Leeds United Chat • Re: Relegation Thread- LUFC almost down?
Are you aware of the City / Newcastle story re: City's owners. It's on record on 5 live, the representative of the Mansoors was asked before it was confirmed they were taking over City why they wanted to buy City. His answer ' we never wanted City, we wanted to buy Newcastle but - I paraphrase here + Ashley got greedy ' hence them buying City. All the glory City got could ? have been us..".I've never understood it either.
For a club of our size to not have a Billionaire majority shareholder is a shock in itself.
Apart from us the only other Premier league teams without a Billionaire majority owner are Watford, Norwich, Burnley and Brentford (but atleast the Brentford owner has perfected his moneybags thing and is a Brentford fan).
So that in itself tells you where we will end up, look at Norwich and Watford or even even American owned Venture capital fund who owns Burnley.
We have the perfect storm of non Billionaire majority shareholder whose being propped up by a Venture capital fund.
To succeed in this league you need deep pockets.
As you say, we should be prime for a wealthy investor to take us over.
1 club City, vibrant support with merchandise sales to challenge anyone in the league outside the top 6 and with a successful club potentially anyone in it.
You'd have thought someone like the Villa owners would have looked at us and thought wow.
But it never happens.
We always get the same type of ownership as you say. The mad the bad the skint and the deluded.
Some financial expert in the Financial Times or Forbes or something like that said a while back that in terms of investment potential us and Newcastle were the two with the most untapped potential and that if anyone was going to do a Roman Abramovich or even Man City type takeover again he would bet money on it being one of us or Newcastle . . . . It wasn't us.
A club of our size with our support with the potential growth it has should be ripe for a dream takeover.
But it just never happens . . Dont get it.
Typical Toon luck. Hope you guys stay up people. Keep the faith and if not youll come straight back up.