Skrevet av Emne: Neste sesong i Championship: Hvem blir solgt eller kvitter vi oss med?  (Lest 15676 ganger)

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Kato

Mer enn noe, så håper jeg at vi få avklart eiersituasjon så fort som bare fy. Radriazzani er åpenbart ute av det nå. En mann som han vet at det ikke går an å holde på med Sampdoria, samtidig som Leeds. Og jeg tror ikke han hadde gått inn med penger i Sampdoria hvis han ikke var sikker på at det var slutt i England. Det betyr at det blir et totalt skifte. Vi må anta at det er 49'ers som tar over. Jeg vet lite, eller ingenting om de. Det er alltid vanskelig å overføre fra andre idretter, men har noen satt seg inn i hva 49'ers står for? Jeg er i alle fall veldig spent på hva vi kan forvente. Hvis dette har vært planlagt en stund, så er et kanskje håp om at de har tenkt på sommeren og at det kan handles raskt ift nøkkelansettelser.

Man kan ihvertfall si at det her amerikaner-tullet på banen og på benk med ett unntak har vært en katastrofe.
 

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Mer enn noe, så håper jeg at vi få avklart eiersituasjon så fort som bare fy. Radriazzani er åpenbart ute av det nå. En mann som han vet at det ikke går an å holde på med Sampdoria, samtidig som Leeds. Og jeg tror ikke han hadde gått inn med penger i Sampdoria hvis han ikke var sikker på at det var slutt i England. Det betyr at det blir et totalt skifte. Vi må anta at det er 49'ers som tar over. Jeg vet lite, eller ingenting om de. Det er alltid vanskelig å overføre fra andre idretter, men har noen satt seg inn i hva 49'ers står for? Jeg er i alle fall veldig spent på hva vi kan forvente. Hvis dette har vært planlagt en stund, så er et kanskje håp om at de har tenkt på sommeren og at det kan handles raskt ift nøkkelansettelser.

Man kan ihvertfall si at det her amerikaner-tullet på banen og på benk med ett unntak har vært en katastrofe.

Det er vel vanskelig å omsette det i eierstruktur, men dersom det er 49’ers som står bak alt det, så er det betenkelig.

Kato

Mer enn noe, så håper jeg at vi få avklart eiersituasjon så fort som bare fy. Radriazzani er åpenbart ute av det nå. En mann som han vet at det ikke går an å holde på med Sampdoria, samtidig som Leeds. Og jeg tror ikke han hadde gått inn med penger i Sampdoria hvis han ikke var sikker på at det var slutt i England. Det betyr at det blir et totalt skifte. Vi må anta at det er 49'ers som tar over. Jeg vet lite, eller ingenting om de. Det er alltid vanskelig å overføre fra andre idretter, men har noen satt seg inn i hva 49'ers står for? Jeg er i alle fall veldig spent på hva vi kan forvente. Hvis dette har vært planlagt en stund, så er et kanskje håp om at de har tenkt på sommeren og at det kan handles raskt ift nøkkelansettelser.

Man kan ihvertfall si at det her amerikaner-tullet på banen og på benk med ett unntak har vært en katastrofe.

Det er vel vanskelig å omsette det i eierstruktur, men dersom det er 49’ers som står bak alt det, så er det betenkelig.

Det er vel litt mer enn overveiende sannsynlig at amerikanske eiere henter amerikanske spillere og amerikanske trenere.
 

RoarG

Mer enn noe, så håper jeg at vi få avklart eiersituasjon så fort som bare fy. Radriazzani er åpenbart ute av det nå. En mann som han vet at det ikke går an å holde på med Sampdoria, samtidig som Leeds. Og jeg tror ikke han hadde gått inn med penger i Sampdoria hvis han ikke var sikker på at det var slutt i England. Det betyr at det blir et totalt skifte. Vi må anta at det er 49'ers som tar over. Jeg vet lite, eller ingenting om de. Det er alltid vanskelig å overføre fra andre idretter, men har noen satt seg inn i hva 49'ers står for? Jeg er i alle fall veldig spent på hva vi kan forvente. Hvis dette har vært planlagt en stund, så er et kanskje håp om at de har tenkt på sommeren og at det kan handles raskt ift nøkkelansettelser.

Man kan ihvertfall si at det her amerikaner-tullet på banen og på benk med ett unntak har vært en katastrofe.

Det er vel vanskelig å omsette det i eierstruktur, men dersom det er 49’ers som står bak alt det, så er det betenkelig.

Det er vel litt mer enn overveiende sannsynlig at amerikanske eiere henter amerikanske spillere og amerikanske trenere.
Vel, ManU er eid av amerikanere. Har ikke sett mange amerikanere hverken på banen eller benken der i gården.
"Jeg tror ikke på Gud, men etter Bielsas ansettelse må jeg nok revurdere", Roar Gustavsen, januar 2020

Dennis

Mer enn noe, så håper jeg at vi få avklart eiersituasjon så fort som bare fy. Radriazzani er åpenbart ute av det nå. En mann som han vet at det ikke går an å holde på med Sampdoria, samtidig som Leeds. Og jeg tror ikke han hadde gått inn med penger i Sampdoria hvis han ikke var sikker på at det var slutt i England. Det betyr at det blir et totalt skifte. Vi må anta at det er 49'ers som tar over. Jeg vet lite, eller ingenting om de. Det er alltid vanskelig å overføre fra andre idretter, men har noen satt seg inn i hva 49'ers står for? Jeg er i alle fall veldig spent på hva vi kan forvente. Hvis dette har vært planlagt en stund, så er et kanskje håp om at de har tenkt på sommeren og at det kan handles raskt ift nøkkelansettelser.

Man kan ihvertfall si at det her amerikaner-tullet på banen og på benk med ett unntak har vært en katastrofe.

Det er vel vanskelig å omsette det i eierstruktur, men dersom det er 49’ers som står bak alt det, så er det betenkelig.

Det er vel litt mer enn overveiende sannsynlig at amerikanske eiere henter amerikanske spillere og amerikanske trenere.

Absolutt, men det sies (Hay m.fl) at det var Victor Orta som insisterte på å gi Jesse Marsch mer tid, der styret egentlig ville sparke han i høst. Samtidig hadde Orta dialogen med Marsch over en toårsperiode, i følge han selv. Ettersom de uttalte at Marsch uansett ville bli ansatt i fjor sommer, er det vel også betimelig å tro at Brenden Aaronson-forsøket i januar var en signering til Jesse selv om det først ble klart i sommer.

Det er klart at 49ers var eiere i den perioden, så de kan jo selvsagt ha vært involvert i det også. Liten tvil om at Leeds har ønsket å melke det amerikanske markedet og da blir 49ers fort mistenkt.

Jeg bare håper ikke de skal ha en amerikansk kvote i dette laget. Det lukter litt for mye Wimbledon under Røkke & Gjelsten.
Marching on together!

stian

Mer enn noe, så håper jeg at vi få avklart eiersituasjon så fort som bare fy. Radriazzani er åpenbart ute av det nå. En mann som han vet at det ikke går an å holde på med Sampdoria, samtidig som Leeds. Og jeg tror ikke han hadde gått inn med penger i Sampdoria hvis han ikke var sikker på at det var slutt i England. Det betyr at det blir et totalt skifte. Vi må anta at det er 49'ers som tar over. Jeg vet lite, eller ingenting om de. Det er alltid vanskelig å overføre fra andre idretter, men har noen satt seg inn i hva 49'ers står for? Jeg er i alle fall veldig spent på hva vi kan forvente. Hvis dette har vært planlagt en stund, så er et kanskje håp om at de har tenkt på sommeren og at det kan handles raskt ift nøkkelansettelser.

Man kan ihvertfall si at det her amerikaner-tullet på banen og på benk med ett unntak har vært en katastrofe.

