San Francisco 49ers on ownership stake in Leeds: “The sky is the limit” By Joe Prince-WrightOct 3, 2020, 8:51 AM EDT The 49ers own a 10 percent stake in Leeds, which they purchased in 2018, and they’ve made no secret of their plans to try and increase their stake in the newly-promoted Premier League club. Ahead of Leeds’ clash with Manchester City on Saturday (watch live, 12:30pm ET on NBC and live online via NBCSports.com) San Francisco 49ers EVP of football operations and Leeds United director Paraag Marathe spoke with Roger Bennett from Men In Blazers. “The sky is the limit for Leeds. This is not a club where we made it to the Premier League and we are barely trying to hang on by the laces of our shoes. No. This is a club which can become a big contender year in, year out in the Premier League,” Marathe said. That is quite the statement. How did Marathe get involved with Leeds owner Andrea Radrizzani? “It was actually three ownership groups prior to Andrea that I reached out, I want to say about 2012, about sharing business practices and doing the sort of partnership. We even announced it,” Marathe said. “We didn’t invest any money but we even announced it publicly and had a press release. Nothing materialized and fortunately because that would not have ended up well. I met Andrea in 2015 through a personal friend and he had a day here and we spent the day at Levi’s Stadium with dinner and drinks. Fast-forward six months and he purchased Leeds. “I said, ‘hang on a minute, this is a club I’ve been looking at’ and I saw so many similarities wit the 49ers a decade ago or 15 years ago. We have a global fanbase and are one of the top brands in the world in any sport but the 49ers were falling on hard times. We rebuilt the franchise and that’s sort of where I saw Leeds the growth opportunity and direction they were heading in.” Marathe has big plans for Leeds United and they are a sleeping giant, just like the 49ers
Just watching Fabian Delph for Everton and you forget how many positions he can play. He looks fit and well and having a good game
Thanks Doc and Ell for posting the text to the link, I just kept getting connection closed so much appreciated
Confirmed. Liam cooper will not take part at home to Man City later today after failing a fitness test this morning. Llorente starts in his place. Full team below.
Something seems to be missing Ell Although I have just seen that you are posting the same on the Match day thread which is probably more appropriate
For those like Ristac and Eire who are waiting 10 games to see how the new boys fit in Koch was brilliant again, who’s Ben White.... Rodrigo MoM and game changer, what a player and we aint even seen him in his CF position yet I will hazard a guess that Llorente will be awesome when he gets a chance
Sorry but Roberts missing in action again and within 3 minutes of Rodrigo replacing him he had scored and changed the game. Poveda went at them and kept going at them and for me should start instead of Costa next game
We will have had 6 weeks in the Prem by the time we play Wolves and we have been as happy as hell ever since we got here, its like we belong. Lets just savour it because we all know we will have a bad day soon and we dont ever want to feel how Fulham, WBA are feeling right now and if they get beat again wow, it will be 6 weeks of pain for them before they play again. Imagine the difference how we feel. Man City is going to take plenty of points off teams at the bottom which is going to help us. The Blunts are also going to beat teams at the bottom and I dont see them in trouble. 1 close loss which should have been a draw to the World Champions, 2 wins and a draw to probably the best or second best team in the league and 7 points on the board and still have a positive goal difference. We have the same points as Chelsea who spent £250m beefing their team up and as it stands right now, because theres a line under our name on the table which means European place. Mental I know, so lets hope our International players come back uninjured
I mentioned this yesterday because it was from a reputable journo, now seems a deffo target and possibility. A 23yo winger from Rennes, but already showing as a Leeds Utd player on Wiki?
Unless anything happens today/Tomoz it looks like Benrhama or Cantwell to replace Cuisance, lets hope Brentford are realistic as we walked away once at the start....... feel a bit sorry for Poveda now we brought in Raphinah
Poveda is going to get game time for sure maybe in that No10 slot, in my opinion he could do better there than Roberts
