A look back at what was being reported on Vital Leeds on August 7th in recent history at Leeds United.
2007
Former loan goalkeeper Casper Ankergren becomes Leeds first signing of the summer. Ankergren made 14 appearances on loan the previous season.
With Leeds now having their Football League share, Dennis Wise continues to add to his squad. Matt Heath, Leon Constantine and Curtis Weston all signed two-year deals with the club.
2009
Winger Robert Snodgrass signs a new improved four-year deal at Elland Road after impressing in his first season with the club.
2011
Leeds are hoping to complete the signing of trialist Alexandre Mendy.
The tricky French winger spent much of pre-season with Leeds and played in the friendlies against Rochdale, Sheffield Wednesday, Sandefjord and Newcastle.
Leeds boss Simon Grayson is hoping to sort out a deal for the free agent but has admitted there is ‘complications` with the deal.
Grayson is determined to bring the 27 year old to Elland Road, speaking in the Yorkshire Evening Post, Grayson said, ‘We`re looking to see if there`s something we can do with him because we feel he`s got potential.
‘There`s a few complications but he`s impressed us. There`s an option if we can get him that we might send him out on loan to learn the English game but he`s done himself no harm.’ (Mendy eventually joined Chesterfield)
2012
Leeds United boss Neil Warnock finally believes he has put a side together this summer that can make them competitive in the championship this season.
Warnock brought in his tenth signing of the summer in Lee Peltier at the weekend and the Leeds boss, one of the most successful in the Football League for gaining promotions with clubs, feels clubs will not enjoy playing against Leeds this season. Speaking in the Yorkshire Post, Warnock said, ‘It is only in the last 48 hours that I can see that I have a team who I believe will be competitive, home and away.
‘We may, in my opinion, still be short of a few goals but we are in a healthy state. Put it this way, I don`t think teams will want to play against us. And that always has to be the starting point.
‘Then you have to build on that. The back area has improved this summer, so has the midfield. But now we have to improve our goal threat.
‘Ideally, I`d like to get another striker in before Wolves and with Snodgrass having left then I`d like someone who can play wide as well.’
2013
Leeds United reached the second round of the Capital One League Cup with a 2-1 home win over Chesterfield and they were made to work very hard to beat their League Two opponents.
Chesterfield went ahead on 19 minutes from Eoin Doyle but two goals from Michael Brown and Dominic Poleon either side of the half hour mark secured a Leeds win.
Leeds started strongly. Dominic Poleon fired wide and then moments later, Matt Smith fluffed his shot and David Norris followed up to see his effort cleared off the line.
Chesterfield took the lead when headed home by Eoin Doyle following a great ball into the middle.
Jimmy Ryan then forced Paddy Kenny into a good save as the visitors grew in confidence.
Leeds equalised just before the half hour mark when Michael Brown scored from the edge of the area with a superb strike.
Dominic Poleon turned the game around for Leeds minutes later when he fired home after capitalising on a Chesterfield mistake in defence.
Chesterfield missed a fantastic chance to equalise when Tendayi Darikwa went around Kenny but Jason Pearce cleared his effort off the line.
Leeds went in ahead at half time in an entertaining first half and Chesterfield would have felt unlucky to be behind.
Chesterfield continued to press Leeds in the second half and they had the vast majority of the first half of the second half without troubling Paddy Kenny.
Leeds boss Brian McDermott showed his frustration by making a double substitution on the hour with Luke Murphy and Ross McCormack coming on.
Matt Smith had Leeds first real chance of the second half when his shot was put behind for a corner by Chesterfield goalkeeper Tommy Lee.
Smith then headed wide from a free kick as Leeds desperately looked for a third to ease the tension.
Substitute Luke Murphy came close to scoring his second goal in two games when his shot was just wide by Lee.
Leeds were beginning to take control of the game and Lee made another good save to deny Poleon a second goal.
Chesterfield came straight back at Leeds and Kenny saved well from Armand Gnanduillet.
Kenny made another good save following some good flowing football by Chesterfield.
Jimmy Ryan then fired at Kenny as the game went into stoppage time.
Chesterfield came so close to equalising deep into stoppage time when Nathan Smith hit the post.
It was a close run thing for Leeds but a place in the second round is secured.
Teams
Leeds
Kenny, Thompson, Lees, Pearce, Drury, Green, Norris (Murphy 59), Brown, White (McCormack 59), Poleon, Smith
Subs not used
Ashdown, Varney, Hunt, Hall, Mowatt
Chesterfield
Lee, Talbot, Hird, Edwards, Smith, Morsy, Ryan, Darikwa (O’Shea 64), Roberts, Humphreys (Richards 77), Doyle (Gnanduillet 67)
Subs not used
Chapman, Cooper, Togwell, Brown
2016
Leeds United started the new championship season with a disappointing 3-0 defeat at Queens Park Rangers on Sunday.
Leeds never recovered from conceding a sloppy goal after just four minutes and they failed to get a shot on target during the 90 minutes.
Queens Park Rangers went ahead on four minutes when Leeds failed to clear their lines from a corner and Nedum Onuoha scrambled the ball home.
The home side could have been further ahead by the break with the post twice coming to Leeds rescue, Tjaronn Chery and Sebastian Polter being denied by the woodwork.
Leeds best chances of the first half fell to Kemar Roofe and Stuart Dallas. Roofe headed wide from close range and Dallas blazed over.
Leeds started the second half better and Matt Grimes saw his dipping free-kick just clear the crossbar.
The game was put beyond Leeds with just over 15 minutes remaining when Chery beat Rob Green from the penalty spot after a foul by Ronaldo Vieira.
Substitutes Marcus Antonsson and Hadi Sacko gave Leeds more attacking threat and Antonsson had two good chances to mark his debut with a goal. He screwed his shot wide after getting in behind the Rangers defence and he then blazed over when in a good position. Sacko had the ball in the net for Leeds but the referee had already blown for a handball against the Leeds winger.
Polter put the icing on the cake for Rangers deep into stoppage time when he smashed the ball home from close range after Lewie Coyle hesitated in the area.
Teams
Queens Park Rangers
Smithies, Bidwell, Hall, Onuoha, Caulker, Shodipo (El Khayati 68), Henry, Gladwin (Cousins 56), Luongo, Chery (Perch 87), Polter
Subs not used
Ingram, Lynch, Kpekawa, Washington
Leeds United
Green, Berardi (Coyle 22), Bamba, Bartley, Taylor, Vieira, Grimes (Antonsson 61), Diagouraga, Dallas, Roofe (Sacko 75), Wood
Subs not used
Turnbull, Cooper, Phillips, Mowatt
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