10 Leeds signings who were meant to be the business… but weren’t

Leeds United have welcomed more false dawns than most clubs – as highlighted by their misfortune in the transfer market when it comes to exciting signings that ultimately proved disappointing.

Note: Given Leeds’ history with loan players, we’ve only included permanent signings, otherwise we’d be here all f*cking day – while Roque Junior definitely would’ve featured.

We’ve gone from the inception of the Premier League in 1992 because, as you all know, that’s when football started.

A serial trophy winner with Parma in the early 1990s and best remembered in England for his brilliant winner for Sweden that knocked the Three Lions out of Euro 92, Brolin arrived at Leeds in 1995 for £4.5million to plenty of fanfare.

Brolin claims he was told by Howard Wilkinson he would be deployed as a playmaker in the middle of the park at Leeds, only to be used as a centre-forward and out wide.

“It may not sound that bad, to be a wide midfielder at Leeds, but the defensive responsibilities I had … it was not like when I had Roland Nilsson behind me in the Swedish national team,” Brolin told Swedish magazine Offside in 2012.

“At Leeds I was going to run up and down the right like an idiot. That wasn’t me. So I decided … I was going to be piss-poor against Liverpool.”

That Brolin is best remembered in Leeds for having a bandage on his head kicked off while playing against the Whites for Crystal Palace probably sums up how that went.

On This Day 1998 #lufc

The day Tomas Brolin’s bandage disintegrated.

Goals from JFH and Rod Wallace and a 2-0 victory at Selhurst Park. #lufc100 pic.twitter.com/k6OXHQKA9N

— LEEDS UNITED MEMORIES (@LUFCHistory) January 31, 2020

Swapping fan favourite Luciano Becchio for the ageing Norwich City striker Morison was