Eunan O’Kane has signed for Luton Town on loan till January.
https://www.lutontown.co.uk/news/2018/august/eunan-okane-signs/I was led to believe O’Kane didn’t want to drop down to League 1 and that’s why he didn’t sign for us.
O’Kane does state that this move happened pretty quickly, which leads me to believe that no Championship clubs wanted him. Maybe he would have joined us, but the signing of Josh Cullen meant we couldn’t i.e wage budget, and other positions needing to be filled.
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Maybe it was never a choice of us or Luton in the first place. Who knows?
Thanks Roland you c##t
although if it was a choice of cullen or him, i think cullen is decent a lot of west ham fans are quite pissed off about him being loaned out.
Or did he want to stay in The Championship and come this morning that wasnt an option so had to go to League 1 and we were no longer interested as we had Cullen.
Its only Steer who has the question mark but he was signed to be a better option than Maynard-Brewer and challenge Phillips if he could, which at the moment seems as though he's not challenging him
He is the only Leeds regular from the last couple of seasons that from the very beginning of pre-season was not in Bielsa’s plans whatsoever, to the point he didn’t get a squad number.
He apparently turned down Championship clubs on loan as he thought he would get a better club in the Championship, but that never happened.
He then said, or his agent put the press, that he wouldn’t consider a League One loan this window. We in turn pursued to signed Cullen which you would assume put us out of the running. But I don’t believe that to be the full story, I think if we could’ve had the budget for him, we would’ve done all we could to get him.
It gets to the last day of the window and he hasn’t got a Championship club and the favoured League One club that Leeds preferred has now signed another midfielder, so Luton come in for him at the last minute and sign him because ultimately he has no other options.
Leeds fans don’t like him for one reason or another, it is not all down to his ability because he does have good ability, but some of it comes down to his attitude and desire I think. Stories go that he not only wasn’t wanted by Bielsa at Leeds, but he didn’t want to do the 12 hour days of 3 sessions a day in pre-season that they were doing.
I think he would’ve made us better for sure, his quality would’ve stood out in this division. However, we might have also dodged a bullet too, by speaking to my Dad, who is a Leeds fan, and reading a few things about him, something just isn’t quite right.