CRITICS: Patrick Bamford

PATRICK Bamford is not a popular figure with Leeds supporters, despite that glorious season in the Premier League and a perfectly respectable return of 60 goals in 190 games.
Like Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Liam Cooper, the striker was a trusted lieutenant of Marcelo Bielsa and a central figure in the team that ended the Whites’ 16- year exile from the top flight. He even won a cap for England.
But while Dallas and Cooper departed as heroes, and Ayling was gratefully serenaded on his return to Elland Road with Middlesbrough, Bamford’s eff...