00:00The sale of Archie Gray, one of Leeds' mercurial young talents. We did a lot of videos on him
00:09towards the end of last season about, you know, where his future may lie, but just how
00:13good he was as a player as well, given his very young age. And just in the last week,
00:18he has completed a permanent move to Tottenham Hotspur. We'll mention, of course, that Joe
00:22Rodon has gone the other way in a separate segment. But for now, though, it is disappointing
00:28for Leeds. But if you ignore the disappointment of losing a player of his ilk in a PSR world
00:35that we live in in football these days, is it actually good business?
00:38Well, I think it probably is from a PSR perspective, yeah. And that's the crux of the matter here.
00:43I don't think Archie was itching to go. Certainly fans were itching for him to go. He's top
00:47of the list, very much top of the list of players that fans wanted to stay, I feel.
00:51I mean, that's even allowing for having the Championships Player of the Year in your ranks
00:55in Crisenzio Somerville, whose obviously goals and assists and pace are extremely valuable
01:00to Leeds. But Archie, obviously a homegrown player with all the family links and the Grey
01:05Dynasty and everything, and a Leeds fan. I mean, you could tell even in one season what
01:09it meant to him. And he was the sort of player, basically, that fans and the club as well
01:15wanted to build a future around. He's the sort of player you could have imagined becoming
01:18future Leeds captain very, very quickly. It's amazing to think that last season, when the
01:23season started, he hadn't even played one minute, and all of a sudden he was there for
01:26the first game of the season. And then I think it's 3,873 minutes of football he ended up
01:31playing in the Championship, which is fifth out of all Leeds players. So it was a breakthrough
01:37season, obviously, but it wasn't just a case of bedding your way in. He was very, very
01:40much a first-team player and a very, very important first-team player at that. But the
01:46bottom line is, we're all there at the Championship playoff final at Wembley. And obviously, Archie
01:52was one of the players left in tears by that. And the fact of the matter is, you are sat
01:56there even in the stands and you're looking at the players on the pitch and you're thinking,
02:00you know yourself that someone's going to have to go, because that's the world that
02:03we're in and stuff. And if you miss out on promotion, obviously, the massive finances
02:07involved and profit and sustainability rules to deal with, basically, Leeds had to sell
02:12at least one big player and that was it. And it was looking like it would be Somerville
02:16and we'll come on to that and we'll cross everything that he stays, but it might still
02:21be that he goes. It's just hard to call really that one. I think it depends on what interest
02:24there is. But obviously, Brighton interest was there in Somerville. It soon became apparent
02:29that obviously, when they got the signing from Newcastle, who'd been on loan at Feyenoord
02:33and said that they wouldn't be in for him. And really, to be quite honest, the Archie
02:37one just made sense. But it made sense in a sort of heartbreaking way. So I think you've
02:42summarised it pretty well there, really. I think in terms of the fee for him, I think
02:46£40 million is pretty good, really, to be honest. You're buying a very good player,
02:53obviously, Tottenham and Archie Gray, but you're also buying potential and it's difficult
02:55to weigh up potential.
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