Det er vel vanskelig å omsette det i eierstruktur, men dersom det er 49’ers som står bak alt det, så er det betenkelig.

Det er vel litt mer enn overveiende sannsynlig at amerikanske eiere henter amerikanske spillere og amerikanske trenere.

Absolutt, men det sies (Hay m.fl) at det var Victor Orta som insisterte på å gi Jesse Marsch mer tid, der styret egentlig ville sparke han i høst. Samtidig hadde Orta dialogen med Marsch over en toårsperiode, i følge han selv. Ettersom de uttalte at Marsch uansett ville bli ansatt i fjor sommer, er det vel også betimelig å tro at Brenden Aaronson-forsøket i januar var en signering til Jesse selv om det først ble klart i sommer.

Det er klart at 49ers var eiere i den perioden, så de kan jo selvsagt ha vært involvert i det også. Liten tvil om at Leeds har ønsket å melke det amerikanske markedet og da blir 49ers fort mistenkt.

Jeg bare håper ikke de skal ha en amerikansk kvote i dette laget. Det lukter litt for mye Wimbledon under Røkke & Gjelsten.

Amerikansk kvote på noen spillere skulle vi vel overlevd. Alle våre tre nåværende amerikanere kunne fort sett annerledes ut i et mer velfungerende kollektiv, i alle fall Adams og Aaronson. Det viktigste vil for meg være å ha en eier som kan rekruttere en god head coach, og som ikke er helt Cellino når det gjelder tidsperspektiv på utvikling. Begge deler krever gjerne en porsjon fotballkompetanse og -lidenskap, og der må jeg innrømme at jeg har litt fordommer mot amerikanske eiere. Men jeg vet absolutt ingenting om hva 49ers står for. Det er i alle fall snakk om sportslig eierskap og ikke barberskum-pushere eller korrupte blodprinser. 

Kato

Mer enn noe, så håper jeg at vi få avklart eiersituasjon så fort som bare fy. Radriazzani er åpenbart ute av det nå. En mann som han vet at det ikke går an å holde på med Sampdoria, samtidig som Leeds. Og jeg tror ikke han hadde gått inn med penger i Sampdoria hvis han ikke var sikker på at det var slutt i England. Det betyr at det blir et totalt skifte. Vi må anta at det er 49'ers som tar over. Jeg vet lite, eller ingenting om de. Det er alltid vanskelig å overføre fra andre idretter, men har noen satt seg inn i hva 49'ers står for? Jeg er i alle fall veldig spent på hva vi kan forvente. Hvis dette har vært planlagt en stund, så er et kanskje håp om at de har tenkt på sommeren og at det kan handles raskt ift nøkkelansettelser.

Man kan ihvertfall si at det her amerikaner-tullet på banen og på benk med ett unntak har vært en katastrofe.

Det er vel vanskelig å omsette det i eierstruktur, men dersom det er 49’ers som står bak alt det, så er det betenkelig.

Det er vel litt mer enn overveiende sannsynlig at amerikanske eiere henter amerikanske spillere og amerikanske trenere.

Absolutt, men det sies (Hay m.fl) at det var Victor Orta som insisterte på å gi Jesse Marsch mer tid, der styret egentlig ville sparke han i høst. Samtidig hadde Orta dialogen med Marsch over en toårsperiode, i følge han selv. Ettersom de uttalte at Marsch uansett ville bli ansatt i fjor sommer, er det vel også betimelig å tro at Brenden Aaronson-forsøket i januar var en signering til Jesse selv om det først ble klart i sommer.

Det er klart at 49ers var eiere i den perioden, så de kan jo selvsagt ha vært involvert i det også. Liten tvil om at Leeds har ønsket å melke det amerikanske markedet og da blir 49ers fort mistenkt.

Jeg bare håper ikke de skal ha en amerikansk kvote i dette laget. Det lukter litt for mye Wimbledon under Røkke & Gjelsten.

Amerikansk kvote på noen spillere skulle vi vel overlevd. Alle våre tre nåværende amerikanere kunne fort sett annerledes ut i et mer velfungerende kollektiv, i alle fall Adams og Aaronson. Det viktigste vil for meg være å ha en eier som kan rekruttere en god head coach, og som ikke er helt Cellino når det gjelder tidsperspektiv på utvikling. Begge deler krever gjerne en porsjon fotballkompetanse og -lidenskap, og der må jeg innrømme at jeg har litt fordommer mot amerikanske eiere. Men jeg vet absolutt ingenting om hva 49ers står for. Det er i alle fall snakk om sportslig eierskap og ikke barberskum-pushere eller korrupte blodprinser.

Problemet er at amerikanske spillere og trenere med noen svært få unntak ikke har vært i nærheten av å holde Premier-League nivå. Kvaliteten er rett og slett ikke god nok, og det blør vi for nå. Brenden Aaronson et godt eksempel. Hauset opp til 300-400 millioner kroner. Spilt en hel sesong med knapt mål og assist i det hele tatt. Var ikke måte på hvor god han var i fjor sommer da han kom. Sviktet totalt, og en av flere grunner til at vi går ned.
 

