vidukas_heel wrote:This is a lame duck argument. Like telling a child whose parents beat him: "You should just be grateful they had you in the first place".
If Cellino hadn't bought Leeds, someone else would have. Chances are they'd have done a far better job of ridding the us of GFH's involvement than he did. Ask yourself this: what if a better owner than Cellino had been in charge for the last three years? Where do you think the club would be now?
As fans we should demand better for Leeds United than people like him who drag our name through the muck.
If Cellino hadnt brought Leeds who else would have? From what we were told there were 2 concrete offers, Cellino and another who couldn't find enough funding. Those are facts as we were told, without being "in the know" thats the facts. So Cellino was the only concrete offer that had enough money behind it to buy the club. Im sure if GFH had had an offer they felt acceptable they would have sold, sad fact is we were a mess and people wouldn't touch us, hence why despite always hearing what a wonderful opportunity Leeds is for some billionaire Arab or whatever we never got one.
Did Cellino do proper due diligence, probably not, should we be glad he took a chance and didnt, absolutely, because if he had he would have found out what an absolute mess we were in and probably gone back to Miami with his wallet.
And then GFH would have stuck us into administration and we start again, not speculation it was widely reported at the time administration was a real possibility if a buyer couldn't be found.
Ask yourself this, what if GFH hadnt found a buyer at all where would we be?
A section of Leeds fans still seem to think we were an attractive prospect and billionaires were lined up at the doors of Elland Road waving there chequebooks, they simply wernt, if they were then Cellino by his own admission "is no Roman Abramovich" and his offer would have been rejected for a better one.
He was the only person who had the funding there and then to save us from GFH . . .
But respect your opinion its always nice to read different perspectives.
[quote="vidukas_heel"]This is a lame duck argument. Like telling a child whose parents beat him: "You should just be grateful they had you in the first place".
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If Cellino hadn't bought Leeds, someone else would have. Chances are they'd have done a far better job of ridding the us of GFH's involvement than he did.[/b] [u]Ask yourself this: what if a better owner than Cellino had been in charge for the last three years? Where do you think the club would be now?[/u]
As fans we should demand better for Leeds United than people like him who drag our name through the muck.[/quote]
If Cellino hadnt brought Leeds who else would have? From what we were told there were 2 concrete offers, Cellino and another who couldn't find enough funding. Those are facts as we were told, without being "in the know" thats the facts. So Cellino was the only concrete offer that had enough money behind it to buy the club. Im sure if GFH had had an offer they felt acceptable they would have sold, sad fact is we were a mess and people wouldn't touch us, hence why despite always hearing what a wonderful opportunity Leeds is for some billionaire Arab or whatever we never got one.
Did Cellino do proper due diligence, probably not, should we be glad he took a chance and didnt, absolutely, because if he had he would have found out what an absolute mess we were in and probably gone back to Miami with his wallet.
And then GFH would have stuck us into administration and we start again, not speculation it was widely reported at the time administration was a real possibility if a buyer couldn't be found.
Ask yourself this, what if GFH hadnt found a buyer at all where would we be?
A section of Leeds fans still seem to think we were an attractive prospect and billionaires were lined up at the doors of Elland Road waving there chequebooks, they simply wernt, if they were then Cellino by his own admission "is no Roman Abramovich" and his offer would have been rejected for a better one.
He was the only person who had the funding there and then to save us from GFH . . .
But respect your opinion its always nice to read different perspectives.