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Just trying to follow your thread Rick as you may possibly have more
insight than some on this topic. Are you saying Cellino has no future at
Leeds as things stand? If not then what are the implications for the club?
Admin?Just trying to get a sense of what may happen next.
I don't have any sort of precise inside info but I have had
discussions with the FL etc and various other parties and so on over the
last few years. I also have second-hand lines of similar communications at
FSF level..
The problem is that Cellino has other cases in the pipeline which appear to
be so similar that he will get the same verdict and therefore again become
ineligible. Also, after the Bates no-show at the DCMS select Committee
hearing when (essentially) the PL were put on the spot (forcing Bates to
admit to ownership) a new working arrangement between the PL & FL was put
into place. There is every indication that this arrangement has recently
been strengthened and tightened in the anticipation of bigger solidarity
payments arising from the new TV deal negotiations. The issue here is that
the PL have the funding to pay international consultants to research
prospective club owners and that they began to share these resources and
these findings with the FL. I fully expect that the PL had a fairly full
dossier on Cellino before he ever turned up at Leeds and nobody knows what
is in there.
I think that we were intended to have gone into administration at the hands
of GFH if Cellino had not won his arguments the first time around. It is
certain that meetings were held with appropriate firms to discuss the
possibilities. That may also be why TL provided the FL with funding
information as this undermined the possibility of GFH being able to get
away with a Bates style pre-pack deal.
I would personally think that the fact that TL are still around in the form
of what is known as Farnan-Verity and the fact that F-V are "known" to the
FL reduces the possibility of, and benefits of, putting the club into
administration.
If Cellino is able to control himself - especially whilst under the
influence -
then he can ride out this current ban by keeping a zero profile.
I doubt that he will be able to do that.
That's really why I think he will need to sell the club but not a fire sale.
It isn't impossible for somebody to continue under a ban, but I suspect that
it might be impossible for Cellino.
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