a better player.”

He remembers looking up to Taylor, Byram, Mowatt and Lewis Cook, most of whom were a step ahead of him and drawing admiring glances from elsewhere. Speculation about transfers invariably focused on those four, rather than Phillips, but his current stock is exceeded only by that of England international Cook.

As the others were lost to rival clubs, Phillips dug in at Leeds.

“I had loads of friends who came through here and it seemed like everyone was going one by one,” he says. “There were times when I thought ‘there’s only going to be me left!’”

Timing in football can be crucial.

Cook joined Bournemouth almost overnight in the summer of 2016 and a player who Garry Monk would have used in his midfield was gone before the season began.

Instead, it became the first full campaign of Phillips’ career.

“It’s probably one of the best I’ve had,” he says. “(Monk) saw that I had what it takes to play week in, week out. That was the kind of season which made me think ‘yeah, I can do this.’”

In the grand scheme, it will not match up to the season he is close to finishing now.

Pablo Hernandez took Leeds’ player of the year award last weekend but Phillips is the recipient of the YEP’s prize, a leap for a midfielder who sensed scepticism about him 12 months ago.

Hernandez trades in magic beans but Phillips was the fulcrum around which Marcelo Bielsa built his machine; the most improved player in United’s squad despite the fact that Bielsa’s tactical proposals asked more of him than anyone else.

He is Bielsa’s answer to Alisson or Virgil Van Dijk, someone who fundamentally changed the way Leeds play and the way Leeds are. The crowd quickly took to calling him ‘The Yorkshire Pirlo’, even though Phillips’ inspirations lay closer to home.

“When I was growing up I looked at players like Gerrard, Scholes and Lampard. Although I shouldn’t really say Lampard!”

Bielsa found Phillips willing to roll with whatever was asked of him, like occasional turns at centre-back.

“Last season I played more attacking and scored a few goals,” Phillips says, “so I was a bit shocked that he wanted me to play defensive midfield, to be honest.

"Then it was centre-half and I was thinking ‘what’s going on here? He’s going to turn me into a centre-half?’ But when he came in he said he wanted players who can play in more than one position. That’s how he coaches.

“I feel like I’ve done really well. I get people telling me I’ve done really well but it’s kind of hard for me to tell. I thought last season I did all right but some people obviously thought differently.

"That’s football.”

So too are results, which turned against Leeds at a critical moment over Easter and snatched automatic promotion away, but optimism still prevails.

“There are some really good teams in the mix but with the performance we had against Aston Villa (last Sunday), it shows we’re capable of dealing with teams like them,” Phillips said.

“I’m excited because it’s the first time ever that I’ve got something to play for at the end of the season. And I’m really confident.”

As ever he is.

The YEP’s Leeds United player of the year award is sponsored by long-time supporters Jackson Trophies of Crossgates. For a full and comprehensive range of corporate and sporting trophies, visit the Jackson Trophies website at www.jacksontrophies.com.
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Strømsgodset vs Leeds, 19.september 1973

RoarG

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #229 på: Mai 04, 2019, 12:10:51 »
Interessant intervju. Bet meg særlig merke i at det var Cook-salget i '16 som ga Phillips sjansen. Noen som husker det levenet som rådde da Cook ble solgt? Folk bør holde seg mer kalde når det gjelder utgående spilleroverganger. En spiller ut betyr at en annen spiller får sjansen. Ikke gitt hvem som blir stor stjerne ved så ung alder.
"Jeg tror ikke på Gud, men etter Bielsas ansettelse må jeg nok revurdere", Roar Gustavsen, januar 2020

Torpe-do

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #230 på: Mai 04, 2019, 13:34:20 »
Interessant intervju. Bet meg særlig merke i at det var Cook-salget i '16 som ga Phillips sjansen. Noen som husker det levenet som rådde da Cook ble solgt? Folk bør holde seg mer kalde når det gjelder utgående spilleroverganger. En spiller ut betyr at en annen spiller får sjansen. Ikke gitt hvem som blir stor stjerne ved så ung alder.

Viktig poeng, det. Ein kan kanskje dra samme konklusjon i tilfeller der f.eks ein toppscorar vert solgt (Wood? Beckford?). Når ein soleklar førstelagspelar forsvinn, får andre sjansen. Det nye alternativet kan blomstre - heile laget kan blomstre med at det plutseleg får fleire strengar å spele på. Oss fans får relasjonar til enkeltspelarar, og vår evne til å sjå totalbilete fargar nok ofte vår konklusjon på beslutninga. Naturlegvis vil det nok oftast oppfattast som negativt å selge toppscoraren, midtbanegeneralen eller forsvarsbautaen, men ein gong iblant snur det jo til det positive.

