All you say is true, as I have said on many occasions I loathe Bates in every respect, but in this case he is right that we have to learn to live within our means, its the only way we'll have a club we can be proud of again - that also requires Bates to go of course, but I don't want to be the next Chelsea or Man City or Leeds under Ridsdale.
I think it costs quite a lot to run a football club the size of LUFC, AFAIK the 12.4M pe annum only covers the 29 first team playing staff - I could be wrong though. Bates is a football man - a crooked and bullying one but still preferable to someone who picks a team they have no knowledge of and care nothing about, purely on the say so of a consultancy firm. In my limited experience all super rich people who have earned their money rather than got it through luck do so by hook and by crook. Abramovitch and Mansoour a factor of 100 times worse than Bates. Portsmouth have been fucked royally by at least 4 different foreign owners, many cocks will be coming home to roost or whatever the saying is, I think we've been through the worse and I think I'll outlive the Bates era, so will the club. ttfn Richard From: Paul Cundell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 21 February 2012 21:16 To: Richard Naef Cc: Leeds List Subject: Re: [LU] Waccoe thread On Thursday, 16 February 2012, Richard Naef wrote: > ignoring the personal data issue. What does Bates say that is wrong? > > I am afraid he is right, Football finances are going to hit the fan very > soon and a lot of clubs are going to go bust. But we've already gone bust, Bates crows about the mismanagement of other clubs whilst he increased our debt AND failed to pay HMRC £7m - how can that be construed as financial prudence? Bates tells us that the player cost budget is 2m overspent and asks where do we think that money came from. I'd like to know that too, I'd also like to know where the other £16m goes. Transparency would solve a lot of the fan-club issues. One can only imagine why transparency would be a problem. > I'd prefer if Leeds weren't > one of them. We already have been one of them. > I also don't want to be owned by a Russian Gangster or Middle > eastern dictator. Bates is Evil and a Bastard but I am afraid unless he is > lying about the publicly available figures he is right. I'm intrigued, why do you think Bates is better than an oligarch, sheikh or mafioso? _______________________________________________ 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
