Lennon took pay cut to join Spurs

[WyomingWhite]

I know this is old news to Leeds fans, but it's just been reported on the BBC website today. This makes me sick, Lennon looks like he's gonna be a huge star for both club and country. At least with Bates now in charge we shouldn't fall foul of anymore bad business in the vein of retard Ridsdale. I just hope Lennon can be tempted back to his home club at some point in the future.



Leeds boss Kevin Blackwell has revealed that winger Aaron Lennon had to take a massive cut in wages to join Tottenham.

The 19-year-old, who has been included in England's World Cup squad, left Leeds to join Spurs for £1m last July.

But Blackwell told Five Live: "He actually took a wage cut to go to Tottenham from Leeds.

"The contract that he had was so prohibitive to Leeds - it came from the Premiership days - that there was no way we could afford to keep him."

Lennon made his Premiership debut for the Elland Road club at the age of 16 and spent one season in the Championship with Leeds before making the switch to White Hart Lane.

Although Lennon impressed for England B against Belarus on 25 May, he has yet to make his full England debut.

But former boss Blackwell is tipping Lennon to make a name for himself at this year's World Cup in Germany.

He said: "I think Aaron will come on later in games and he's a great weapon to bring on.

"The international stage doesn't yet really know about Aaron just yet."

Blackwell also believes Lennon could give captain David Beckham a run for his money in the team.

He added: "I don't think going into the World Cup you can go in with a load of inexperienced players, so David Beckham has a major role to play.

"But time catches up with us all and we all have to sometimes look over our shoulders."

[Billy]

Ridsdale is a prick

[Goalposts for Jumpers]

agreed Billy.

[Fizzy Bread]

We were never gonna be able to keep him though, how ever much money we got for him.

Just bloody annoying to see so many players doing so well now knowing loads of them used to play for us and left for pittence.

[jimbo]

If his wages were costing us too much, we had to get rid of him...... i HOPE he will come back to us in the future but i doubt we'd be able to afford him......

[WyomingWhite]

jimbo said:

If his wages were costing us too much, we had to get rid of him...... i HOPE he will come back to us in the future but i doubt we'd be able to afford him......

He was on a stupid wage structure whereby his wage doubled exponentially with appearances. If someone other than Ridsdale had agreed this there's a possibility we could have kept him for one more season - with him last year I would've bet my mortgage on us going up. The main thing we needed last year was a creative midfielder such as him. If we had Lennon last year we'd have been promoted this year without a doubt. Ridsdale I hate you more than I could ever describe. Do the right thing and f*** right off out of the country.