With such great businessmen in charge it's no wonder Leeds are consistently such a footballing powerhouse.

@celtic69

9 ай бұрын

Should we have spent so heavily in the past, probably not, but we lived the dream, we enjoyed the dream!

@paulg8524

9 ай бұрын

you hate us because you aint us MOT

@user-jv2tw1no8x

9 ай бұрын

@@celtic69and now back to familiar surroundings

@brendanmostek4723

9 ай бұрын

I've been waiting for this ome ever since they mentioned it on the podcast

@purpledragons1146

9 ай бұрын

​@@celtic69I wouldn't call getting to a couple of semi-finals and winning nothing living the dream. Leeds United lived the dream under Don Revie

I thought it was Sadio Mane for a second

@gedwin5444

9 ай бұрын

Me too😂

@SouthsideSox007

9 ай бұрын

Came looking for this 😂

@guyseabrook

9 ай бұрын

Hoped I wasn't the only one 😂

@Dropz_RSA

9 ай бұрын

Maybe it is. They just want us to argue with ourselves.

@mrdptracey9238

9 ай бұрын

Hairline and that

I remember him on FIFA 19 career. Absolutely deadly mid-table legend.

The silhouette looked like sadio mané

@luisho43

9 ай бұрын

It is Sadio

@Sangram_Raorane

7 ай бұрын

ikrrr

Welcome to the ridiculous world of Victor Orta contracts. His legacy very much continues to haunt Leeds even after his departure with as many as 7 first team players leaving on free loans after relegation leaving Leeds with no money to recover from outgoings post relegation. He was a bizarre man and where ever he goes he of going to bring a mountain of chaos if left unchecked. A warning for Sevilla fc.

@Eibarwoman

9 ай бұрын

Pretty sure he was behind the eventual financial disaster that was Elche which kept Eibar up despite finish Eibar being 18th in points without Elche's financial issues. Edit: As in Elche was firmly mid-table but Orta had overspent to the point the team had financial problems with inability to pay both taxes and salaries at least prior to the points penalty that kept the Basque club that was in the relegation positions up as Elche decided to pay their taxes instead of their players which led to a massive points penalty.

@steve10

9 ай бұрын

How this guy is still working in football is a disgrace. You can guarantee he probably was paid a huge fee for orchestrating a mandatory transfer fee on the loan , he probably got money for all the players that left when relegated. Why are clubs employing someone like this , its quite clear his contract arrangements for players come with too many clauses that depend on the future of the club, its like Leeds didn't learn from spending money based on the future of the club back in the early 2000's. You shouldn't be buying any player based on future promotions or relegations , its like gambling on red or black at the casino , most times you end up losing, which seems to be the case with the clubs he is involved in.

@NeoChaosX

9 ай бұрын

As a San Francisco 49ers fan, I'm shocked, SHOCKED that another team owned by the York family managed to drop the ball on a front office hire.

@andrasszabo1570

9 ай бұрын

@@NeoChaosX He left months before 49ers Enterprises took over Leeds. There are too many major and minor investors to say that the York family owns Leeds United anyway.

@backtopurrrfectagain6681

9 ай бұрын

Well, it already happened. Several Sevilla's players are going to leaves, for free agents if I'm not mistake. They can't offering good "number" to convince them to stay.

Great to see the old Tifo voiceover back even if not regularly

Either the Leeds hierarchy didn't think they would get promoted, or took a huge gamble on a player in decline and it didn't work out. I'm still as confused by the decision to pay that much for the player now as I was then.

@control2XS

9 ай бұрын

That's Orta for you, he has a HUGE ego. He wouldn't have seen it as a gamble, he'd have seen it as unearthing a player everyone else had given up on and a genius move. This was by far his worst, but it's just one in a number of decisions like this that ultimately destroyed everything Bielsa built.

@VillaBoys123

9 ай бұрын

"On the decline." He was 23 with one bad season behind him. It was idiotic and wreckless but kind of made sense. What followed with the underhand weaseling out of it was the disgrace.

