kingcole
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Leeds seem to be owned in most of their games of late!
Leeds seem to be owned in most of their games of late!
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Leeds now to be fan owned
- Thread starter Mileoakman
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Facilities?
Have you been to Elland Road recently?
It's looking very dated, despite the £42 they charged us a couple of weeks ago for admission. Cellini is looking for about £60m for Leeds if rumours are true.
Current prices being bandied about for PL clubs are £225m for Everton, £150m for Villa and West Brom, £100 m for Palace. They already have PL cash flows, why not buy one of them?
BensGrandad
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Buy Leeds for £60m, if that includes paying off any debts, spend £15m on team in January still time to get promoted and pick up £100m +. Probably wouldnt need to spend £15m on team .
jamie the seagull
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- Jul 27, 2011
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Brighthelmstone
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Ahhh Leads Utd, the gift that keeps on giving 
Ahhh Leads Utd, the gift that keeps on giving
On the other hand, I don't like seeing proper supporters just like you and me being kicked in the nuts by ignorant dishonest meglomaniac bell-ends like the twàt running Leeds.
severnside gull
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Was always going to be.
Cellini is not someone to trust so can't think anyone believed it would happen
Cellini is not someone to trust so can't think anyone believed it would happen
The Birdman
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U turn by the owners !
- Jun 27, 2012
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£15m for the fees, wages of a premier league team ?
Albion's wage / fees bill is a lot more than that for (just) a top 10 Champ team.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Which ones? the rich Arab ones?
So he's not looking for them to be fan owned after all. How much did he buy the club for?
They're already 15 points from the auto places and will be further by January. You can get 100 - 1 on them getting promoted. I suggest it wouldn't be a good £60m investment.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
As far as I'm aware, Elland Road is still owned by Leeds City council. The football club pay rent.
portslade seagull
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He seems like our equivalent off Archer a crook who want to make as much money as he can
Archer lost money on the Albion if my calculations are correct.
portslade seagull
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Did he ??
If what I have heard is correct, when Sir Dick of Knight finally removed Archer from the club, Archer was owed about £1.5million. The Albion board offered him about half that. As Archer was keen to float his DIY chain at the time on the market he accepted the offer, as he wanted a smooth market launch.
So the irony of ironies is that Bill Archer ended up gifting the Albion about £750k.
I've always maintained that the real **** in all of this is Greg Stanley. He claimed to be an Albion fan, unlike Archer. He may have lent the club money, but the interest being charged was allegedly very punitive, and if so he was squeezing the club for all it had.
Doc Lynam
I hate the Daily Mail
- Jun 19, 2011
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Looks like you are right!
But who got the money from the sale of the Goldstone. I thought that was Archer, if it wasn't, where did that go?
The ground was sold for about £7.4 million.
Most of it went to HMRC, Barclays and the Co-Op bank.
The Albion lost £911k in 1996 so that swallowed up some too.
The big question that was never fully explained was the re-sale of the land a year later for £23.86 million a year later.
Either the club (Archer and Bellotti) were very poor negotiators or something untoward took place. Not that I'm saying that the administration of the game centrally and by individual clubs is tainted by incompetence, mismanagement, cronyism, bribery and corruption.