Leeds United similar to us? (1 Viewer)

Kingokings204 · Mar 24, 2014

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...rs-massimo-cellino-from-leeds-united-takeover

Interestingly I read the majority of Leeds fans are hating the fact the FL rejected him as they believe the club is now is crisis where as if he got the club he could do something to it and save it. Now there is no money and no investment with players wages etc this month could well not be paid and administration etc looms.

The FL as we know passed our owners on the fit and proper test so what do we prefer Leeds and they reject owners but leaving the club on the realms of a disaster or passing our owners and we still exist although still run badly and universally hated.

Its an interesting one.

CraigCCFC · Mar 24, 2014

I just get angry reading that in the media they are happy that the football league protected leeds from dangerous corrupt owners taking over ....yet were absolutely fucking nowhere when Coventry city fans needed them to reject sisu in the fit and proper owners test , selling a club back to the very same people who put you in admin anyways .
Football is corrupt especially where the suits sit and play chess with a football clubs future .....wankers

Kingokings204 · Mar 24, 2014

Money talks Craig and it almost reduces me to tears but nothing anything of us can do and this perhaps is the most frustrating.

hill83 · Mar 24, 2014

Have Sisu ever actually been convicted of anything? This Leeds bloke was guilty of fraud.

Edit: Just asking the question, etc etc etc

Kingokings204 · Mar 24, 2014

hill83 said:
Have Sisu ever actually been convicted of anything? This Leeds bloke was guilty of fraud.

Edit: Just asking the question, etc etc etc

No and I like the thought but not paying rent owed and moving out of the city against FL own rules may have a strong case.

hill83 · Mar 24, 2014

Well it's pretty much cut and dry and can't really be compared then. Shit one for us all round though.

gouldberg · Mar 24, 2014

"The relevant disqualifying condition being that Massimo Cellino has been convicted of an offence involving acts that would reasonably be considered to be dishonest."

'Considered to be dishonest'...Sisu have been doing things most would consider as 'dishonest' for years but the FL were still happy to give the club back to them after they already monumentally cocked things up once. Fantastic!

ccfcway · Mar 24, 2014

hill83 said:
Have Sisu ever actually been convicted of anything? This Leeds bloke was guilty of fraud.

Edit: Just asking the question, etc etc etc

they own something which was placed into administration and then bought it back again,

how is that "fit and proper" ?

hill83 · Mar 24, 2014

ccfcway said:
they own something which was placed into administration and then bought it back again,

how is that "fit and proper" ?

Here we go.

I'm not saying it is, but going purely by what the FL are saying, this Leeds bloke was rejected because of a conviction. That's it.

ccfcway · Mar 24, 2014

hill83 said:
Here we go.

I'm not saying it is, but going purely by what the FL are saying, this Leeds bloke was rejected because of a conviction. That's it.

going purely by what the FL are saying, SISU had no choice but to take us to Northampton

John_Silletts_Nose · Mar 24, 2014

I don't think it's comparable.

Although don't they pay a large rent for the use of the Elland Road stadium?

I bet the FL & FA would step in if the owners moved them to York City, "temporarily".

hill83 · Mar 24, 2014

ccfcway said:
going purely by what the FL are saying, SISU had no choice but to take us to Northampton

So? It's their decision to make. Their rules. I don't like it, you don't like it, what is your point?

chiefdave · Mar 24, 2014

gouldberg said:
"considered to be dishonest."

What about the judgement against SISU for non payment of rent where the judge stated (to paraphrase) that SISU were withholding rent in an attempt to distress ACL. How would that stand up against a test for honesty?

dongonzalos · Mar 24, 2014

It seems strange that our real owners are hidden so cannot face the fit and proper persons test

dongonzalos · Mar 24, 2014

hill83 said:
Have Sisu ever actually been convicted of anything? This Leeds bloke was guilty of fraud.

Edit: Just asking the question, etc etc etc

SISU manage us on behalf of lots of owners who have collectively invested less than 10% ( we don't know if they know each other or not)

For all we know we may have 10 owners with numerous convictions

Offshore moneymen insist that tighter controls have caused inflows of illicit funds to slow down dramatically. The Cayman Islands, for instance, largely complies with global anti-money-laundering standards. Yet questions linger over its implementation of its own rules. A recent American investigation revealed that in 2008, two years after the most recent peer review of its rules, HSBC accounts in Cayman were subject to “massive misuse…by organised crime” from Mexico and elsewhere, as one compliance officer put it. The bank had no information at all about the beneficial owners of 15% of the accounts, suggesting either incompetence or wilful blindness on the part of regulators.

dongonzalos · Mar 24, 2014

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