@GuinessOriginal

9 ай бұрын

The loan agreement was nonsense, the statement to sign him upon promotion should have been conditional on him playing a certain number of games and minutes

@adrimute

9 ай бұрын

​@@GuinessOriginalBingo! Leeds need better lawyers.

Jean-Kevin Augustin couldn’t hit the heights so he swindled his way to the bag. What a legend 😭😭

@thibautnarme6402

9 ай бұрын

Yeah that's the player's fault that his future club drudgery left him in professional limbo, without his due (that is his contract with RB or the agreed contract with Leeds). Everybody blames the player fir trying to get what they can, but nobody questions how such "professional" organizations fails to evaluate and adequately pay talent...

@alexnils6984

9 ай бұрын

Leeds tried to take advantage of the covid to swindle of both Leipzig and Augustin. They basically waste to years of everybody's time and peace of mind for 18 millions. It's just money for the club but years of career drawbacks for a young player

@wanmanrmy

9 ай бұрын

@@thibautnarme6402exactly, everyone complains about players wanting to leave clubs mid-contract but never criticise clubs for failing to adhere to the requirements of their contracts.

@rayandinho978

6 ай бұрын

bros a genius ong 🥶🥶

Played 40 minutes for them and finessed 25 mil from them lmao. Crazy

@LegendNinja41

9 ай бұрын

And now enjoying life and luxury in Basel, Switzerland. W Scam.

@nathancook2852

9 ай бұрын

@@LegendNinja41 How is it a scam? Leeds agreed to that stupid deal.

@LegendNinja41

9 ай бұрын

@@nathancook2852 its just a meme to use ''W Scam'' in these typ of situations because they got ''finessed'' so to speak.

@ImBarryScottCSS

8 ай бұрын

​@@LegendNinja41r/stonks

Fair to say it was remarkable business by Leeds absolutely fantastic stuff more to come 🙏🏾

That Stranger Transfers graphic was dope.

Imagine starting your career as being such a promising talent that you manage to outshine *Mbappé*, and then your impact on the sport is being a weird case of a player who underperformed so badly that two teams went to court to pay his wages because none of them wanted you

I think this video ignores quite an important detail which is that Augustin has since been diagnosed with long covid and a different illness which greatly impacts muscle fatigue. I think this matters because Augustin often gets painted as just a dud player who’s fluked a £25 million pay day from Leeds when in reality his career has suffered greatly from being a pawn between these two clubs and arguably resulted in the diagnoses of his illness taking so long to come to light, even as a Leeds fan I think how he’s been treated as a result of this poor business has been poor on both clubs accounts.

@jtaco4101

9 ай бұрын

Nah dudes a bum, he's found his level in the swiss league.

I’m amazed the unpaid wages ruling went in his favour. It was agreed between Leipzig, Leeds and himself that he would sign for a third club. They didn’t just put him with the reserves and not pay him.

@iloveshrek3591

9 ай бұрын

Probably because he was told that he wouldn’t be paid by either club when the case was ongoing. He could have stuck around unpaid or left.

@FifaForumOnline

9 ай бұрын

Was on a new contract whilst he was at Nantes, Leeds didn’t pay him after the “contracted ended”

@ChrisHockman

9 ай бұрын

It’s odd that they then didn’t insist that Leeds must have been owed a fee.

@nathancook2852

9 ай бұрын

He had no choice at the time but to sign a new contract, otherwise, neither team would be paying him. I think it is completely reasonable that Leeds should pay him the agreed upon wages. That was wrong and stupid on their part to try to back out of the deal.

@ralfrudi3963

9 ай бұрын

It was not really an agreement between him, Leipzig and Leeds. Fifa had decided that he was allowed to sign for a third club because those legal disputes take years to complete and it being unreasonable to expect a professional football player to sit at home for a couple of years which would effectively end his career. Augustin would have prefered to earn big bucks at Leeds vs. signing a much worse contract.

