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Intervju med Edoardo Cellino om tingenes tilstand!

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Intervju med Edoardo Cellino om tingenes tilstand!

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Fans must keep faith - Cellino Jr

Leeds vice-president Edoardo Cellino has told the club's fans to stick by his father's vision after another turbulent weekend.

Massimo Cellino sacked Darko Milanic after 32 days on Saturday and is now going to make Neil Redfearn his fourth permanent boss in five months.
 While the 58-year-old is no stranger to parting company with managers - he went through 36 in 22 years with Cagliari - English football is not necessarily used to his trigger-happy approach.
 Edoardo Cellino, though, believes his style will bring rewards.
 "(I would tell fans) to keep the faith," he told the Yorkshire Evening Post. "We have good moments, bad moments, but we will rise again. I know my dad is doing a great job, the team is growing, I see the new players getting in.
 "By appointing him (Milanic) we see that we need someone better than him, and now we see he wasn't the right guy for us. We get a new coach."
 With Redfearn having done a stellar job with Leeds' academy, some supporters fear the club will be losing one of its biggest assets if he falls out with Massimo Cellino and also loses his job.
 "Neil is a great guy, I like him, a good coach and he gives good passion to the players," Edoardo Cellino added. "They need to be motivated every day and without putting pressure to them. They will do a good job with him.
 "I'm not sure (what will happen) but I think he's doing a great job with the academy and even if my father and him fall down he will go back to the academy.
 "I know he's going to do a great job. We saw before he won three games and now is the time to do the first team. We will see."

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Nooruddin - a minority shareholder at Leeds - was one of two directors appointed to the board by GFH, which continues to manage a 25 per cent share in United.

Salem Patel remains as a director and GFH revealed that Jinesh Patel, the CEO of Dubai-based GFH Capital, joined him on the Leeds’ board earlier this year.

“In addition to Salem, who remains, Jinesh Patel was appointed to the board since July,” the statement added






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Da er det bare Salem og Jinesh Patel fra GFH som er tilknyttet styret i Leeds United.

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Nooruddin - a minority shareholder at Leeds - was one of two directors appointed to the board by GFH, which continues to manage a 25 per cent share in United.

Salem Patel remains as a director and GFH revealed that Jinesh Patel, the CEO of Dubai-based GFH Capital, joined him on the Leeds’ board earlier this year.

“In addition to Salem, who remains, Jinesh Patel was appointed to the board since July,” the statement added






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Da er det bare Salem og Jinesh Patel fra GFH som er tilknyttet styret i Leeds United.

och noorudin som delägare, bästa vore att få ut GFH

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@APOPEY: #lufc Reports that Jinesh Patel and Salem Patel were served with High Court writs by David Haigh's lawyers before Tues board meeting at ER.



Det er vel dette styremøte som skal sanksjonere investeringer på £ 20 millioner.

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Leeds United: Financier joins Elland Road board

by Phil Hay
Published on the
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2014  12:48

Financier Andrew Umbers - one of the men who helped to arrange the sale of Leeds United by Ken Bates to Gulf Finance House in 2012 - has joined the board at Elland Road.

Umbers’ appointment as a club director increases the size of Leeds’ board to seven and follows on from the arrival of Matt Child as United’s chief operating officer last month.

Umbers came to prominence in Leeds two years ago when, as director of Eurofin Capital, he advised Bates on the sale of his stake in United to GFH.

Speaking at the time, Umber said the 100 per cent takeover by the Bahraini investment bank would create “the right legacy to build on the prudent stewardship of Ken Bates.”

Eurofin was employed by Bates to find a buyer for his shares and both the firm and Umbers remained involved at Elland Road during GFH’s 16 months as owner, a period in which the bank sought to sell a majority shareholding.

Current owner Massimo Cellino bought a 75 per cent stake from the bank in April of this year and Umbers has acted as an advisor for much of the Italian’s time in charge of Leeds.

Cellino has now sanctioned his appointment to the Elland Road board, giving Umbers a remit which will see him focus on the financial side of United’s operations.

Umbers joins a list of directors which already included Cellino, the Italian’s two sons - Edoardo and Ercole - and Daniel Arty, Cellino’s American financial advisor.

All five represent Eleonora Sport Limited, the company Cellino used to buy Leeds from GFH.

GFH, which still controls a 25 per cent stake in United, has two directors at Elland Road. Salem Patel has been on the board since the bank’s takeover in December 2012 while Jinesh Patel, CEO of Dubai-based GFH Capital, was named as a director in July.

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New Italian director joins Leeds United board
   
An Italian executive, who worked with Massimo Cellino when he owned Serie A side Cagliari, has been appointed as a Leeds United director in the latest change to the club's boardroom make-up.


Documentation relating to the appointment of Giampaolo Caboni, 61, was filed with Companies House at the same time as a director termination notice for Cellino, who is temporarily stepping down as president in accordance with his Football League ban.

Earlier this month (January), financier Andrew Umbers was appointed to the Championship club's board. The Yorkshireman has now been named as chairman and will steer the club during Cellino's enforced absence.

Cellino's sons, Edoardo and Ercole, and Eleanora Sport director Daniel Arty also represent the Leeds' owner in the boardroom, while GFH Capital's Jinesh and Salem Patel act for the Dubai-based private equity house which still controls a 25 per cent stake in Leeds United.


http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/yorkshire/132332-

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A Leeds fans' group is hoping to raise B£10million in its bid to secure a place on the club's board of directors. Fans want place on Leeds board

Leeds Fans LLP has targeted the shares of minority stakeholders Gulf Finance House Capital, which owns 25 per cent of the club's shares.

Huddersfield entrepreneur Dylan Thwaites, 49, who fronts the new limited liability partnership, said the group has support from inside the club and GFH Capital itself.

 Leeds Fans LLP will offer supporters the chance to become partners in the group by buying a B£100 stake. Each stake carries one vote and a total of 100,000 are being created, with individual fans allowed to purchase a maximum of 1,000.

 "There's a lost generation of Leeds fans due to the way the club has been run for the last 12 years or so and we think it's time Leeds fans had more of a say in this," said Thwaites, who sold his marketing company Latitude for B£55million in 2007.

 "Our target is to raise B£10million from normal Leeds fans in order to have a seat at the table and have some influence as events unfold over the next year or so," he told BBC Radio Leeds.

 "We've picked up an astonishing level of support over the last two or three weeks and that includes ex-players and coaches.

 "We've had offers of expertise in finance and legals, we've got people inside Leeds United and inside GFH who are supportive of what we're trying to do."

 The terms of the deal reached between GFH Capital and Massimo Cellino in April last year, when the Italian bought 75 per cent of the club's shares, provide Leeds Fans LLP with a major hurdle.

