Vote 1-star for bill fotherby. The man who spent most weeks jetting around the world boasting he would sign the best and brought us Super Thomas Brolin. If he wasn't on a jet he would be sat in the Flying Pizza feeding his fat tummy.
Vote 2- stars for Peter ridsdale. The man who headed the decisions that financially crippled the club but who tried to take us to another level. He gave us a champions league semi final but left us with Paul Okon.
Vote 3- stars for ken bates. Some still claim he saved us. Some say he ran a steady ship and others believe he was the cancer of the club.
Vote 4- stars for GFH. The ones to take us to the next level claimed Kenneth. Short unsweet term in charge that saw them banish bates from the club but didnt know how to run a club.
Vote 5- stars for Massimo Cellino. Not long in charge but plenty of controversy so far. The club sits 21st in the division and stinks of a 5yr old kid going downhill with no stabilisers but he certainly appears keen to make big changes.
Worst management vote
posted on 29/8/14
GFH weren't great, but I think it's a shame to forget the positive changes they did bring to the club, even if their on-field business was poor.
posted on 29/8/14
Ken Bates is the worst by far.
He allegedly saved us, but in doing so screwed so many local businesses, and during many years screwed the fans as well. Also him being the only person acceptable to an unknown offshore creditor stinks of underhand dealings from the start. His offshore companies and dealings will hopefully come to light one day, and hopefully he is still alive to face the consequences.
He also saw GFH as acceptable to sell Leeds to. This was a disaster waiting to happen from the day they took over.
As for Fotherby, he brought in Wilko, and we won the old Div 1 title., so not bad in my eyes. Ooh and wish I could get over to go to the Flying Pizza again. Great place, and should be a happy place for our many new Italian players
Risdale was never as bad as Bates, and during his tenure we saw 5 seasons of either Champions League and UEFA Cup football. The fans were more than happy during this period and never questioned the spending, but as always very quickly turned on him when the finances went spiralling out of control after failing to get into Europe for a sixth successive season.
You spend money to get success and your the messiah, you fail and your the tw @t who killed our club.
As for MC only time will tell. He's passionate and stupid, seems to love the club and the fans, hates coaches but drinks and swears like a gud un, he has a fair amount of money, a tasty daughter but a numpty twittering son. Nobody's perfect
But whatever he is he will never surpass Bates.
posted on 29/8/14
comment by AlgarveWhite (U5640)
posted 3 minutes ago
Ken Bates is the worst by far.
He allegedly saved us, but in doing so screwed so many local businesses, and during many years screwed the fans as well. Also him being the only person acceptable to an unknown offshore creditor stinks of underhand dealings from the start. His offshore companies and dealings will hopefully come to light one day, and hopefully he is still alive to face the consequences.
He also saw GFH as acceptable to sell Leeds to. This was a disaster waiting to happen from the day they took over.
As for Fotherby, he brought in Wilko, and we won the old Div 1 title., so not bad in my eyes. Ooh and wish I could get over to go to the Flying Pizza again. Great place, and should be a happy place for our many new Italian players
Risdale was never as bad as Bates, and during his tenure we saw 5 seasons of either Champions League and UEFA Cup football. The fans were more than happy during this period and never questioned the spending, but as always very quickly turned on him when the finances went spiralling out of control after failing to get into Europe for a sixth successive season.
You spend money to get success and your the messiah, you fail and your the tw @t who killed our club.
As for MC only time will tell. He's passionate and stupid, seems to love the club and the fans, hates coaches but drinks and swears like a gud un, he has a fair amount of money, a tasty daughter but a numpty twittering son. Nobody's perfect
But whatever he is he will never surpass Bates.
Was it not Leslie silver in charge when sgt wilko took over. Fotherby was in charge 1996-1997.
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posted on 29/8/14
Fotherby was at Leeds for many years as Managing Director, but not as Chairman, but he was Leslie Silver's right hand man making all of the day to day financial and recruitment decisions.
posted on 30/8/14
Ridsdale wanted the best for the club but got carried away, let's not forget he was one of many on the board of the plc who were all equally culpable.
Bates & GFH have done nothing of note in my opinion.
Fotherby, I recall,awarded himself a rather lucrative carpet contract.
Cellino is a maverick but no doubting his commitment to and his ambition for this club. To suggest he's something akin to the anti-Christ is naive and wide of the mark.
I don't disagree, he's made some terrible decisions but equally he's done more positive in his short tenure than most of the others.