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Leeds sold

Post by miele-man » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:14 pm

£170,million

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by gawthorpe_view » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:15 pm

Bargain!

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by ClaretAndJew » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:15 pm

Source?

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by miele-man » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:19 pm

ClaretAndJew wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:15 pm
Source?
Talk sport

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by Nori1958 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:36 pm

miele-man wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:19 pm
Talk sport
No source then :lol:
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Re: Leeds sold

Post by Bosscat » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:37 pm

ClaretAndJew wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:15 pm
Source?
They bought it on HP
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Re: Leeds sold

Post by Chester Perry » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:39 pm

Is this all 56% of Radrizzani's shares or just enough to give 49ers Enterprises a sufficient majority - with a view to accquiring the rest once Premier League football is attained in the future?

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by miele-man » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:42 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:39 pm
Is this all 56% of Radrizzani's shares or just enough to give 49ers Enterprises a sufficient majority - with a view to accquiring the rest once Premier League football is attained in the future?
All of it , according to the legendary Simon Jordon .
Although they haven’t mentioned it since so maybe it’s all a dream

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by bobinho » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:45 pm

Was hoping the Italians would carry them further down the ladder.

Wouldn’t it be absolutely ACE if Leeds went all the way down to nothing? Ceased to exist I mean. Tremendous.
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Re: Leeds sold

Post by Chester Perry » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:45 pm

miele-man wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:42 pm
All of it , according to the legendary Simon Jordon .
Although they haven’t mentioned it since so maybe it’s all a dream
so actually a £90m or so deal then

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by miele-man » Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:02 pm

Daily Mail online , saying the same thing .

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by summitclaret » Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:04 pm

The world's biggest club for less than BFC?
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Re: Leeds sold

Post by miele-man » Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:05 pm

And it includes the stadium

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:09 pm

I posted a link on the MMT thread the other day suggesting the sale would happen this week.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by TheFamilyCat » Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:15 pm

£170m works out at 50p per fan
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Re: Leeds sold

Post by clarets12 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:37 pm

Nori1958 wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:36 pm
No source then :lol:
That deserves more likes.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by JR1882 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:43 pm

Bit of a myth Leeds in 2023 I think. Attendances were “massive” in lower leagues but c35k is very average in the PL.

Stadium is a shack that will generate very little commercial income and is going to need huge redevelopment if they are to compete financially long term at the level they think they are at.

I think off the field they are a long long way off where they want to be.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by clarets12 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:44 pm

JR1882 wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:43 pm
Bit of a myth Leeds in 2023 I think. Attendances were “massive” in lower leagues but c35k is very average in the PL.

Stadium is a shack that will generate very little commercial income and is going to need huge redevelopment if they are to compete financially long term at the level they think they are at.

I think off the field they are a long long way off where they want to be.
Best team in Europe though.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by Quicknick » Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:41 pm

JR1882 wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:43 pm
Bit of a myth Leeds in 2023 I think. Attendances were “massive” in lower leagues but c35k is very average in the PL.

Stadium is a shack that will generate very little commercial income and is going to need huge redevelopment if they are to compete financially long term at the level they think they are at.

I think off the field they are a long long way off where they want to be.
They don't get 35,000, do they?

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by clarets12 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:44 pm

Quicknick wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:41 pm
They don't get 35,000, do they?
36,871 given as their last game.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by Quicknick » Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:50 pm

clarets12 wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:44 pm
36,871 given as their last game.
I'll have to check their average.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by clarets12 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:53 pm

Quicknick wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:50 pm
I'll have to check their average.
It's probably near that. As much as I can't stand their fans, they do have a lot of season ticket holders.

Newcastle: 36,955
Leicester: 36,666
Liverpool: 36,657

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by ClaretsPadiham » Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:02 pm

Proves they are nowhere near as big as they think they are…

Leeds United 170 million

Man United 5 billion
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Re: Leeds sold

Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:03 pm

https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/leed ... ttendances

Here you go

They tend to do ok in the PL and championship, but they're a one club city so you'd expect them to do well, bit like Sunderland, Newcastle etc.

