Leeds Banter Archive November 09 2012

09 Nov 2012 20:43:08
Warnock might try to bring Rob Hulse back to Leeds because Warnock has signed him twice for Sheffield United and for QPR. Also Warnock will attempt to bring in Cameron Jerome and/or Fraizer Cambell to try and get Leeds back in the promotion race.

Were not exactly out of it, theres a good 16 teams in it based on the points, its november

Rob Hulse is at Charlton, don't you watch football?
mot4life

09 Nov 2012 18:13:02
how come all these teams get loans players in the champanship very fast we cant get one in at all look church gone hudder and the rest or his it they dont like bates at all just why is so hard to do for us leeds fans mot with leeds utd ///////////bates out

09 Nov 2012 20:10:44
half you lot dont get it. Blackburn spent 8m on one player, LU spends 400K. wakeup this is 2nd div. spending., LU surviving on past reputation. We need owners who are billionaires, not GFH millionaires.

09 Nov 2012 17:25:29
daily mail saying deal done by next weds. its full buy out bates be gone. also large battle chest for warnock. hope so this getting on my tits now.

09 Nov 2012 15:02:03
if you loo ak LUST's most recent statement ( on thier website today) it clealry sets out the following-

1. That the takeover will probably not be completed by the weekend.

2. Thier sources confirm that Bates is likely to stay as a full joint partner or in some advisory capacity until AT LEAST the end of the season. Possibly longer. This could be joint ownership/ phased takeover.

3. This in turn raises concerns about the ability and intentions of GFH. Can they afford the deal? can they afford to finanace proper investement? Why are they now settling for a joint owenrship/phased takeover, having negociated for a full takeover for 6 months? Will there be a chmage in culture, approach and communciation with fans from Leeds with Bates still at the helm? This new element fundamentally changes the dynamic of the proposed takeover and brings into question the credibility, financial capacity and nature of GFH- if they are willing, want, or need Bates to stay!

4. The exclusivity period finsishes in mid Novemeber- Is it not time to potentially explore other options for investment and takeover- there are willing parties who have made themselves known.

I myself posted in early Sept I think it was. In that post I said that KB wanted to stay, and that this was the fundamental hold up with the takeover. It now appears that this is coming to pass. I think Bates has potentially turned what should have been a happy change in ownership into something which actually consolidtaes and perpetuates his tenure! As they say in the Usual Suspects about Kaiser Sose- ''The best trick the devil ever pulled was convincing you he wasn't there''. Many thoughts Bates was going. He is not.

The same LUST that made stuff up before and gfh said they had had no contact?

Try "didn't exist"

09 Nov 2012 20:17:37
lets face it all this TO, was a distraction for the fans, may be next year we can only hope harry R will be LU mgr.

The same LUST that then proved they did have contact on a regular basis with GFH's marketing & PR company with a string of texts and emails after which Haigh went very quiet?

LUST represents the views of supporters who bother to join - that's a lot more than Bates has ever done.

Why not join and make your view heard? You can do that at LUST, you can't do that in Bates's boardroom can you?

Are you gary cooper?

Danny ls8

To the LUST supporter that replied to the original post, LUST had no contact with GFH directly, they may have spoken to some PR firm but that is NOT GFH. In reply to the original post, it makes sense to keep Mr Bates at the club for a while, it is the best way for the new owners to settle in and understand how the football business works, the practice of keeping directors in a business after as buyout is standard practice.

Sorry but LUST are a joke, they have lied throughout, how many months ago is it now since they were on the radio saying it is all done and would be completed within days? The truth is they knew nothing and never have so why pretend they are in the loop?
To be honest I think they have done more harm than good and when Bates goes hopefully so will they.

