Paul Green signs for Leeds United
Republic of Ireland midfielder Paul Green has agreed to sign for Leeds United after turning down a new contract with Derby County.
29-year-old Green played just ten minutes at Euro 2012, and was without a club during the tournament. The Yorkshire-born centre midfielder has 12 caps for Ireland, and played 125 league games for Derby County since joining the Rams in 2008. Before that, he spent seven years at Doncaster, where he amassed 33 goals in 277 league games, winning the Conference National playoff, the old Third Division, as well as the Johnstone’s Paint Football League Trophy, and the League One playoff.
Leeds United boss Neil Warnock has been watching Green for a while, and finally got his man today. “Paul is another player I’ve been after for a long time, but obviously he was called up by Ireland for the European Championships so we’ve had to be a bit patient,” Warnock told the club’s official website. “I’ve seen him grow from his days at Doncaster and I’m delighted to have him here. I’ve always thought that he is a player who can create goals as well as score them, and he has just the type of attitude we need at Elland Road.”
Leeds kick off their 2012-13 Championship campaign against relegated side Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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Leeds? I was expecting Barcelona to come in for him.
He failed the medical at Inter
heard Monaghan United were in for him before they pulled out of the league…..
I hear Warnock offered 2 quid and a packet of pork scratchings for Green but Derby held out for 1 quid and two packets! I’m told he also offered Crapattoni a job cleaning out the dressing rooms and offered 5 quid and 5 packets of pork scratchings for the entire Ireland euro starting 11.
We all dream of a team of Paul Greens, a team of Paul Greens!
Sad indictment of Irish football and the idiotic c**t that is managing us to oblivion that this individual gets called up ahead of Wes Hoolahan, Stephen Ireland, James McCarthy and Ciaran Clark.
Bollox Trapattoni picks Whelan, Andrews and Green because of their lack of technical ability, not because of it. He has so little respect for our little country and has such negative preconceived notions about Ireland and our players that he refuses to even acknowledge Hoolahan, Ireland, McCarthy, Clark and McClean’s ability that respected figures in the British game such as Paul Lambert, Roberto Martinez and Martin O’Neill have all the time in the world for.
But who cares what people that done twice as much as what Trapattoni did twenty years ago with half the resources think, right?
We’ve all gone through the ignominy of Trapattoni disrespecting our greatest players ie. John Giles and Roy Keane to his Italian media sycophants.
I wish this guy would go away. Take from that what you want. I also wish Tardelli would go away too. One has achieved nothing in his managerial career and the other is living off past glories that all happened with clubs as opposed to national teams and all happened in the 70s and 80s.
We need someone like Rodgers, Martinez, Lambert, Hughton or even McCarthy to fix the mess he has put us in and change our system and tactics from the ground up to have us on a level playing field with other countries.
Propagandhi – I don’t think we want Dynamo Barnsley’s finest back anytime soon as he was the one who was happy to take Charlton’s mantle of soulless 4-4-2 roast beef anti-European hoofball to Biblical proportions. He makes Trap look like Pep Guardiola in comparison. Otherwise, you are 101% correct. It’s hard to believe Trap managed in Europe with his Sunday World pleasing style of play and garbage journeymen he forces on us.
I have been a defender of Trap, but I admit he got it wrong for Euro 2012. He did well to get us playing better defense after the shambles of the Staunton era, but any creative impulse was discarded. We paid the price for that. We were pathetic at Euro 2012. His strategy was one dimensional. No back up plan whatsoever. It failed. Trap did not trust Irish players to be skilled or creative. That is true. Bringing on Green against Spain with Gibson sitting on the bench – Green then responsible for the ensuing Fabregas goal was the icing on the cake. Very, very poor decision. Indefensible.
It will be interesting to see if Trap brings in Shane Long, Hoolahan, Ireland, Clark, McCarthy, Gibson, Wilson, McClean, Kelly on defense, and Westwood in goal. Switch to a 4-3-3, put O’Shea and Dunne in the middle, and see what happens in the upcoming friendly vs. Bulgaria. It is time for Shay Given, Robbie Keane, Whelan, Duff, and Ward to either accept roles as substitutes or step aside if need be. I would like to see what Long can do with either Ireland or Hoolahan feeding him the ball.
This reminds of me of the end of the Charlton era in 1996 when a major overhaul was required, and new players needed to brought in. The changes McCarthy made helped us in the long run. If Trap makes the necessary changes in players and tactics, then we may qualify for Brazil 2014. If not, we will likely be defeated in the first two games in September and October – upset by Kazakstan, and utterly torn asunder by Germany. At that point, with qualification chances effectively over, Trap would likely step down, similar to when Mick McCarthy quit after Russia destroyed us early on in Euro qualification in 2003. Hopefully Trap will see the light.
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