 Cellino, currently serving his ownership ban after failing the Football League's 'owners' and directors' test, has first refusal on any shares which another stakeholder tries to sell, but Thwaites is hoping Leeds Fans LLP will be in position to start selling stakes next month.

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New Leeds United chairman Andrew Umbers is confident the financial restructuring put in place at Elland Road will allow the club to break even at the end of next season. Phil Hay reports.

The job of Leeds United chairman fell to Andrew Umbers at a time of internal strife last week. He accepted the post against the backdrop of a banned owner, a squad threatened by relegation and a club with battles left to fight.

On paper it read like crisis management but Umbers sees the landscape differently. In his view the crisis at Elland Road came last May when, less than a month after Massimo Cellino’s takeover, the Italian was advised to admit defeat immediately and call in the administrators.

Umbers had joined Cellino’s staff that month, asked to help him by “two leading attorneys in the Italian FA.” “At the time, Massimo and I were advised by accountants and other experts that the club should go into administration,” he says.

“Massimo had run Cagliari for 23 years and for the last 15 years, that club made 10 million Euros per annum. He knows how to run a football club. We did a root-and-branch strategic review and we didn’t accept that this football club should go into administration. But the backdrop was pretty awful.”

There are numerous ways of painting the mess in explicit terms. As the club’s most recent accounts show, Leeds – largely under the ownership of Gulf Finance House – lost over £22m in the 2013-14 year. They are presently subject to a Financial Fair Play (FFP) transfer embargo because of it. Loans of more than £20m are owed to GFH, and redundancies last summer were sweeping. Umbers estimates that staffing levels at United have fallen by 37 per cent since then.

“The situation has dramatically improved,” he says. So much so that Umbers expects Leeds to be FFP compliant and out of embargo by the time the summer transfer window opens. Definitely? “Yes. We’ve submitted our FFP analysis. We’re already planning for what we need to do squad-wise for the 2015-16 season.”

Umbers’ projection is that in this financial year, Leeds will lose between £7m and £8m. That figure constitutes a drop of around 66 per cent. He claims that money owed to “cash creditors” has more than halved and says “our objective is to finish the 2015-16 season at or around break even.” Talks about reducing GFH’s loans are well advanced, he claims. “That will mean our debt is minimal.

“If you have a club with little debt and which is getting close to break even, it’s an advertisement for the way Massimo has run the business. But also, it’s long overdue at Leeds United.”

It is indeed. Leeds broke even several times while Ken Bates was chairman, often helped by the sale of players, but the past few years have turned the club into a money pit. On top of GFH’s liabilities, Cellino and companies connected to him have loaned the club more than £12m. Umbers says Cellino’s total injection is “over £20m.” Capital or loans? “His cash commitment is over £20m – at a time when the company is still losing money and still restructuring.”

Umbers, a 50-year-old Yorkshireman, was appointed to the board of directors at Elland Road last month. His career history shows a spell as managing director of Credit Suisse and other senior executive jobs. He was an investment banker for 30 years. But he is recognised in Leeds as the man who helped facilitate the sale of United by Bates to GFH in 2012, claiming at the time that the deal would create “the right legacy to build on the prudent stewardship of Ken Bates.” The reality was very different.

“I was engaged by Ken Bates to try and find a buyer,” he says. “My question would be, why would someone want to sell a club if there were still potential improvements to be made? At the end of the day, GFH were the only buyer that came forward. And Ken Bates decided to sell.”

Umbers says he is reluctant to “apportion blame” to previous regimes for the problems Cellino took on. “The ironic thing about GFH is that they didn’t do anything. When you look at their period of management of Leeds, they took over a club and they left it to run itself rather than providing the help it needed. They neither managed nor mismanaged anything.

“But they put cash into the club. They put in real cash. It’s not for me to say why they decided to sell but when you can’t learn how to drive a car, you get a chauffeur. You bring somebody else in. That’s why Massimo was asked to buy the club. GFH were very fortunate in my opinion to find Massimo Cellino. He’s shown how capable he is of restructuring it.”

GFH remain as minority shareholders and still control 25 per cent of the club. Shared ownership is something Cellino seems to tolerate reluctantly. Is the Bahraini bank a worthwhile partner? “With respect, the question is the wrong one,” Umbers says. “They owned a 100 per cent of the club and they only sold 75 per cent. It was their decision to keep 25 per cent. That’s why there’s a partnership.”

Cellino himself is absent from Leeds, banned from running the club until April 10. The Football League disqualified him last week over a tax conviction imposed on him in Italy last March, leading to Umbers’ appointment as chairman. Umbers says his position is permanent.

He talks about the need to re-engage with the local community, claiming the connection was broken by past regimes. The Leeds United Foundation will continue to operate under Cellino. Club officials have met with senior figures at Leeds City Council to discuss numerous issues, including the building of a new training ground. The council’s chief executive, Tom Riordan, wrote a statement of support for Cellino in his appeal against Football League disqualification.

“They supported us on the basis that they’ve had the right representations from us,” Umbers says. “We have massively interesting developments that we’re working with the council on. More about that next month.”

Umbers says that with Cellino absent, Leeds are financially sound. “We have a very healthy cash balance in our bank account.” What is less healthy is United’s league position; 20th in the Championship, five points clear of relegation. Umbers admits that relegation would have severe consequences – “of course attendances would drop, of course commercial income could drop” – but claims the restructuring of the past nine months would guard against collapse. “This club would still be around,” he insists.

For 70-odd days, the ship is his to steer. “It’s a privileged position,” Umbers says, “and what we’re trying to do doesn’t take six months. It takes a minimum of two years. To start with you have to put in the hard yards and make the club financial viable.” In his opinion, Leeds are on that course.

 

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30/01/2015 1:47 PM GST

COACHKING  Well we have read about three statements from Andrew Umbers over the weeks and we have already worked out that when he speaks you do not believe one word.
Will the lies, false propaganda and base level bullsh1t ever stop?

30/01/2015 1:22 PM GST

SECTION 20  I have a programme somewhere upstairs dated about April/May 2007 where Bates - in his programme notes - said exactly the same, about us turning the corner. 6-7 weeks later we were in administration.

Our only hope is that we don't go into administration again before the close season due to the points deduction, although even then we'd carry the deduction forward.

This might be the Range Rover administration if the Italian guy gets busted again for tax non payment.

Which other club could go into administration because of a f*cking Range Rover!!!

30/01/2015 12:16 PM GST

FATCIGAR  Umbers is speaking in his capacity as Leeds Chairman, and the fact that break even can be achieved is good news. You can take this statement at face value, including the projected loss for this financial year of between 7 and 8 million. Hopefully this will be covered by a further loan from the owners - we all know how Bates would have covered it.

