It feels like the next couple of weeks will be make or break for our dear club.
In a week or two we could have new owners who immediately give Colin the resources to buy in 4 or 5 quality players and sign Snoddy and McCormack up for new contracts. We mount a successful challenge for promotion and use TV money and investment from our owners to construct a squad capable of surviving the Premiership. Over the next few years, helped by regular capacity crowds of 45,000 (following the expansion of Elland Road, paid for by our owners), we are able to afford decent Premiership players and have a thriving youth system. With our Premier League place secure, we flirt with Europe and have success in the FA Cup, winning the 2015 final 2-1 against Man Utd.
Alternatively, the bidding consortium could get fed up with Papa Smurf playing silly buggers and pull out, leaving no money and the inevitable sale of Snodgrass, McCormack, White and Lees. An increasingly doddery Ken Bates sacks Neil Warnock mid-season after a run of 7 games without a win. He is replaced as manager by Gary Megson, with Bates promising a "shiny sixpence" to spend on new players. His team of youth players and free transfers are relegated to Division 1. The following season Ken Bates is swindled into spending all of the team's transfer budget on a dodgy timeshare scheme in Monaco. Leeds fall into administration and are relegated to Division 2. By 2015 they are fighting for promotion from the Blue Square Premiership, in front of crowds as high as 3,000 people. Sadly, Billy Paynter still can't get a goal.
I am praying for the first scenario!!!
In a week or two we could have new owners who immediately give Colin the resources to buy in 4 or 5 quality players and sign Snoddy and McCormack up for new contracts. We mount a successful challenge for promotion and use TV money and investment from our owners to construct a squad capable of surviving the Premiership. Over the next few years, helped by regular capacity crowds of 45,000 (following the expansion of Elland Road, paid for by our owners), we are able to afford decent Premiership players and have a thriving youth system. With our Premier League place secure, we flirt with Europe and have success in the FA Cup, winning the 2015 final 2-1 against Man Utd.
Alternatively, the bidding consortium could get fed up with Papa Smurf playing silly buggers and pull out, leaving no money and the inevitable sale of Snodgrass, McCormack, White and Lees. An increasingly doddery Ken Bates sacks Neil Warnock mid-season after a run of 7 games without a win. He is replaced as manager by Gary Megson, with Bates promising a "shiny sixpence" to spend on new players. His team of youth players and free transfers are relegated to Division 1. The following season Ken Bates is swindled into spending all of the team's transfer budget on a dodgy timeshare scheme in Monaco. Leeds fall into administration and are relegated to Division 2. By 2015 they are fighting for promotion from the Blue Square Premiership, in front of crowds as high as 3,000 people. Sadly, Billy Paynter still can't get a goal.
I am praying for the first scenario!!!
