League One

Window may yet hold the key for Leeds

by
The LeaguePaper Team
16 December 2018

Simon Grayson

Experienced EFL boss

EIGHT years ago this weekend, my Leeds side beat Neil Warnock’s QPR to go second in the Championship.
We had some wonderful attackers in that team - Robert Snodgrass, Luciano Becchio, Max Gradel, Ross McCormack. But I knew we needed a centre-back.
I enquired about Kaspars Gorkss and Gareth McAuley, who both wanted to come. But Ken Bates and the board decided against it and that was that.
To this day, I can’t help wondering what might have been. We eventually finished seventh that year, outside the play-offs by three points.
I thought either ...

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