But if you take the two biggest sales of players from the Championship to the EPL (in the last few months), then both of them were previously players for Stirling Albion FC, the club Billy Bremner supported and was the ball boy for. Bremner was was born in Raploch (a few miles from me) in Stirling and had trials with Stirling Albion, his testimonial was Leeds v Stirling Albion. Anyway, the players are; Jay Rodriguez (Burnley to Southampton) for £6m Robert Snodgrass (Leeds to Norwich) for probably around £3m I've said this before and I''ll say it again, Leeds fans when you visit Scotland, come to Stirling and watch the mighty Binos in the 3rd Division, they are the team of our most famous player.
Sadly no, it's been fecking dire to say the least, still you never know what's around the corner. We are finally giving youth their chance next season, quite a few of the squad are from the under 19 team, and a few of them play for Scotland U19 team. Things can only go up......
But I at least own a part of Stirling Albion, along with many others. I can at least bring about change, although I'm not too sure what or how that is actually achieved.
That's the ultimate aim of the supporters' trust movement. Obviously they'd have to do it in steps. 1. Build good rapport with new owners. 2. Get a voice on the board. 3. Buy a minority shareholding. 4. Extent to a majority shareholding, possibly with help from the FA/PL who may change rules in STs' favour. If people don't use their voice by joining, they're just muffled mumblers from the sidelines. In unity is strength.
You said it, the new owners, that is 100% different. The current Operations Director of Stirling Albion is a bloke who part time referee's games and is an Albion supporter, he's taken on a huge role and does it without pay, nowhere near the same as LUST want for Leeds United. If you actually knew what it takes to run a football club, you wouldn't touch it with a barge poll. Jerel, I'm not having a go at you, I understand where you're coming from, but I think the hope has outplayed the reality and that's a dangerous thing in business.
Supporter-run clubs do better on average than externally-owned ones. Get around eight more points a season. And the new owner is a Leeds fan just like Stirling's is an Albion fan. So I'm not sure how that invalidates LUST being able to A) achieve a takeover at some point in the future and B) being able to do a good job of that. Maybe you could explain further?
What new owner? What has this person spent money on? Where does it change the set up at Leeds United? What business plans will be changed and when? etc etc etc.....
Abdulrahman Al Khalifa and his Saudi backing team. And they've apparently indicated a fan-friendly vision which will centre on strict adherence to the FFP rules and a focus on the playing side rather than construction. So that's obviously a major shift already from Bates. I don't understand the relevance of the other questions to this discussion, which is about the viability of a future LUST majority shareholding.
Buying Leeds when? The best opportunity was in Lge One when we crashed and nearly burned with minus fifteen and all that. LUST will never be able to raise the mega millions needed to buy Leeds, even more so if we are in the Prem. At this level it takes a wad to run a successful club. What would happen if Leeds were bought by fans, got relegated to Lge Two over a bad run due to lack of funds and not having a decent manager because of constant fan involvement? Bet the fans mobey would dry up and the club would be sold to Sheikin Stevens.
