Healy Key To Plans
leedsunited.com
United boss Kevin Blackwell insists David Healy remains very much part of his future plans at Elland Road.
The Northern Ireland international was left out of the last two
games with Blackwell opting to change things around tactically, and his absence prompted rumour and speculation that the striker was on his way out of the club.
Claims of a bid from Championship rivals Sheffield United fuelled the speculation further, but Blackwell says any attempt to take him away would be turned down. At the same time he defended his decision to leave Healy on the bench.
He said: "There is nothing to clarify about David Healy, I have had no bid for him and he's not going anywhere.
"I made a decision to leave him out on the strength of him playing international football last week, we talked about it and it was my decision to do that. In both games I have been proven right."
"This club is not about any individual player or person, it's about a team, and whilst fans have favourites, I still have to make sure I am making the right decisions for the club in the general scheme of things."
Blackwell insists that players like Healy are key to his aims for the football club, and he wants to create stability at Elland Road, which means the club is no longer a selling club.
"We have had a lot of clubs very interested in Leeds United players and that tells us we are on the right lines.
"I have had good offers for five players at the football club that could have gone by now, two from Premiership clubs and a couple from the Championship, and that shows the level of the players we have reached here now. "But I need players here now to develop that understanding, and to know that when they come to work they will be at the club for a while. We are putting some roots down, and the longer we can give them the deeper they will grow and the stronger we will be."
leedsunited.com
United boss Kevin Blackwell insists David Healy remains very much part of his future plans at Elland Road.
The Northern Ireland international was left out of the last two
games with Blackwell opting to change things around tactically, and his absence prompted rumour and speculation that the striker was on his way out of the club.Claims of a bid from Championship rivals Sheffield United fuelled the speculation further, but Blackwell says any attempt to take him away would be turned down. At the same time he defended his decision to leave Healy on the bench.
He said: "There is nothing to clarify about David Healy, I have had no bid for him and he's not going anywhere.
"I made a decision to leave him out on the strength of him playing international football last week, we talked about it and it was my decision to do that. In both games I have been proven right."
"This club is not about any individual player or person, it's about a team, and whilst fans have favourites, I still have to make sure I am making the right decisions for the club in the general scheme of things."
Blackwell insists that players like Healy are key to his aims for the football club, and he wants to create stability at Elland Road, which means the club is no longer a selling club.
"We have had a lot of clubs very interested in Leeds United players and that tells us we are on the right lines.
"I have had good offers for five players at the football club that could have gone by now, two from Premiership clubs and a couple from the Championship, and that shows the level of the players we have reached here now. "But I need players here now to develop that understanding, and to know that when they come to work they will be at the club for a while. We are putting some roots down, and the longer we can give them the deeper they will grow and the stronger we will be."