He also had a bout of long covid followed by post viral guillain barre syndrome. A friend of mine passed away from it 8 years ago

It must be hard for a footballer to be caught up in a tug of war between clubs that don't want you then again if you're being paid a fortune for it you're not really going to care all that much for it are you

The combination of Stafford-Bloor brains and Devine audiovisuals cannot be beaten.

Is it me or did this story not get much media coverage at the time?

@listey

9 ай бұрын

"At the time" of what? The big news was when there was the court cases and they certainly got a lot of coverage.

@bababababababa6124

9 ай бұрын

Nah just you, even my mother knows about this 😂😂😂

when I saw the title of the video I thought it was going to be about Henri Saivet. Surely that was one of those signings that was either just a favour to an agent, or more likely to move questionable money from one shell company to another, like Abramovich used to do signing players the club had absolutely no intention of ever using

The silhouette looks very much like Sadio Mane

You guys should do a story on Mathieu Flamini becoming a billionaire while sitting on the bench for Arsenal.

@user-vs9yl4lp6e

9 ай бұрын

He was quite good backup in ac milan

@tompcd1189

9 ай бұрын

Didn't rly sit on the bench though

@TabletsAndTemples

9 ай бұрын

@@tompcd1189 In 13/14 he only had 23 starts out of a possible ~50 games in all competitions. He was Arsenal's 12th choice by Premiere league starts. But then down to 20 and 19 starts the next two seasons.

@tompcd1189

9 ай бұрын

@@TabletsAndTemples 153 in total for his first spell, and then 93 in his second spell, most caps at any club he's ever played at lol

@TabletsAndTemples

9 ай бұрын

@@tompcd1189 totally, not denying that. But he was definitely an off the bench player.

Hi Guillen Barre diagnosis is an important bit of context to the story

I terrorised people with this man in Fifa 19 when he was in RB Leipzig 😂

This made me feel unwell, loved it

That is one of those awesomely bizarre stories that comes up in sports. You couldn’t make this stuff up. ✌🏽❤️⚽️🍄

I strongly believe that he staying at Leeds would have been of some use, especially in their second and their seasons where they struggled for goals and Bamford for paralyzingly injured.

Jesus thought about he is sadio mane before coming into the video😂

Mad saga. Brilliant story!

The audio "If you enjoyed this..." at the end of the video is far louder than the rest of the video. You should check your volume levels.

Nice untold story. Unique case indeed👍

As Dean of 442oon becomes a Muezzin 🎶🎵SAAAAAAUDI PROOOO LEEEEEEAGUE🎶🎵

Immediately thought back to your Henri Saivet video 😬

Who thought it was sadio mane from the thumbnail😂

@kudzaisd

9 ай бұрын

l thought it was Mendy

Umm is it just me or do y’all thought it was Mane from the shadow in the intro?😅

Not me thinking it was Mané Lmao😂

Wow! What a story!

Certified classic case of don't hate the playa.

and here was me thinking it'd be Seth Johnson

You should do the emiliano sala vs cardiff city

You forgot to add that he got hit with Long COVID, so his career is likely to be financially curtailed, if not entirely.

@seemourbutts6679

9 ай бұрын

Long covid 😂😂 seriously have a look at the list of symptoms, see if you can find out how they diagnose it and then see if you still think it’s real

@Booplesnoot123

9 ай бұрын

@@seemourbutts6679 i have it and can assure you it's very real

@camlawlett4758

9 ай бұрын

I was about to say this! There's a great article on the Athletic that explains the medical side of his decline. Super sad stuff

@seemourbutts6679

9 ай бұрын

@@Booplesnoot123 ok well what are your symptoms and how were you diagnosed?

