‘What A Waste Of A Signing’ – Leeds Fans React To Player News
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Just when you think things couldn’t be much more negative at the club right now, we get some bad news about Yosuke Ideguchi.
A midfielder who could have actually played for us for the remainder of the season despite work permit problems, we decided to let him go on loan to Cultural Leonesa.
We’re never really pleased when that happens, though, and that feeling is bound to continue with this update from Phil Hay.
Cultural Leonesa entering the last month of their season. Ideguchi not in today’s squad and hasn’t played since February. World Cup chances must be slim.https://t.co/AGRZqKPWDs
— Phil Hay (@PhilHay_) April 29, 2018
Let’s take a look at the reaction to this, then, and it’s safe to say that many of us are not particularly impressed on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/VidukasQuartet/status/990608339599052801
He’ll be gone off the wage bill soon. What a waste of a signing
— Ian waugh (@ianwaugh86) April 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/BarneyStuart21/status/990606957642952705
Shame for him, but this is rock bottom of the list of stuff I care about at #lufc right now.
— Craig Reeves (@vivareeves) April 29, 2018
On the plus side he’ll be fit and raring to go on the Burma tour.
— Neil Royce (@royceylufc) April 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/Leedsfan75/status/990613424932622336
In a season of consistently poor decisions buying Ideguchi and sending him straight on loan to CL to barely play just plain bizarre
— Mark Devaney 💛💙 (@markwd1) April 29, 2018
Horrible loan deal, especially for the lad himself.
— Mat Thomas (@EmptyUK) April 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/jamescunni/status/990647964245872641
https://twitter.com/Gotti_LUFC/status/990654444319723520
The Verdict
This is really worrying because he’s going to arrive short of match fitness and with a real lack of confidence.
He’s a player who I really liked the look of when he signed but we, as per usual, we’ve managed to muck it up.
Let’s hope we can somehow turn this around.
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