In league one there was a drop, down to 20-25k ish because it's league one.
I recall them having to close part of the ground a good few years ago, when in league one or the championship, they just weren't selling enough tickets to warrant having it open
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Re: Leeds sold

Post by bobinho » Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:03 pm

clarets12 wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:53 pm
It's probably near that. As much as I can't stand their fans, they do have a lot of season ticket holders.

Newcastle: 36,955
Leicester: 36,666
Liverpool: 36,657
They SHOULD have more than they do. Their home support is shocking for the size of the place. They are a massive city and share it with no-one. They have a huge catchment area. Their ground is awful, with only one - yes ONE - two tier stand, and that stand wasn’t always open during the league one and championship years.

Say this to yourselves in a “Ricky Tomlinson” style.

Big club my arse…

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by clarets12 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:10 pm

bobinho wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:03 pm
They SHOULD have more than they do. Their home support is shocking for the size of the place. They are a massive city and share it with no-one. They have a huge catchment area. Their ground is awful, with only one - yes ONE - two tier stand, and that stand wasn’t always open during the league one and championship years.

Say this to yourselves in a “Ricky Tomlinson” style.

Big club my arse…
They don't know their football either. I've had many chats with Leeds fans and not many know their football.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by jrgbfc » Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:51 pm

Struggling to see how Leeds are supposed to increase their support at home when every game is sold out?

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by bfcjg » Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:54 pm

clarets12 wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:10 pm
They don't know their football either. I've had many chats with Leeds fans and not many know their football.
Do you sign,make gestures or show them pictures ? 😁
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Re: Leeds sold

Post by clarets12 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 4:16 pm

bfcjg wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:54 pm
Do you sign,make gestures or show them pictures ? 😁
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Do you notice when they sometimes go quiet? My colouring back has just arrived via Royal Mail.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by clarets12 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 4:25 pm

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by Lip » Wed Jun 07, 2023 4:41 pm

Apparently they were valued at 400 million when in premier league but 49's said they would only pay 170million when they were relegated. The owner will still have made millions on the deal.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by KRBFC » Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:29 pm

JR1882 wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:43 pm
Bit of a myth Leeds in 2023 I think. Attendances were “massive” in lower leagues but c35k is very average in the PL.

Stadium is a shack that will generate very little commercial income and is going to need huge redevelopment if they are to compete financially long term at the level they think they are at.

I think off the field they are a long long way off where they want to be.
They can’t sell seats that aren’t available.... :?

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by clarets12 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:30 pm

Lip wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 4:41 pm
Apparently they were valued at 400 million when in premier league but 49's said they would only pay 170million when they were relegated. The owner will still have made millions on the deal.
It was 500 million. Def gone down

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by KRBFC » Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:30 pm

bobinho wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:03 pm
They SHOULD have more than they do. Their home support is shocking for the size of the place. They are a massive city and share it with no-one. They have a huge catchment area. Their ground is awful, with only one - yes ONE - two tier stand, and that stand wasn’t always open during the league one and championship years.

Say this to yourselves in a “Ricky Tomlinson” style.

Big club my arse…
Check the capacity of Elland road you dumb ass, I’ll spell it out for you, Elland road holds just under 38,000 fans, which means they can’t physically sell more than 38,000 tickets.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by elwaclaret » Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:42 pm

Was reading an interesting piece on Leeds yesterday. The stadium has been virtually untouched since Bates sold it. A reporter was saying visiting even the home end was like going to a game in the 80’s, not even the plumbing has changed…

It needs several millions spending on it for it to approach reasonable. A lot of the concrete is crumbling… the list goes on.

The club has been used and abused for thirty year… they know the fans will go anyway. Never met a Leeds fan I liked, but they really have been treated very shoddily for many years by ‘their club’.

Going to be interesting how much is put into necessary maintenance, and how much is left for staff.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by clarets12 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:51 pm

elwaclaret wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:42 pm
Was reading an interesting piece on Leeds yesterday. The stadium has been virtually untouched since Bates sold it. A reporter was saying visiting even the home end was like going to a game in the 80’s, not even the plumbing has changed…

It needs several millions spending on it for it to approach reasonable. A lot of the concrete is crumbling… the list goes on.