@Booplesnoot123

9 ай бұрын

@@seemourbutts6679 surprisingly enough I’m not keen to disclose detailed personal medical information to a stranger but if you’re really interested there is a mass of research and literature online you can read

Jean-Kevin Augustin really traumatised English football media coz I swear the story gets told every year 💀💀💀

@henrymarks1632

9 ай бұрын

Never seen it before

@MrReese

9 ай бұрын

Every year, you mean since...2022? So literally once so far? :D

@Tom-qb1rj

9 ай бұрын

Tf are you talking about

@lukemullet

9 ай бұрын

@@henrymarks1632 First I'd heard of the case too.

@00dude3

9 ай бұрын

the worst PL transfer of all time is going be brought up yes

I wonder how much legal cost had Leeds incurred to eventually settle on that 15.5 million fee

Imagine a 24m payday for basically doing nothing, Augustine really did complete football, who cares if doesn't win anything else in football lol.

@MrSniperfox29

9 ай бұрын

He did do something, he played for other teams and presumably was paid by them at the same time. He wants Leeds to pay him wages when he wasn't even at the club

@jamessudlow

9 ай бұрын

@@MrSniperfox29 he wants them to pay the wages for a contract they illegally cut short

The only thong I could never get my around with the Jean-Kévin Augustin situation was why Leeds were made to pay him his full 5-year deal when he was only at the club for 6 months in total in the first place. Whether Leeds were obligated to buy him or not it does seem pretty bizarre to me at least that they had to settle the entire length of his contract. Especially when wasn't this done when he had already left the club? Because by the same token couldn't another player playing for another club leave that club a 12 months into a 5-year deal but turn around and say, "Even though I'm leaving of my own accord and am spearheading this move myself I want you to pay me all the wages I would of banked if I would of seen my contract out to it's natural conclusion."

anyone who wants a more in depht video on this i would deffo reccomed hitc sevens vid...

Oh my god, this is like fighting for anti-custody of the player 😂

Suffice to say, He’s got that elite Mbappe representative😅

For a second I thought the silhouette was Sadio Mane

Though it was mane at the start in the shadow pic 😅

I like the stranger things animation at the beginning 😂

What you haven’t included is all the legal costs involved in these challenges.

@nathancook2852

9 ай бұрын

They probably are not known.

Was the 90k/week salary estimated/set by the court? Cause there's no way Leipzig paid him that much nor would a championship club like Leeds offer such salary even after promotion. 90k for a squad player is a reach even for top table teams and even though in player vs club situations I rather support the player, but him demanding 24mil from Leeds feels like a scam

@lukedardo9406

9 ай бұрын

Leeds and Augustin had already an agreement in case the transfer turned out permanent, which at the end is what happened. The 90k /week is the wage of that agreement I guess, and not what he was receiving at Leipzig

Augustin, the great businessman

I'm surprised this happened to Leeds of all teams, they've always been really good with finances 🙄

@Dropz_RSA

9 ай бұрын

😂

S2G Fans Know This Legend

Thought it was abt Mane cause of the silhouette on the thumbnail😅

Bro that fifa 19 player and s2g career mode with leeds💀💀💀💀

Augustin is a genius ong ❤

Amazing, its almost not worth promotion with contracts like that flying around!

The shadow image on the thumbnail looked like Sadio Mane

Reminds of Renato Sanchez the guy is just not a goid player but somehow he has convinced Portugal, bayern and others that he is a good player

Mpaypal: oh are you challenging me?

Perfect timing for my lunch break.

Music: Jobii - Goldo

i thought the thumbnail was mane LOL

great story

Given Augustin has found his level at Basel I'd say both RB and Leeds dodged a bullet.

@nathancook2852

9 ай бұрын

Except that Leeds is going to have to pay him while they get nothing out of him.

@tomw6947

9 ай бұрын

​@@nathancook2852Then the player should be returned to Leeds, seems crazy you have to buy a player, yet he can't/won't join the club.

@kickdowndoors

9 ай бұрын

seems like Leeds definitely got shot tbh

@nifemi_o

9 ай бұрын

@@tomw6947 Didnt you watch the video? it wasnt his choice not to join the club, they dont want him.

