£170,million

Bargain!

Source?

ClaretAndJew wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:15 pm

Source?

Talk sport

miele-man wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:19 pm

Talk sport

No source then

ClaretAndJew wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:15 pm

Source?

They bought it on HP

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?

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

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.

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

Daily Mail online , saying the same thing .

The world's biggest club for less than BFC?

And it includes the stadium

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

£170m works out at 50p per fan

Nori1958 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:36 pm

No source then

That deserves more likes.

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.

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.

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?

Quicknick wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:41 pm

They don't get 35,000, do they?

36,871 given as their last game.

clarets12 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 07, 2023 2:44 pm

36,871 given as their last game.

I'll have to check their average.

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

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

Leeds United 170 million

Man United 5 billion

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

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…

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.

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

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 ?

bfcjg wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:54 pm

Do you sign,make gestures or show them pictures ?
Bonobos_Panbanisha_&_Kanzi_with_Sue_Savage-Rumbaugh,_2006.jpg

Do you notice when they sometimes go quiet? My colouring back has just arrived via Royal Mail.

*My colouring book

I can't edit my post so it's no longer hilarious.

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.

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....

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

AI at it's best.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Wow. DA must have more money than sense

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.