30/01/2015 12:04 PM GST

CHEERUPCOSTHINGSCANONLYGETBETTER  "30 years spent as an investment banker" is hardly a glowing reference in the aftermath of the world banking crisis and continual revelations regarding how banks have abused client's trust and manipulated interest rates for their own gain. Mr Umbers has certainly mastered the art of dodging every salient point, by being "reluctant to apportion any blame" whilst putting a masking spin on practically every point raised.

The point about GFH needing to "get a chauffeur" to drive the business in view of their own inexperience; I distinctly recall Ken Bates stating that he was providing advice on how to run the football club throughout the protracted GFH take over process and justified hanging around the club for months afterwards for that purpose (to supposedly provide a seamless handover to GFH!). Now if Mr Umbers was party to all the relevant facts regarding the current financial status of the club and GFH's plans for the club, (with Uncle Ken supposedly acting as their business advisor and mentor!!) how come he isn't fully aware of and willing to disclose just where blame does lie? (pardon the pun).

I am not at all impressed by this appointment and fear that it is yet another poor decision by Mr Cellino. Hope I'm wrong but the potential for it to go wrong quickly appears as clear as appointing Dave Hockaday was always going to end in disaster. Only my suspicious opinion and I hope that as we consolidate our form on the pitch and climb the table, we can all talk about football rather than concern ourselves regarding boardroom politics. MOT

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30/01/2015 11:22 AM GST

KA01_2  I agree with others that we need to be careful taking at face value what people like Andrew Umbers say. We need to consider them and judge based on what else we KNOW, not on rumour and conjecture.

The danger is that we become over cynical and critical and doubt everything we are told. Trusting and believing nobody will not help the situation.
We don't have to believe everything everybody says but by the same token we shouldn't disbelieve everything and don't pre-judge.

Try to keep an open mind.

30/01/2015 10:53 AM GST

1LEEDS LAD  Mr Umbers please can you also clarify the below points :-
(1) If the cash from McCormack can not be used for the purchase of Elland Road, why can it not be used to buy out GFH or reduce debt ? Where is the money ? Can Cellino even afford to buy out GFH ?
(2) Why has the debt issue gone from Cellino saying the club is in serious trouble to no apparent problems, all within the space of a few weeks ? Someone is clearly not telling the truth.
(3) Do you say that the Farnham Group are liars when you state "GFH were the only buyer that came forward. And Ken Bates decided to sell." ? In addition to this, Cellino claims he is inundated with "billionaires" wanting to buy the club.
(4) Why have you avoided answering the question about Cellinos £20m cash injection ? You was asked if it is cash or loans ( are the club paying interest ?. This remains unclear.
(5) Please explain what the £20m loans from GFH where used to pay, and if this was of ANY benefit to the club or the fan base ? Your will defiantly know these details.
(6) Why did you feel that selling to GFH was "the right legacy to build on the prudent stewardship of Ken Bates." It was clear from their parent company financial accounts that they where in deep debt, lacked resources, and had no skills in running a football club. You say you are "unwilling to apportion blame on past regimes", but as YOU was the paid "deal broker", do you not feel you should carry a large portion of that blame ?
(7) You state the club needs to "re-engage with the local community". Do you feel that your appointment as Chairman, is a good way of doing this ?
( Can you assure the fans that the club "breaking even" by the end of next year will not require the sale of the "crown jewells", ..... if not we are little better than balancing the books the "Bates way".

PLEASE DO NOT INTERVIEW LIKE A POLITICIAN, TELL THE FANS WHAT THEY WISH TO KNOW !

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30/01/2015 8:04 AM GST

Jeepo  When I read some comments on here I tell myself that I must have been reading a different article.
Massimo Cellino or liquidation?... that is long and short of it all. 
You can't compare Bates and MC until he has been in the club for a similar amount of time. He is putting his own money in (loans or otherwise) to stabilise us. Going into liquidation is the easy way out, just like people who are crap with their money filing for personal bankruptcy....a chickens way out!
Basically, if it's true that for 75% of his tenure at Clagari he made 10 million euros a year, then "respect" to him. I know he bought and sold players to do that, but he still did that in a league that doesn't pay anywhere near what the PL and Championship do and with attendances that my local team gets (Swindon Town!).
I like the fact that the club are dealing with the council again as that can only help with the planning of new facilities; no matter how much money an owner has got/can get, if the council says no, then it is NO!
You can never totally trust a "suit" but if MC has this guy on board then he must be worth having. Mr Umbers will work hard for whoever pays his salary, just like any of us. You don't have to like your "boss" to work for/with them. As long as he gets the job done for MC, I couldn't give a flying monkey's wee bag if he has worked for Smurf in the past.
Let's get over and beyond the futile mumbles about this all being a front and that Bates is still the owner?! Mr Bates certainly has left a stain on us all, but how long shall we stay under that cloud for when we can now (hopefully!) do something that can steer this mighty ship back into calmer seas?
If you love something you are prepared to fight for it. We simply need all the off field stuff to stop (that IS totally down to MC!) so we can get on and build. I still think we are on a 5 year journey back to the PL and as such I am maybe a bit more relaxed as I don't expect things to happen as quickly as others do......although I hope that I am totally wrong!!
MOT

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30/01/2015 7:12 AM GST

MORLEDGE  In my opinion yes cellino has loaned club 20m etc and loaned from gfh but if you look at alot of clubs they all do it even abramovic and the man city owners they loan the club it.

30/01/2015 6:49 AM GST

CHOFFY 8 ALLTHE PIES  Very worrying. As I've said all along this "debt" is not a debt in reality. Loans from GFH and exorbitant "management fees" are why we have debt. Not because of players bought or salaries or running costs. The owners are/were charging THEMSELVES to run the club and expecting the club to pay them (our owners!)....and now Massimo is doing that himself! I note in the article that he has LOANED Lufc 20 mil. So we have to pay him back. So that's ANOTHER debt to an owner who already own us. No wonder he's always in court. Surely this "charging yourself" malarkey is some kind of accountancy scam?!

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30/01/2015 3:40 AM GST

OZTYKEAGAIN  I'm not thrilled by Mr Umbers' (past?) associations with Bates and GFH, but if he's been put in charge then good luck to him.
3 points tomorrow against 'Udders, thanks.

30/01/2015 2:20 AM GST

THERES ONLY ONE CLIVE  I can't wait for the open top bus parade when we break even!

I still think GFH repossessed the club from Ken Bates.

Why did he suddenly sell after all those years, especially when he's still hanging around over the road?

