Another one who apparently passed the Football League's notoriously difficult "Fit and Proper Person Test" by collecting token's from boxes of cornflakes.
Do you think Ross McCormack might come to us, obviously for less wages than O'Grady? I reckon Ross sees The Valley as his lucky ground and is on the blower to Big Bob as we speak.
Why has Cellino not paid the players then? He's obviously not skint if he's been settling loads of other bills
I suspect he doesn't like the look of the wage bill for what is essentially a mid table team?! My guess is that he wants to cut x% with players walking but not wipe out the whole squad. It appears that Leeds lost a lot of money last season and he doesn't want to fund that...and then there is the news that the Cagliari sale has fallen over all adds to the mix. Stewart back to SE7...play Harriott up front?!
Five former Leeds United players are set to leave the club’s matchday hospitality team after their paid positions were withdrawn.
Paul Reaney, Norman Hunter, Mick Jones, Terry Yorath and John Hendrie will no longer be employed by Leeds next season.
The group have worked for several years in United’s corporate suites but their jobs are being culled as part of a wide-reaching cost-cutting process.
United owner Massimo Cellino implemented a formal redundancy scheme at Elland Road last month in an attempt to reduce losses of more than £1m a month.
The club are understood to have offered the ex-players the chance to stay on without pay next season, replacing wages with matchday hospitality for the five men and a guest for each home game.
Reaney, the former Leeds right-back and a member of Don Revie’s legendary squad, told the YEP that the group would be leaving their positions but said: “No matter what’s happened, we’ll always support Leeds United.
“We’re not going to forget about or abandon a club who we played for and won trophies for. I wish the club all the best for next season.”
Leeds recently removed another high-profile ex-player from their payroll by ending Dominic Matteo’s spell as a club ambassador.
Eddie Gray is expected to remain in a similar position next season but Peter Lorimer - the third of three ambassadors at Elland Road - has yet to learn if he will be kept on.
LEEDS United have failed in a High Court bid to strike out a winding-up petition hanging over the club’s head.
The Championship club were in court after creditor, Sport Capital Ltd, decided to call in a £950,000 loan made to United last year.
Lawyers for the club said it was not a case of “cannot pay”, but “will not pay”, because they contested whether a valid debt to the company existed at all.
But after an afternoon hearing in London’s Companies Court, Deputy Registrar Christopher Garwood rejected the club’s case and gave it 13 days - until a week on Monday - to pay.
The registrar said that, although the club’s bank account had been frozen, new owner Massimo Cellino was footing other bills and could find the money to pay back the loan.
Earlier, the club’s barrister, Rory Brown, had argued that the club owed Sport Capital nothing.
All of the evidence suggested that the loan had been made directly to the club from the man behind the company, former United director David Haigh.
“Everything in this case suggests that the loan was from Haigh,” he said.
“If one looks at the agreement, the benefit goes to Haigh. The money came directly from Haigh.
“The money never touched the petitioner [Sport Capital]. It went straight from Mr Haigh’s account.”
Mr Brown said the club was also concerned that the money, if it came from Mr Haigh, might be tainted, given his recent arrest in a fraud investigation in Dubai.
And he said counter-claims which the club has against Mr Haigh himself would potentially “extinguish liability” for the loan.
Denying that the club is insolvent, the barrister continued: “There are funds readily available to pay. This is not a ‘can’t pay, won’t pay’ situation. This is a ‘can pay, won’t pay’ situation.”
Giving judgment, Deputy Registrar Garwood said the fact that the money came from Mr Haigh’s account, and not from Sport Capital, did not mean that he was the lender.
It was “obvious and clear” that the lender was Sport Capital, he said.
The club, having received a demand for payment and done nothing about it, was now “scratching around” looking for ways to address the problem.
“They did not seek to engage with Sport Capital in terms of paying or negotiating for time to pay, or even raising issues as to payment,” he said.
“The view was simply taken: we will ignore it.
He added: “The club is the author of its own misfortune.”
Mr Brown told the Deputy Registrar that the club now intended to pay in the light of his ruling. The case will return to court a week on Monday when the winding-up petition will be dismissed if payment has been made.
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And people hate the way our club is run....
Anyway, Poyet was probably only visiting his brother at Leeds Uni.
Paul Reaney, Norman Hunter, Mick Jones, Terry Yorath and John Hendrie will no longer be employed by Leeds next season.
The group have worked for several years in United’s corporate suites but their jobs are being culled as part of a wide-reaching cost-cutting process.
United owner Massimo Cellino implemented a formal redundancy scheme at Elland Road last month in an attempt to reduce losses of more than £1m a month.
The club are understood to have offered the ex-players the chance to stay on without pay next season, replacing wages with matchday hospitality for the five men and a guest for each home game.
Reaney, the former Leeds right-back and a member of Don Revie’s legendary squad, told the YEP that the group would be leaving their positions but said: “No matter what’s happened, we’ll always support Leeds United.
“We’re not going to forget about or abandon a club who we played for and won trophies for. I wish the club all the best for next season.”
Leeds recently removed another high-profile ex-player from their payroll by ending Dominic Matteo’s spell as a club ambassador.
Eddie Gray is expected to remain in a similar position next season but Peter Lorimer - the third of three ambassadors at Elland Road - has yet to learn if he will be kept on.
The Championship club were in court after creditor, Sport Capital Ltd, decided to call in a £950,000 loan made to United last year.
Lawyers for the club said it was not a case of “cannot pay”, but “will not pay”, because they contested whether a valid debt to the company existed at all.
But after an afternoon hearing in London’s Companies Court, Deputy Registrar Christopher Garwood rejected the club’s case and gave it 13 days - until a week on Monday - to pay.
The registrar said that, although the club’s bank account had been frozen, new owner Massimo Cellino was footing other bills and could find the money to pay back the loan.
Earlier, the club’s barrister, Rory Brown, had argued that the club owed Sport Capital nothing.
All of the evidence suggested that the loan had been made directly to the club from the man behind the company, former United director David Haigh.
“Everything in this case suggests that the loan was from Haigh,” he said.
“If one looks at the agreement, the benefit goes to Haigh. The money came directly from Haigh.
“The money never touched the petitioner [Sport Capital]. It went straight from Mr Haigh’s account.”
Mr Brown said the club was also concerned that the money, if it came from Mr Haigh, might be tainted, given his recent arrest in a fraud investigation in Dubai.
And he said counter-claims which the club has against Mr Haigh himself would potentially “extinguish liability” for the loan.
Denying that the club is insolvent, the barrister continued: “There are funds readily available to pay. This is not a ‘can’t pay, won’t pay’ situation. This is a ‘can pay, won’t pay’ situation.”
Giving judgment, Deputy Registrar Garwood said the fact that the money came from Mr Haigh’s account, and not from Sport Capital, did not mean that he was the lender.
It was “obvious and clear” that the lender was Sport Capital, he said.
The club, having received a demand for payment and done nothing about it, was now “scratching around” looking for ways to address the problem.
“They did not seek to engage with Sport Capital in terms of paying or negotiating for time to pay, or even raising issues as to payment,” he said.
“The view was simply taken: we will ignore it.
He added: “The club is the author of its own misfortune.”
Mr Brown told the Deputy Registrar that the club now intended to pay in the light of his ruling. The case will return to court a week on Monday when the winding-up petition will be dismissed if payment has been made.
The club was refused permission to appeal.
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