Massimo Cellino: Leeds chairman willing to sell club to fans... Leeds chairman Massimo Cellino has said he would be willing to sell the club to supporters group Leeds Fans United. The Italian, who is currently appealing against a Football league ban, met with fans on Friday. Cellino said he would sell his majority share to the group but did not say how much he would sell his stake for. He told BBC Radio Leeds: "100% I will sell to the fans, if they want to buy it and look after the club. The fans are the only asset the club has." http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34676783
Is that 100% I will the same 100% as in the 100% I will walk away, I am a man of my word uttered by another chairman?
Ok bare with me here. Lets all join LUST. We should buy it. Some of you are bitter enough to be TWS Fans, and a fair few are unable to move on too it seems. It'd be perfect. Plus, even though some of you are ****s, deep down you still despise TWS so we could finally finish the ****ers off.
He said 100%. Cellini said 100% he would. The connection is the 100%. Is his 100% as meaningless as our chairman's 100%?
If I win the Euromillions tonight I would buy them. Alter the name to Leeds Gaylords and change the colours to pink. To be serious there is the problem there of not owning the ground. At least we know who owns our ground. No one seems to know for definite with them.
Thought Leeds City Council owned Elland Road? Maybe I'm wrong In all fairness this would be a great move for Leeds if the fans could get ownership , and take the club down the Bundesliga fan ownership route , stop the madness and get rid of the Madman They might tempt Strachan away from Scotland if the Club is ran properly
I'd rather be where Portsmouth are than have Allam as our owner , I take league 2 football in a heartbeat
You are wrong and way behind the times. Ken Bates claimed in court that he didn't know who,the actual,owners are. It was sold for a ridiculously small amount to some outfit called Teak Investments registered in the British Virgin Islands in 2005 by its then owner a Manchester businessman.
TWS would instantly be the highest placed club in that ownership model in England. For a while at least. Choose another team then, our owners aren't going anywhere. Thankfully.
Won't happen. You know it, I know it, he knows it. Only chance we'd be sold is if we get back to the PL and some properly mental middle eastern businessmen from the sort of country with human rights issues wants a pet project or if some equally morally corrupt Russian wants some legitimacy. Yes yes, either of those would be better than our current owners *rolls eyes*. Yes, of course, if it makes you feel good or something, he lied. Get over it. Move on. Life's too short for this ****. You as well as anyone on here knows, there are far worse things in life. Peoples options are either just support the team and accept we're owned by who we're owned, or, **** the **** off.
Or pretend your doing both by only attending away games whilst still lining Allams pockets by going to support his business.
It will be interesting to see what happens, when, inevitably, he shuffles off this mortal coil.That will be a frightening prospect given what happened when the son of a chairman who was a fan of the club rather than just an owner died and it passed to his son who was a businessman with no interest in the club. Maybe Ehab will become a passionate fan of the club and take it onwards and upwards. Maybe he and other family members will think **** it and cut their losses and give it away. More worryingly, they might try and get as much of their inheritance back as they can whilst the club is run into the ground as happened under Christopher Needler. Not pleasant prospects.
They might be *your* only options, but others are entitled to a more nuanced view aren't they? Would you have applied that binary choice to Leeds fans when Ken Bates was in charge? Or Portsmouth fans when their succession of hopeless owners were destroying the club? Or Donny Rovers fans when Ken Richardson tried to burn their stadium down one night? I'm not saying that City's current owner is in the realms of people like that, he evidently isn't and evidently wants the club to succeed. It's just his measure of success is more limited than some supporters would like it. And his methods are clearly suspect at times. Football isn't binary. Life isn't binary. Not for most people anyway. Claiming otherwise is futile.
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