I'm a Chelsea fan from 1975, I'm a Chelsea fan that supported the team when were proper ****ing ****, not 3 games lost, of god season over bollocks, I'm talking whole season ****, back to playing away to west brom. I'm a Chelsea fan, who wa there when marler ****ing estates was trying to build ****ing houses on our ground. Bates whatever his faults saved us from ****ing oblivion. We were 80 million in the whole supposedly when Roman turned up, but he funded us to the point that we were a team worth buying. Risdal left you on the brink of oblivion pure and simple, bates may not be ****ing santa, but ffs you could have been in a lot deeper hole, and he was on the only one willing to take you on, I kno football fans are supposed to have short ****ing memories but this is ****ing ridiculous. If he's so **** ask risdale back and "Live The dream"
And look exactly what he's doing to us. Spending 7 million on 1 stand and putting **** all into the team. At least you had players like Zola, Vialli, Gullitt. Regardless of what you think of bates, the bloke failed! he put us into receivership, failed with the paper work and were deducted 25 points! And then he buys the club back claiming were a profitable organisation!
I don't believe for a minute you've got one of the highest wage bills in the league. Forest, Leicester, Birmingham, West Ham, Boro, Hull, Cardiff, Reading, Burnley, Pompey and Bristol will all be higher, probably a couple of others. Hell, we pay £6.2m a year to five players that don't even play for us, though thankfully that won't last much longer(we hope).
you knob, so you were £80 million in debt thanks to Ken Bates, Roman turned up just in the nick of time then... So piss bored of reading this garbage... Bates TOOK US INTO RECEIVERSHIP we went BUST under Bates. We had a QUEUE of buyers waiting to take over, ones that the HMRC wanted to see run the club but instead we get an 'UNKOWN' offshore buyer (we all know Bates was behind them)... Bates needs to **** off and let someone run the club who cares about Premiership football.
And the 'the only alternative to Bates is Ridsdale' red herring rears its ugly head again. OLM, I'd have thought we might pay more than Bristol and perhaps be on a par with Pompey and Burnley (perhaps), but otherwise I think you're spot on. This is a lie from Bates, pure and simple. Propaganda. He thinks nothing of the fans and it's a disgrace.
You might be right, I'm only guessing, though I think you might be surprised about Pompey. I'm not sure how they're getting away with it, but I understand despite their disastrous financial situation only about a year ago, they've still got a dozen players on over £20k a week, many of them signed since admin.
Only hearsay but I read somewhere Howson and Snodgrass are the three highest earners on 12k a week. .............................................................. Where have you read this hearsay? How much do you think O'Brien was on at boton? 30K 40K 50K Per week? You think he is going to come here for only 12 per week? Try more like 16 or 17k+ per week! Brown was on £25,000 a week at pompy you think he is going to come here on 10k wages? Try More like 15k or 13k+ per week!
These posts are absolutely pathetic bluememe. In fact, I wouldn't use the plural here because you've been spouting the exact same garbage for months now. You've been using half the stats to try and force a bullsh*t point on everyone without looking at the facts behind them. You are showering praise on managers who contributed to putting Leeds into English football's 3rd tier for the first time in our history, and seeing us suffer our most humiliating FA Cup defeat in years. We now have a manager who has helped to get Leeds moving forward for the first time in about 6 years and you're not happy about it because he's not doing it quickly enough. Have you ever considered a career in politics? The Labour party could really use someone like you. P.S. "8 wins in 24", but only 8 defeats. That's 16 games where we've scored points. Just something for you to consider.
Are you on drugs ??? you do realise you were playing for ****ing players that had not been at your club for 4 - 5 years don't you? Robbie Fowler, Danny Mills etc etc FFS YOu were on the edge of extinction! Failed ?? Failed, no Bates No Leeds Utd PERIOD!
