Elland Road for Sale

[On the Left Wing]

This may have already been up, but I have just caught it:

Elland Road up for sale

Leeds United's home ground Elland Road is up for sale, the club's chairman Gerald Krasner has confirmed.

Krasner is currently negotiating a sale and lease agreement in a bid to cut the club's debts of more than £50m.

However, despite the talks Krasner insists that the club will not be leaving their 100-year-old home.

"Any deal will have to include a minimum 25-year lease because football will be staying at Elland Road," he told the Yorkshire Evening Post.

"We are currently talking to a number of people about a sale and lease agreement. When we find the right deal we will do it.

"I fully sympathise with the fans, a few years ago we were in the Champions League and next season we're in the First Division."

 

[Marc]

So they will get £50mil...spend it all on players and fail time after time to get back in the Prem...end up 25years down the road, in debt and facing an eviction order from the lease holders...bye bye Leeds United

 

[Easy 10]

"I fully sympathise with the fans, a few years ago we were in the Champions League and next season we're in the First Division."

Already predicting another relegation then

Seriously though, what kind of mug would buy Elland Road if they were under obligation to lease it back to Leeds United for at least the next 25 years ? That club has lurched from one disaster to the next, and once they've spent a couple of years outside the Premiership, and their parachute payments have all been pissed up the wall on £30k a week contracts for Brian Deane, then you can bet they'll soon be defaulting on the rent. The owners of Elland Road will be saddled with the biggest pain in the arse this side of Will Young.

 

[Storer68]

Personally I would prefer to see a branch of Burger king, sports Division, toys R Us and DFs on the Elland retail Park

 

[Mr Popkins]

I dont sympathse with the fans"! I think it would do all big clubs a favour being knocked back a peg or two.