@tomw6947

9 ай бұрын

@@nifemi_o Not surprised when you turn up to training late, and won't put the effort in on or off the pitch.

Who thought it was Sadio Mané in the cover? 😂

At first I thought it’s João Félix.

Before I watch tht silhouette looks like Manè

"Skillful" is misspelled somewhere in there. Great fun video tho.

Has he got the whole 5 years wages even though he's still got 2 years left? Surely the court would be thinking Leeds would offload him and therefore not be paying those 2 years of wages.

And we thought Leeds' financial mismanagement ended when they plumetted down the divisions as the poster child of over-reaching your means 🤦‍♀

Lol this is especially hilarious because like every player, I remember he was massively hyped by leeds fans 😂

Wasn’t Jean-Kévin Augustin subsequently diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome?

Title made me think it was a standard Saudi contract

I thought the silhouette was Sadio Mane

skilful spelt wrong. you guys need a proofreader :) - otherwise great vid as always.

I totally thought it was mane from thel thumbnail

Anyone else thought of Sadio Mane after seeing the template?

I thought it was Usain Bolt when I saw the silhouette 😂

@eldhojohnmenachery7107

9 ай бұрын

Me thinking it was sadio mane😂

@kavinkacreates

9 ай бұрын

@@eldhojohnmenachery7107 😅

@dcchannel4847

9 ай бұрын

@@eldhojohnmenachery7107same here

He failed to get into the Leeds team during his loan for being "lazy" and that's why they didn't want him permanently. Didn't it turn out that he had long covid though?

@LamontGranquist

9 ай бұрын

He signed with Nantes in Oct 2020 and wasn't announced as having Long COVID until Mar 2021, so his 'lazy' period with Leeds was sometime between Jan-Oct 2020. He could have still caught COVID then and been transferred to Nantes while still suffering from it (with the medical evaluation by Nantes not being very thorough at all?) but the timing suggests he caught it after leaving Leeds. And as the video suggests he was faltering at Leipzig in 2018-19 and loaned to Monaco in 2019 where he couldn't compete for minutes. That was all before COVID existed and sounds like he caught the 'lazy' bug a couple years earlier.

@lukedardo9406

9 ай бұрын

Deals are deals. They might not want him, but if the deal was to turn the transfer permanent for 18mil in case of promotion, there is nothing that can be done about that. I don't know who has done the negotiations at Leeds, but it's definitely his fault

@SamButler22

9 ай бұрын

@@lukedardo9406 deals are deals. Leeds are right to argue for the exact wording, Leipzig are right to argue for the spirit of the deal. Lawyers who specialise in contracts exist for a reason, and I am not one.

@BLOODSHO7

9 ай бұрын

It was a long term illness Alfie of hitc 7s did a full 30 minute documentary on this with everything examined in it worth a watch for sure

I thought Mane at Bayern

They'd need Jimmy McGill to win that case if they really think just because Covid delayed the end of the season that they didn't have to keep to the contract lmao

Im spaniard and I didn't know the case. Now I can only 😂😂😂😂😂

That silhouette looks like Sadio Mané

Hairline in the thumbnail made me think it was mane 💀

On the thumbnail that looks like mané

I know this one, Goldrbidge once paid a guy 7mil pounds a week

Damn!

Fantastic business Leeds 🎉

I'm pretty sure there's a video already on this same topic?

@jamessudlow

9 ай бұрын

??? Do you think people own topics?

Not gonna lie the shadow made me believe it is sadio mane 👀

Is he playin for Basel or just at Basel now?

I'm here before they change Skillfull to Skillful. 👋🏽

Who saw the silhouette & thought it was Sadio Mane?

lol Mane silhouette

Of course the courts would side with Leipzig. It's so obvious Leeds didn't like that they saw and wanted out, but didn't act in time.

0:57 skilful*

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