Full Transcript of @WhiteLeedsRadio / Cellino call......
Ring tone
MC: [unintelligible]
TNS: “Helloâ€
MC “Helloâ€
TNS “Is this Massimo Cellino?â€
MC “Who’s speaking please?â€
TNS “It’s a… a .. a Leeds United fanâ€
MC “Yes, what can I do for you?â€
TNS “Can we talk for about two minutes?â€
MC [scoffs]9
TNS “Please?â€
MC yes –
TNS/MC crosstalk
TNS “Are you confident about tomorrow?â€
MC “man, I’m just {unintel} my friend, I’m a little bit tired, and upset. What, what you need from me man?
TNS “You… what?â€
TNS “Are you gonna pass
MC “What you need from me?â€
TNS “Are you gonna pass tomorrow?â€
MC “[unitel] … pass or not, I don’t know. Cause it not up to me people that .. [unitel]
TNS “Are you going to keep David Haigh on?â€
MC “Forget itâ€
TNS “What? You don’t want David?â€
MC “I’m drunkâ€
TNS “Do you want David Haigh?â€
MC “Whyâ€
TNS “Get .. get rid of GFH†– “OK?â€
MC “It’s not up to me my friendâ€
TNS “You need to get rid of them, for sureâ€
MC “Why?â€
TNS “Because they are the devil. They are the one that’s going to bring us to administrationâ€
MC “Listen my friend, can you tell me who you are?â€
TNS “I’m just a Leeds United fan. Concerned. Who needs clarity.â€
MC “I tell you something, they’re hurting the fans so hardly that they... I, I’m from Italy I shouldn’t talk about the fans for Leeds but I feel bad for them … [unintel]
TNS “Thank youâ€
MC “They did something bad the last ten years to the Leeds fans, [unintel] you accept something like this.
TNS “yeah, so um…â€
MC “David is a son of a bitch, he’s a witch, he’s dangerous, he’s a f**king devil, he’s a big manu
TNS “Who Dave?
MC “Davidâ€
TNS “You don’t like David?â€
MC “Listen…, you think that I’m a fool?â€
TNS “What?†“No I don’t think … [crosstalk}
MC “Because I want to buy Leeds, I should be a fool I know but when I take an engagement I respect my engagement, but I found out that the [unitel] is full of thieves and crooks
TNS “Yeah. So, so you don’t think you’ll get the club tomorrow?â€
MC “What hope? You think that I’m going to take or not?â€
TNS “Are you going to pass the appeal?â€
MC “You realise, that the only chance is for Leeds that is got to survive is up to Italian [superguy?] like me [unitel] to buy the Leeds. The only one that bring money there and is able to work in the club, that’s me, and they’re kicking me out like a thief. Do you realise what they’re doing? Why are they doing that? Why? Whose [unintel] to buy the club?â€
TNS “The Leeds United fans are really behind you. We really want you in charge. I think you’re excellen….â€
MC “Well we got to win… we…. Listen, there is no one, unfortunately, is going to buy the club. No-one, for zero pounds, no one is coming there. Because is a bunch of theifs this club. Not the fans. Only the D..D.. David Haigh.. the people who work for him. They are really dangerous my friend, they are really bad people.
TNS “GFH are dangerous, yeahâ€
MC “Ken Bates! Ken Bates is still behind the shit you know that?â€
TNS “Ken Bates is a scumbag, I agreeâ€
MC “He is still behind David Haigh they were at dinner together Saturday. I was in Leeds.. because… I bought a house in Leeds. You think…. I bought a house in Leeds. I didn’t rent, I bought it, because they told me I was.. everything was alright. I spent a lot of money for Leeds. I bought a house. And I found out that Saturday David was.. Friday night David was dinner with Ken Bates. Can you imagine? â€
TNS “Yes, he had dinner last nightâ€
MC “Isn’t that beautiful? Is that beautiful [unintel]. You know, Lets go in bankrupt last time, Leeds, Davi… Ken Bates.. to buy cheaper.â€
TNS “Yeahâ€
MC “That’s the people that become Leeds. What belong David Haigh. What..where where he’d ever work in his life? What he never done his life? What he belong? Where’d he come from? I don’t [unitel] English, I don’t know what’s f**king with this guyâ€
TNS “He’s an idiot. A horrible manâ€
MC “Not an idiot [unintel] he’s sick in his head
TNS “He’s sick in…â€
MC “He’s f**king dangerousâ€
TNS “Yeah, I agree, David Haigh is a scumbagâ€
MC “I don’t know what is scumbag, but, but he’s the worst person I never.. he’s . he.. he build the ship {shit?}, you know, he made the problem to show that he solve the problem. [Unintel] he take my picture, he try to… to to to blackmail me. What is f**king f**king arsehole is that?