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The sobering reality for Leeds United is that relegation next Sunday, if indeed there is no way out, would barely be even the start of it.
The club are all but sunk with one game left, reliant on the biggest stroke of luck they could ask for, and Elland Road can see a monumental summer looming.
The close-season promises to be manic if Leeds survive and more frantic again should they return to the Championship, heralding changes which have to amount to an almost total reset.
They got away with it last season, rescuing themselves on the final day against Brentford, but the drop feels more inevitable this time and nothing in their sorry surrender away to West Ham United on Sunday suggested they are about to dodge disaster for a second year running.
🗣️ What next, then, for the club who stormed the Championship in 2019-20?
Their head coach, Sam Allardyce, has a short-term contract that covers one more match.
They have been without a director of football since Victor Orta parted company with them three weeks ago.
The proposed takeover by 49ers Enterprises is still only a proposal.
And what of other issues, like the future of individual players, the management of a sizeable Premier League wage bill and the impact of reduced income?
🗣️ What would relegation on Sunday actually mean for Leeds United?
What are the nuts and bolts and the brass tacks for the months ahead?
‼️The takeover‼️
A change of ownership is what everything at Elland Road hinges on — and it can be credibly argued that the impasse on that front is a reason why Leeds have stagnated to the point where relegation is nigh.
At present, the arrangement in the boardroom is this:
Andrea Radrizzani is majority shareholder with slightly more than 50 per cent of the shares.
The remainder is held by 49ers Enterprises, a US investment vehicle with close connections to the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers.
Were Leeds to stay up following their season-finale at home to Tottenham Hotspur this weekend, contracts are in place for 49ers Enterprises to buy out Radrizzani for a sum which would value Leeds somewhere between £400 million ($496m) and £500million ($621m).
The expectation is that the sale would go through by July 1 at the latest but in effect, the handover would start more rapidly.
The investment group behind this 49ers Enterprises project — made up of entrepreneurs, private equity firms, businessmen such as current Leeds director Peter Lowy and at least one unidentified US political figure — has been in place for some time and ready to buy Radrizzani out under the agreed terms, provided Leeds retained their Premier League status.
While that collective is providing the funding, the day-to-day management of the club would be the responsibility of 49ers Enterprises figures including Paraag Marathe and Collin Meador.
However, the agreement with Radrizzani in its current guise will be void if Leeds go down.
Nonetheless, 49ers Enterprises remain intent on buying Radrizzani out, or at least securing majority control, even if relegation happens.
Discussions to that effect have been taking place and gathering pace over the past few weeks, driven by the realisation that a bottom-three finish was increasingly likely and that the amount of work to be done this summer would be substantial either way.
Radrizzani is open to selling in the event Leeds find themselves back in the EFL next season, so long as the numbers work for him.
That is the crux of discussions as it stands:
relegation promises to significantly reduce Leeds’ value and 49ers Enterprises would only be willing to buy at a much lower price,
somewhere in the region of £150million ($186m). It is not clear if Radrizzani is prepared to drop his valuation to that level.
He was pictured in his Italian homeland yesterday (Monday) and, as reported by The Athletic over the weekend, he is part of a group who are attempting to buy Sampdoria, who were relegated from Italy’s top flight two weeks ago.
Radrizzani would almost certainly require funds from the sale of Leeds to help secure the purchase of the Genoa-based club.
His involvement in those talks, all while Leeds are themselves on the brink of going down, suggests he is going to exit Elland Road, and soon — but even so, he and 49ers Enterprises are not yet agreed on the terms of a post-relegation takeover.
What is clear is that the club cannot afford to get stuck in a prolonged ownership wrangle after this season ends.
They have too much to do and no time to lose, making urgency in negotiations essential.
‼️Income‼️
Revenue at Elland Road has reached a record level for the club, falling just short of £190million for the 2021-22 season.
Pushing up their turnover to new heights is one area in which they have been consistently successful over their six years with Radrizzani as chairman.
Even in the Championship, English football’s second tier, they were pulling in more money than any of the 71 other EFL sides — albeit while also posting hefty losses.
But it is no secret that the bulk of Premier League earnings come from central distributions, consisting mainly of money earned through the league’s lucrative broadcast deals.
The EFL has just renegotiated its TV deal with UK broadcaster Sky Sports but the figures involved are still a world away from the cash earned by the Premier League through such rights.
Last season, for example, Leeds’ central distributions were £95million — more than three times Nottingham Forest’s entire turnover in the Championship that year.
So at a stroke, a large chunk of that funding disappears with relegation.
But as it has for years now, the parachute payment scheme exists between the Premier League and the Championship, giving those clubs who go down assistance to cope with the financial hit of dropping divisions.
In year one back in the EFL, Leeds would receive 55 per cent of the basic payment made to Premier League clubs — around £45 million.
If they then fail to bounce straight back, the year two figure drops to 45%.
In year three, the final season of parachute payments, it’s 20%.
Used smartly, parachute payments can help a relegated club reframe their squad, be competitive in the promotion race and go again.
That cash can facilitate signings other sides in the Championship cannot afford and support larger salaries.
But they don’t last forever and they won’t avert sizeable losses, because virtually every club loses money in the second tier.
They are no guarantee of promotion either.
Relegated clubs have little choice but to substantially reduce budgets, and Leeds would be no different.
‼️Wage bill‼️
Leeds’ last recorded wage bill, for the 2021-22 year, was £121million, and after so many signings made this season it can only have increased.
Plainly, they could not afford to carry such high costs while in the EFL, but they would be helped at the outset by substantial reductions in the salaries earned by their first-team squad.
The players stand to incur hefty wage cuts in the aftermath of relegation, with drops of up to 60 per cent (some in line with the increases a number of them received after winning promotion three years ago).
Clauses in their contracts allow Leeds to automatically decrease their earnings when in the EFL, bringing down the outlay overnight.
None of that would stop Leeds having one of the highest Championship wage bills but between parachute payments, transfer income and shareholder investment, it is possible to manage a large salaries figure for a finite period.
The problem comes if a relegated club find themselves stuck outside the Premier League for a sustained spell.
An expensive squad becomes harder and harder to maintain in those circumstances.
‼️Players‼️
Whatever happens against Spurs at Elland Road this weekend, this summer will be an intensive and busy transfer window for Leeds.
Many of the first-team squad have relegation-related release clauses in their contracts, giving other clubs the right to buy them for a fixed fee (usually one that is less than their true market value).
Leeds pulled in £100million by selling Raphinha and Kalvin Phillips last summer.
Because of release clauses applying to both players, the club would have recouped merely half as much had they been auctioning them on the back of relegation.
Departures from Elland Road in the coming window could well run into double figures if Leeds are relegated.
Weston McKennie is certain to leave, however the season finishes.
Neither he nor Leeds are minded to activate the option to make his half-season loan from Italian giants Juventus permanent.
Goalkeeper Illan Meslier has endured a difficult season but his valuation remains relatively high and Leeds were always open to the possibility of accepting a worthwhile offer for him in this window.
Robin Koch has a year left on his contract and, as a Germany international, would naturally attract bids if Leeds are an EFL club again.
So too would Colombia international Luis Sinisterra, a footballer with high-level potential provided he stays fit.
Jack Harrison has only just signed a new five-year deal but it is understood to include a release clause, and there is ample Premier League interest in him.
Rodrigo is on course to be a free agent in 12 months’ time and, as a top earner, would cost too much to keep in the Championship.
There are some who Leeds would be very keen to retain, though.
McKennie’s fellow USA midfielder Tyler Adams is one.
They would be reluctant to lose Wilfried Gnonto too, though his performances have put him on the radar of clubs in Europe.
But it is accepted that a large turnover is inevitable, partly because some names are too expensive, some names have no further part to play and some names are a route to transfer fees which can help to build a suitable team to contend in, and win promotion from, the Championship.
The window ahead will be active from start to finish for Leeds.
A critical part of it will be finding takers for surplus players — a task which is never simple on the back of a relegation.
‼️Head coach‼️
Unlike short-lived predecessor Javi Gracia, there is no agreed provision in place for Sam Allardyce to remain as head coach beyond the end of the season.
His contract was as short as four games and no discussions have taken place about his future.
Whether Leeds are in any way tempted by the idea of Allardyce in the Championship, a division he has got Bolton Wanderers (2001) and West Ham (2012) promoted from in his career, remains to be seen but there will be a clamour among the fanbase for fresh thinking.
Over the past couple of weeks, 49ers Enterprises gave thought to Marcelo Bielsa returning as an avenue worth pursuing if they went down, but he has now taken the Uruguay national-team job and, in any case, the doubts about the ownership structure at Leeds would not have made his old job easy to sell to the Argentinian — without even touching on the two sides’ uncomfortable parting in February last year.
If Leeds were to stay up, they would like to try to engage someone such as Graham Potter, who did well in three Premier League seasons at Brighton but lasted just seven months of this one after joining Chelsea last September.
Should they go down, recently-sacked Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers is likely to come into the equation, at least in terms of the sort of coach they would want.
Whether Rodgers is open to working in the EFL again, having led Swansea City up from it in 2011, is another matter altogether.
Expect a swing towards more established domestic candidates, or coaches with experience of that league, because nobody at Elland Road is trying to pretend going out on a limb with Jesse Marsch as Bielsa’s replacement worked.
But Leeds will not be able to sell themselves on name or reputation alone.
They have masses to do to make sure that, on the other side of this summer, they are ready to attack the new season.
‼️Director of football‼️
Leeds have operated under a director of football model since Andrea Radrizzani bought out Massimo Cellino and appointed Victor Orta in 2017.
But Orta’s exit this month leaves that position vacant, and dealing with it is one of various priorities facing the board.
The first thing for Leeds to decide is whether they want to stick with precisely the same model — a structure in which a single director of football oversees that side of the business.
In contrast, certain teams split authority between a specific head of their recruitment department and a figure who takes charge of other football operations.
While some of Orta’s staff are departing with him — scout Gaby Ruiz, for example — some other scouts remain in place, but Leeds need a fresh tier of management around whoever ends up becoming their next head coach.
Norwich City’s Stuart Webber, a lifelong Leeds fan, and Kieran Scott of Middlesbrough are two names from the Championship touted as possible options, but at this stage the club have not taken any firm steps towards filling the void.
In many ways, recruitment on that front will be as crucial as any player-transfer business — because the director of football’s input is what tends to create ethos and philosophy, for better or worse.
‼️Stadium‼️
The capacity of Elland Road has not just been inadequate in the Premier League, but inadequate since the start of the Marcelo Bielsa era five years ago next month.
Leeds’ home games sold out consistently from his arrival onwards and the waiting list for season tickets soared very quickly, to a peak of 22,000 names.
This is a handicap in two senses.
Firstly, supply is a long way below demand and supporters who would like to attend matches cannot.
And secondly, Leeds are missing out on the commercial and corporate income a bigger stadium would let them generate.
But for all the talk, the idea of redeveloping the ground has been exactly that for a few years now — an idea.
The proposed project would start with the rebuilding of the West Stand and the club have architectural designs for that in place but they would have to go through the process of applying for planning permission and that was only due to happen once 49ers Enterprises assumed control of the boardroom.
In itself, planning could take 12 months to secure.
The project would also require large amounts of funding, many tens of millions of pounds predominantly secured via loans, and it has been clear for a while that any such work was not going to start on Radrizzani’s watch.
It is a sad aspect of these three seasons aboard the Premier League gravy train that Elland Road has hardly been touched to any great extent.
If Leeds go down on Sunday, there is no expectation that redevelopment would move forward in the Championship.
Upgrading Elland Road has long been described as Premier League-dependent and, given the financial impact of relegation, it is not something the club can prioritise — and there is very little point securing planning permission for the project if they are not able to push the button on it rapidly.
Back in a division where every penny counts, increasing the capacity of Elland Road would slip into the background once more, delayed by the immediacy of trying to get promoted again.
The question is essentially this:
do Leeds need a 50,000 or 60,000-capacity home playing in the EFL?
‼️Season tickets‼️
This is about as close as you’ll get to an upside of relegation.
Those 10 per cent rises in costs for next season?
They’ll be canned if Leeds go down.
You’ll get more games for your money (46 league matches in the Championship, up from the Premier League’s 38) and if you’re on that long, long waiting list, your chances of reaching the front of it might be slightly enhanced.
Super Leeds since 1968

