You make some good points Rich, I have never got my head round WHY in respect of Bates. He has no love for the club so WHY did he buy us ?Even at the top level it is hard to make money out of a football club - most owners end up putting millions (sometimes many millions) into their clubs, As you say the only obvious way to make money is to buy a club on the cheap, and sell it for a lot more - that was the 'business model' on the Ch 4 programme about clubs for sale in the Far East. This only works IF you put enough money into the playing side to get the team into the Prem, something that Bates has failed to do.If it is for his ego - then surely he would want us playing at the top level. My belief when he took over was that he wanted to go back to Chelsea and other grounds where he hated the Chairman and go 'look at me now, I am owner of LUFC in the Premiership' But instead he was in charge when we went down to the lowest we have ever been!He does not do it for 'adoration' - far from it, many of his pronouncements seem designed to really annoy those of us who should love and respect him!So that does bring us back to 'WHY' and following on from that, is his reason a good reason for LUFC and the fans and are we all wanting the same thingsI suppose the other question, and the reason I do not generally join in with the anti Bates stuff, is IF NOT BATES THEN WHO ??Clearly looking at clubs such as Portsmouth and Blackburn etc there are a lot of bad owners out there, if we ousted Bates would we get one who we think is better for the clubDave
--- On Mon, 19/12/11, Richard Naef <[email protected]> wrote: Can anyone xplain to me why Bates would be happy for us to be in thesituation we are in? Surely the Bates materplan must be to sell the club for a large profit. Why would he bother spending money on the ground and facilities since that is unlikely to bring in a multibillionaire as much as success on the pitch so surely he'd be better off spending the money on a couple of big signings to get us promoted, or just trouser the cash. _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate
