parklane1
Tony Galvin
I wish.
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Marcelo Bielsa's Clean Leeds
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I wish.
Looks like Bolton could be headed that way.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
thats a shame, they were a well run club for a long time, shame they got ideas above their station and opened themselves to financial risk
Well run? They have been in considerable debt for a long time and their owner has done nothing to bring it down, gambling on getting promoted.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
i'm talking a long time ago, the late 90's
That's like ancient history. Most of their current debt is owed to their owner as they've been running a loss (wages almost at 100% of turnover) for over a decade.
It looks like he wants out and his money back, but nobody wants to buy and the club don't have the cash flow to pay its bills any more.
Under-fire Leeds owner Massimo Cellino has risked further backlash from his club’s supporters after telling the Daily Mirror he made a half-time tactical switch at QPR last weekend.
United’s fans will today stage a 17-minute walkout in protest at the Italian’s handling of the club, walking out of the Elland Road stands in the 17th minute – a number Cellino has a superstitious dislike of.
Cellino is currently fighting a second Football League disqualification for tax evasion, while a string of managerial changes and supporter rows have brought terrace dissent to a head.
Having told Leeds Fans United – a supporters group aiming for fan ownership – he would sell them the club, he then changed his mind three days later and said he would not be attending any further matches or contemplating selling the club until the new year.
However, the former Cagliari owner went to last weekend’s defeat at QPR and the Mirror reported that he went to the dressing room at half-time to tell current boss Steve Evans to change the tactics.
Leeds went on to lose the game 1-0 and Cellino told the newspaper: “Didn’t work anyway. We lost the game.”
Cellino is not expected to be at today’s game against Hull.
http://www.teamtalk.com/news/leeds-owner-cellino-dictated-tactics-during-qpr-defeat
United’s fans will today stage a 17-minute walkout in protest at the Italian’s handling of the club, walking out of the Elland Road stands in the 17th minute – a number Cellino has a superstitious dislike of.
Cellino is currently fighting a second Football League disqualification for tax evasion, while a string of managerial changes and supporter rows have brought terrace dissent to a head.
Having told Leeds Fans United – a supporters group aiming for fan ownership – he would sell them the club, he then changed his mind three days later and said he would not be attending any further matches or contemplating selling the club until the new year.
However, the former Cagliari owner went to last weekend’s defeat at QPR and the Mirror reported that he went to the dressing room at half-time to tell current boss Steve Evans to change the tactics.
Leeds went on to lose the game 1-0 and Cellino told the newspaper: “Didn’t work anyway. We lost the game.”
Cellino is not expected to be at today’s game against Hull.
http://www.teamtalk.com/news/leeds-owner-cellino-dictated-tactics-during-qpr-defeat
The Leeds United owner, Massimo Cellino, is apparently trying to prevent his side’s match with Derby County on Tuesday being televised.
It is understood that the controversial Italian has instructed staff to deny Sky Sports’ production crew entry to Elland Road for a game which is to be broadcast live on the network. Staff from Sky Sports were denied entry to Elland Road on Monday as they arrived to set up for the match.
Cellino’s stance is in response to the number of times his side have been shown on Sky Sports this season, resulting in a number of kick-off and date changes. Leeds have been shown live on Sky Sports nine times already this season, with Tuesday’s game taking them into double figures, with four of them home games.
Earlier this season Cellino said he would be capping Leeds’ notoriously large away support at 2,000 in order to make the point that his club would not be taken for granted, only to reverse the decision after fan dissent.
“The League has been made aware that Sky personnel have been unable to access Elland Road today as previously arranged,” a Football League spokesman said in a statement. “We have contacted Leeds United to remind the club of its obligations to our broadcast partner and to ask them for their observations.
“As yet we have not received a response from anyone in authority at the club but are hopeful that the matter can be resolved swiftly once the club does engage.”
The former Cagliari owner Cellino is currently waiting for an appeal date as he fights a second Football League ban for breaching its Owners’ and Directors’ test following a tax evasion conviction in Italy. He will not be present at Elland Road on Tuesday as he is in Miami and has left the enforcement of his ban with other staff.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...-leeds-match-against-derby-county-elland-road
It is understood that the controversial Italian has instructed staff to deny Sky Sports’ production crew entry to Elland Road for a game which is to be broadcast live on the network. Staff from Sky Sports were denied entry to Elland Road on Monday as they arrived to set up for the match.