TNS “Yeah I agree Massimoâ€
MC “And I tell…[unintel] I tell GFH, “Kick him out†because [unintel] and the didn’t, didn’t want to kick him out, because he’s blackmailing even Ken Bates.
TNS “Yeah. What about McDermott? Would you sack him?â€
MC “Who?â€
TNS “Brian McDermottâ€
MC [Unintel] “I tell you something. You remember the first thing that I done when I came here? In Leeds? I sack him. Because he came [unintel] I said, listen my friend I’m the owner here, I come to this situation, I said, “Listen my friend, I’m the owner here, I want a coach, not a manager, I manage the club†[unintel] me? You work with me, he [unintel} no I don’t give a f**k. So I tell him ‘Charles.., Brian, get the f**k out of here. And we won 5 to 1. OK? I have the balls to do it, and we won 5 to 1. And GFH took him back. I bought seven players [unintel] sign the contract with players, with my money, not with GFH’s money. They didn’t sign the players.OK? I pay the wages, I pay the accounts, the debt to Andrew Flowers the f**king arsehole [unintel] Leeds, and they tell me Leeds, {unintel] that there was a welcome man there. And what’s happened my friend? You see with your eyes. The League, the league want truth, whose going to run the club, how much you going to pay, [unintel] .. you must be joking
And what about the Leeds fans? Forget the money and the law, but the Leeds fans? Who’s going to give back the passion? Listen, I’ve been running twenty three years a club. I know what it is to be fans. To be love a club. I was a fan before of my team in Italia When I came to Leeds they told me [unintel] the f**king team. I love it. I love the fan, with the shirt, with the jersey, to the match, everybody was singing a song. Everybody was…. With a shit.. f**king shit team. You got a shit [Unitel] The worst team I ever saw in my life. You have a coach that maybe is a good coach, but he doesn’t know to manage a club, and players. He get.. he’s always on television complaining about money, complaining about market, what does that f**king work with the players. That talk. You just good talking with the f**king television. Shut your f**king mouth. Go to work.â€
“I try to help him but I couldn’t because they don’t let me. They don't let me even go into training centre [unintel] If they accept me tomorrow, if I go back to Leeds I just do that before my engagement, because I engage, publicly. If not I will never know how they could lose all the money because there’s a bunch of evil snakes there. But if I go there, I promise to you that I kick the arse of everyone there. From the first to the last I don’t give a f**k. Not the players, or the journalists, or the f**king public, … err…. err.. PR, television, radio, I don’t give a f**k. I don’t talk with television or radio. Have you noticed that? I don’t [read?] television, I don’t watch television. I don’t read papers. I don’t give a bloody damn. I know what I’m doing….â€
TNS “so you….â€
MC “…with my soul, with myself. That’s my way to work. OK. If they accept me tomorrow, believe me, [unintel] in fact I got to be f**king [unintel] Unfortunately, I got to work a lot, but I expect from the club a lot of work. I don’t want money from the fans. They already pay enough, too much the fans.
TNS “yepâ€
MC “OK?
TNS “So you…â€
MC “Too much. They get ripped off. You don’t need money you need some money cause Ken Bates steal your money that’s the problem.
