QSI In Talks With Radz (Phil Hay Update)

[Mick Jones shoulder]

If you're happy with being a perpetually lower level club then right now you have what you want.
In todays business of football, if you do not have the backing of mega money the club will remain there.
When people ask, I would like to be able to say, yes I support Leeds United. I supported them through all the crap times but now I'm very happy they are Premier League challengers and Champions League contenders.

Sensible

[Cjay]

Cant help but feel if nothing comes of this then we will regret it.

[The Subhuman]

OR if something comes of it we'll regret it ...

[The Subhuman]

My spidey sense is tingling big time, it's seldom wrong.

[SG90]

Why is everyone ignoring that ffp means the owner can only put in £25m a year, which is why Radz is stumped. Not because he's skint. Some of our fans actually think these Qataris are going to spend £100 ms if they buy us, not happening at all. This isn't FIFA.

[YorkshireSquare]

Club is being run better than it has been for 17 years. Decent owner, good team around him.

You don't need billions to get out of the Championship, you need sensible investment over a period of time. We are on the right track.

[SG90]

I prefer the high moral ground of problem gambling.

Ideally I'd have neither. Gambling sponsorship really should be outlawed in sports now.

[YorkshireSquare]

Why is everyone ignoring that ffp means the owner can only put in £25m a year, which is why Radz is stumped. Not because he's skint. Some of our fans actually think these Qataris are going to spend £100 ms if they buy us, not happening at all. This isn't FIFA.

There are ways round FFP if you have cash to burn. Man City and PSG prove this with sponsorship deals, Derby got round it with a property deal.

The main issue is that you don't sink cash into a Championship club as it's a massive risk.

[Cjay]

Club is being run better than it has been for 17 years. Decent owner, good team around him.

You don't need billions to get out of the Championship, you need sensible investment over a period of time. We are on the right track.

Radz doesnt invest, the accounts show that.

[SG90]

Club is being run better than it has been for 17 years. Decent owner, good team around him.

You don't need billions to get out of the Championship, you need sensible investment over a period of time. We are on the right track.

Hear, hear.

[TwatsBack]

Did we not make a loss os 20mil last season? Some in here would rather see us die than take investment which we probably deserve more than most. Take what you can get

Die?? Really?? We didn't die with a 120MILLION debt round our necks did we. 20 mill in football is real small fry these days.

[SG90]

There are ways round FFP if you have cash to burn. Man City and PSG prove this with sponsorship deals, Derby got round it with a property deal.

The main issue is that you don't sink cash into a Championship club as it's a massive risk.

Looking at the accounts of various Championship clubs, it really makes no sense to try and gamble. It's got financial implosion written all over it.

[TwatsBack]

Radz will probably not sell anyway because he is stubborn and a little bit delusional.

If the Qatari people did takeover then they would ensure success, they just would, no way they would allow themselves to be owners of an unsuccessful club. It wouldn't happen over night but it would happen.

As for the bad side of them, human rights and stuff thats bad but Russia, China, Egypt and the USA were highlighted for human rights breaches by Amnesty International in their last report.

So thats Liverpool, Villa, Wolves etc.

The Man City owners to.

Its terrible what goes on but it happens all over the world.

Radz took us to a country in the midst of a Genocide where at least 10k people have been murdered, it was funded by a guy whose very wealth is down to very close links to the very people behind that genocide, he did that to benifit himself, not Leeds FC.

So i dont see how we can say "oh no no bad Qatar investors dont want those".

But then be like yeah ok Radz is good when some of his money is earned on the backs of the murders of thousands of innocent people.

I fully expect this to come to nothing and we will remain skint but as far as LUFC are concerned i just want us to be successful again and if the owners invest in the club and make that happen then I'm all for them.

Aye, Even Hitler gave the world the VW and motorways eh? Every cloud eh???

[SG90]

When we're finally stable, it seems some fans just want more crap.

[Cjay]

Why is everyone ignoring that ffp means the owner can only put in £25m a year, which is why Radz is stumped. Not because he's skint. Some of our fans actually think these Qataris are going to spend £100 ms if they buy us, not happening at all. This isn't FIFA.

Not even about them bankrolling us out of this league for me, they cant just chuck money at it, well they could, Villa have, Wolves did, Brighton etc, tons do, but its risky.

Its more about the future, whatever criticisms people can throw at the Qatari owners at PSG, they have totally transformed that club. Between them winning their first title under the new owners and there last, almost 20 years.T hey were a mid table side going nowhere valued at about £90million pounds, they are now a global brand worth £1billion.

Maybe Radz can get us out of this league, i doubt it but maybe he can, then what?

You cant cheap your way in the Prem if you ever hope to be anymore then one of the pack, said that i didnt want promotion because i dodnt want us to be one of the pack, i see PSG owners or that sort of owner as our ticket to not be that, and thats what im thinking, isnt about the Championship for me, its about the future.

[Cjay]

Aye, Even Hitler gave the world the VW and motorways eh? Every cloud eh???

[SG90]

Not even about them bankrolling us out of this league for me, they cant just chuck money at it, well they could, Villa have, Wolves did, Brighton etc, tons do, but its risky.

Its more about the future, whatever criticisms people can throw at the Qatari owners at PSG, they have totally transformed that club. Between them winning their first title under the new owners and there last, almost 20 years.T hey were a mid table side going nowhere valued at about £90million pounds, they are now a global brand worth £1billion.

Maybe Radz can get us out of this league, i doubt it but maybe he can, then what?

You cant cheap your way in the Prem if you ever hope to be anymore then one of the pack, said that i didnt want promotion because i dodnt want us to be one of the pack, i see PSG owners or that sort of owner as our ticket to not be that, and thats what im thinking, isnt about the Championship for me, its about the future.

And they've completely ruined Ligue 1 for it. Bar one year of Monaco, who subsequently lost their best player to PSG. They're flat track bullies. Yes they dominate Ligue 1 every year, as they have far more money than everyone else, yet they've done nothing in the Champions League. They've spent €1bn just dominate Ligue 1, that's hardly successful.

Man City won't happen again in English football. The Champions League will be a closed shop as they want a European Super League and LUFC certainly won't be on the minds of any of these clubs when they put it together.

Our best hope is promotion, 7th and maybe scrape a LC or FA Cup. We can achieve that without selling our souls.

[YorkshireSquare]

Radz doesnt invest, the accounts show that.

£45 million to but the club, £20 million on Elland Road and those are just the headline figures. He has personally invested, more so than any of our previous owners. We've also had the 49ers investment which whilst is not investment from Radz personally it had diminished the value of his own shares in the club.

[SG90]

Everton - thought a billionaire owner was all they needed to get to the Champions League - failed
West Ham - ditto - failed
Southampton - as above -failed
Forest - spend fortunes every year - failed

But yeah we're guaranteed Champions League football every year apparently

[Irish Ian]

Aye, Even Hitler gave the world the VW and motorways eh? Every cloud eh???

Bread and circuses.

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