Personleg skulle eg, til tross for Phillips' framgang, svært gjerne framleis hatt Cook i stallen!

Runar

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #231 på: Mai 04, 2019, 13:42:46 »
Interessant intervju. Bet meg særlig merke i at det var Cook-salget i '16 som ga Phillips sjansen. Noen som husker det levenet som rådde da Cook ble solgt? Folk bør holde seg mer kalde når det gjelder utgående spilleroverganger. En spiller ut betyr at en annen spiller får sjansen. Ikke gitt hvem som blir stor stjerne ved så ung alder.

Det både stemmer og er uriktig. Vieira, Phillips, Bridcutt og OḰane ble stående igjen som de fire alternativene for 16/17 sesongen da Cook ble solgt. O´Ḱane ble kjøpt inn.

Digaragua og Murphy ble sendt ut...

Vieira hadde vel bare en kamp før den sesongen. Så om Cook ikke hadde blitt solgt så kunne vi i teorien blitt stående med Phillips, Viera, Bridcutt og Cook - Da er det ikke sikkert vi hadde handlet O´Kane -

Salget av Cook finansierte jo Roofe, Hernandez og lånet av Jansson også så vi er nok uansett i pluss. Men om Monk kunne fortsatt laget plass til Phillips. Men Cook ville nok vært garantert en plass på midtbanen slik at i praksis hadde de tre andre kjempet om en plass, i stedet for fire stykk som kjemper om 2 plasser.
 

RoarG

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #232 på: Mai 04, 2019, 15:05:11 »
Interessant intervju. Bet meg særlig merke i at det var Cook-salget i '16 som ga Phillips sjansen. Noen som husker det levenet som rådde da Cook ble solgt? Folk bør holde seg mer kalde når det gjelder utgående spilleroverganger. En spiller ut betyr at en annen spiller får sjansen. Ikke gitt hvem som blir stor stjerne ved så ung alder.

Det både stemmer og er uriktig. Vieira, Phillips, Bridcutt og OḰane ble stående igjen som de fire alternativene for 16/17 sesongen da Cook ble solgt. O´Ḱane ble kjøpt inn.

Digaragua og Murphy ble sendt ut...

Vieira hadde vel bare en kamp før den sesongen. Så om Cook ikke hadde blitt solgt så kunne vi i teorien blitt stående med Phillips, Viera, Bridcutt og Cook - Da er det ikke sikkert vi hadde handlet O´Kane -

Salget av Cook finansierte jo Roofe, Hernandez og lånet av Jansson også så vi er nok uansett i pluss. Men om Monk kunne fortsatt laget plass til Phillips. Men Cook ville nok vært garantert en plass på midtbanen slik at i praksis hadde de tre andre kjempet om en plass, i stedet for fire stykk som kjemper om 2 plasser.
Ønsker ikke å miste gode førstelags-spillere, selvsagt. Men om nå Phillips blir solgt etter sesongen, behøver ikke dette bli en katastrofe. Vi kan enten kjøpe nye midtbanespillere, eller la egne talenter rykke opp. Alfie McCalmont blir stadig nevnt, og en evt. Phillips-avgang kan berede plassen for han. For ordens skyld: jeg håper at Phillips blir værende også neste sesong.
"Jeg tror ikke på Gud, men etter Bielsas ansettelse må jeg nok revurdere", Roar Gustavsen, januar 2020

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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #233 på: Juni 13, 2019, 19:23:17 »
Noel Whelan Exclusive: This is what Phillips agent has told me about his Leeds future

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EXCLUSIVE

Noel Whelan has given Leeds United fans hope that Kalvin Phillips will not be sold this summer by revealing he’s been told the player wants to stay.

Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, ex-United striker Whelan explained he had been informed by Phillips’ agent that the midfielder wants to sign a new contract and commit his future to his boyhood club.

This comes amid a report Aston Villa are preparing a £14million bid for the 23-year-old, while there is also strong interest from other Premier League clubs including Bournemouth, Norwich City and Southampton.

“I know Kalvin is desperate to stay at Leeds,” Whelan told Football Insider. “I’ve spoken to his agent, who told me he’d love to stay at the club. There is no hiding that.”

As revealed by Football Insider, Leeds have made an early move to keep Phillips by promising him he will be offered an improved contract when he returns from holiday.