What is an investment bank doing buying a football club?

Why could they only get a deluded scout to manage the club?

Why did they sell to the first crackpot that came along after only a year?

And as Umbers says, they did nothing.

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Upbeat Umbers Strikes the Right Note for Off-Key Leeds United – by Rob Atkinson

If you’re a Leeds fan – and if you’re not, why are you even reading this??* – then you’ll be familiar with the concept of “glass-half-empty”. It’s something that pervades such a lot of the Leeds United-related talk everywhere these days, both on and offline. You sometimes get the feeling that any good news is ever so slightly unwelcome – deemed to be in bad taste by the sobersides pessimists that make up a bleak but significant proportion of the club’s support.

Twitter is an obvious example of this in the virtual Leeds world. There’s some right miserable buggers on there. It’s certainly not recommended for those United fans already of a nervous or depressive persuasion – it’d be set fair to finish them off. An evening perusing the #LUFC hashtag would be a mighty fine cure, too, for anybody reeling from an overdose of nitrous oxide (that’s laughing gas, for any Lancastrians who might be reading this). Even the cheerful Leeds fan, that rarest of creatures, doesn’t emerge from a session on Twitter unscathed, with any joy in his heart.

So your average Leeds fanatic doesn’t have to look far to find someone or something depressing in connection with the Whites. Bad news and sombre outlooks tend to wait around every corner, lurking there to pounce and enfold you in their miserable but vice-like embrace. The resultant gloom and despair tends to seep into your soul over time, like a thin but persistently damp fog will into consumptive lungs, rendering all but the most resiliently cheerful breathless with misery – asking of themselves what they’ve done to deserve being stuck with such a very depressing club to follow. And there’s nowt you can do about it; you just have to grimace and bear it, hoping against hope for a ray of sunshine in that ugly miasma of negativity.

All of which is why Andrew Umbers, Deputy Sheriff of Leeds United and lately promoted to the top job since a Football League posse rode in to take President Cellino temporarily away, is such a welcome breath of fresh air. With his sunny reassurances and breezy optimism over the future, both long and short term, Mr Umbers is positively manna for the soul. Try this for size: it seems he expects Leeds to be FFP (Financial Fair Play) compliant and out of embargo by the time the summer transfer window opens. What – really?

“Yes. We’ve submitted our FFP analysis. We’re already planning for what we need to do squad-wise for the 2015-16 season.” Wow. How good does that sound? The long faces and short tempers on Twitter had been predicting that this current transfer embargo will be around longer than Cellino will. Some people certainly seem to relish wallowing around in misery, don’t they? Not me. I’m only happy when I’m happy – and that one isolated quote from the rather lovely Mr Umbers has really cheered me up no end.

It’s received wisdom that any 50 year old Yorkshireman will normally be quite direct, not exactly shooting from the lip, perhaps, but not fannying around with smoke and mirrors either. Umbers does tend to tread quite daintily around his involvement with, and take on, previous administrations at Elland Road – but with his focus very much on the future and making the current set-up work, that is both understandable and forgiveable.

Nevertheless, the temporary Chairman’s appraisal of what has happened at Leeds over the past few years – seemingly, to the outsider, a succession of car crashes leaving blood and wreckage everywhere – is as upbeat as you could possibly expect. He refers to the initial scary impression at the time Cellino bought his controlling interest – the advice then was to scream and head for the hills, or at least call in the administrators – but he insists that the subsequent “root and branch strategic review” left the new incumbents defiantly unwilling to contemplate administration. Now, he says, the situation has “dramatically improved” – so much so that he feels confident about his prediction that Leeds will emerge from embargo this summer – and that a break-even position is attainable by the end of next season.

Breaking even, of course, is achievable via many and varied routes – there is more than one way to skin a cat, after all. Leeds broke even sometimes under Bates, but that was achieved largely through the deeply unpopular sale of prime assets – like footballers of immense potential and great skill. But Umbers has not emerged as a fan of selling some of the young diamonds coming through the ranks at Leeds, and that is at least as reassuring to the long-suffering fans of Leeds as anything he might say about balance sheets, lifted embargoes or pounds and pence. So the talk is of financial restructuring, rather than fire sales – more positivity for a body of support to digest, who have previously grubbed around on the barren ground of austerity and depression. It would be easy to get used to this.

Umbers’ tenure as the nominal head honcho is distinctly finite, at least this time around. He appears to be in for the long haul, though, speaking enthusiastically of building a new training ground, reacquiring the stadium (yes, that again) – and re-engaging with the community. “We have massively interesting developments that we’re working with the council on,” he offers, adding as a cliff-hanger, “More about that next month”. Wrapping up a distinctly glass-half-full briefing, he refers to the club being in a comfortable cash-in-bank position – and again, skirting neatly around less pleasant matters, he gives his opinion that relegation, whilst it would have severe consequences, wouldn’t be fatal. “This club would still be around”.

Relegation, administration – or any other of those nasty words to be found in such proliferation on Twitter – do not appear to be at the forefront of Andrew Umbers’ global view of the Leeds situation. He looks forward to the remaining 60 or 70 days of his stewardship with a smile on his face. “It’s a privilege,” he says. “We’re going to put in the hard yards and make the club viable.”

You get the feeling, the distinctly positive impression, that Mr Umbers means what he says and is confident – little by little, bit by bit – of delivering a two year recovery that will silence the gloom and doom merchants. And at Leeds United, of all clubs – where moaning and groaning was de rigueur even at the summit of the Premier League – that would, in itself, be no mean feat.

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New Leeds United chairman Andrew Umbers has given his first broadcast interview since arriving at Elland Road in January.

With Massimo Cellino having to resign as club president, Umbers has arrived as chairman, and spoke to BBC Radio West Yorkshire about some of the issues concerning the club right now.

Umbers doesn't come from a footballing background, but has reassured fans that Leeds have no intention of selling some of their best players in order to balance the books, and cited Cellino's success with Cagliari as proof that they don't need to sell in order to progress.

"This club is not about player trading," said Umbers. "A lot of football clubs survive by buying and selling players; some from their youth, some that they've bought and taken the profit - and that is how football is managed. The point about Leeds United is that we didn't want to do that. Massimo Cellino, when he owned Cagliari for 23 years, has made €10m profit every year in the last ten years has been - in broad terms - without trading players on."

Leeds have a number of saleable assets right now, particularly young duo Sam Byram and Lewis Cook. The pair came up through the Leeds United academy, and are key members of the first team under manager Neil Redfearn.

However, both players are out of contract in 2016, meaning Byram, 21, and Cook, 18, could leave the club for knockdown fees in the very near future.

