Barry Bannan to Leeds on loan.

[Risso]

I'd rather have him coming on as a sub to make something happen than fucking Petrov. Whats Petrov going to do? Pass it backwards to the defence?

Well quite.  On Saturday, when we were 2-1 up, Petrov was getting ready to come on, presumably to help protect the defence for the last 20 minutes.  They then equalised, so Houllier sticks him on anyway even though we now obviously need to score again to win the game.  Genius.

[JUAN PABLO]

A little suprised to hear the news but won't do him no harm at all..  shame its not Soton , would have liked first option on that Chamberlain player.

[Shrek]

I'm glad he is going to be playing instead of been on the bench.

Kyle Walker spent 6 months at QPR and has fit straight in to our side, hopefully the same will happen with Bannan.

Because as has already bren said he has a great future with us.

We might need him this season.  We have lots of central midfielders, but not many of them are very good.

It's only a month loan initially isn't it? I'm sure we will have a recall option, plus don't we hardly have any games this month.

[spangley1812]

I'm glad he is going to be playing instead of been on the bench.

Kyle Walker spent 6 months at QPR and has fit straight in to our side, hopefully the same will happen with Bannan.

Because as has already bren said he has a great future with us.

We might need him this season.  We have lots of central midfielders, but not many of them are very good.

It's only a month loan initially isn't it? I'm sure we will have a recall option, plus don't we hardly have any games this month.

No its until the end of the season, there is a clause to recall him after 28 days

[Risso]

I'm glad he is going to be playing instead of been on the bench.

Kyle Walker spent 6 months at QPR and has fit straight in to our side, hopefully the same will happen with Bannan.

Because as has already bren said he has a great future with us.

We might need him this season.  We have lots of central midfielders, but not many of them are very good.

It's only a month loan initially isn't it? I'm sure we will have a recall option, plus don't we hardly have any games this month.

Wrong, it's until the end of the season, and if we want him back we have to give them a month's notice. 

[Chris Smith]

We've loaned out a young player on the fringes of the first team squad and yet because some are so determined to batter the manager at every opportunity it's treated as sone sort of catastrophic error of judgement.

We've been on a fairly decent run up to last week and Bannam hardly featured and we now have Delph available who is a similar but more experienced player.

[JUAN PABLO]

We've loaned out a young player on the fringes of the first team squad and yet because some are so determined to batter the manager at every opportunity it's treated as sone sort of catastrophic error of judgement.

We've been on a fairly decent run up to last week and Bannam hardly featured and we now have Delph available who is a similar but more experienced player.

spot on

[TheSandman]

Personally, I think he should have featured more in the last few weeks but this is a good chance for him to gain experience.

He's a good player, potentially a very, very good one but I struggle to see him fitting into the same team as Delph so I do think that he will move on to another Prem club soon for more first team opportunities.

[Blackcountry Villa]

We've been on a fairly decent run up to last week

Beat Man City with our only shot, beat Wigan away who lose to almost everyone and beat Blackburn who are shocking away and drew with Fulham and Blackpool. Hardly awe-inspiring stuff.

And a lot of fans are pissed off at the decision because Bannan is a much better option from the bench than Petrov or Pires.

[Cuz]

Ridiculous!!! says alot to me about whats happening at our club, currently better than Petrov, Bradley and Delph so send him and do horrible Leeds a favour well done FFS!!!!

[Cuz]

Ridiculous!!! says alot to me about whats happening at our club, currently better than Petrov, Bradley and Delph so send him and do horrible Leeds a favour well done FFS!!!!
Oh and Pires

[dave.woodhall]

We've been on a fairly decent run up to last week

Beat Man City with our only shot, beat Wigan away who lose to almost everyone and beat Blackburn who are shocking away and drew with Fulham and Blackpool. Hardly awe-inspiring stuff.

And a lot of fans are pissed off at the decision because Bannan is a much better option from the bench than Petrov or Pires.

Beating a team at the top of the table doesn't count because we didn't play well enough. Beating teams at the bottom don't count just because. And so on and so on.

[brian green]

The big gainer is mardy arse Petrov who will get better opportunities to show off his sideways passing technique.

[JUAN PABLO]

We've been on a fairly decent run up to last week

Beat Man City with our only shot, beat Wigan away who lose to almost everyone and beat Blackburn who are shocking away and drew with Fulham and Blackpool. Hardly awe-inspiring stuff.

And a lot of fans are pissed off at the decision because Bannan is a much better option from the bench than Petrov or Pires.

the same Wigan that drew at Liverpool and should have got something away to Manshiity.    We were 4th in the recent form table and should have scored at least 6 on Saturday , If the players had put their proper boots on. Was it one defeat in 9 . It was a good run.

[Chris Smith]

We've been on a fairly decent run up to last week

Beat Man City with our only shot, beat Wigan away who lose to almost everyone and beat Blackburn who are shocking away and drew with Fulham and Blackpool. Hardly awe-inspiring stuff.

Who said it was awe inspiring? Why just invent arguments? I said "fairly decent"' which is what it was and Banann didn't feature much. Now we have Delph, Makoun and NRC for 2 places with Pires, Bradley and Petrov as backup.

He's a good prospect who might, one day, be a very good player but as he showed at Man City he still has a lot to learn. Getting a few games for Leeds will benefit him and be should be better for his long term development than, at best, sitting on our bench.