The club has been used and abused for thirty year… they know the fans will go anyway. Never met a Leeds fan I liked, but they really have been treated very shoddily for many years by ‘their club’.

Going to be interesting how much is put into necessary maintenance, and how much is left for staff.
One of my best pals is a Leeds fan and some of them are decent people. Easy to spot? God damn no. I think he's a semi-Burnley fan!

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by DCWat » Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:07 pm

clarets12 wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:51 pm
One of my best pals is a Leeds fan and some of them are decent people. Easy to spot? God damn no. I think he's a semi-Burnley fan!
Same here - a nicer lad you couldn’t meet although he does have a look about him that makes some people wary of him!

Living o’er this side of the hill, I know plenty Leeds fans and plenty of them are scrotes at best.

I’m not a fan of Leeds although some respect has to be given to their support. If they get the right owners in place, they have great potential and particularly when they redevelop Elland Road, which they will do of course, at some point.

The problem for clubs like Leeds, with aspirations perhaps above their station (a big ish club with a pretty moderate history in the main) is that the ship that they expect to be sailing on left port twenty odd years ago.

Unless they get a mega bucks owner (how many are left?) they’ll never achieve what they all want - not many will.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by clarets12 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:25 pm

DCWat wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:07 pm
Same here - a nicer lad you couldn’t meet although he does have a look about him that makes some people wary of him!

Living o’er this side of the hill, I know plenty Leeds fans and plenty of them are scrotes at best.

I’m not a fan of Leeds although some respect has to be given to their support. If they get the right owners in place, they have great potential and particularly when they redevelop Elland Road, which they will do of course, at some point.

The problem for clubs like Leeds, with aspirations perhaps above their station (a big ish club with a pretty moderate history in the main) is that the ship that they expect to be sailing on left port twenty odd years ago.

Unless they get a mega bucks owner (how many are left?) they’ll never achieve what they all want - not many will.
I hope they stay down for 25 years ;-)
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Re: Leeds sold

Post by Spiral » Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:50 pm

Quite like Elland Rd to be honest. It's old, but I like that, and there aren't too many grounds as big as it left that are old throwbacks. Commercially speaking it's outdated, of course, and probably not the most fan-friendly ground in modern football, but in an ideal world not every ground would be of the uniform Lego brick corporate enterprise variant. You need the dirty old shitholes to make football feel special, grounded, and not some indifferent, detached spectacle, and it's better when they're big — not the kind of grounds that struggle to pull in 5k on a Tuesday night down in the doldrums.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by clarets12 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:35 pm

Spiral wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:50 pm
Quite like Elland Rd to be honest. It's old, but I like that, and there aren't too many grounds as big as it left that are old throwbacks. Commercially speaking it's outdated, of course, and probably not the most fan-friendly ground in modern football, but in an ideal world not every ground would be of the uniform Lego brick corporate enterprise variant. You need the dirty old shitholes to make football feel special, grounded, and not some indifferent, detached spectacle, and it's better when they're big — not the kind of grounds that struggle to pull in 5k on a Tuesday night down in the doldrums.
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Re: Leeds sold

Post by timshorts » Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:01 pm

KRBFC wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:30 pm
Check the capacity of Elland road you dumb ass, I’ll spell it out for you, Elland road holds just under 38,000 fans, which means they can’t physically sell more than 38,000 tickets.
Well if that's the case, why were their attendances always beginning 36,xxx or lower.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by Claretitus » Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:26 pm

Champions o Yaarkshire, Champions o Yooorup 🤣🤣🤣 Aye. Jog on.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by houseboy » Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:56 pm

bobinho wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:45 pm
Was hoping the Italians would carry them further down the ladder.

