With a PL golden ticket worth a mere £170 million Bielsa would only want 'bodies' with mindset that can cope with his strict ethic/training regimes - young bodies and minds more than likely that he can mould - but where the hell from is gonna be a tricky problem employment wise ........... so more questions than answers scenario again with regard to recruitment judgement on potential targets.

So a Warning - Dancing with the PL Devil's £££££'s when investing in talented footballers ...................... can be a gamble in more ways than one regarding a clubs reputation on/off the pitch.

Dancing with PL investors is another story, as again in Leeds LS6 we knew regarding Simon Morris who eventually 'encouraged' Mr Bates into our fold - but sadly nobody can publicly comment on that apart from what we knew about Mr Morris which we did then and subsequently did again leading to his eventual arrest over two other serious matters now on public record.

....... this old Leeds research download which was part of a Leeds United blog group who'd investigated various parties going back in 2000/02 and were provided verified statements for parties interested in the club at that time.At that time I had business interests in music venues in Leeds so was aware of players off pitch haunts and habits - so some matters of concern I added for parties awareness of which some became known in public later.

This is what can happen if recruitment goes wrong - too much money,time and bad influences can corrupt decision making of young and old minds especially in football.

Many strange events circa 2000 - many known and reported some not and some actually manifested in separate court cases at that time including 'friends' of Rio Ferdinand and Michael Duberry who appeared as defence witnesses at a trial of their minder/driver Mr Michael Archibald who looked after them on their late night jaunts in the back street music clubs in Chapeltown Leeds and Caribbean food houses including their favoured haunt the Hi-Fi Club.Their minder (Archibald) known in North Leeds as a Security organiser who ran all the doors of that Leeds area with connections to organised crime was arrested and subsequently stood trial for being part of a ***ual assault on a girl at a hotel,in Oulton near the home of Duberry in Rothwell,Leeds.

The girl claimed Archibald,Duberry,Ferdinand and another were driven in a Range Rover to the hotel were she refused to stay the evening in a pre booked room.The the girl alleged she was later attacked and beaten up by the fourth person in the Range Rover (Martin King) suffering over 20 injuries................

Ferdinand & Duberry were questioned by Police about the incident but no charges were made 'direct' but both gave evidence of the evening as witnesses on behalf of their driver/minder In court.Both also admitted to being boisterous in the club and admitted to being told to calm down by bouncers and both denied both entering a toilet with a woman and that further 'events became unclear' due to them having being drinking Baileys and Vodka Red Bulls.Both denied they were their to pick up women whom Archibald knew.Ferdinand was banned from driving for 6 months,fined £2.500 and ordered to pay costs of £3,000 for speeding at 95 mph in his Cadillac Escalade some months earlier hence the connection to Archibald who had become his driver/minder.

We have opinions & voices apparently in Leeds LS 6 regarding Rio and LS 6 always let him know !



........... little did we know that was just a prelude to more controversial scenarios,sadly including Duberry again with young Bowyer & Woodgate that finally saw an Asian youth 'settle out of court' via damages litigation in 2005.