Cellino’s stance is in response to the number of times his side have been shown on Sky Sports this season, resulting in a number of kick-off and date changes. Leeds have been shown live on Sky Sports nine times already this season, with Tuesday’s game taking them into double figures, with four of them home games.
Earlier this season Cellino said he would be capping Leeds’ notoriously large away support at 2,000 in order to make the point that his club would not be taken for granted, only to reverse the decision after fan dissent.
“The League has been made aware that Sky personnel have been unable to access Elland Road today as previously arranged,” a Football League spokesman said in a statement. “We have contacted Leeds United to remind the club of its obligations to our broadcast partner and to ask them for their observations.
“As yet we have not received a response from anyone in authority at the club but are hopeful that the matter can be resolved swiftly once the club does engage.”
The former Cagliari owner Cellino is currently waiting for an appeal date as he fights a second Football League ban for breaching its Owners’ and Directors’ test following a tax evasion conviction in Italy. He will not be present at Elland Road on Tuesday as he is in Miami and has left the enforcement of his ban with other staff.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...-leeds-match-against-derby-county-elland-road
Massimo Cellino has backed down and allowed Sky to cover Leeds’ Championship clash with Derby on Tuesday night but has claimed it will be the “last time” the broadcaster are allowed.
The Leeds owner had ordered his staff to bar Sky from entering Elland Road for 24 hours before finally relenting on Tuesday afternoon.
Cellino, who is at his Miami home, failed to respond when asked to comment and Leeds have issued a statement, claiming they have only allowed Sky in reluctantly.
However, Radio Yorkshire claim to have received a text message from Cellino, who says it will be the last time Sky are allowed in.
“The damage they done to the club and to the fans, I’m let (sic) them in now, just because we are different from them, but for the season it’s the last time,” the text reads.
This is a new twist after it appeared that Leeds had backed down in the face of a series of legal threats from the Football League, who warned the Championship club they would face disciplinary action if Sky were not given the all-clear.
Leeds claim they are satisfied they have raised the issue of what they feel is the unfair number of their games screened by Sky on a national level and hope they can come to a long-term solution.
In a statement the club said: “Leeds United have noted that the majority of press reports on the matter have quite rightly appreciated that the club’s issues with the Football League relate in part to the entirely disproportionate number of times Sky have selected the club for live transmission.
“It is not just the number of times the club has been selected, but the fact the adjoining fixtures are also then disrupted which adversely affects the players, the club’s logistical arrangements and the fans’ arrangements.
“It is clear to the club that its key supporters, the season ticket holders, have also had enough of this constant alteration, often at short notice, to the fixture list to accommodate Sky.”
Tonight’s match will be Leeds’ ninth televised Championship match this season and no League side has been shown more times.
Leeds are also angry with the League for threatening to punish them over their stance when they feel it should be backing them.
“Given Sky are to show 92 live games this season, a fair allocation would be four home games per club – so the selection by Sky is clearly unfair and the league are allowing this,” said Leeds in their statement.
“The Football League regulations are supposed to be there to protect the integrity of the sporting competition, not to be used as a stick to beat the club on behalf of Sky.
“It is to be noted that the League threaten a disrepute charge against the club. It is the League who are bringing their own competition into disrepute by unfairly prejudicing Leeds (and certain other clubs) by allowing Sky to unfairly disrupt Leeds United for their own commercial
purposes.”
http://www.footballinsider247.com/n...aling-what-he-will-do-for-next-live-sky-match
The Leeds owner had ordered his staff to bar Sky from entering Elland Road for 24 hours before finally relenting on Tuesday afternoon.
Cellino, who is at his Miami home, failed to respond when asked to comment and Leeds have issued a statement, claiming they have only allowed Sky in reluctantly.
However, Radio Yorkshire claim to have received a text message from Cellino, who says it will be the last time Sky are allowed in.
“The damage they done to the club and to the fans, I’m let (sic) them in now, just because we are different from them, but for the season it’s the last time,” the text reads.
This is a new twist after it appeared that Leeds had backed down in the face of a series of legal threats from the Football League, who warned the Championship club they would face disciplinary action if Sky were not given the all-clear.
