Mlse To Purchase Leeds Utd?!

[UltraSuperMegaMo]

This would be pretty cool:

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=2388...ecStory_soccer

Sorry, I know this isn’t exactly TFC / MLS news, but Toronto FC is mentioned in the article.

Here’s a link to the article in the Mirror referenced in the TSN report:

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/sport/...8487-20428990/

[Oblio2]

Leeds?
Well, as an investment...this team SHOULD be in the higher leagues and if they could get them on the cheap, could make a pile of money....
Still, fucking Leeds though

[Red CB Toronto]

That would be an interesting purchase. Can someone recap the teams MLSE has been linked to in England.

[Oblio2]

Spurs
Leeds

[UltraSuperMegaMo]

Spurs
Leeds

And Sheffield Wednesday

[nascarguy]

[professor]

wow - what a contribution - thanks for wasting server space



from the Leeds United web site, News:

"...
Further to media reports claiming that Leeds United have been in talks with Candian sports firm Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment about possible investment/takeover, the club would like to set the record straight.

The club received a call from Sunday Mirror journalist Rory Smith last week who first enquired about the claims. He was told at the club's pre-Wembley press conference on Friday that the story was untrue and no talks had taken place.

Sadly, despite being informed the story was totally incorrect and untrue, it still appeared on the Sunday Mirror website on the morning of the Play-Off final.

Unfortunately, the claims were repeated in a number of British newspapers on Tuesday.

The club would like to re-iterate that the story is completely untrue and no talks have ever taken place.

MLSE chief executive Richard Peddie also described the story as "pure fiction" in an interview with the Canadian National Post on Tuesday.

"It's pure fiction," he is reported as saying;"I've never met with the Leeds people and never visited them. I didn't see them play."... "

http://www.leedsunited.com/page/News...319424,00.html

[Dirk Diggler]

Leeds would be a tremendous purchase.

[Oblio2]

Still, Leeds are shit though!!!
I saw Leeds-Spurs at White Hart Lane in 1990(ish)...Leeds fans were the LOUDEST fuckers I have ever heard. Full respect

[koryo]

Oh no you fucking don't. I don't want MLSE anywhere near Leeds.

[UltraSuperMegaMo]

Oh no you fucking don't. I don't want MLSE anywhere near Leeds.

Why not? I suspect that they would do good job of running the club. Far better than the current ownership.

[MUFC_Niagara]

Oh no you fucking don't. I don't want MLSE anywhere near Leeds.

WTF is worse than Ken Bates???????

[koryo]

WTF is worse than Ken Bates???????

The Glazers.

[Bars92]

Leeds has massive fan support for such a lousy team, surely they would be cheaper than Spurs and a more profitable investment in the long run. Would love to see Leeds in the premiership.

[Oblio2]

Leeds has massive fan support for such a lousy team, surely they would be cheaper than Spurs and a more profitable investment in the long run. Would love to see Leeds in the premiership.

Actually, Spurs are a hell of a good investment but just more expensive...Still, Spurs are in the EPL which is a money maker in itself.

[Oblio2]

HA HA HA.......

[Red CB Toronto]

I get the sense that MLSE want to buy a classic club that is currently in Championship or League One on the cheap, so when they build them up to an EPL level the cash will roll in.

[Red CB Toronto]

, this running man is too funny, where did you get it.

[Oblio2]

I googled a site that does free avatars....picked a few and saved them. Feel free to use it!!!

[footyfan]

Leafs United.

[Red CB Toronto]

Leafs United.

Nice One !!!!!!!!!!!

[sully]

Leeds would make huge sense as an investment...it's inevitable that Leeds will get back to the top tier eventually.

[noochie]

I still don't get how any of this would work with a board making decisions across the pond. What happens if they get Leeds to the prem league? Who is going to sign of on the £12m transfer?

[Daveisonfire]

I still don't get how any of this would work with a board making decisions across the pond. What happens if they get Leeds to the prem league? Who is going to sign of on the £12m transfer?

The teachers?

[UltraSuperMegaMo]

I still don't get how any of this would work with a board making decisions across the pond. What happens if they get Leeds to the prem league? Who is going to sign of on the £12m transfer?

I would suspect the club would have its own management structure like all MLSE’s teams. Presumably they’d have someone on the ground in the UK with the club.

[jabbronies]

"It is a very interesting area where we feel many of our ideas would work," said Peddie.

I wonder what ideas they have in mind....

[kdzb]

I still don't get how any of this would work with a board making decisions across the pond. What happens if they get Leeds to the prem league? Who is going to sign of on the £12m transfer?

do you think the teachers are signing the cheques for CB4 or Mat Sundin?
It's an independant management who does that part of the job, The Teachers board is just a majority shareholder but don't make decisions in sports matters.

[Broadview]

I still don't get how any of this would work with a board making decisions across the pond. What happens if they get Leeds to the prem league? Who is going to sign of on the £12m transfer?

[noochie]

That is what I mean... kinda Sure its cool now when your top player is making 330K... but at that coin... hmmm...

[professor]

Richard Peddie was on the FAN 590 sometime today and took a couple of questions from Sara Buchan about the Leeds story

http://www.fan590.com/media.jsp?cont...526_163811_384

quickly summarized, he says no contact, no discussions with Leeds ever

Everything about MLSE and English football is tied to educating those in MLSE who don't know enough about the game