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The sobering reality for Leeds United is that relegation next Sunday, if indeed there is no way out, would barely be even the start of it.
The club are all but sunk with one game left, reliant on the biggest stroke of luck they could ask for, and Elland Road can see a monumental summer looming.
The close-season promises to be manic if Leeds survive and more frantic again should they return to the Championship, heralding changes which have to amount to an almost total reset.
They got away with it last season, rescuing themselves on the final day against Brentford, but the drop feels more inevitable this time and nothing in their sorry surrender away to West Ham United on Sunday suggested they are about to dodge disaster for a second year running.
🗣️ What next, then, for the club who stormed the Championship in 2019-20?
Their head coach, Sam Allardyce, has a short-term contract that covers one more match.
They have been without a director of football since Victor Orta parted company with them three weeks ago.
The proposed takeover by 49ers Enterprises is still only a proposal.
And what of other issues, like the future of individual players, the management of a sizeable Premier League wage bill and the impact of reduced income?
🗣️ What would relegation on Sunday actually mean for Leeds United?
What are the nuts and bolts and the brass tacks for the months ahead?
‼️The takeover‼️
A change of ownership is what everything at Elland Road hinges on — and it can be credibly argued that the impasse on that front is a reason why Leeds have stagnated to the point where relegation is nigh.
At present, the arrangement in the boardroom is this:
Andrea Radrizzani is majority shareholder with slightly more than 50 per cent of the shares.
The remainder is held by 49ers Enterprises, a US investment vehicle with close connections to the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers.
Were Leeds to stay up following their season-finale at home to Tottenham Hotspur this weekend, contracts are in place for 49ers Enterprises to buy out Radrizzani for a sum which would value Leeds somewhere between £400 million ($496m) and £500million ($621m).
The expectation is that the sale would go through by July 1 at the latest but in effect, the handover would start more rapidly.
The investment group behind this 49ers Enterprises project — made up of entrepreneurs, private equity firms, businessmen such as current Leeds director Peter Lowy and at least one unidentified US political figure — has been in place for some time and ready to buy Radrizzani out under the agreed terms, provided Leeds retained their Premier League status.
While that collective is providing the funding, the day-to-day management of the club would be the responsibility of 49ers Enterprises figures including Paraag Marathe and Collin Meador.
However, the agreement with Radrizzani in its current guise will be void if Leeds go down.
Nonetheless, 49ers Enterprises remain intent on buying Radrizzani out, or at least securing majority control, even if relegation happens.
Discussions to that effect have been taking place and gathering pace over the past few weeks, driven by the realisation that a bottom-three finish was increasingly likely and that the amount of work to be done this summer would be substantial either way.
Radrizzani is open to selling in the event Leeds find themselves back in the EFL next season, so long as the numbers work for him.
That is the crux of discussions as it stands:
relegation promises to significantly reduce Leeds’ value and 49ers Enterprises would only be willing to buy at a much lower price,
somewhere in the region of £150million ($186m). It is not clear if Radrizzani is prepared to drop his valuation to that level.
He was pictured in his Italian homeland yesterday (Monday) and, as reported by The Athletic over the weekend, he is part of a group who are attempting to buy Sampdoria, who were relegated from Italy’s top flight two weeks ago.
Radrizzani would almost certainly require funds from the sale of Leeds to help secure the purchase of the Genoa-based club.
His involvement in those talks, all while Leeds are themselves on the brink of going down, suggests he is going to exit Elland Road, and soon — but even so, he and 49ers Enterprises are not yet agreed on the terms of a post-relegation takeover.
What is clear is that the club cannot afford to get stuck in a prolonged ownership wrangle after this season ends.
They have too much to do and no time to lose, making urgency in negotiations essential.
‼️Income‼️
Revenue at Elland Road has reached a record level for the club, falling just short of £190million for the 2021-22 season.
Pushing up their turnover to new heights is one area in which they have been consistently successful over their six years with Radrizzani as chairman.
Even in the Championship, English football’s second tier, they were pulling in more money than any of the 71 other EFL sides — albeit while also posting hefty losses.
But it is no secret that the bulk of Premier League earnings come from central distributions, consisting mainly of money earned through the league’s lucrative broadcast deals.
The EFL has just renegotiated its TV deal with UK broadcaster Sky Sports but the figures involved are still a world away from the cash earned by the Premier League through such rights.
Last season, for example, Leeds’ central distributions were £95million — more than three times Nottingham Forest’s entire turnover in the Championship that year.
So at a stroke, a large chunk of that funding disappears with relegation.
But as it has for years now, the parachute payment scheme exists between the Premier League and the Championship, giving those clubs who go down assistance to cope with the financial hit of dropping divisions.
In year one back in the EFL, Leeds would receive 55 per cent of the basic payment made to Premier League clubs — around £45 million.
If they then fail to bounce straight back, the year two figure drops to 45%.
In year three, the final season of parachute payments, it’s 20%.
Used smartly, parachute payments can help a relegated club reframe their squad, be competitive in the promotion race and go again.
That cash can facilitate signings other sides in the Championship cannot afford and support larger salaries.
But they don’t last forever and they won’t avert sizeable losses, because virtually every club loses money in the second tier.
They are no guarantee of promotion either.
Relegated clubs have little choice but to substantially reduce budgets, and Leeds would be no different.
‼️Wage bill‼️
Leeds’ last recorded wage bill, for the 2021-22 year, was £121million, and after so many signings made this season it can only have increased.
Plainly, they could not afford to carry such high costs while in the EFL, but they would be helped at the outset by substantial reductions in the salaries earned by their first-team squad.
The players stand to incur hefty wage cuts in the aftermath of relegation, with drops of up to 60 per cent (some in line with the increases a number of them received after winning promotion three years ago).
Clauses in their contracts allow Leeds to automatically decrease their earnings when in the EFL, bringing down the outlay overnight.
None of that would stop Leeds having one of the highest Championship wage bills but between parachute payments, transfer income and shareholder investment, it is possible to manage a large salaries figure for a finite period.
The problem comes if a relegated club find themselves stuck outside the Premier League for a sustained spell.
An expensive squad becomes harder and harder to maintain in those circumstances.
‼️Players‼️
Whatever happens against Spurs at Elland Road this weekend, this summer will be an intensive and busy transfer window for Leeds.
Many of the first-team squad have relegation-related release clauses in their contracts, giving other clubs the right to buy them for a fixed fee (usually one that is less than their true market value).
Leeds pulled in £100million by selling Raphinha and Kalvin Phillips last summer.
Because of release clauses applying to both players, the club would have recouped merely half as much had they been auctioning them on the back of relegation.
Departures from Elland Road in the coming window could well run into double figures if Leeds are relegated.
Weston McKennie is certain to leave, however the season finishes.
Neither he nor Leeds are minded to activate the option to make his half-season loan from Italian giants Juventus permanent.
Goalkeeper Illan Meslier has endured a difficult season but his valuation remains relatively high and Leeds were always open to the possibility of accepting a worthwhile offer for him in this window.
Robin Koch has a year left on his contract and, as a Germany international, would naturally attract bids if Leeds are an EFL club again.
So too would Colombia international Luis Sinisterra, a footballer with high-level potential provided he stays fit.
Jack Harrison has only just signed a new five-year deal but it is understood to include a release clause, and there is ample Premier League interest in him.
Rodrigo is on course to be a free agent in 12 months’ time and, as a top earner, would cost too much to keep in the Championship.
There are some who Leeds would be very keen to retain, though.
McKennie’s fellow USA midfielder Tyler Adams is one.
They would be reluctant to lose Wilfried Gnonto too, though his performances have put him on the radar of clubs in Europe.
But it is accepted that a large turnover is inevitable, partly because some names are too expensive, some names have no further part to play and some names are a route to transfer fees which can help to build a suitable team to contend in, and win promotion from, the Championship.
The window ahead will be active from start to finish for Leeds.
A critical part of it will be finding takers for surplus players — a task which is never simple on the back of a relegation.
‼️Head coach‼️
Unlike short-lived predecessor Javi Gracia, there is no agreed provision in place for Sam Allardyce to remain as head coach beyond the end of the season.
His contract was as short as four games and no discussions have taken place about his future.
Whether Leeds are in any way tempted by the idea of Allardyce in the Championship, a division he has got Bolton Wanderers (2001) and West Ham (2012) promoted from in his career, remains to be seen but there will be a clamour among the fanbase for fresh thinking.
Over the past couple of weeks, 49ers Enterprises gave thought to Marcelo Bielsa returning as an avenue worth pursuing if they went down, but he has now taken the Uruguay national-team job and, in any case, the doubts about the ownership structure at Leeds would not have made his old job easy to sell to the Argentinian — without even touching on the two sides’ uncomfortable parting in February last year.
If Leeds were to stay up, they would like to try to engage someone such as Graham Potter, who did well in three Premier League seasons at Brighton but lasted just seven months of this one after joining Chelsea last September.
Should they go down, recently-sacked Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers is likely to come into the equation, at least in terms of the sort of coach they would want.
Whether Rodgers is open to working in the EFL again, having led Swansea City up from it in 2011, is another matter altogether.
Expect a swing towards more established domestic candidates, or coaches with experience of that league, because nobody at Elland Road is trying to pretend going out on a limb with Jesse Marsch as Bielsa’s replacement worked.
But Leeds will not be able to sell themselves on name or reputation alone.
They have masses to do to make sure that, on the other side of this summer, they are ready to attack the new season.
‼️Director of football‼️
Leeds have operated under a director of football model since Andrea Radrizzani bought out Massimo Cellino and appointed Victor Orta in 2017.
But Orta’s exit this month leaves that position vacant, and dealing with it is one of various priorities facing the board.
The first thing for Leeds to decide is whether they want to stick with precisely the same model — a structure in which a single director of football oversees that side of the business.
In contrast, certain teams split authority between a specific head of their recruitment department and a figure who takes charge of other football operations.
While some of Orta’s staff are departing with him — scout Gaby Ruiz, for example — some other scouts remain in place, but Leeds need a fresh tier of management around whoever ends up becoming their next head coach.
Norwich City’s Stuart Webber, a lifelong Leeds fan, and Kieran Scott of Middlesbrough are two names from the Championship touted as possible options, but at this stage the club have not taken any firm steps towards filling the void.
In many ways, recruitment on that front will be as crucial as any player-transfer business — because the director of football’s input is what tends to create ethos and philosophy, for better or worse.
‼️Stadium‼️
The capacity of Elland Road has not just been inadequate in the Premier League, but inadequate since the start of the Marcelo Bielsa era five years ago next month.
Leeds’ home games sold out consistently from his arrival onwards and the waiting list for season tickets soared very quickly, to a peak of 22,000 names.
This is a handicap in two senses.
Firstly, supply is a long way below demand and supporters who would like to attend matches cannot.
And secondly, Leeds are missing out on the commercial and corporate income a bigger stadium would let them generate.
But for all the talk, the idea of redeveloping the ground has been exactly that for a few years now — an idea.
The proposed project would start with the rebuilding of the West Stand and the club have architectural designs for that in place but they would have to go through the process of applying for planning permission and that was only due to happen once 49ers Enterprises assumed control of the boardroom.
In itself, planning could take 12 months to secure.
The project would also require large amounts of funding, many tens of millions of pounds predominantly secured via loans, and it has been clear for a while that any such work was not going to start on Radrizzani’s watch.
It is a sad aspect of these three seasons aboard the Premier League gravy train that Elland Road has hardly been touched to any great extent.
If Leeds go down on Sunday, there is no expectation that redevelopment would move forward in the Championship.
Upgrading Elland Road has long been described as Premier League-dependent and, given the financial impact of relegation, it is not something the club can prioritise — and there is very little point securing planning permission for the project if they are not able to push the button on it rapidly.
Back in a division where every penny counts, increasing the capacity of Elland Road would slip into the background once more, delayed by the immediacy of trying to get promoted again.
The question is essentially this:
do Leeds need a 50,000 or 60,000-capacity home playing in the EFL?
‼️Season tickets‼️
This is about as close as you’ll get to an upside of relegation.
Those 10 per cent rises in costs for next season?
They’ll be canned if Leeds go down.
You’ll get more games for your money (46 league matches in the Championship, up from the Premier League’s 38) and if you’re on that long, long waiting list, your chances of reaching the front of it might be slightly enhanced.

