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Tresor Kandol has been fined by Leeds for his embarrassing, injury-time dismissal at Norwich last week. He has also had a meeting with Leeds United manager Simon Grayson.

Kandol, received a four-match ban for  raising his hands to Norwich City’s Darel Russell after coming on in injury-time in an attempt by Grayson to rescue a point from the game with the League One leaders after they had stolen a late lead through Chris Martin’s 89th minute goal.

Grayson is reported as saying, “He has been fined by the club as well as receiving a four match ban from the FA. I am hugely disappointed. Tres has let down himself and the club.”

Grayson’s disappointment with Tresor Kandol made clear by his taking the unusual step of publicly criticising an individual player.

It was Kandol’s tenth appearance on the League this season; remarkably he hadn’t received a single card of any colour in any of the previous league or cup games.

Leeds United have confirmed that a fee has been agreed with Aston Villa for 19 year-old midfielder Fabian Delph.

The club took the unusual step of saying on the website that they wanted to record their “appreciation for the honourable manner in which Aston Villa have conducted their interest in the player”.

Leeds United then confirmed that they have turned down renewed bids from other Premiership clubs, desperate to hijack the deal, in the short space of time since they agreed the terms with Villa.

In a pointed remark, the official statement on the Leeds United website, continued, “Having given Villa our commitment to transfer the player (subject to medical), we had no intention of going back on that”.

That bears all the hallmarks of Ken Bates thumbing his nose at Manchester City and Everton who have been stalling over a price for Delph for weeks. Now Ken Bates is saying, “offer what you like, you can’t have him”, and no one enjoys making the most of having the upper hand more than Ken Bates!

SQUAD NUMBERS 2009/2010

1 Casper ANKERGREN

2 Jason CROWE

3 Patrick KISNORBO

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5 Rui MARQUES

6 Richard NAYLOR

7 David PRUTTON

8 Neil KILKENNY

9 Jermaine BECKFORD

10 Luciano BECCHIO

11 Alan SHEEHAN

12 Shane HIGGS

13 Mike GRELLA

14 Jonathan HOWSON

15 Fabian DELPH

16 Bradley JOHNSON

17 Lubomir MICHALIK

18 Andy ROBINSON

19 Ben PARKER

20 Tresor KANDOL

21 Enoch SHOWUNMI

22 Andrew HUGHES

23 Robert SNODGRASS

24 Paul HUNTINGTON

25 Alan MARTIN

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29 Tom ELLIOTT

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31 Jonathan WEBB

32 Aidy WHITE

33 Josh FALKINGHAM