http://www.thesquareball.net/what-ken-said/2011/12/28/what-ken-said-28-12-11-ram-raided/ We put 17 MILLION into the club in our last season in the Third Division; we provide the investment that means there's still a ****ing football club to ****ing support. No doubt we put around 25 MILLION into LUFC's coffers last season. If Bates wasn't chucking it all into his cretinous building projects, radio station, court fees and lawyer mates, we wouldn't be having this discussion. The investors are already there. They're called the fans. Premiership football = Premiership prices, remember? That was some promise, wasn't it? We've made enough over the last three seasons to spend OVER 10 MILLION on transfers: why look for outside investors that aren't needed? And let's pretend that these "investors" do exist for a second. Do we **** scare them away by protesting. If "they" were rattled by what happened at the Boro game, "they" are A) stupid ('Bates out', not 'investors out'), B) weak (boo hoo, Bates desacrates our club and we protest) and C) supremely arrogant (they think they should be immune from criticism if things go tits up, do they?). And really, Bates? "They" trawl Facebook and Twitter to gauge whether Leeds fans are saintly enough to warrant the club getting some investment? Yeah right. Unless the "investors" Bates describes are completely made up. And we all know "they" are. Why? No-one wants to work for this piss-stinking old parasite who has one of the dodgiest records in English football and quite a reputation in world business for everything he touches turning to ****. HYPOCRITE. When an opportunity does turn up like Frank Lowy last year, he resorts to needless personal insults and ruins our chances of getting some more money in. HYPOCRITE. Why would anyone want to work for a man who called his last investor Matthew Harding an "evil man" and made jokes about his death in a helicopter crash? Double standards or what? HYPOCRITE. Those discussions he described never took place. He needs to get off his poorly-made high horse, stop passing the buck when he's the highest authority at the club and put United up for sale. He can take us no further. I have no time for people who slag off Leeds fans, and this leeching, failure-addicted, lying, hypocritical cancer ****wit is one of the main culprits. Get out of our club, you Chelsea bastard and die as soon as possible please.
He's a **** trying to justify is own actions, if investors were to come in would they really be bothered about the fans turning against them, surely the right investor would want the club to be successful on the pitch, therefore they would realise they would get the fans backing, Bates must be thinking of his own kind of investor.
The word that stands out is 'Investor', people who invest are only interested in seeing their investment pay dividends, by saying he is looking for investors he is saying he is not interested in putting his own money into the club, yet he takes a considerable amount out of the club. Realisticly anyone who takes over the club will do it for the love of the club(a fan) and not as a means to make a fast buck, there are probably a few people around to do that, but not while Bates is heading the show.
Totally agree with everything you say Leeds18but I will add its not the fans to blame one iota its the asking price plus nobody in thier right mind would trust him to go for their shopping its like getting sense out of Bluememe
Hull fan in peace - animosities to one side I have some good friends who are Leeds lads and whenever we get for a beer the conversation always turns to Bates - Leeds have one of the biggest followings with fans paying above average prices, they follow their team home and away in numbers and on Planet Bates it's all their fault...................!!!! To f**k up your club is one thing but to then blame to supporters is beyond any logic I can see. The sooner Bates is out of football for good the better. Sorry to stick my hooter in on your boards fellas but Bates does my head in so what it must be like for you guys.....
i'd prefer bates to die the way steve irwin did! Thanks to the warm climate Stingrays can be found in monaco! When he dies, i'm going to celebrate his death like i do at xmas and birthdays! Infact ill even buy the missus something to say "Happy Ken Bates"
**** peaceful protest, we need to storm the doors and drag him out and make him accountable. He's a horrible worm of a man who has absolutely no redeeming features. Where is this interview documented?
*hug* thank you for feeling our pain. He is a horrible little man who needs to be exposed and humiliated, and drummed out of football for good. Then he needs to lose all his money, be declared bankrupt, thrown in jail for being a crooked thieving old bastard and spend the rest of his days being bummed by a 6 ft 5 body builder called Steve covered head to toe in tattoos and piercings. Steve also has a massive 10 inch length that's thicker than my wrist.
It's on the Square Ball website (linked in OP), on the YEP website and on Sky Sports Online, I believe. There's also an audio file of it here: http://soundcloud.com/back2basics/kb-28-dec-interview
Can someone ask Bates, to name names of possible investors? From what I know, he hasn't discussed investment with anyone at Leeds for years, due to his own business style. What a complete bastard Bates is, surely his time on this planet is up.
Surely you don't want the old bastard to live that long and be in charge of your beloved club TC, i would have thought you'd be like the rest of us and hope for his demise as soon as possible.