Tom

Med en forventet storopprenskning i stallen, hva er våre salgsobjekter verdt?

Adams         30 M
Harrison       25 M
Gnonto        20 M
Sinisterra     20 M
Aaronson      15 M
Wober           12 M
Rodrigo         10 M (32 år - 1 år igjen av kontrakt)
Firpo              8 M
Roca              8 M
Meslier          15 M
Lllorente        8 M
Koch              8 M
James           10 M
Drameh          4 M

Sum              193 M

Da har jeg ikke tatt med Kristensen, Summerville, Struijk og Bamford som jeg tror blir. Men nærmere 2 milliard inn + fallskjermpenger burde gi et grunnlag for å ihvertfall hente inn noe Championship-kvalitet.

Også mulig jeg overvurderer hva klubber er villig til å betale for våre "assets" :)

Da ser det litt tynt ut for å si det forsiktig:

                     Robles
Ayling - Kristensen - Cooper/Creswell - Struijk

          Greenwood - Forshaw - Dallas

         Summerville - Bamford - Rutter

Subs:
Gelhardt
Gyabi
Gray
Perkins
Joseph




Cherry

Sakset fra facebook. Forfatter ukjent (Phil Hay?).

The sobering reality for Leeds United is that relegation next Sunday, if indeed there is no way out, would barely be even the start of it.
The club are all but sunk with one game left, reliant on the biggest stroke of luck they could ask for, and Elland Road can see a monumental summer looming.
The close-season promises to be manic if Leeds survive and more frantic again should they return to the Championship, heralding changes which have to amount to an almost total reset.
They got away with it last season, rescuing themselves on the final day against Brentford, but the drop feels more inevitable this time and nothing in their sorry surrender away to West Ham United on Sunday suggested they are about to dodge disaster for a second year running.
🗣️ What next, then, for the club who stormed the Championship in 2019-20?
Their head coach, Sam Allardyce, has a short-term contract that covers one more match.
They have been without a director of football since Victor Orta parted company with them three weeks ago.
The proposed takeover by 49ers Enterprises is still only a proposal.
And what of other issues, like the future of individual players, the management of a sizeable Premier League wage bill and the impact of reduced income?
🗣️ What would relegation on Sunday actually mean for Leeds United?
What are the nuts and bolts and the brass tacks for the months ahead?
‼️The takeover‼️
A change of ownership is what everything at Elland Road hinges on — and it can be credibly argued that the impasse on that front is a reason why Leeds have stagnated to the point where relegation is nigh.
At present, the arrangement in the boardroom is this:
Andrea Radrizzani is majority shareholder with slightly more than 50 per cent of the shares.
The remainder is held by 49ers Enterprises, a US investment vehicle with close connections to the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers.
Were Leeds to stay up following their season-finale at home to Tottenham Hotspur this weekend, contracts are in place for 49ers Enterprises to buy out Radrizzani for a sum which would value Leeds somewhere between £400 million ($496m) and £500million ($621m).
The expectation is that the sale would go through by July 1 at the latest but in effect, the handover would start more rapidly.
The investment group behind this 49ers Enterprises project — made up of entrepreneurs, private equity firms, businessmen such as current Leeds director Peter Lowy and at least one unidentified US political figure — has been in place for some time and ready to buy Radrizzani out under the agreed terms, provided Leeds retained their Premier League status.
While that collective is providing the funding, the day-to-day management of the club would be the responsibility of 49ers Enterprises figures including Paraag Marathe and Collin Meador.
However, the agreement with Radrizzani in its current guise will be void if Leeds go down.
Nonetheless, 49ers Enterprises remain intent on buying Radrizzani out, or at least securing majority control, even if relegation happens.
Discussions to that effect have been taking place and gathering pace over the past few weeks, driven by the realisation that a bottom-three finish was increasingly likely and that the amount of work to be done this summer would be substantial either way.
Radrizzani is open to selling in the event Leeds find themselves back in the EFL next season, so long as the numbers work for him.
That is the crux of discussions as it stands:
relegation promises to significantly reduce Leeds’ value and 49ers Enterprises would only be willing to buy at a much lower price,
somewhere in the region of £150million ($186m). It is not clear if Radrizzani is prepared to drop his valuation to that level.
He was pictured in his Italian homeland yesterday (Monday) and, as reported by The Athletic over the weekend, he is part of a group who are attempting to buy Sampdoria, who were relegated from Italy’s top flight two weeks ago.
Radrizzani would almost certainly require funds from the sale of Leeds to help secure the purchase of the Genoa-based club.
His involvement in those talks, all while Leeds are themselves on the brink of going down, suggests he is going to exit Elland Road, and soon — but even so, he and 49ers Enterprises are not yet agreed on the terms of a post-relegation takeover.
What is clear is that the club cannot afford to get stuck in a prolonged ownership wrangle after this season ends.
They have too much to do and no time to lose, making urgency in negotiations essential.
‼️Income‼️
Revenue at Elland Road has reached a record level for the club, falling just short of £190million for the 2021-22 season.
Pushing up their turnover to new heights is one area in which they have been consistently successful over their six years with Radrizzani as chairman.
Even in the Championship, English football’s second tier, they were pulling in more money than any of the 71 other EFL sides — albeit while also posting hefty losses.
But it is no secret that the bulk of Premier League earnings come from central distributions, consisting mainly of money earned through the league’s lucrative broadcast deals.
The EFL has just renegotiated its TV deal with UK broadcaster Sky Sports but the figures involved are still a world away from the cash earned by the Premier League through such rights.
Last season, for example, Leeds’ central distributions were £95million — more than three times Nottingham Forest’s entire turnover in the Championship that year.
So at a stroke, a large chunk of that funding disappears with relegation.
But as it has for years now, the parachute payment scheme exists between the Premier League and the Championship, giving those clubs who go down assistance to cope with the financial hit of dropping divisions.
In year one back in the EFL, Leeds would receive 55 per cent of the basic payment made to Premier League clubs — around £45 million.
If they then fail to bounce straight back, the year two figure drops to 45%.
In year three, the final season of parachute payments, it’s 20%.
Used smartly, parachute payments can help a relegated club reframe their squad, be competitive in the promotion race and go again.
That cash can facilitate signings other sides in the Championship cannot afford and support larger salaries.
But they don’t last forever and they won’t avert sizeable losses, because virtually every club loses money in the second tier.
They are no guarantee of promotion either.
Relegated clubs have little choice but to substantially reduce budgets, and Leeds would be no different.
‼️Wage bill‼️
Leeds’ last recorded wage bill, for the 2021-22 year, was £121million, and after so many signings made this season it can only have increased.
Plainly, they could not afford to carry such high costs while in the EFL, but they would be helped at the outset by substantial reductions in the salaries earned by their first-team squad.
The players stand to incur hefty wage cuts in the aftermath of relegation, with drops of up to 60 per cent (some in line with the increases a number of them received after winning promotion three years ago).
Clauses in their contracts allow Leeds to automatically decrease their earnings when in the EFL, bringing down the outlay overnight.