Leeds claim they are satisfied they have raised the issue of what they feel is the unfair number of their games screened by Sky on a national level and hope they can come to a long-term solution.
In a statement the club said: “Leeds United have noted that the majority of press reports on the matter have quite rightly appreciated that the club’s issues with the Football League relate in part to the entirely disproportionate number of times Sky have selected the club for live transmission.
“It is not just the number of times the club has been selected, but the fact the adjoining fixtures are also then disrupted which adversely affects the players, the club’s logistical arrangements and the fans’ arrangements.
“It is clear to the club that its key supporters, the season ticket holders, have also had enough of this constant alteration, often at short notice, to the fixture list to accommodate Sky.”
Tonight’s match will be Leeds’ ninth televised Championship match this season and no League side has been shown more times.
Leeds are also angry with the League for threatening to punish them over their stance when they feel it should be backing them.
“Given Sky are to show 92 live games this season, a fair allocation would be four home games per club – so the selection by Sky is clearly unfair and the league are allowing this,” said Leeds in their statement.
“The Football League regulations are supposed to be there to protect the integrity of the sporting competition, not to be used as a stick to beat the club on behalf of Sky.
“It is to be noted that the League threaten a disrepute charge against the club. It is the League who are bringing their own competition into disrepute by unfairly prejudicing Leeds (and certain other clubs) by allowing Sky to unfairly disrupt Leeds United for their own commercial
purposes.”
http://www.footballinsider247.com/n...aling-what-he-will-do-for-next-live-sky-match
DublinSpur
Scott Parker
The more I read about this, the more I find myself siding with Cellino. Which is an odd position to be in.
parklane1
Tony Galvin
Same here.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
Sky do not give one fudge about fans
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
... in the stadium
Lemonade Money
Les Medley
Poch's mentor deserves his own thread.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-bielsa-leeds-united-myth-assembled-real-time
Before the match Norwich were revealed to have painted their away dressing room ‘deep pink’, a colour the club understood to lower testosterone levels. After the Canaries’ cunning plan became public everyone ventured an opinion on it, including Bielsa, ... dismissing the whole wheeze out of hand (“you don’t have any colour that has the capacity to weaken the desire for competition”).
Saturday’s result bore Bielsa out but, according to Alioski, that was not the end of the matter. After the game the Leeds manager insisted his squad clean the pink dressing room from top to toe. “He wants to change this mentality – that we are clean,” Alioski said. “After the game you can see how clean it is inside the dressing room. And the coach helps also. It’s really a respect he wants. It’s not only football, it’s also how the person is outside. None of the players have ever worked like this before.”
Bielsa has taken to sitting on a plastic tub during home matches. He claims it gives him a better vantage point, because the dugouts at Elland Road are below pitch level. Nobody quite believes him, though, and whenever Bielsa holds a press conference he is peppered with questions about the bucket. It has acquired such a totemic status that, before the last home match against Rotherham, fans crowded to get pictures of the bucket. The Millers’ manager, Paul Warne, even confessed it had got inside his head, leaving him uncertain as to whether to stand or sit himself.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-bielsa-leeds-united-myth-assembled-real-time
Before the match Norwich were revealed to have painted their away dressing room ‘deep pink’, a colour the club understood to lower testosterone levels. After the Canaries’ cunning plan became public everyone ventured an opinion on it, including Bielsa, ... dismissing the whole wheeze out of hand (“you don’t have any colour that has the capacity to weaken the desire for competition”).
Saturday’s result bore Bielsa out but, according to Alioski, that was not the end of the matter. After the game the Leeds manager insisted his squad clean the pink dressing room from top to toe. “He wants to change this mentality – that we are clean,” Alioski said. “After the game you can see how clean it is inside the dressing room. And the coach helps also. It’s really a respect he wants. It’s not only football, it’s also how the person is outside. None of the players have ever worked like this before.”
Bielsa has taken to sitting on a plastic tub during home matches. He claims it gives him a better vantage point, because the dugouts at Elland Road are below pitch level. Nobody quite believes him, though, and whenever Bielsa holds a press conference he is peppered with questions about the bucket. It has acquired such a totemic status that, before the last home match against Rotherham, fans crowded to get pictures of the bucket. The Millers’ manager, Paul Warne, even confessed it had got inside his head, leaving him uncertain as to whether to stand or sit himself.
Something in the maté methinks!