The "he is French, he is flash, he is shagging Leslie Ash" thing is pure TV Now garbage.
If there'd been so much as a grain to it I think Chapman might've been the one moving on ...which he did soon afterwards anyway. (Chapman had so many clubs in his time that when asked in an interview if he'd any superstitious pre-match rituals he responded he checked which side he was playing for
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Cantona had made himself difficult to work with as he was, so he claims (-which itself may be highly revisionist), disillusioned with the style of football Leeds United were playing -which he believed was long ball.
He was also annoyed that Leeds had decided to invest much of the title win windfall in building their state of the art Thorpe Arch facility (which ultimately reared us Kewell, Harte, Woodgate, Robinson, Milner, Smith, Maybury, McPhail...) rather than going out and spending it on players.
Frustrating as it was for me as a Leeds fan at the time to see the likes of Carlton Palmer and Nigel Worthington arrive when we were expecting a bolder statement of intent - I have to concede it was probably the last act of fiscal fortitude we'd see in a Leeds boardroom til Krasner arrived to wipe up Ridsdales mess.
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