Leeds Banter Archive March 20 2013

20 Mar 2013 21:26:56
Well I don't know what all the fuss is about. Just go to the official site guys. Eveything that GFH are doing is for just one thing - to secure a strong future for Leeds United. Ken and his GFH buddies only want to see us fans happy and our team back in the Premiership. In a separate article our Manager declares that we are in great shape-just a bit unlucky that's all. Like Bates and GFH he's Leeds through and through as we have always known. So guys there's nothing whatsoever to worry or fret about. We are in good hands. I'm off to bed now and I'm going to put my 52 year old tooth under my pillow. Should get me the price of a few pints by morning!

Too right mate. Its a fairy tale ending for all of us. Here we were thinking they were a bunch of money seeking, clueless monsters trying to bleed our club dry and all walk off into the sunlight hugging eachother and their wads. How wrong we were. What a future we and the team have. Warnock says this team with a little bit of quality will hold there own in prem. well that's music to my ears. All along I thought they were a bunch of has beens that coukdnt run or play football to save their lives. Just unlucky to be so far down the league. Phew! And I was wrong about warnock too. He is not untotal football and deranged as I thought. He thinks he is fantastic and gfh agree, they want to know what manager he thinks can follow in his footsteps ( if this could ever be possible ). Well that's fantastic news for us all!

21 Mar 2013 05:35:56
Bates Leeds? don't think so.
Warnock will never be Leeds he's Sheffield united and having a laugh.
Gfh are the only people that have tried to make things better in the last 10 yrs.

Yeah, and the chancellor's 1p cut in beer duty WILL get passed on to the customer IN FULL!

Dream on - lol!

Too right mate. Its a fairy tale ending for all of us. Here we were thinking they were a bunch of money seeking, clueless monsters trying to bleed our club dry and all walk off into the sunlight hugging eachother and their wads. How wrong we were. What a future we and the team have. Warnock says this team with a little bit of quality will hold there own in prem. well that's music to my ears. All along I thought they were a bunch of has beens that coukdnt run or play football to save their lives. Just unlucky to be so far down the league. Phew! And I was wrong about warnock too. He is not untotal football and deranged as I thought. He thinks he is fantastic and gfh agree, they want to know what manager he thinks can follow in his footsteps ( if this could ever be possible ). Well that's fantastic news for us all!

21 Mar 2013 05:35:56
Bates Leeds? don't think so.
Warnock will never be Leeds he's Sheffield united and having a laugh.
Gfh are the only people that have tried to make things better in the last 10 yrs.

Yeah, and the chancellor's 1p cut in beer duty WILL get passed on to the customer IN FULL!

Dream on - lol!

Do people realise that if someone saved £100 a year drinking beer now costing 1p a pint less he or she would drink 10,000 pints a year. That's near on 200 pints a week or 30 pints a night. the Chancellor is as generous as Bates. JD

To the third poster who starts with 'Bates Leeds?' -The original post was irony and that's not what your missus does to your shirt!

20 Mar 2013 19:59:40
Although Warnock has his detractors and maybe the football we've been playing has not been the most consistent or pretty, you have to say admit that he's been working under very difficult circumstances.

Its hard enough following the GFH saga as a fan from the initial takeover to this current selling of shares so can you imagine working in the midst of all that? It must have been frustrating and I bet he feels he's been given the shaft pretty hard.

I don't blame Warnock for this season - its been dissapointing - but hopefully next year things will get sorted out and we'll have some kind of stability to move forward. MOT!

Ha ha. Good old sense of humour of the leeds fans!

Ha ha. Good old sense of humour of the leeds fans!

I thought the football had been consistent. S**** all season. JD

Grayson had a lot less money and still just missed out on the play offs so I think Warnock is doing a bloody awful job!

