Why Leeds signed Beckford

Or at least part of the reason.

DJ Campbell had just signed for Birmingham, having played well for Brentford and scored against Sunderland to knock them out of the FA Cup. The fee was undisclosed, but around £75000. I think there was a fear that they could lose out on a non-league gem, and the fee was hardly a risk.

I last saw Tresor Kandol play, when he was at Purfleet (Ryman Prem). They were playing against Wealdstone, who Jermaine used to play for, in the FA Trophy. Kandol looked a useful player then, but this was against a team 5 divisons lower than Leeds.

I understand that when Kandol was at Luton, he had a number of "off the field personal problems" which caused his contract not to be renewed or teminated.

Posted By: KentonCanary on May 9th 2007 at 19:20:02

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I think we could do worse than have a look at Jermaine Beckford (NCFC) - Duck, May 9, 18:02:36
- Scunthorpe are interested in him - (NCFC) - KentonCanary, May 10, 09:00:44
  - Haha! swear filter has *ed out 'un' in Scunthorpe (n/m) (NCFC) - Brom, May 10, 09:10:04
    - Bah! Five seconds! (n/m) (NCFC) - meeky, May 10, 09:10:54
  - Is "bad request" some kind of crap subliminal message? (n/m) (NCFC) - conker, May 10, 09:07:46
    - You must have the swear filter on ..... (NCFC) - meeky, May 10, 09:10:09
- presumably you are assuming Earnie will be on his way? (n/m) (NCFC) - Commisar_Canary, May 10, 01:04:42
- Agreed - (NCFC) - KentonCanary, May 9, 18:50:03
- Could be a reason why Leeds signed him last season, along with Kandol, Heath etc (NCFC) - pants, May 9, 18:07:16
  - Why Leeds signed Beckford (NCFC) - KentonCanary, May 9, 19:20:02
  - Kandol (NCFC) - Duck, May 9, 18:10:27
    - re Kandol - well said Duck (n/m) (NCFC) - Commisar_Canary, May 10, 01:06:58
- Is he son of Darren? (n/m) (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, May 9, 18:03:15
  - I don't think so but there's a definite resemblence (NCFC) - pants, May 9, 18:08:19

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