None of that would stop Leeds having one of the highest Championship wage bills but between parachute payments, transfer income and shareholder investment, it is possible to manage a large salaries figure for a finite period.
The problem comes if a relegated club find themselves stuck outside the Premier League for a sustained spell.
An expensive squad becomes harder and harder to maintain in those circumstances.
‼️Players‼️
Whatever happens against Spurs at Elland Road this weekend, this summer will be an intensive and busy transfer window for Leeds.
Many of the first-team squad have relegation-related release clauses in their contracts, giving other clubs the right to buy them for a fixed fee (usually one that is less than their true market value).
Leeds pulled in £100million by selling Raphinha and Kalvin Phillips last summer.
Because of release clauses applying to both players, the club would have recouped merely half as much had they been auctioning them on the back of relegation.
Departures from Elland Road in the coming window could well run into double figures if Leeds are relegated.
Weston McKennie is certain to leave, however the season finishes.
Neither he nor Leeds are minded to activate the option to make his half-season loan from Italian giants Juventus permanent.
Goalkeeper Illan Meslier has endured a difficult season but his valuation remains relatively high and Leeds were always open to the possibility of accepting a worthwhile offer for him in this window.
Robin Koch has a year left on his contract and, as a Germany international, would naturally attract bids if Leeds are an EFL club again.
So too would Colombia international Luis Sinisterra, a footballer with high-level potential provided he stays fit.
Jack Harrison has only just signed a new five-year deal but it is understood to include a release clause, and there is ample Premier League interest in him.
Rodrigo is on course to be a free agent in 12 months’ time and, as a top earner, would cost too much to keep in the Championship.
There are some who Leeds would be very keen to retain, though.
McKennie’s fellow USA midfielder Tyler Adams is one.
They would be reluctant to lose Wilfried Gnonto too, though his performances have put him on the radar of clubs in Europe.
But it is accepted that a large turnover is inevitable, partly because some names are too expensive, some names have no further part to play and some names are a route to transfer fees which can help to build a suitable team to contend in, and win promotion from, the Championship.
The window ahead will be active from start to finish for Leeds.
A critical part of it will be finding takers for surplus players — a task which is never simple on the back of a relegation.
‼️Head coach‼️
Unlike short-lived predecessor Javi Gracia, there is no agreed provision in place for Sam Allardyce to remain as head coach beyond the end of the season.
His contract was as short as four games and no discussions have taken place about his future.
Whether Leeds are in any way tempted by the idea of Allardyce in the Championship, a division he has got Bolton Wanderers (2001) and West Ham (2012) promoted from in his career, remains to be seen but there will be a clamour among the fanbase for fresh thinking.
Over the past couple of weeks, 49ers Enterprises gave thought to Marcelo Bielsa returning as an avenue worth pursuing if they went down, but he has now taken the Uruguay national-team job and, in any case, the doubts about the ownership structure at Leeds would not have made his old job easy to sell to the Argentinian — without even touching on the two sides’ uncomfortable parting in February last year.
If Leeds were to stay up, they would like to try to engage someone such as Graham Potter, who did well in three Premier League seasons at Brighton but lasted just seven months of this one after joining Chelsea last September.
Should they go down, recently-sacked Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers is likely to come into the equation, at least in terms of the sort of coach they would want.
Whether Rodgers is open to working in the EFL again, having led Swansea City up from it in 2011, is another matter altogether.
Expect a swing towards more established domestic candidates, or coaches with experience of that league, because nobody at Elland Road is trying to pretend going out on a limb with Jesse Marsch as Bielsa’s replacement worked.
But Leeds will not be able to sell themselves on name or reputation alone.
They have masses to do to make sure that, on the other side of this summer, they are ready to attack the new season.
‼️Director of football‼️
Leeds have operated under a director of football model since Andrea Radrizzani bought out Massimo Cellino and appointed Victor Orta in 2017.
But Orta’s exit this month leaves that position vacant, and dealing with it is one of various priorities facing the board.
The first thing for Leeds to decide is whether they want to stick with precisely the same model — a structure in which a single director of football oversees that side of the business.
In contrast, certain teams split authority between a specific head of their recruitment department and a figure who takes charge of other football operations.
While some of Orta’s staff are departing with him — scout Gaby Ruiz, for example — some other scouts remain in place, but Leeds need a fresh tier of management around whoever ends up becoming their next head coach.
Norwich City’s Stuart Webber, a lifelong Leeds fan, and Kieran Scott of Middlesbrough are two names from the Championship touted as possible options, but at this stage the club have not taken any firm steps towards filling the void.
In many ways, recruitment on that front will be as crucial as any player-transfer business — because the director of football’s input is what tends to create ethos and philosophy, for better or worse.
‼️Stadium‼️
The capacity of Elland Road has not just been inadequate in the Premier League, but inadequate since the start of the Marcelo Bielsa era five years ago next month.
Leeds’ home games sold out consistently from his arrival onwards and the waiting list for season tickets soared very quickly, to a peak of 22,000 names.
This is a handicap in two senses.
Firstly, supply is a long way below demand and supporters who would like to attend matches cannot.
And secondly, Leeds are missing out on the commercial and corporate income a bigger stadium would let them generate.
But for all the talk, the idea of redeveloping the ground has been exactly that for a few years now — an idea.
The proposed project would start with the rebuilding of the West Stand and the club have architectural designs for that in place but they would have to go through the process of applying for planning permission and that was only due to happen once 49ers Enterprises assumed control of the boardroom.
In itself, planning could take 12 months to secure.
The project would also require large amounts of funding, many tens of millions of pounds predominantly secured via loans, and it has been clear for a while that any such work was not going to start on Radrizzani’s watch.
It is a sad aspect of these three seasons aboard the Premier League gravy train that Elland Road has hardly been touched to any great extent.
If Leeds go down on Sunday, there is no expectation that redevelopment would move forward in the Championship.
Upgrading Elland Road has long been described as Premier League-dependent and, given the financial impact of relegation, it is not something the club can prioritise — and there is very little point securing planning permission for the project if they are not able to push the button on it rapidly.
Back in a division where every penny counts, increasing the capacity of Elland Road would slip into the background once more, delayed by the immediacy of trying to get promoted again.
The question is essentially this:
do Leeds need a 50,000 or 60,000-capacity home playing in the EFL?
‼️Season tickets‼️
This is about as close as you’ll get to an upside of relegation.
Those 10 per cent rises in costs for next season?
They’ll be canned if Leeds go down.
You’ll get more games for your money (46 league matches in the Championship, up from the Premier League’s 38) and if you’re on that long, long waiting list, your chances of reaching the front of it might be slightly enhanced.