20 Mar 2013 19:53:13
i understand the selling of part of leeds to investors ed but what I can't get my head round is why buy us in the first place if they havnt got suffient funds to see it through? mot nickybee {Ed013's Note - Profit mate, Leeds United has the potential to bring a lot of cash in once in the Premiership}

20 Mar 2013 17:12:31
As a investor you will be looking for value for money, i. e if we sell byram lees and mccormac the value of sale will drop hugely, I don't think they will be silly enough to sell anything to be honest

20 Mar 2013 18:49:00
No they wouldn't be so silly as to sell their prized assets they are building for the future what a load of ballocks I like many others am sick of been strung along, we were told the takeover would be complete for the January transfer window & we all know what happened then and you can dress it up how you like & make whatever presumptions you want about them not giving Warnock money because he was leaving at the end of the season it doesn't wash, what happened with the fans forum that they bottled out of ok if someone had a death in the family fair enough rearrange it for a week later but no that seems to have gone away completely. Sorry to say it but we have once again been deluding ourselves that GFH are going to be our saviours & provide funds and resources to take us back to the premiership In my opinion they are in it for themselves and I for one am very afraid where our once great club will end up. I hope I'm wrong

20 Mar 2013 16:42:09
Once again some person put 2 and 2 together and got it all wrong. Gfh have said from the beginning that they would be selling a chunk of there share and that's still the case. Some person has just undone the hard work gfh have started to do.

20 Mar 2013 18:04:57
As usual time will tell but I think GFHC should consult with GFH before publishing such statements as the accounts reportedly say they are holding the club for sale not seeking investors. I would not be surprised if today's statement is a smokescreen to buy more time. Either way this is a ridiculous way to conduct business.

20 Mar 2013 16:25:34
It is my sons birthday at the weekend and I asked him what he wanted as a present, he said "Cowboy Outfit" so searching on line you will never guess what I found in items for sale!

I am very dissapointed with what is happening as in my opinion It did look look like GFH were building for the long term and it looked like they were going to help us out of this division, with all the reduced prices and season tickets being reduced but now they have shown their true coluours which is that they were skint and were looking for a quick buck. But at least they didn't string us along for 8 years. At least now a proper football club owner will come in perhaps the American guy who was interested but he was too late, he promised up front payments and 10 million pound to spend in January so maybe he could be interested again now were back up for sale. If GFH are looking for quick money than a rich owner would have to come In as I doubt they would atcept instalments so really this should turn out positive as long as the negotiations finish no later than the middle of the summer so we can build for the new season

GFH ARE looking to build for the future, they are looking for additional investment, same as they ever were, not a total sellout.

20 Mar 2013 16:19:28
I hope the message on the OS from the owners stops the garbage that has been spread on here. They are not going anywhere, just looking for other investors to work alongside them. A normal thing to do in business. Don't see any mention of selling up! Too many journalists have an agenda with Leeds Utd and like to stick the boot in, leading to fans believing them. I hope now people will back off and let the owners do their thing. A new manager is their top priority and buying some flair players to add to the squad in the summer.
Just because they're looking for new investors doesn't mean they've no money either. If, as many believe, GFH wanted to make a quick buck and leave they would have sold out to Pearson but they didn't so cut them some slack. MOT Ron.

Sorry Ron. but WRONG.

GFH (parent of GFH Capital the owners of Leeds United FC) specifically said they are looking to "SELL their stake" in Leeds United.

GFHC then "clarified" that they only want to attract investors.

Unless GFH are planning some restructuring whereby GFHC is owned/operates independently of parent GFH. this means the corporate guys clearly said they want to divest themselves.

This highlights the shambolic nature of GFH and GFHC. it is amateur monkey night at the zoo.

(But at least said Monkeys will be wearing a white shirt and coming to our cut price games. )

I weep.

MOT

20 Mar 2013 15:16:17
David Haigh leeds fan my arse

20 Mar 2013 14:47:25
oh goodie steve parkin was close to buying leeds I do not want this to happen as he wanted ian dowie as manager if he does takerover lufc let's hope he had been drinking when he said that

20 Mar 2013 14:32:33
So with another takeover looming next season, GFH lied to us but more importantly so did Bates. All that talk about in for the long haul and the finance available it just wouldn't be "crazy money". More like any money! Potless Bahrain! At least they are doing the right thing by selling but I'm expecting more twists and turns. We become the laughing stock. What kind of a manager are we going to get now? How can we fund summer transfers? GFH bound to sell Byram and take half proceeds for themselves before they exit. Victory you say? The takeover wars have begun.

20 Mar 2013 14:04:05
don't get why gfh made tickets cheaper to get bigger home crowds just to make them smaller by letting everyone know they are now selling the club. Ruining there hard work.