Wouldn’t it be absolutely ACE if Leeds went all the way down to nothing? Ceased to exist I mean. Tremendous.
Why would you want a football club to go out of business?
How terribly bitter.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by KRBFC » Thu Jun 08, 2023 10:10 am

timshorts wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:01 pm
Well if that's the case, why were their attendances always beginning 36,xxx or lower.
Probably the same reason our capacity is listed at over 22,000 but we don’t sell 22,000 tickets. Use your noggin

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by bobinho » Thu Jun 08, 2023 10:27 am

KRBFC wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 7:30 pm
Check the capacity of Elland road you dumb ass, I’ll spell it out for you, Elland road holds just under 38,000 fans, which means they can’t physically sell more than 38,000 tickets.
Look. I get that you are still a bit ****** off because we won the league in your own back yard, but if you are going to engage people in discussion, try a little harder to do it without going out of your way to insult them. (And YES, I see the irony in that)

Yes, we KNOW the capacity is about 38k and they can’t sell more tickets than that…. That is not in dispute.

What IS in dispute is their self proclaimed “biggest club in Europe” title that they bandy about at every given opportunity. They went down to league one for a while, and the attendances plummeted so far, they even regularly closed the top tier of their ONLY two tier stand. I’ve been on Bellend rd for a championship game and the top tier was closed. That’s absolutely shocking. That’s NOT the support expected of the ‘mighty’ Leeds Utd. A one club city with the worlds largest catchment area.

Their support is no better than any other average sized club in the country, and certainly no better than ours. The numbers support that.

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by KRBFC » Thu Jun 08, 2023 10:48 am

bobinho wrote:
Thu Jun 08, 2023 10:27 am
Look. I get that you are still a bit ****** off because we won the league in your own back yard, but if you are going to engage people in discussion, try a little harder to do it without going out of your way to insult them. (And YES, I see the irony in that)

Yes, we KNOW the capacity is about 38k and they can’t sell more tickets than that…. That is not in dispute.

What IS in dispute is their self proclaimed “biggest club in Europe” title that they bandy about at every given opportunity. They went down to league one for a while, and the attendances plummeted so far, they even regularly closed the top tier of their ONLY two tier stand. I’ve been on Bellend rd for a championship game and the top tier was closed. That’s absolutely shocking. That’s NOT the support expected of the ‘mighty’ Leeds Utd. A one club city with the worlds largest catchment area.

Their support is no better than any other average sized club in the country, and certainly no better than ours. The numbers support that.
Proper waffler, won the league in my backyard? So because I pointed out your stupidity I’m a Basturds fan, brilliant :lol:

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by claretonthecoast1882 » Thu Jun 08, 2023 12:14 pm

bobinho wrote:
Thu Jun 08, 2023 10:27 am
Look. I get that you are still a bit ****** off because we won the league in your own back yard, but if you are going to engage people in discussion, try a little harder to do it without going out of your way to insult them. (And YES, I see the irony in that)

Yes, we KNOW the capacity is about 38k and they can’t sell more tickets than that…. That is not in dispute.

What IS in dispute is their self proclaimed “biggest club in Europe” title that they bandy about at every given opportunity. They went down to league one for a while, and the attendances plummeted so far, they even regularly closed the top tier of their ONLY two tier stand. I’ve been on Bellend rd for a championship game and the top tier was closed. That’s absolutely shocking. That’s NOT the support expected of the ‘mighty’ Leeds Utd. A one club city with the worlds largest catchment area.

Their support is no better than any other average sized club in the country, and certainly no better than ours. The numbers support that.

It isn't that long since Leeds were just over 16k at home, you could argue their home support compares very poorly with all other major cities and even more so when you consider them a 1 team City

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by agreenwood » Fri Jun 09, 2023 10:18 pm

Confirmed. Sold to one of the wealthier groups on the planet.

Even Leeds can’t **** this up from here, can they?

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Re: Leeds sold

Post by FCBurnley » Fri Jun 09, 2023 10:26 pm

Wow. DA must have more money than sense
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Re: Leeds sold

Post by Claretitus » Fri Jun 09, 2023 11:09 pm

agreenwood wrote:
Fri Jun 09, 2023 10:18 pm
Confirmed. Sold to one of the wealthier groups on the planet.

Even Leeds can’t **** this up from here, can they?
Well, fingers crossed that they do. They’ve got to get out of the Championship first though, not an easy task, especially next season. Oh how I’m wishing already, that they fail in the play-offs.

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