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Bates warns Johnson over future
Leeds chairman Ken Bates has warned Seth Johnson he will rot in the reserves next season if he does not leave the club this summer.
Bates feels the 26-year-old's £35,000 per week wages are a huge drain on the club's resources.
"He can play for Leeds next season - as captain of the reserves," Bates said.
"And if he's injured for a reserve fixture he will be made to turn up and sit in the stand offering moral support and being a second-team talisman."
Johnson has made just 59 appearances for Leeds since joining for £7m from Derby in 2001.
Bates added: "He's cost us £230,000 a game. Both himself and Derby must have been laughing their socks off at that deal.
"It's not good enough. What sort of value is that for this club and its fans?
"For the supporters it's been now you see him, now you don't - o...
We'll follow Sunderland up - Gray - Yorkshire Post
Leeds United 1 Ipswich Town 1 MICHAEL GRAY is confident Leeds United will next season emulate his former club Sunderland and clinch a return to the Premiership. Richard Sutcliffe at Elland Road The on-loan left-back spent 11 seasons with the Wearside club and was delighted to have played a minor role in Mick McCarthy's men sealing promotion, third-placed Ipswich now unable to catch the Black Cats after being held to a draw at Elland Road. Gray, part of the Sunderland squad relegated from the top flight in 2003, sees many similarities between his former club and Leeds, whom he firmly believes will be celebrating their own return to the Premiership in 12 months' time. The 30-year-old said: "Mick McCarthy had to rebuild the squad by scouring the divisions to bring in his own group of players. It has taken them two years to go back up and that is an example to us because I believe Leeds United will be in the Premiership come this time next season. "The manager here is ver...
people.co.uk - FOOTBALL: SPURS SNAFFLE KID LENNON : "FOOTBALL: SPURS SNAFFLE KID LENNON Apr 24 2005
By Alan Nixon
TALENT-SPOTTING Spurs are ready to sign whiz-kid Aaron Lennon from Leeds United in a shock £1 million deal.
Lennon, 18 last weekend, will become the latest top prospect to go to White Hart Lane if terms are agreed in the next few days.
Ironically the Leeds lad made his debut at 16 and became the youngest Premiership player when he came on AGAINST Tottenham 20 months ago.
Lennon, who has been voted Leeds' Young Player of the Year by the fans, will be sold by the Yorkshire club who will use the cash to sign three or four new players for a promotion push next term.
There is a chance the aggressive young attacking midfielder will go to Tottenham and then be loaned back to Leeds for a year.
Nottingham Forest's Michael Dawson and Coventry's Calum Davenport are among the starlets who have been snapped up by Spurs in the last year."