“The club need to put their money where their mouth is,” Whelan added. “I have no doubt Marcelo Bielsa wants Kalvin Phillips at the club, and they need to show him that he is wanted by the club.

“He is away on holiday at the minute and, hopefully, when he comes back, he can agree a new deal. He is a Leeds boy who loves the club.”

The Phillips situation is being regarded by many Leeds fans as a litmus test of the ambition of owner Andrea Radrizzani and a board who have sold Ronaldo Vieira and Chris Wood for major fees in each of the last two summer windows.

“It’s definitely a test for Mr Radrizzani,” Whelan told Football Insider. “The interest in Phillips is real. You’ve got Bournemouth, I’m hearing Wolves and there is Villa as well. There’s Premier League teams that realise the importance of a player like Phillips.”
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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #234 på: Juni 13, 2019, 21:17:33 »
Gutten sin det.
Noe så gammeldags som en klubbspiller.

raggen

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #235 på: Juni 13, 2019, 21:24:36 »
kan det bli en sak ala grealish i villa.. var vel sterkt linket bort fra villa men valgte og bli og førte (desverre)klubben opp i PL
Phillips var viktig for oss denne sesongen og kommer til og bli viktig for oss neste sesong
Forever Leeds United!!!!!!!!

stian

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #236 på: Juni 13, 2019, 23:51:03 »
Tolker dette slik at mye kommer til å henge på kontraktsforhandlingen. Selv om de ikke kan sprenge banken er det ingen tvil om at Phillips har gjort seg fortjent til å være en av klubbens best betalte spillere. Symboleffekten ved å klare å holde på ham skal heller ikke undervurderes - Gode spillere vil spille på gode lag og Leeds må vise potensielle nyrekrutteringer at vi kommer til å ha et lag som skal rykke opp.

Promotion 2010

Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #237 på: Juni 17, 2019, 23:07:19 »
Keeping Kalvin Phillips would herald a new Leeds United

With rumours Aston Villa are preparing a bid for Kalvin Phillips it would represent a significant shift in ambition if the Whites were able to resist


Kalvin Phillips reacts after the final whistle. Championship Play-off Second Leg - Leeds United v Derby County - Wednesday May 15th 2019 - Elland Road(Image: Alex Dodd/CameraSport)
Contrary to popular belief, Leeds United did achieve something last season. It might not appear in the record books, but it could still result in a tangible improvement in the welfare of this weathered football club.

After several years of divisive ownership and a fanbase bickering over complex issues containing several layers of nuance as if they were binary decisions as simple as whether the Elland Road grass was green or not, everyone seemed to agree on something. Two things in fact. Everyone wanted Marcelo Bielsa to stay on as head coach, and nobody thinks we should sell Kalvin Phillips.

One is not just in addition to the other, it is because of it. Undoubtedly, the astonishing improvement in Phillips’s performance is down to the quality of Bielsa’s coaching and the transformational change undertaken last summer, which saw Phillips perform as if he had time-travelled back from the future. We were watching a player who was displaying three years’ worth of development achieved in less than three months.

Phillips will one day look back at that pre-season period from 12 months ago as the most intensely productive summer of his life, one he doubtless entered into tormented with anxiety, but came out of with the belief and confidence of a seasoned Italian international with the world at his feet, let’s say, for example, Andrea Pirlo.

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Let’s be honest, few would have argued, nor been surprised, had Phillips been discarded in Bielsa’s ruthless audit of the odds and ends as Leeds United prepared for yet another garage sale. Particularly as this was based on Bielsa’s infamous video marathon of the 2017/18 season, in which Phillips was no worse than anyone else, but cut a frustrating figure, tainted by wastefulness and a general bafflement as to what his key attributes were or what his best position was.

Indeed, here lies the source of several life-draining hours of circular arguments on social media, with many people writing Phillips off at a stroke, while others saw a young, likeable, local player with promise, who just needed some guidance. Recent history is littered with similar stories, and while careers hang on a knife-edge and Leeds United search frantically for a strategy of any kind, it is easy to see why fans view players as throwaway commodities.


Kalvin Phillips vies for possession with Mason Mount and Harry Wilson. Championship Play-off Second Leg - Leeds United v Derby County - Wednesday May 15th 2019 - Elland Road(Image: Alex Dodd/CameraSport)

That is where Kalvin Phillips was 12 months ago, and yet here we are, united in a belief he is central to the progress Leeds United has made and is now vital to anything being achieved next season.