TNS “Yeah. Are you gonna sack, are you going to sack McDermott?â€
[pause]
MC “Can I tell you friend, I think that’s the last of our problems. McCormack has got seven year contract. Of £700,000 a year. Plus [prizes?], car, television. And the coach, more or less are all the same. I had so many coaches you know earlier. If he wants to work with me, if he’s going to do the right thing, and I believe that he can, that he can run the team, why should I throw money from the window. OK? If I realise that he’s not good for the team, I have to sack him. I don’t give a f**k. For the team, I work for the team not for myself. But I can tell you something, I don’t like.. I didn’t like him… I don’t understand him very much. I’m from Italy you know, he is Irish. I don’t know very much the people. He seems very strange guy, but he’s not a bad person. The only thing that came out, that he still paid from Reading £800,000 a year, and he’s paid for three years from Leeds £700,000 per year.plus prizes. That is…
And if I [unintel] how would he resign? Who are they staying there. They don’t pay the wage, the don’t buy the players.. and still complain on television, still complain on television. Resign and get the f**k out of here, true or not?â€
TNS “Right, I understand Cellino. I can tell you’re angry right now. You don’t, are you not confident then, you’re not going to get the club?â€
MC “No, my friend. Unfortunately I’m worried they’re going to give me the club because I tell you what I’m playing with my friend. If they don’t give the club to me, then the club will go bankrupt because nobody take the club even for free. It’s a dangerous club, it’s expensive club. It’s a big club. It’s not a little club you can run with a couple of million.
TNS “Huge clubâ€
MC “You need a lot of money. And you need, you need experience to do that. Why I came to England, from Italy? To make money, to steal money from you? NO. Because I saw that Leeds is a potential big club with a lot of beautiful fans. And I told my sons, ‘maybe here if we run Leeds how I did Cagliari I can bring into the Premier League, make {da da da da da} level with Manchester United. [Unintel] Leeds in Championship because with Cagliari, Cagliari is a little club, you can not dream that way. You know? So was my [dream?] [Unintel]
And I put a lot of money. Clean money. My money…. I don’t [have petrol?], I don’t know [place of business?] I work in cereal[ry?]. My money’s true, it doesn’t come from a.. from a bank, easy finance shit like you see these people today.I come from a serious place a [unintel] ..[ a dishonest man?] As a [contrabandier?] You think a [unintel] or person in my position is going to bring a boat in Italy to save under £80,000 [unintel]. You think I’m so stupid? Come on my friend.â€
TNS “Right, how much would yo..â€
[crosstalk]
TNS “What would you spend on the club if you did get it?â€
MC What I would…? What I give to spend?
[crosstalk]
MC “How much I pay the club?â€
TNS “yes what…â€
MC “How much I pay the club?
TNS “What…. What players would you get? Would you spend loads on the team?â€
MC I was, I was, I was thinking… next.. listen, If I’m admitted the club, we need…. I promise you that… Not next season, but the 15/16 we will go Premier League. Next season, I don’t know if I’m able. It’s not a matter of money. If you understand soccer, its not just a matter of money. Because also if you had… five hundred million pounds if you don’t know what to do with money you can just waste money.â€
TNS “Yeah I agreeâ€
MC You have.. you have to have the right money, and to spend in the right way. Without money you can’t do it, but, with a lot of money if you don’t know how to do it you just waste money. You throw money from the window.
TNS “Yeahâ€
MC “I tell you something, Leeds has got £18,000,000 of wages per year. On the players, OK?
TNS “OKâ€
MC “OK.â€
TNS “So…â€
MC “With the income of £28,000,000 per year. Eighteen million on wages. For the shit team like that! You shouldn’t spend £5,000,000 on wages not eighteen. With eighteen million on wages you can make a team that can really compete or go in Premier League. With top players. I thought from the beginning to bring Italian players, because I come from Italy and know very well Italian players, but it is wrong because I am in England. I have to get most possible English guys, or international players. Because Italian players, they are good players, but, you know , I’m Italian, they, they don’t speak English in Italy. They very hard from them go from Italy to Leeds. It’s always raining there. You know? It’s a different country. They have different meals. They have the risk to… to … to fail, you know, very easily.
So I change my mind. You need here good English players. OK? And International players. Good quality, with good skills. With the right wages. And grow a beautiful team next year to get ready the year next to go into Premier. To stay! For good! Not steal the f**king money from the people you know.â€
TNS “Rightâ€