I think you'll find GFH are looking for ADDITIONAL investors to join them, same as they ever was - check out the OS!

20 Mar 2013 19:53:35
The OS is just another way of them feeding us whatever they want us to believe. In truth we do not know who is telling the truth. They will not show their true hand until they choose.

20 Mar 2013 13:51:36
Toronto White here.

This last 18 months has been particularly naff.

The good news out of all this manager/ownership/chairman palava is we will get finally sorted.

After August we'll have new owners with cash, a new chairman, a new talented manager and a well improved squad.

The one constant will be the passionate fans that EVERY other club in England envies.

We are Leeds! Marching On Together!

Are you sure? JD

Yes. the For Sale sign is official and Colin's off to watch his son play football in Plymouth and duaghter play netball.

Thing that could derail it is unrealistic pricing by GFH whose net few milllion invested was not accompanied by any real business or financial restructuring. so not much value add over their original purchase.

20 Mar 2013 12:11:49
dundee whites here just what the hell is going on at our club we must be the only club world wide this sort of thing could happen too massive buy out everyone up beat then 12 weeks later back 2 sq one please god the next buyers do have some money to put things right but we all should get set 4 a long long long takeover if the last one is anything 2 go by but knowing leeds it should be done when all the best players and managers are all gone 2 other club leaving us with the scraps oh 2b a leeds fan it never rain but it pours

Things can only get better, that's without GFH, they were only in it for profit, let's get owners who have a passion for football

Worst part is if we have to go through the vetting process again for the new owners.

Oh what a surprise only a few weeks ago, gfh stating that they were not looking to sell to Pearson at all, Bates has taught them well, lies, lies and more lies, and let's look into our crystal ball for the summer transfer window, no money to spend because the new owners didn't have enough time to invest. Same old Bates United

To 3rd post. Shouldn't have to. Any new purchaser would buy the due diligence done by GFH from them. JD

"To 3rd post. Shouldn't have to. Any new purchaser would buy the due diligence done by GFH from them. "

Maybe so, but they still have to be vetted by the FA to make sure they are 'fit for purpose'.

20 Mar 2013 11:43:00
is it really a suprise that gfh want to sell on?
we knew that were really struggling for cash to support team. it all pointed to that before and with what we didn't do to improve team that only confirmed it.
they were hoping for a big fluke. they thought we could fluke our way up, have the tv money then happy days for them cashwise.
hopefully someone will actually step forward with enough to support a push next year.
we are not asking for millions just actually keeping hold of best players and buying some pace or quality.
the problem is will a new potential sale hold everything up again and take months. shrew leeds

20 Mar 2013 09:48:31
Just read neil warnocks view on os about team, job his done so far and views on teams next eighteen months and manager etc. I have no idea what he is talking about. It all seems absolute rubbish. Is he talking about a dream? He surely can't hobestly believe what he is saying. I am flabbergasted that this bloke is still our manager and not wtapped up in a nice warm jacket in a padded cell. Are gfh absolutely crazy and clueless. Whether they are selling tomorrow or next month. What the f. Sack him!

I agree with your post. he said he's left us in a better state. sorry neil you havent. we are about where we were under grayson but playing worse football. infact grayson prob had less funds than you. shrew leeds

20 Mar 2013 07:10:21
gfh selling club again explains why no decent investment and why the club as stuck with warnock as manager. they are probably hoping things will happen by end of season.

20 Mar 2013 02:21:51
Could the recent news of GFH-C selling their stake in Leeds United be the theory a few of us had a while back of GFH being a buffer between whoever wanted to buy us in the first place and bates. Now the new owners (whoever it may be ;) ) won't have to put up with bates and will have a new season to prepare for if they get the club sooner than GFH did :)

You have a very good point there. Nobody wanted to deal with KB did they and he was very keen to sell to GHFC. He put up with a lot of delays etc. where you would have expected him to take his ball home and then crow about them not being professional etc. GHFC obviously did a massive amount of work to bring the club to be a more easily saleable asset. If they have been able to facilitate a sale to people who wouldn't deal with KB then they have done a good job and deserve a profit for their work. they have invested to keep the club afloat and no more. Here's hoping the new owners are the real deal and are determined to reap the riches available in the EPL. Maybe there is still a fairytale ending for us all.