Correspondence between Leeds fans and Bates

Exodus Geohaghon · Sep 12, 2012

From today:

I sent Ken Bates this fax today:

Dear Mr. Bates,
Thank you for taking the time to read this fax.
I am writing to you on a personal basis and do not represent anyone, or any organisation. I do,however, know many Leeds fans who are distraught at the current lack of funds in the club, and the possibility that we will end this season in a worse position than we began it.
I believe that it was your wish to preside over a Leeds United team that was able, once again, to play Premiership football, and would hope that you still want this, regardless of current events.
Could I urge you, from the heart, to help any potential investors in the club resolve any difficulties they may have with the ongoing negotiations?
I have no desire to attack you. I believe that what is best for Leeds United may also be most beneficial to you.

Yours Sincerely

Etc

1. HE CALLED ME BACK AFTER RECEIVING THIS FAX
2. When he was free (he was on another call) the first question he asked was âWhat have you done to support the club?â then went through my fax in detail, asking why Leeds fans were âdistraughtâ, and how many Iâd spoken to and how I had spoken to them. I said I had talked to 50 people in the pub.

On to the conversation. Like LPP, once you speak to him it is impossible to get a word in edgeways.
But he did say that Leeds fans
HAD NO RIGHT TO EXPECT PREMIERSHIP FOOTBALL.
He said there had been two bidders, both of whom he had no time for.
The arabs were on a road to no-where. This is my interpretation, canât officially quote him on this.
He is planning on staying as Owner of Leeds.
He wanted me to go on LUST forums and spread the word of supporters, like me, combat the BATES OUT and LUST campaigns, which he sees as being a MINORITY of fans.
It was all very depressing (though Susannah seemed nice), and I am sure to get in trouble even for this.
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From before:

So, after acquiring the fax number of our friend Ken, I sent Ken a fax at 14:02 this afternoon in the form of a letter trying to reason with him and ask why we found ourself in the current situation. Ken doesn't do emails, hence the fax. At 15:19 pm my phone vibrated and I looked and saw the number was similiar to the fax number I had sent to Monaco an hour earlier. I answered and cheekily said, Good Afternoon Kenneth before he had chance to say who it was.

Ken's response was to ask me to go out of the office as he could hear people talking in the background and he wanted us to have an honest chat so I left work and went and sat in my car, as I was doing so Ken was ordering his missus around, not in a violent way mind, telling her to move some bags. He then told me he had rang me as he found my letter reasonable and not some of the "****ing ****" others have sent him and started advising me about the confidentiality agreement that's in place and why he nor the club could say too much but that it was obvious from that "****ing LUST statement" that the lawyer for the buyers wasn't so good at being confidential. I told him that this was probably because these guys weren't hiding away in Monaco (which Ken tells me has been lovely today cos its a bit cooler) and had people in their face all the time. (I am not aware who LUST source is btw, it was ken that mentioned the buyers lawyer)

At this point KB started to tell me about the negotiations and how people assumed it was a full takeover when it wasn't. (Although i think i did hear him say initially but he didnt expand on that) He advised me that the company involved lost a lot of money, a hell of a lot , in 2010 and how LUFC had made more money than them last year when they had made something like Â£250,000. I'm sure he then said he was yet to see proof of funds but he went a bit garbled at this point, and when I said his own club statement said that "funds we're not going to be an issue" he said well yes, quite. Kenneth then started reading me the statement LUST put out the other day and how that twat Gary Cooper (BIG to you and me) who was "just an IT officer for Hull city council" was looking for headlines and hadn't got any facts right at all although he contradicted himself by repeating that there was a "sneak" who was obviously leaking info to LUST.

At this point, I asked Ken what his plans were and he said he was not prepared to discuss that with me but that I should be happy that the team have won 4 out of 5 games and that is going along swimmingly. I stopped him and referred him back to his own programme notes for the Wolves game which stated that "Pub rumours" are to blame and he then started saying that ten years ago you could go to the pub and have a conversation with your mates, the ones that had genuine info would be listened too and the others shot down but these days with "Twitter, Facebook, forums and google" people who knew "**** all" were allowed a voice and given credit when they shouldn't be. I told him that rumour was all people had hence why there is a near 5000 page thread on "one site" discussing the matter and that twitter was constantly awash and at that point he started slagging off the gourmet hotdog guy but that he "has his card marked"!!

I again asked what his plans for the club were and he said he wouldn't discuss that with me and then started telling me a story about something to do with Blackburn Rovers from years ago. Suddenly then he came out with a comment that we should be very proud to have a talent like Sam Byram coming through and I stopped him and said "Whilst your still here, if you get a phone call from Norwich about him please tell them to **** off and put the phone down" to which he told me he loved football humour and that, and this is revealing, that he had read on twitter that morning that people wanted Norwich at home so we could play Leeds reserve team and laughed at himself saying that before saying how he loved that type of humour from fans.

So I asked what his username was on Twitter and he told me that he didn't want to talk about that. He then started to tell me he had to go as his other phone was ringing, had been talking for 15 plus minutes, so I said quickly tell me what your going to do about letting someone else have a go and he said "I will speak to you later" then said bye and put the phone down!

So nothing groundbreaking, but he rang me. He didnt tell me anything we didnt really know and wouldnt tell me what his plans were. I wish i could have got more but as he told me he has "been in football for 60 years and nothing suprises him anymore"
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LeedsinYork · Sep 12, 2012

More made up ****e. I use waccoe and its full of crap and i dont believe one word of it.

The-Don · Sep 12, 2012

Who's supposed to have spoken to bates?

Follow the White · Sep 12, 2012

I dont understand that he's saying that there were two bidder's who he does not have time for and yet there has been no statement announcing that any investment / takeover is now dead ? He's weaving a web of deciet that is finally going to catch up him, especially with the way Colin is being fed the same crap......

Eireleeds1 · Sep 12, 2012

If you want to believe waccoe, one of the two lust guys who post there regularly, tonight confirmed there was a major positive breakthrough today. So pick the bones out of that one lads

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