Morning all. I can't remember much happening to suggest success until he brought the kids in at Swansea. Within weeks a pattern of play emerged together with a will to win and a football team started to appear followed by a supporters dream.
He might work but Pearson was not in charge of recruitment at Leicester, Steve Walsh now at Everton was (think he might be DOF there)
But you never explain why previous owners didn’t do the same if that was / is the case, Cellino, GFH et al....
I’m with you, can’t believe the bitching that went on about broken promises of Cellino because he said he’d buy back the ground first thing he does and now Radz gets slated for doing exactly that. Bizarre
Gfh didn’t have a pot to puss in, Cellino wasn’t bright enough to cut gfh out of getting a share by means of the charge they have on the club and he couldn’t afford to buy them out to get shot of them.
Wasn't it this time last season you lot were all booking flights and hotels looks like Me TC Stevie and Ringo will be going on our own AGAIN same old same old
But you said it was (if not a quote but a paraphrase). 'It was easy PR spin that increased the value of his asset' yet it was neither easy or affordable to previous owners (including bates unless you subscribe to the belief he owned it)????
Certainly think Bates owned it. For gfh to have bought it they needed ready cash and they had none. You can speculate to accumulate but you do need the finance to get a seat at the table.
So Radz then has more access to financial backing (or has more readily available cash than Cellino), so in the long run is possibly more likely to progress us than previous owners (as he could bypass GFH and get the ground back)??
No the idea is to take perfectly innocent facts and pretend that an action we were all calling for, for the last decade, now that it’s happened is evidence of evil on an industrial scale The differences between Rad and Bates are 1 transparency. We know Rad owned it because he has told us 2 financial. The LUFC business does not have a drain of paying rent every year (I think it was £2.6m from memory, a huge chunk out of our small annual revenues) 3. Attractiveness to new investors. If someone else wants to buy LUFC they can offer to buy from Rad the whole thing including the ground
The only relevant part of that imo is “ in the long run” and you omitted the word might. Priority number one for a football club should always be make the first team squad as good as possible. Achieve that and buying the ground would have been simple. I couldn’t give a **** on how owns the ground I want to see the club at least looking like it is able to compete with the better forming football sides. Buying ER was just a publicity stunt and lets wait till he ****s off before you start saying one of his companies owning it is too much better than teak investments owning it. If he sells the club and keeps the ground we are no further forward.
It’s a sad state of where football is in the present era. Clubs changing hands every couple of years between foreign billionaires. Most know nothing of the club or the game. Leaves fans often discussing club owners more than the football. Not just referring to Leeds here but a great number of big established clubs.
