Shame on your Radz!

[Rev72]

Well Radders has laid it on the line for the players as well..show yer good enough or f*ck off..bout time the players took some responsibility for the poor results.

[Ozwhites]

Just wasn't pleasant, leaves an unpleasant taste.

Agree with this. No problem him owning up to admit an error, but Thomas still needs to find another spot somewhere. No different to one of us having to find new employment. Not sure I'd be thrilled if my previous employer made it so much harder by digging the boot in further. Unless I'd done something unlawful that is...

[Marley past ghosts]

Agree with this. No problem him owning up to admit an error, but Thomas still needs to find another spot somewhere. No different to one of us having to find new employment. Not sure I'd be thrilled if my previous employer made it so much harder by digging the boot in further. Unless I'd done something unlawful that is...

i cant see their been a stampede of clubs , clamouring for his signature , he his probably heading off back to cyprus with a wad of fifty pound notes in his suitcase.

[Ozwhites]

i cant see their been a stampede of clubs , clamouring for his signature , he his probably heading off back to cyprus with a wad of fifty pound notes in his suitcase.

And there have been plenty of others I've thought the same of to be honest. But the managerial merry-go-round seems to work in strange ways! Even if he isn't looking for another football positiion as such, some damning criticism could impact any other future business options as well. Don't think he was disliked in any personal sense to cause grief on that's all.

[CLIVETHELEEDSFAN]

I'd get Thomas in at cultural leonesa, they need a new coach coz they're going down if they ain't careful

[Jezleeds]

Whilst I understand people's willingness to see this as honest I hope we all get a chance to hear t c's opinions of his time at Leeds and the constraints under which he was working. I can bet that would be very interesting indeed. Sadly I imagine he will have had to sign an agreement not to speak. Shame if so that that didn't work both ways.

[Marley past ghosts]

Whilst I understand people's willingness to see this as honest I hope we all get a chance to hear t c's opinions of his time at Leeds and the constraints under which he was working. I can bet that would be very interesting indeed. Sadly I imagine he will have had to sign an agreement not to speak. Shame if so that that didn't work both ways.

the structure down at elland road will never be condusive to a manager , who his forthright , speaks their mind and would take a no nonsense approach to managing / coaching the team, that is has plain as day already . been able to decide which players you want to play in your team is an elementary part of been the manager , again its a no go area unless they are in or around the 3 million quid bracket .

sadly we have an owner who is devoid of any ambition as far as the playing squad is concerned, and his priorities lie far more towards the development of the training facilities and stadium so that is investment of not only buying the club and the ground back increases significantly .

in essence we might as well have a property developer running the club, because he certainly is not what the fans have been crying out for, for many years now.

[WTF11]

the structure down at elland road will never be condusive to a manager , who his forthright , speaks their mind and would take a no nonsense approach to managing / coaching the team, that is has plain as day already . been able to decide which players you want to play in your team is an elementary part of been the manager , again its a no go area unless they are in or around the 3 million quid bracket .

sadly we have an owner who is devoid of any ambition as far as the playing squad is concerned, and his priorities lie far more towards the development of the training facilities and stadium so that is investment of not only buying the club and the ground back increases significantly .

in essence we might as well have a property developer running the club, because he certainly is not what the fans have crying out for, for many years now.

Agree on both counts (that in the post from Jez (post #26), and (I really can't believe I'm saying this!), the one from Marley!), or at least I do for now.

Radrizzani has the chance to show he really does understand, and genuinely wants Leeds United to succeed. I said before Heckingbottom was appointed that whoever the club appointed to replace Christiansen would be a defining action on the clubs part. Some would say it shows a lack of ambition, so consistent with the "property developer as owner" picture Marley paints. I beg to differ, it shows a degree of bold thinking, and a realisation that trawling for cheap maybes in the nether regions of Europe isn't going to cut in the division or further up! Paying the £500k to release Heckingbottom can't have been a very sweet pill, but it was swallowedand he is on board. He didn't have to jump ship, so presumably had some strength in his negotiating position (and he will have seen how Ortas baleful influence has poisoned our performances to date, and inserted suitable "get the f00k off me" clauses in his contract (fool if he didn't!)

The assertion, in a post by Popey, that the wage bill has grown by £7m this last year-ish might also be a big wake-up call to Radrizzani that not only is the recruitment process flawed, its not even giving close to value for money. The hope would be that he takes control, either sacks Orta, given his abject failure to bring in consistent quality, and his equally poisonous influence in procrastinating about the decision to dismiss Christiansen (which despite this remains unlikely), or severely reins him in, involves Heckingbottom in ALL decisions about player acquisitions, and places a clear and unambiguous focus on the 1st team squad, whether that be on the training ground, coaching staff appointments, or in any loan deals before seasons end, and makes sure any and all budgets are subjected to proper rigour before cheques are signed.

Do all that, and maybe, just maybe, we might believe that our owner is more interested in Leeds United than Wimpey Homes.

[OldWhiteTaff]

Eh ? Radz is a media and image expert, not property. The way I see it, he's either genuinely interested in getting us back in the PL, or he's interested in turning LUFC into a genuinely saleable asset. And I'm afraid I suspect it's the second of those as I don't think he actually has the financial muscle for the former.

He's trying to give LUFC the image of being a stable well supported club, with excellent foundations, (owning ER - yeah I know, a different company, but still Radz, having an excellent pipeline of youth talent, having solid financials, developing a global 'brand', having a development plan for the wider ER area agreed with the city council). If he can show that we're either in the play-offs, or very close to them, this season, given the relatively modest investment in the first team, then he can say that with a reasonable level of additional investment in the 1st team (given the wider foundations are already in place), the PL is a real likelihood, and with it the possibilities that LUFC could genuinely 'do a Man City'. We're big enough for that to be a genuine prospect, which is of course not the case for a good proportion of the teams currently in the PL.

So that's what I think, he's 'fattening us up' for someone else, (most likely Middle East or Chinese, or maybe even that woman who was going to buy Newcastle of Fat Mike).

[Marley past ghosts]

absolute twaddle wtf lol