He would if he was agitating for a move. I asked Elland how many times an estate agent would take instructions from a vendor if they keep pulling it off the market. Last time Ross was moving because leeds60 was stalking his mrs, 60 moved so it was taken back off the market. Now it appears 60 is back peering through windows, sniffing the washing line and rifling the bins. Perhaps Ross found out?
Morning all. If West Ham want him, tell them it'll take £8m+. BMD probably wouldn't have time to get in a like for like successor. So our asking price shoud reflect this point
My bloody internet has gone down so can only post from phone at the minute. Match thread is pretty much ready to go and will be posted whenever this gets sorted
Hi all ... the sooner we are rid of GFH the better, more interested in driving up the selling price than helping McD ... really hope Sham come back with an improved bid, Ross is done scoring for the season so we need to get in a striker or two ... £4m is a super price for Ross, he will do a Danny Graham at Hammers ... this "news" about the Manc wanting to come in with an improved bid I don't get, his lot wanted to buy the club for JUST £7m, reports are that the SC consortium are paying £41m, so where has Farnface suddenly found the extra loot from? Best case for us is a billionaire appears and buys us out in one go, gives McD £150m and we buy a team, otherwise our struggles will just continue while we run down contracts of incapable players whilst trying to bring in quality bit by bit ... so, with no billionaire in sight, McD is still the manager for us to try and build something from nothing ... don't blame Tory Boy for the non existent queue of potential buyers, we need to figure out why rich people are rather buying clubs like Chelsea, Man City, Southampton, and so on ... how can a backwater club like Swansea be so far ahead of us? Yes, Bates was the problem, hugely so, and while we have nobody remotely interested in sticking £200m into Leeds lets be thankful that at least with Tory Boy we have someone trying to do good for the club, and hopefully he will find and convince a money man to eventually take over Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Billy its a bit of an over-simplification regarding why we are 2nd choice with potential buyers. The main problems are: We dont own the ground and we dont own the training facilities. £2m costs each year straight off the bottom line and 'dead money'. Whoever wants to buy us needs enough cash to buy the ground and TA. Thats before anything else is done, and on top of that Bates loaded the club with millions more debt in mortgages and forward sales of season tickets. Whoever buys us will make fook all until those debts are cleared, so needs enough cash to be able to pay those debts off too. £100m needed and not many people with that sort of cash, if the club is worth £40m now it would be worth £70m if the ground and TA were ours, and both can be picked up although TA price will have doubled from the £5m we could have paid when Bates decided not to. (Why not pay £5m for a £13m asset?) ER is still available at an agreed price which is worth it under the terms of the lease agreement. Swansea sold their old shytehole and got a new ground from the council, so in fact are subsidised which is why they were able to get promotion. Southampton owned their ground, just like Forest, Watford, Reading, Charlton, Norwich, Ipswich ........
Why was Ken Bates the only person prepared to put his money in last time round? Why did it take GFH almost a year to buy the club? Why is it taking them just as long to sell? There must be some very weird looking skeletons in your closet
Elland Back ‏@EllandBack119m @PhilHayYEP Phil,do you think Haigh and partners were naive having the exclusivity clause for the takeover running only to beginning of Jan Reply Delete Favorite More Expand please log in to view this image Phil Hay ‏@PhilHayYEP16m @EllandBack1 exclusivity was basically indefinite because everyone thought the Sport Capital buy-out was a done deal. Situation has changed.
Initially seemed strange to me that an incomplete deal could be sent to the FL for approval. On second thoughts, the paperwork sent to the FL is probably only information about the buyers for the "fit and proper ( ) test." Without their approval the deal cannot be done but the FL likely have no say over the deal itself. Sound right?
Leeds are about to have their first casualty of the January transfer window. Varney is going to Blackburn
please log in to view this image Steve C ‏@Yorkie601339m @PhilHayYEP @EllandBack1 changed as in 1 of Haighs backers dropping out? or GFH moving the goalposts?
If Ross were to be sold and Varney plus some cash (less than received for Ross) would make that happen - sounds like a deal to me!
Think Varney gives you more than Smith or Hunt ever could - maybe you are signing someone else this week after all? Connor Wickam has been recalled from his loan to Sheff Weds by Sunderland - maybe he's on his way to a Championship club on a perm?
