Darren O'Dea ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Coming from Celtic as United's main summer signing, with Champions League experience behind him, Darren O'Dea was lumbered with the impossible task of bringing stability to an increasingly chaotic club.
Coming from Celtic as United's main summer signing, with Champions League experience behind him, Darren O'Dea was lumbered with the impossible task of bringing stability to an increasingly chaotic club.
Darren Kenton's entire career reads like a Leeds United A-Z, but despite playing with everyone from Paul Heckingbottom to Radostin Kishishev he still thought Elland Road might be the place for some 'stability'.
In 1997, a 'computer survey' predicted Huckerby would 'one day break the world transfer record at more than double Alan Shearer's £15m'. No wonder Peter Ridsdale was interested.
All told, since taking charge at Bramall Lane, Neil Warnock had signed 45 strikers. In the end the partnership he was looking for was Neil Shipperley and Danny Webber.
Pugh slotted in for a season of post-relegation delirium when fans were trying to reassure each other that this could be a better, harder working team than in the erratic days of the Champions League.
The long story of Danny Mills at Leeds says more about the Peter Ridsdale era than any goldfish could.
In New Zealand, Danny Hay was seen as 'the complete modern player'. He didn't become that at Leeds United, but he learned well from seeing what it looked like.
Although the later arrivals of Duberry, Mills et al made Danny Granville seem like exactly the sort of player David O'Leary was shopping for, George Graham had brought him in. And before long every player Graham had signed was sold.
Kevin Blackwell was not the right manager for nurturing the kind of young talent Leeds had, back in the early days of the David O'Leary era, made a habit of bringing in, of whom Dan Harding was the last hurrah.
Not necessarily the best of the rest but, you know, the rest.