In a bid to ease fears over their futures, Umbers told fans that contract talks will start with the two youngsters in the coming weeks, and that their hopes of tying them down to new deals were delayed with Cellino's exit.

"Nicola Salerno and Massimo Cellino were re-negotiating and offering new contracts to those players that might be exposed post-2016. We do not want to lose, really under any circumstances, players of any pedigree. We're really happy with the squad as it is - we'd love to score more goals, but we're really happy with it," he said.

"We understand the judiciousness of having a team with three year contracts, because the consistency, continuity that that brings to the coach, the head coach - who is very talented - is enormous. Yes, that is to be addressed in the next few weeks," added Umbers.

Umbers' admissions will be music to the ears of Leeds fans, who want to see young players feature in the first team and ultimately stay at the club for the long-term.

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Lager ikke noen ny tråd om styreformann Andrew Umbers, selv om han antagelig vil ha en viktig rolle i klubben de neste månedene. Kanskje til og med lengre enn det!

I og med at han ikke er eier så kommer han i dag med noe fullstendig sprøyt om stallen og hvor konkurransedyktig den er i denne divisjonen:

@APOPEY: #lufc Following is chairman Andrew Umbers response to questions I posed to him reference player/coach contracts, loans & legal issues.

@APOPEY: #lufc Chairman Andrew Umbers: "Our complete focus is on avoiding relegation and finishing as high up the table as necessary..."

@APOPEY: #lufc Umbers : "All Contracts are going to be dealt with at the end of the season so as to avoid any distraction or loss of focus..."
Hvorfor signerer man Wooton og ingen andre?

@APOPEY: #lufc AU :"The players are in a good spirits at the moment. Any temporary, sometimes expensive, and new player entering in to the squad..."

@APOPEY: #lufc AU "...could in theory upset the equilibrium of the spirit of the team."

@APOPEY: #lufc AU: "Neil Redfearn has a good and large  squad of players that he can utilise. His choice ; he is the 1st team coach."
Sjokkerende uttalelse med tanke på hvor lite balansert troppen er!

@APOPEY: #lufc AU: "Any strengthening of the squad will be done in early Summer and for the benefit of the longer term."
Altså ikke inn noen spillere fra listen Redfearn leverte til ham i dag.

@APOPEY: #lufc AU: "We continue to defend our legal positions in all of the caseload going back many years (to ex owners). It's an expensive burden."

@APOPEY: #lufc Andrew Umbers reiterated: "We have had no approaches. The club is not for sale."

@APOPEY: Finally, with regards to Cellino's appeal to the FA against his ban Umbers says : "The FL Rule K arbitration date will be released shortly."



Skuffende uttalelser fra en Chairman uten myndighet!

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ET GODT INTERVJU MED ANDREW UMBERS, Cellinos vikar som styreformann:



Leeds United chairman Andrew Umbers.
18:00Tuesday 21 April 2015

HAVE YOUR SAY
Yorkshire Evening Post chief football writer Phil Hay on Tuesday sat down with Leeds United chairman Andrew Umbers. Here is the full transcript of that interview.

PH: The obvious place to start is with the six players who were declared injured towards the end of last week. Do you believe that all six were unfit to play and do you believe that they were unfit to travel?

Massimo Cellino at Elland Road, Leeds
AU: I spent two hours at Thorp Arch this morning, extending the conversations I’d had on Wednesday after the Norwich game, on Thursday and on Saturday. Neil Redfearn and me get an injury list every single day. Harvey Sharman - our head physio who’s extremely good and talks to the players night and day - puts on an email exactly what’s going on.

With Cani, when we signed him we knew he had a problem with his knee. He’s got tendinitis. He rang Harvey on Thursday night and said ‘the knee’s not good after training.’ Harvey said ‘come in early before training on Friday and let’s assess it.’ He assessed it and Harvey said ‘no good’. Cani went for an MRI scan this morning.

With Silvestri, we all know that he got an injury against Norwich. Harvey wasn’t sure if he had chipped a bone. He wasn’t able to train last week, or what training he did he wasn’t really able to move. He was doing significant physio work and it wasn’t successful. On Thursday Harvey told us by email and by phone that he was unlikely to be able to play. He’s had an MRI scan this morning too. There’s significant bruising but no chipped bone. He’s done light training this morning but I mean gingerly training.

With Bellusci, we’ve had a problem with his hamstring all season. He’s still having treatment, he’s also gone for an MRI scan and we knew on Thursday that he was injured.

With Del Fabro, whether he was in the squad for Charlton or not is to be debated. But he took a very heavy knock on Thursday, reported into Harvey at 9am on Friday and said it was painful. He’s got a contusion, it’s swollen. He couldn’t play or get on the bus.

With Doukara, again he’s had a groin injury all season. It’s got better but it still needs significant amount of work. Antenucci had treatment on Wednesday, treatment on Thursday and treatment on Friday. He might be back next Monday. He might be light training by Friday.

More importantly, Harvey Sharman kept us all informed on Thursday and Friday so when we read what was said in the newspapers and on social media on Friday night, it was no surprise to me that these guys weren’t playing.

I’ve spoken to each of them individually and collectively. Individually there’s no question in my mind that with Harvey’s expertise and our information, their injuries can be contradicted. These guys were genuinely injured. They want to wear the white shirt and play for Leeds United, whether they’re in the squad or on the periphery of it. If they’re picked, they want to play. And they’re very upset because everything has been personalised. Their loyalty has been challenged. I am satisfied that’s not the case.

United head coach Neil Redfearn.
PH: The owner, Massimo Cellino, said it was a “weird situation”. Silvestri’s father said he, in his words, thought it was a “silly protest” from some of the six players. Neil Redfearn said that as of Friday morning, he thought it was likely that all six would be available - and with at least four of them he was unaware of any problems. That all contradicts your version.

AU: Harvey spoke to Neil firstly and he speaks to him morning, noon and night. He treats all the players. He’s frighteningly honest, he’s frighteningly good and that’s a fact. Massimo is not here anyway.


PH: So when Massimo says you didn’t find out about the injuries until Friday night, that’s untrue?

AU: Massimo doesn’t get any of our injury lists. He’s not allowed to. Firstly he’s not on email but he’s not allowed to get involved day-to-day. Those are the rules and regulations that he signed up to. He wouldn’t know. He’s reporting what he sees.

PH: But if he says that the chairman hasn’t found out until Friday night, he must have spoken to you. That’s the inference and a contradiction.

AU: No, he doesn’t know. I don’t speak to Massimo every day. What I keep him in touch with about are things like an awards ceremony where Lewis Cook is up for an award, or certain things on the cash-flow side just to let him know. He owns this business. I keep him in touch with the strategic stuff but not the day-to-day stuff.