Mye, og god lesning.  Garantert realiteter dette her, kommer vel ikke som noe sjokk for noen.
Her er det MYE jobb som skal gjøres, og transfervinduet blir utrolig spennende......
Vi må nok svelge endel kameler (spillere som blir solgt) - men har mange gode unggutter som sammen med noen kloke
investeringer i erfarne spillere bare kan bli bedre!

Jeg gru`-gleder meg, men det kan jo nesten ikke bli værre enn i år.! ;)
Regroup, and Go`again!

Blank_File

Sakset fra facebook. Forfatter ukjent (Phil Hay?).

...

Adresserer nesten alt jeg har tenkt på. Takk. Må få kjøpt Athletic igjen.

Dennis

...

Mye, og god lesning.  Garantert realiteter dette her, kommer vel ikke som noe sjokk for noen.
Her er det MYE jobb som skal gjøres, og transfervinduet blir utrolig spennende......
Vi må nok svelge endel kameler (spillere som blir solgt) - men har mange gode unggutter som sammen med noen kloke
investeringer i erfarne spillere bare kan bli bedre!

Jeg gru`-gleder meg, men det kan jo nesten ikke bli værre enn i år.! ;)
Regroup, and Go`again!

Det er jo heldigvis det gledelige med å være supporter.

Skuffelsen over at Leeds(-ledelsen) lot det meget gode comebacket og plattformen som kunne vært skapt renne mellom fingrene og ned i Championship igjen, har vært langvarig og frustrerende. Likevel, når nedrykket etter all sannsynlighet er klart søndag begynner jeg straks å se fram mot ny sesong.

Bortekamp tirsdag mot Plymouth har sin sjarm det også. :)

Marching on together!

Kato

Vi har knapt vunnet fotballkamper på to år. Det påvirker hverdagen min å gå på smell etter smell. Jeg ser virkelig frem til å stå opp en morgen uten å ha et tap i bakhodet. Forhåpentligvis.

GeirO

Vi får håpe vi ikke går på mange smeller på rad i Championship, men noe smeller blir det helt sikkert.
MOT

TK20

Jeg har trua på Aaronson. Også i Championship. Håper vi beholder ham.

HåvardK

Jeg har trua på Aaronson. Også i Championship. Håper vi beholder ham.
Ja, det er vel ingen tvil om potensialet. Skal visstnok være en veldig seriøs og flott type også, langt fra noen primadonna. Men må ta store steg fysisk, og få bygget selvtillit.

Fantasyland

Jeg har trua på Aaronson. Også i Championship. Håper vi beholder ham.
Ja, det er vel ingen tvil om potensialet. Skal visstnok være en veldig seriøs og flott type også, langt fra noen primadonna. Men må ta store steg fysisk, og få bygget selvtillit.

Bingo. Han trenger å bruke sommeren på gymmen. Knapt sett noe tristere når det kommer til fysikk i PL.

Hallgeir *

Super Leeds since 1968

rd1

Så ufattelig trist at Orta fikk holde på med galskapen sin! Dan James, han som knapt spilte og vi måtte kjøpe selv om han hadde reist, rutter, Aronsen.. 1,3 milliarder bare der.