Bielsa re-modelled Phillips’s game, identifying key attributes which could be improved and others which were no longer necessary. In placing Phillips in front of the back four, and sometimes within the defensive back-line itself, a monster was created. Bielsa chiselled away at lumpen raw material during long, covert days and nights at Thorp Arch and finally revealed his creation, a masterpiece of composure, vision, strength and authority. Phillips was the perfect tool with which to implement Bielsa’s template pressing game, but also provided cover for the back four and a conduit through which a considered and precise passing game was started from the back.

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That Leeds were so clinical, efficient and effective in those glorious early games, was largely down to the control Phillips exerted. And like any paternal relationship between a master and his star pupil, Bielsa’s chastisement of Phillips was often brutal and often public, but it didn’t hide the mutual respect and appreciation, and the fact Phillips was this team’s most important player.

So where does that leave us now the promotion dream has departed and we’re awake, grouchy and very much bereft? For once, the Leeds United fanbase seems realistic the only thing certain about life in the Championship, is we have to sell someone to survive, but then what is your definition of ‘survival?’ Having been on the continual cycle of selling our finest young talent for the best part of 15 years, it doesn’t take a genius to conclude that method isn’t necessarily working. So how do you convince a young player to stay? The draw of being ‘Leeds United’ isn’t enough, and while I remain unconvinced the likes of Aaron Lennon, Fabian Delph, Jonny Howson, Sam Byram, Lewis Cook or Ronaldo Vieira actually wanted to leave Leeds, the financial temptations for player, agent and club are almost impossible to resist.

Jonathan Hogg is challenged by Lewis Cook during the Premier League match between AFC Bournemouth and Huddersfield Town at Vitality Stadium on December 4, 2018(Image: Jordan Mansfield/Getty Images)
The key difference now, is on all those previous occasions, the player had developed far further and faster than the football club. In most cases, you couldn’t deny them a shot at a higher level, even if their historic roots and their families wanted them to help Leeds United out of this eternal, godforsaken rut. Phillips will be similarly conflicted now, but at least he can see a football club making progress.

I often walk my dog on Wortley Rec, a vast expanse of greenery amid a deep concentration of housing and industrial estates where Kalvin Phillips grew up. Four football pitches and one rugby pitch offer a place of escape and a glorious uninterrupted view of Elland Road and the valley it sits in. Flanked by the hills of Beeston behind it, Elland Road looks small and you feel big, like this is your kingdom and all this could be yours.

Kalvin Phillips will have stood and played there and gazed at Elland Road as a youngster on Leeds United’s books and felt like “all this could be mine”. Things like that don’t leave you, particularly when it is more achievable than ever.

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Rumours over the weekend suggest Phillips is prepared to give it one more season at Leeds United. Meanwhile, the Wortley-wide web, a network of local people where everyone seems to know someone who has a connection to Kalvin Phillips, not surprisingly offers contradictory hearsay and grapevine tittle tattle. The truth is nobody knows, not Phillips himself, not Andrea Radrizzani, not even the checkout operative at Aldi (yes, I did once queue up behind Kalvin Phillips in our local Aldi).

If Leeds receive a suitable offer for Phillips it would be a PR disaster to sell him, but that is territory the club don’t appear to be afraid of. Perhaps the saving grace this time, is the club for once have other assets to sell, and you also suspect keeping Phillips was a major bargaining tool in the negotiations to convince Bielsa to stay.

When Neil Redfearn’s famous quartet of Sam Byram, Lewis Cook, Charlie Taylor and Alex Mowatt broke through, Phillips was the Fifth Beatle everyone forgot. And yet, he could and should have the most impact in a white shirt out of all of them. Arguably, he already has.

Alex Mowatt celebrates his goal with Lewis Cook during the Championship match between Leeds United and Millwall at Elland Road on February 14, 2015(Image: Matthew Lewis/Getty Images)
Keeping Phillips would be a landmark achievement, a statement to confirm Leeds United are not going to unilaterally dismantle everything that made them good. A suggestion, maybe, they have learnt a lesson from the past and have committed to breaking away from the failing blueprint of tedious repetition.

So as we approach Leeds United’s centenary, not selling Kalvin Phillips could be the surest sign yet a sea change is coming, a statement, that when they say “we aim to build on last season”, they actually mean it. Leeds United RIP. Welcome to the new Leeds United.
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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #238 på: Juni 20, 2019, 15:01:43 »
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Sv: Spiller: Kalvin Phillips
« Svar #239 på: Juni 20, 2019, 15:17:45 »
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