PH: What does it say though about the credibility of the club or public trust in the club that the assumption was that with those six players, it was a downing of tools or a collective withdrawal designed to undermine Neil Redfearn?

AU: I don’t think anything is designed to undermine Neil Redfearn. Neil is first-team coach, he’s no different to John Carver, Sam Allaryce or Mark Warburton - all of whom are going to the end of the season to renegotiate their contracts. He’s no different to that. You have to remember that I’m in charge of the business side of Leeds United, not the footballing side. I want to be clear about that.


PH: But a club chairman has to oversee both, surely? Isn’t that the job?

AU: No, the authority that’s been given to me is purely on the business side, not on the football side. But in the last four or five days, particularly with the issues that have been directed at me professionally and personally, obviously I’ve had to get involved. This club has a communication issue. It has a communication issue with its stewards, its fans and its sponsors and that has to improve.

PH: There is a trust issue too, clearly. Sections of the public don’t trust what the club does and says. That true, isn’t it?

AU: I think, with respect, there’s been a trust issue here for donkey’s years. Fifteen years maybe. It’s always the Leeds United way. However, what Massimo has always said, what I’ve always said, is that we respect the fact that the fans pay money. The fans own Leeds United and in a way they own the club. The fact is that we need to be able to communicate better. It was handled appallingly (last week) and within 10 minutes of training finishing at Thorp Arch on Friday, before they got on the bus at 2pm, it was tweeted that six players weren’t playing. So of course there’s a conspiracy. That’s how these things start. The use of social media is something this club has not addressed. It something we’re going to address because clearly what we do behind closed doors, the decisions that are made, the fans need to be able to trust us to do it properly.

PH: Do they believe that? Do they believe that the people at the top here are fit to run the club or responsible?

AU: I hope they do. With the mess financially we inherited, with the players who were let go or sold at the start of this season, we’ve made significant changes on the football side. On the financial side we’ve significantly reduced the debt, we’re restructured the framework of the club and we’ve tried to re-engage with the council, the business community. We’ve only started and we’ve got a long way to go. Trust isn’t built overnight. All we wanted was a clean slate and that clean slate was get ourselves stable financially and stable on the football side.

PH: It doesn’t look stable on the football side.

AU: I respect the fact that many people don’t think we’re stable on the football side. But when we get into the close season we can explain ourselves, explain the strategic plan. From a fans’ perspective, they’re not that interested in the business side. They’re interested in the football side. They should remember that we’ve let lots of players gone and signed lots of new ones. There are always integration issues. In hindsight I think there are things we would do better. I’ve talked to the president (Cellino) about how we need to do things better next season and in the close season to make sure we’re completely ready for next season.

PH: Will Neil Redfearn be head coach at the start of next season?

AU: That is Mr Cellino’s decision.

PH: Who will advise him on that and what advice would you give him?

AU: Massimo’s owned a football club for about 25 years. He’s extremely able on business and in my view he’s even better on the footballing side. Whatever decision he takes will be for the benefit of Leeds United. Neil Redfearn I think has done a good job

PH: As chairman do you think he has done enough to deserve another contract? If it was your decision, would you give him another contract?

AU: It’s not my decision.

PH: Can comment then on how he’s performed, given that the club were in relegation trouble but have been safe for the best part of two months?

AU: Look, Neil has got us into a position of safety in the Championship. When you judge someone on performance, that’s a tick in the box.

PH: There’s a perception outside the club, among us in the media and the fans, that Neil has been undermined in his position as head coach. Things have been made more difficult for him. Do you disagree with that or accept that it might be true?

AU: When you sign players, you have appearances, goals, longevity, promotion - bonuses, all four of them. We have that with almost every one of our squad; various things where on a certain amount of appearances, goals or where we’re positioned in the league, individuals get a bonus. I can think of a dozen players where it’s like that. Neil’s aware of those contractual obligations and from time-to-time we remind him of those obligations. But in no way do we - and this includes when Massimo’s here - tell him who to put out on a Saturday or a Tuesday night.

PH: That seems to allude to Mirco Antenucci’s situation. Is it the case that you, Massimo or anyone else at the club told Neil or suggested to him that he shouldn’t play Antenucci because of a clause in his contract? Was that ever suggested, was it ever touched upon?

AU: Neil was aware that Mirco scoring two more goals gives him an extra year on his contract. We didn’t make that public but Neil was made aware of it.

PH: That implies that the club didn’t want Antenucci to play?

AU: We in no way said ‘don’t play him’. Absolutely not. You’ve got to pick the best players otherwise the fans pay for a ticket and don’t get the best team. They’ve got a right to complain about that.

PH: But do the club want Antenucci to have another year on his contract? He’s into his 30s. Are the club trying to avoid that?

AU: Mirco Antenucci is contracted to Leeds United for next year. What we do with Mirco and his contract is between us. We want him to stay because we think he’s a fantastic striker who’s got better and better as he’s got more used to the Championship - and though the coaching of Neil Redfearn.

PH: If Neil Redfearn is not going to be head coach next season, what has the club done to look for a replacement - given that the season ends in 10 days’ time and the transfer window opens soon?

AU: We’re always looking to improve the infrastructure of the footballing and business sides of Leeds United. With regards to Neil, we’ve done nothing because it is Massimo Cellino’s decision as to what he wants to do with his staff. We’d be in breach of contract, in breach of trust if we did anything else. Neil’s a Leeds United man and he’s performed. He’s kept us in the Championship this year.

PH: So the idea that Neil Redfearn is as good as gone, the assumption that he’ll lose his job in the summer - you’re saying that’s wrong?

AU: You’re going to have to refer to Massimo on that when he comes back.

PH: On the subject of Steve Thompson, what were the exact reasons for the club suspending Steve from his position as assistant?

AU: Nicola Salerno had a responsibility to look after all the footballing side of Leeds United post Massimo’s disqualification. He took that decision. When we look back on it, was it timely? No. But it happened. The issues that Nicola Salerno had privately and professionally with Steve Thompson were issues that led him to make that decision.

PH: Has Nicola Salerno explained those issues in full to the club’s board?

AU: He came to us and said there had been a breakdown in communication. A breakdown of trust. One or two other personal issues. These matters will be remaining internal.

PH: Have the club properly investigated these issues? Are the allegations actually true?

AU: Of course we have. Steve Thompson had one boss, Nicola Salerno. That boss decided that Steve Thompson was not going to be part of our set-up. That was the decision he made and we supported that. He came to the board and we said ‘okay, but there will be issues that result from this decision.’

PH: So the board were happy to let Salerno take that decision on his own? Doesn’t a football club’s board usually have the final say on these matters?