Tenk



Det

Folkens

Og venstreback har vi manglet i 6(?) sesonger.

Så håpet, håpet

er at amerikanerne kjøper klubben og bygger klubben fra ruinene.

For det er det det er.

Ruiner.
"Who needs Cantona??"

Johnnyj

Det verste er at jeg ikke en gang er skuffet.

Dette nedrykket er så fortjent som det kan bli. Bare det at vi kom over Southampton på tabellen er en prestasjon i seg selv.
Først og fremst må vi finne to solide midtbanespillere som kan bytte på å spille sammen med Adams. Både McKennie (juve) og Roca (Real Betis) forsvinner garrantert til sommeren , og det føler jeg er helt greit.
Ellers så mister vi nok også Harrison, Rodrigo og Firpo.

Den manageren som kommer inn nå må gjøre en skikkelig overhaling av laget. Det gjøres ikke over natta.


Gufrias

Jeg har med vilje latt være å skrive i denne tråden til siste lille teoretiske håp er ute. Så nå er tiden kommet.

Det Leeds trenger nå, er en klassemanager. Slutt med Ortas naive drøm om å finne en stjerne som ingen vet om. Vi må ha en manager med track record, en som evner å få troen, tryggheten og spillegleden inn i troppen igjen. Jeg tror akkurat dette var kjernen i Bielsas magi. (Den eneste managersigneringen Radz/Orta traff med.)

Vi trenger også en manager/sportssjef som ikke undervurderer verdien av erfaring. Alle de tre yngste lagene i PL klappet sammen under press: Arsenal forsvant fra gullkampen, Leeds og Southampton... ja, altså, dere vet...

Med slike endringer på toppen, tror jeg ikke vi trenger å skifte ut så uhorvelig mange spillere for å lykkes i Championship.
Hekta på Leeds siden 1974

TK20

Liker ikke sånne totale utskiftningsprosjekter. Både fordi mange av de eksisterende spillerne antakelig ikke er for dårlige og fordi man aldri treffer på samtlige tolv spillerkjøp. Blir ofte to steg frem og to tilbake.

GeirO

Liker ikke sånne totale utskiftningsprosjekter. Både fordi mange av de eksisterende spillerne antakelig ikke er for dårlige og fordi man aldri treffer på samtlige tolv spillerkjøp. Blir ofte to steg frem og to tilbake.
Bielsa er jo et eksempel på din teori. Han forvandlet et "møkkalag" til et fantastisk lag på to måneder. Alt en behøver er:

- Trene vanvittig mye
- Være et mentalt geni som graver seg inn 20 hjerner
- Greie å terpe inn samhandlinger 24/7

Siden Eggen og Bielsa er uaktuelle, er jeg spent på hva som finnes av mulige kandidater. Det er faktisk mulig å bli dobbelt så god uten å bytte ut flere enn de som absolutt vil bort.
MOT

Kato

Skulle gjerne beholdt Tyler Adams, tror dessverre ikke vi klarer det. Der røk plassen, sjanseløse hodeløse høns som spilte der da han forsvant.
 

Johnnyj

Skulle gjerne beholdt Tyler Adams, tror dessverre ikke vi klarer det. Der røk plassen, sjanseløse hodeløse høns som spilte der da han forsvant.
Heldigvis er det en fordel at han har vært langtidsskadet. Da går han forhåpentligvis under radaren for de større klubbene.

Tipper at McKennie, Rodrigo, Harrison, Roca, Koch og Firpo er de som forsvinner videre. Frigjør en del midler på lønnsbudsjettet også.

Angående managersituasjonen så mener jeg at vi bør prøve oss på Carlos Corberan, som overtok et West Brom i fritt fall og greide å snu skuta. Får nok et nytt kontraktstilbud der, men det går jo an å komme de i forkjøpet  ;D
Gjorde også en habil jobb i Hødds. Så nå bør han vel være klar til å vende hjem igjen?

Blank_File

Skulle gjerne beholdt Tyler Adams, tror dessverre ikke vi klarer det. Der røk plassen, sjanseløse hodeløse høns som spilte der da han forsvant.
Når vi ser poengsnittet med og uten, er det vanskelig å være uenig i det.

Gufrias

Skulle gjerne beholdt Tyler Adams, tror dessverre ikke vi klarer det. Der røk plassen, sjanseløse hodeløse høns som spilte der da han forsvant.
Heldigvis er det en fordel at han har vært langtidsskadet. Da går han forhåpentligvis under radaren for de større klubbene.

Tipper at McKennie, Rodrigo, Harrison, Roca, Koch og Firpo er de som forsvinner videre. Frigjør en del midler på lønnsbudsjettet også.

Angående managersituasjonen så mener jeg at vi bør prøve oss på Carlos Corberan, som overtok et West Brom i fritt fall og greide å snu skuta. Får nok et nytt kontraktstilbud der, men det går jo an å komme de i forkjøpet  ;D
Gjorde også en habil jobb i Hødds. Så nå bør han vel være klar til å vende hjem igjen?
Meslier forsvinner vel også?
Hekta på Leeds siden 1974

auren

Skulle gjerne beholdt Tyler Adams, tror dessverre ikke vi klarer det. Der røk plassen, sjanseløse hodeløse høns som spilte der da han forsvant.
Heldigvis er det en fordel at han har vært langtidsskadet. Da går han forhåpentligvis under radaren for de større klubbene.

Tipper at McKennie, Rodrigo, Harrison, Roca, Koch og Firpo er de som forsvinner videre. Frigjør en del midler på lønnsbudsjettet også.

Angående managersituasjonen så mener jeg at vi bør prøve oss på Carlos Corberan, som overtok et West Brom i fritt fall og greide å snu skuta. Får nok et nytt kontraktstilbud der, men det går jo an å komme de i forkjøpet  ;D
Gjorde også en habil jobb i Hødds. Så nå bør han vel være klar til å vende hjem igjen?

Jeg setter også min lit til at denne skaden gjør at vi får han med også til neste år. Leeds må bygge laget rundt ham. Det samme gjelder med Sinisterra. Kan ikke helt tenke meg at noen klubber vil satse på å kjøpe ham til 30 millioner pund så skadeutsatt han har vært. Adams og Siniesterra skadefrie i Championship så rykker vi rett opp igjen!

Corberan er intet dårlig valg! Fører forhåpentligvis arven etter Bielsa litt videre. Han har nå to sesonger bak seg i Championship og kjenner klubben.

Håper klubben ENDELIG kan kjøpe inn en skikkelig venstreback og en offansiv midtbanespiller ala Pablo. Gjerne en erfaren ringrev. Kanskje kan Corberan ta med seg John Swift fra WBA?

Skal Milner avslutte karrieren i Leeds mon tro?

auren
"Guardiola said: 'You know more about Barcelona than I do!'"
Marcelo Bielsa, 16.01.19, etter Spygate-foredraget sitt.

PetterH

Skulle gjerne beholdt Tyler Adams, tror dessverre ikke vi klarer det. Der røk plassen, sjanseløse hodeløse høns som spilte der da han forsvant.
Heldigvis er det en fordel at han har vært langtidsskadet. Da går han forhåpentligvis under radaren for de større klubbene.

Tipper at McKennie, Rodrigo, Harrison, Roca, Koch og Firpo er de som forsvinner videre. Frigjør en del midler på lønnsbudsjettet også.

Angående managersituasjonen så mener jeg at vi bør prøve oss på Carlos Corberan, som overtok et West Brom i fritt fall og greide å snu skuta. Får nok et nytt kontraktstilbud der, men det går jo an å komme de i forkjøpet  ;D
Gjorde også en habil jobb i Hødds. Så nå bør han vel være klar til å vende hjem igjen?


Skal Milner avslutte karrieren i Leeds mon tro?

auren

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