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Leeds United notebook — Largie Ramazani states ‘ambition’ with loanee set for final hurrah — Leeds Live 29/4/26

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Ramazani has been in good form for Valencia during the second half of this season Isaac Johnson Leeds United reporter Largie Ramazani has enjoyed a fruitful 2026 with Valencia, with Leeds United loanee finally finding his feet under Carlos Corberan. The winger has scored six goals in his last 12 La Liga matches, having started the last 10. Ramazani scored the opening goal in Saturday’s 2-1 win over Girona as Valencia edge their way towards relegation safety, now five points clear with five games to play. The Belgian was loaned to the Spanish club for the season having fallen down the pecking order under Daniel Farke, who left him out of the squad entirely for the August trip to Arsenal. The board still values Ramazani, and were keen not to include a buy-out option in his loan deal. Ramazani is contracted to Leeds until 2028 but where he fits in Farke’s long term plans is unclear. And reports in Spain suggest Valencia would be willing to acquire the 25-year-old permanently. ...
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Leeds United’s $1bn investors looking at three more clubs and explain why they chose Whites — Leeds Live 29/4/26

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The investors bought a small stake in Leeds United last year and have multi-club ownership ambitions Isaac Johnson Leeds United reporter The chief of minority Leeds United investors A.Gain has explained why his consortium has invested in the club and outlined his multi-club ownership ambitions. The firm bought a small stake in Leeds last year and in April confirmed it had also invested in Champions League semi-finalists Atletico Madrid. It meanwhile holds a majority stake in Colombian outfit Deportivo Cali. A.Gain, part of the IDC Sports network, is a ‘capital creation company’ which operates in the technology and entertainment field, and whose headquarters is based in Copenhagen. It manages approximately $1 billion [£740.7m] worth of assets within its portfolio. Speaking to City AM, Bobby Aitkenhead - a former basketball player and co-founder and CEO of A.Gain - explained why his group invested in Leeds under the 49ers ownership. “We think of Leeds as the sleeping giant of E...
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Leeds United 0-1 Chelsea: No hoodoo — Square Ball 28/4/26

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Just pain Written by: Rob Conlon Of course there was a stat. Leeds United: the first club to lose four consecutive games at Wembley without scoring. Breaking the records you really don’t want to break since 1919. The team where unwanted history becomes official. Four games. 360 minutes. Six hours. It takes some doing to play football for that long and not score a goal, and I’ve watched Steve Morison and Billy Paynter play up front for Leeds. Except as a winless run it’s… not that long really. Leeds have gone four games or more without a win three times already this season. Earlier this month, in rugby league, the New Zealand Warriors finally snapped a seventeen-match losing “hoodoo” against the Melbourne Storm, after which their coach Andrew Webster said: “[It wasn’t] a hoodoo, I’d call it a streak.” And that’s all Leeds losing at Wembley is. A streak. There is no curse, just four games in isolation spread over thirty years. The problem for Leeds at Wembley is that it’s about s...
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Failure of football lawmakers amid Leeds United rule anger has left door open to cheating — Leeds Live 28/4/26

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Leeds United manager Daniel Farke had already raised the matter earlier in the season Isaac Johnson Leeds United reporter It's a stain on the game, and it’s happening far too often. Leeds United are not the only team to be victim of goalkeeping tactical timeouts but they have had their fair share. Games against Manchester City, Sunderland, Brentford and now Chelsea have all seen the opposing shot-stopper seemingly feign injury to instigate a touchline chat with the manager. Everyone knows what is happening, yet nobody can stop it. Why? This simple question has two meanings, the first of which is legalistic. Referees currently have no powers to punish such acts as there are no stipulations in the game regarding this precise scenario. And so the officials therefore cannot risk playing on in case the goalkeeper is genuinely injured. And there is the argument that 'keepers might start playing through the pain barrier when genuinely hurt and therefore injure themselves fur...
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Marcelo Was Right (Again) — Square Ball 27/4/26

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You Know What You Are Written by: Dan Moylan At Wembley on Sunday, with Leeds building pressure in the second half of the FA Cup semi-final, Robert Sánchez went down. Nothing had happened. He went down because Chelsea’s interim head coach Calum McFarlane wanted a moment to deliver tactical instructions. A goalkeeper lying on the turf is, for now, the most convenient way to get one. Over eighty-two thousand people inside Wembley knew it. Millions watching at home knew it. Even Jarred Gillett, the dickhead referee who continually pandered to Chelsea’s theatrics throughout the game, probably knew it. Nobody was pretending otherwise. Some hours later we were sat silently in a traffic jam on the M1 northbound, somewhere near Luton or Milton Keynes or Northampton or wherever. I returned to the question that often takes root in my brain: what would Marcelo think? Calum McFarlane, speaking after the game, brushed off the criticism, saying matter-of-factly, “I used it as an opportun...
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Leeds' fight for survival has been founded on an unbreakable spirit but they lost their bite just when they needed it most — Mail 27/4/26

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Leeds' fight for survival has been founded on an unbreakable spirit but they lost their bite just when they needed it most - this FA Cup semi-final loss highlights what they need to do to kick on, writes TOM COLLOMOSSE By TOM COLLOMOSSE, FOOTBALL REPORTER In the moments before kick-off, Chelsea supporters unfurled a banner that seemed to mock Leeds United's recent struggles in the FA Cup. 'We've got some memories, albeit from the 70s' it read. Leeds fans might have been able to smile at that but what followed over the next two hours would have darkened their mood. The rivalry between these clubs peaked in the 1970 Cup Final, which Chelsea won in a replay and which has been called the most brutal game in English football history. Where was Leeds' inner Norman 'Bites Yer Legs' Hunter? Where was the spirit of Billy Bremner or - though he was only one when that game was played - David Batty? Leeds' fight for survival this season has been founde...
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Leeds United captain Ethan Ampadu breaks silence on Chelsea goalkeeper time-out — Leeds Live 27/4/26

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Ampadu decided to enact his own act of gamesmanship in response to Chelsea's decision Isaac Johnson Leeds United reporter Ethan Ampadu says he was simply repaying gamesmanship tactics when he went over to the Chelsea dug-out amid the controversial goalkeeper time-out Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final defeat. Robert Sanchez hit the deck around the hour mark with Leeds United building pressure to allow interim Chelsea head coach Calum McFarlane to benefit from a quick sideline team-talk to help the Blues reset. Such instances have been seen in Leeds games against Manchester City and Sunderland this season and this time, with Leeds supporters enraged, Ampadu decided to go over with the Chelsea players to listen in on the huddle. Speaking to TNT Sports, Ampadu explained his thoughts: “There’s been a bit of a thing with it this season. Everyone knows the referee can’t do anything about it. It’s obviously clever. “We’ve had it a couple of times when we’ve had momentum and the keeper...
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