AU: Those are the authorities vested with Nicola Salerno post Massimo’s disqualification. He made that decision.

PH: Have the reasons been explained in full to Steve Thompson or the League Managers Association who, we understand, are representing him?

AU: I’m not aware of whether they have or haven’t.

PH: In the letter to him he was told that his contract will not be renewed in the summer. Is it not prejudicial to make that decision when he’s suspended from his job, rather than sacked?

AU: In Nicola Salerno’s eyes, he wanted him suspended. I’m afraid that’s the end of it. It’s an internal issue and I’m not going to say anything else.

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Fortsettelse.......


PH: The four young players who’ve been a shining light this season - Cook, Mowatt, Taylor, Byram - have contracts been offered to those players?

AU: At Cagliari Massimo Cellino built one of the youngest sides in Serie A. When Massimo came and bought Leeds United and sat down with everyone from Terry Potter, Steve Holmes, Andy Wood and Neil Redfearn to talk about the academy - about the under-15s, under-16s, the 21s - we made it a policy to play them. If they’re good enough, play them because we’re going to back you. Leeds United do not want to lose any of these young players. Leeds United will not lose any of these young players.

PH: Have contracts been offered to them?

AU: We’re in the process of working through player contracts for all of our first-team squad and also our scholars. I can only tell you that it’s going to be a very positive message.

PH: But the history of this club is of players leaving and of better players being sold. People won’t take that at face value.

AU: We’re not selling our best players. We are not selling our young players.

PH: Is that a point of principle on which you would resign if it happened? Because it won’t be your decision ultimately.

AU: I’m just aware of what we’re doing and what’s going on. I can’t tell you everything but I can tell you that one or two of these things were sorted out months ago. The fans can be assured - and they’ll judge me on my word - that you’ll see not only those young players but an improved squad by the start of next season.

PH: Massimo is due back here when his disqualification ends on May 3. Do you expect him back on that date and will he retake his position as president on that date?

AU: I’ve written to the chairman, the chief executive and general counsel of the Football League and asked permission for Massimo Cellino, as a spectator, to be allowed to come back for the Rotherham game (United’s last game of the season on May 2).

PH: In his capacity as owner?

AU: No, as a spectator.

PH: Can he not just buy a ticket?

AU: I’d like to think he’s entitled to buy a ticket and come in under human rights law. But we’ve really tried to abide by everything that the Football League have told us to abide by. All their rules, all their regulations, all their unwritten rules. I think we’ve done it successfully. It’s the last game, I’ve asked the Football League whether he can come back.

PH: The perception on the outside is that he’s still be pulling the strings here, that’s he’s influencing much of what’s going on at the club. It often looks that way.

AU: He’s been in Miami for two to three months. You should ask the staff who’s been running the business and they’ll probably give you a different answer to what you think. On the football side it’s been run by Neil Redfearn. On the business side it’s been run by me. The staff have, I think, enjoyed the three months - or everything up to the last week. Of course Massimo’s watching what’s going on.

PH: He was at Elland Road the Friday before last. That’s not in dispute.

AU: Massimo came to have a look at the pitch. He didn’t come to do any work. He came to look at the new offices, just to say hello. There’s a lot of planning that we have to do for next season. He needs to take stock of what has happened with Steve, with Neil, with Nicola, what’s happening on the business side, what plans we’ve got for infrastructure around Elland Road. Our negotiations to do things with the council. Without making any decisions, he basically needs to understand what it’s like here now. The only way you can do that is if you’re here. He popped in for half an hour. Everyone was very pleased to see him.

PH: You mentioned Nicola Salerno’s situation. He’s clearly been away from the club for weeks. Massimo Cellino said he had resigned as sporting director. What is the position?

AU: Nicola is absent.

PH: Why?

AU: He found social media and everything else too much. He took it all (the reaction to Steve Thompson’s suspension) pretty badly actually. He felt he wasn’t welcome. He’s a fantastic guy, a lovely guy, and he’ll remain absent. We’ll see what happens in the close season.

PH: Has Massimo at any stage spoken to you about potentially selling the club? There have been rumours of takeover throughout the time he’s been disqualified.

AU: I’ll answer that in a different way. He doesn’t want to sell the club and contrary to rumour, I’m not here to sell the club either. I’m here to manage it. I’m a Leeds fan, albeit people might find that slightly ironic, but I am. I’m here to make some hard decisions which benefit the club in the short, the medium and the longer term. There are always people who are interested in buying Leeds United, as there are with every football club. You just have to read about Aston Villa and others who are perceived to have an issue at the top. Massimo is not for selling, I’ve said it before. He’s not for selling but if you’re looking at a house that’s worth a pound and someone offers you four, you might be interested. But in football there’s so much noise. There’s nothing in reality which actually catches you. Has he spoken about it? People have got his phone number. I can’t stop them ringing him. But if we’ve ever talked about things like that in Miami, he’s made a commitment to live in Leeds. He’s made a commitment to put his children in Leeds. His wife came over. You don’t make those decisions and then just walk away. As the fans will probably gather from some his comments, he’s pretty colourful in the way he responds to that type of question. He’s made unpopular decisions. He’s already made many. But underlying, I think you’ve got a good steward of the club - someone who knows how to sort the mess out and build the footballing side.

PH: A lot of the 3,000 away fans at Charlton on Saturday were making their opinions plain. They were making it clear that they want him gone.

AU: It’s very sad. You set expectations and you manage expectations. We haven’t set many expectations and people might say that’s down to the fact that we don’t communicate. Part of the reason we don’t communicate is because we’re dealing with so many issues at so many times, we can’t. We want to tell people all the good news. In good time we’ll set the bar right in the close season. We’ll set the right expectations for the fans. When you hear chants that are personal and divisive, they affect the players on the pitch. They affect family. But look, they’re a minority.

PH: Of the 3,000 at Charlton, it wasn’t a minority. I accept that the fanbase is far bigger than that but the criticism from those 3,000 sounded unanimous.

AU: I hope in time we can win them all over. We’ll do our best to win all of them over. It’s not an easy job running a club when you have such passionate fans who have such great loyalty. You only do your best. Sometimes you have to be unpopular but you always have to think you’re doing the right thing. If we get communication and expectation-management right then people will see what we’re doing. But I accept that people want to see contracts signed. They want to see stability on the management and the football side. I get that. All these things are going to come.

PH: Has anyone told Massimo about the weight of objection to him and the things that are going on here? That weight of dissent we saw at Charlton on Saturday?

AU: He’s aware of it. He was told about it during the day. He’s adamant that what he’s doing is for the benefit of Leeds United and its fans. He’s adamant and more steadfast and he would ask for the fans to be more patient.

