The Square Ball: Leeds United Podcast

The 2019-2020 season is officially underway and the first signings have arrived. We've got a pair of Jacks - who look very familiar - as we await the arrival of more, including a large Costa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Still no signings at Elland Road, but we've got a social media follow and that's what we're clinging onto for now, especially as it looks like Jack Clarke is off. There's more Irish trouble for Pat, but Gjanni is now officially a peacemaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the absence of pretty much anything football-related to talk about, we're left with idle transfer gossip, shambolic accents and red hot supermarket chat. The centenary badge has gone up on the shop and we're thinking of inventive ways to take it down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The close season continues but Leeds United does not sleep. We're being linked with all the wingers and the thought of so many wide men provokes some interesting tactical thoughts. Speaking of wide men, we mull over the prospect of seeing Steve Evans in Barry Douglas's wardrobe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rumours of Qatari investment bring uncertainty, but we know that Bielsa is staying for another season and another year of beauty awaits - and lots of running. Meanwhile, the EFL wants to suck the remaining joy of football with its new social media rules. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're joined by the YEP's Chief Football Writer, Phil Hay, to discuss everything Leeds United: Qatar, transfers in and out, offering Bielsa a lift, those epic press conferences, and loads more. Who would Phil sell? Does he ever sleep? How did he take the playoff defeat personally? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The season's over but we're not done! Not with fingers to point and shade to throw in the general direction of Frank Lampard and his coterie. We ask: where did it all go wrong? What do we do now? Do we dismantle or build upon what we've got? And there's the biggest question of all: how much do we want Villa to win the playoff final so we can go to town on the Derby fans? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You know what happened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the playoff semi-final and the penalty that never was. And the VAR that doesn't exist. And the red cards that never were. And entirely routine things Frank Lampard claims he has never seen before in his extensive football career. Besides, we're only four-eighths of the way through the tie and a raucous Elland Road awaits Frank and whatever is left of our injury plagued squad, as Wembley beckons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The season came to a withering climax at Ipswich, but it's onwards to the playoffs and another meeting with Frank Lampard's Derby County. Hopes are (mostly) high on the podcast; everything will be fine as long as the FA's disciplinary panel leaves us alone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.