[LU] Leeds United - the truth, the whole truth....

2012-05-18 Thread John Lee
This is about the best Summary of Leeds and where we are, that I can understand, that I've read in quite some time. Worth reading.   http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/leeds-united-marching-on-together.html ___ Leedslist mailing list Info and

Re: [LU] Leeds United - the truth, the whole truth....

2012-05-18 Thread Simon Hart
It's an excellent article with lots of good info but this jumped out at me... That said, Leeds do have other important potential liabilities: (a) if they are promoted to the Premier League before the 2017/18 season, they have to pay £4.75 million to the liquidator; One of the often repeated

[LU] Leeds United - the truth, the whole truth....

2012-05-18 Thread Simon Hart
According to the article there are £13M of other costs of which £2 is the rent. Other costs are high though compared to other championship clubs, examples given are Ipswitch £5M, Norwich Reading £6M, Derby QPR £10M Leicester £12M. I wonder how much we spend on legal fees after Bates' program

Re: [LU] Leeds United - the truth, the whole truth....

2012-05-18 Thread Robert Heath
I don't believe that theory at all. Bates is a lot of bad things, but one thing I think you can't accuse him of is being a financial fackwit..and only an f.f. would give up the chance to earn many tens of millions to avoid paying 5 million. The thing that jumped out for me was that