PH: With regards to his future as owner, a question that’s important to ask - in his time as owner or your time on the board, has any third party or potential buyer of the club performed due diligence on the club’s accounts?

AU: No. Categorically, 100 per cent no.


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Mye kan avgjøres i morgen:

@Radio_Yorkshire: #LUFC board meeting tomorrow. Hear more after 7:30am on #GMY as @EmaGiulianelli discusses all the latest news coming from Elland Road.

 

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Mye kan avgjøres i morgen:

@Radio_Yorkshire: #LUFC board meeting tomorrow. Hear more after 7:30am on #GMY as @EmaGiulianelli discusses all the latest news coming from Elland Road.

 

Noen lekkasjer kanskje. For er dette normalt da, og disse asiatiske linkene har jo vært i hele dag

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Pokker heller. Nå vil jeg snart ha en uttalelse fra Massimo! Hva skjer fremover? Er fyren evneveik? Han MÃ… jo snart fortelle hva han akter å gjøre 

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Klubben har blitt ledet av tåkefyrster siste 10 åra, MC er bare en i rekken.

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Mye kan avgjøres i morgen:

@Radio_Yorkshire: #LUFC board meeting tomorrow. Hear more after 7:30am on #GMY as @EmaGiulianelli discusses all the latest news coming from Elland Road.

 

Noen lekkasjer kanskje. For er dette normalt da, og disse asiatiske linkene har jo vært i hele dag

Styremøtet var på mandag. Cellino har blitt oppdatert.

@sport_simon: #lufc board meeting was yesterday

@sport_simon: Main headline is that club have asked Football League for Cellino to be president/ chairman. Umbers to step down but remain on the board.



De venter på en bekreftelse fra Football League om at Cellino igjen er Top Man! Først da får vi noe nytt! Han har jo sparket folk tidligere uten å eie klubben! 

[AndyMathie]

Mye kan avgjøres i morgen:

@Radio_Yorkshire: #LUFC board meeting tomorrow. Hear more after 7:30am on #GMY as @EmaGiulianelli discusses all the latest news coming from Elland Road.

 

Noen lekkasjer kanskje. For er dette normalt da, og disse asiatiske linkene har jo vært i hele dag

Styremøtet var på mandag. Cellino har blitt oppdatert.

@sport_simon: #lufc board meeting was yesterday

@sport_simon: Main headline is that club have asked Football League for Cellino to be president/ chairman. Umbers to step down but remain on the board.



De venter på en bekreftelse fra Football League om at Cellino igjen er Top Man! Først da får vi noe nytt! Han har jo sparket folk tidligere uten å eie klubben! 

Få han innsatt fortest mulig slik at han får mulighet til å holde ord med tanke på at dette er året vi skal rykke opp. Jeg har troa så lenge dette ikke drar ut!

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@PhilHayYEP: According to Massimo Cellino, the Football League has approved his appointment as director and chairman of #lufc. Have asked FL to confirm.

@PhilHayYEP: Cellino says he will be chairman of the board. Andrew Umbers stands down from that position but stays as a director.

 

Hay får neppe noe svar fordi FL har sagt at de ikke uttaler seg til tredjepart!   

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Mye kan avgjøres i morgen:

@Radio_Yorkshire: #LUFC board meeting tomorrow. Hear more after 7:30am on #GMY as @EmaGiulianelli discusses all the latest news coming from Elland Road.

 

Noen lekkasjer kanskje. For er dette normalt da, og disse asiatiske linkene har jo vært i hele dag

Styremøtet var på mandag. Cellino har blitt oppdatert.

@sport_simon: #lufc board meeting was yesterday

@sport_simon: Main headline is that club have asked Football League for Cellino to be president/ chairman. Umbers to step down but remain on the board.



De venter på en bekreftelse fra Football League om at Cellino igjen er Top Man! Først da får vi noe nytt! Han har jo sparket folk tidligere uten å eie klubben! 

Få han innsatt fortest mulig slik at han får mulighet til å holde ord med tanke på at dette er året vi skal rykke opp. Jeg har troa så lenge dette ikke drar ut!

Ja klarer han og få oss opp i PL i år så skal  jeg jommen bøye meg i hatten.

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@sport_simon: If the board again takes control in Cellino's likely absence, could mean return for Umbers. Only active UK based board member.





Umbers har ikke vært å se på lenge!

[Dennis]

@sport_simon: If the board again takes control in Cellino's likely absence, could mean return for Umbers. Only active UK based board member.


Umbers har ikke vært å se på lenge!

Hadde nesten glemt han! Er vel heller ikke så rart han har vært stille. Fyren hadde vel sett for seg lang fartstid som daglig leder. Virka i alle fall sånn i forrige utestengelse. Om det ikke var noe de to hadde avtalt seg i mellom, da.

[Gufrias]

@sport_simon: If the board again takes control in Cellino's likely absence, could mean return for Umbers. Only active UK based board member.





Umbers har ikke vært å se på lenge!

Akkurat når jeg trodde at det ikke kunne bli verre.

Burde vel vite bedre...

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Leeds United: Ex-chairman Umbers leaves Elland Road board

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Phil Hay
14:06Saturday 24 October 2015
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Former Leeds United chairman Andrew Umbers has left the board of directors at Elland Road.

Companies House confirmed today that Umbers’ appointment as a director was terminated on October 12 - two days before owner Massimo Cellino was banned from running Leeds by the Football League.

Financier Umbers took charge of the Elland Road board last season after Cellino was hit with a previous Football League ban, overseeing the running of United between January and May.

His influence was diminished when Cellino returned to Leeds at the end of the season and named himself as chairman.

The subsequent appointment of Adam Pearson as executive director during the summer ended Umbers’ day-to-day involvement at Elland Road.

Umbers has not been active at Leeds for a number of months but he was spotted with some of the club’s other directors during Wednesday’s 1-1 draw at Fulham, despite his removal from the board.

His appearance at Craven Cottage raised questions about whether Cellino might turn to him to run the club again if the Italian fails to avoid a second Football League ban.

Cellino is set to be barred from controlling Leeds until June of next year following his conviction for tax evasion in Italy four months ago.


The 59-year-old has until Wednesday to appeal against his ban but faces being absent until the end of this season if the penalty is upheld.

Umbers - one of the men responsible for brokering the sale of Leeds by Ken Bates to Gulf Finance House in 2012 - was a possible candidate to control United in the meantime, despite the controversy which marred his first spell as chairman, but news of his departure from the Elland Road board emerged this morning.

Neither Umbers nor Cellino have responded to requests for comment.

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Her ryddes det plass til........kanskje Pearson? 


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