LUST only come out when the times are bad, they only speak for themselves, i comment on there as a non-LUST member and get stupid sniping comments from people who are blinded by their hatred of bates, let them stick to looking at footballfinances.com to get their 'evidence'

LUST are a complete joke, they CLAIM to be in the know but in reality they're in the dark as much as the rest of us. LUST are simply Bates haters and would prefer to make up their own version of events rather than focus on the truth. They in my view are as bad for the club as Bates.....trouble causers with no idea. Fingers crossed for the takeover and that Warnock is given some money to spend....he clearly needs to strengthen desperately

How exactley does bates know how to run a football club club. heslost a third of his punters in the last 8 years. prob a lesson how not to run a football club.

No Danny, I'm not Gary Cooper. One thing I know though is that supporters trusts throughout the world have been very successful over many years in bringing pressure on club owners usually for the long term benefit of the club. That's nothing to do with LUST per se - it's about supporters having a voice. What voice do supporters have on the LUFC board of directors? The answer, apparently, is club legend Peter Lorimer, a man I grew up worshiping and who is now seriously diminished in my eyes.

I've never spoken to Gary Cooper and disagree with him on some points. I also find the self-righteous tone of some of LUST's outpourings a bit tedious. However, where I do agree with him is that LUST is the only organisation right now which is of sufficient size and sufficiently well organised to make any noise on supporters' behalf. If you don't want your voice to be heard, fine, just rant on here. If you do, then you need to be organised. Please tell me what the alternative to LUST is?

As for the subtle difference between contact with GFH and their PR company, there is none. I'm a company director, I employ a PR company. They would never speak 'off the record' to anyone without my explicit consent or their lucrative contract would be terminated. It's a tactic used to circumvent issues around confidentiality clauses or when you want to distance yourself from something. PR companies never speak without the consent of their paymasters. I have no doubt whatsoever that Haigh, whilst not lying in the strictest sense, was being disingenuous with his denials. Haigh's another man who doesn't impress me - shades of Publicity Pete.

09 Nov 2012 14:18:10
Anyone got any idea what time we would have to sign a loan player for them to play against watford, lets hope we get someone and its a piece of the icing on the so called cake

If warnock says he will be playing against watford im guessing he would have signed at some point earlier today and we will find out at game before kick off tommorow, just like diouf

09 Nov 2012 10:59:18
Gfh are definitely doing this for profit. Haigh only started tweeting about football in June. They'll develop the ground and the land surrounding, get us promoted then sell us for twice probably more than they paid for us.

Why would they do that when there is a fortune to be made just by been relegated again .they will make more by keeping leeds united long term in the prem league

And wot if they were? david haigh is leeds fan and wants us in the premiee league... if they want to develop the team n send us to the hights again then so be it n if they sell for a healthy profit in 5 yeara then that their choice. Players dont show loyalty n neither do owners.. IMO i believe gfh r in this for the long run n seriously want to have us for many years.. Does it matta? we all want the same thing dont we... KB out and a little ambition shown to buy a couple of game winning players...

Mot

Well their not gonna do it for a loss are they and check gfh capital webiste look up david haigh cao and you'll see he is in fact a leeds supporter dont think he is gonna run em into the ground do you? god hope he is not a peter ridsdale though!

Glad you said the key word in that -'promoted'. MOT!! White4Life

That's not necessarily a bad thing.

Either way they will need to spend some decent money to develop both the squad and infrastructure which is what we need.

Whoever they would theoretically sell to would need to have even more money and as the infrastructure would then be in a good state, wound be able to focus on the team.

Don't really care aslong as they get us back to were we belong and invest in the playing squad along the way. When they do come to build us up and sell us on, atleast there the right people to sell us on, in the right country, with the right buyers and money men. The only thing i care about is LUFC being back in the prem....... Bates just wanted to make a profit from the assets and turnover. These guys will be in it to turn a profit down the road and it doesn't take a PHD to work that one out. This is why Bates is hated and crowds are down. If Bates was gay, he'ld be a taker not a giver and will go out this world the same way he came in( crying, screaming, milker)
BYE,BYE,BATES.
SGT WARNOCKS BARMY ARMY!!!
mot4life

Just heard that takeover will be done at 6 pm,followed by the signing of 6 quality players,and Harry Redknap as manager before Watford game,got to go now me mams shouting me,

Now that made me laugh,Brilliant.