[Football] Leeds owner hopes Premier League return will turn it into £1bn club

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Kalimantan Gull

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Aug 13, 2003
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Central Borneo / the Lizard
“The target in five years is to be behind the ‘Big Six’”.

The club's five-year mission, to explore strange new investors, to seek out new borrowing and new debt against future income, to boldly borrow what no club has borrowed before!

And its all really absolutely no different to what we want to do at the Albion.

Leeds, '5 year target to be just behind the big 6'. Brighton, 'target to be a top 10 club'

Basically the same thing. Buying overseas clubs, investing in youth, investment by the owner, major new sponsorships, focus on a good manager. Its the way to do it - if they do it right they've got the added clout of 'history' and 'big-club-ness' to pull it off
 








Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
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It's been Man City and Chelseavs model for quite some time, hasn't done them any harm

They need to find an Oligarch or Country to fund them if they want any chance of success with that model
 


Driver8

On the road...
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Jul 31, 2005
16,216
North Wales
So just to put this into some sort of perspective for those of us with no understanding of the detail of club values, how much is the Albion worth now?

Probably not much as the club don’t own the stadium and has a large debt due to TB.
 






Springal

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Feb 12, 2005
24,785
GOSBTS
Is factoring that unusual ? Even if they go down they are guaranteed parachutes so doesn’t seem they crazy
 


BNthree

Plastic JCL
Sep 14, 2016
11,458
WeHo
Who gives a toss about Leeds and their owner?
 




Eric the meek

Fiveways Wilf
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Aug 24, 2020
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It's been Man City and Chelseavs model for quite some time, hasn't done them any harm

The difference is that Man City and Chelsea consistenty deliver at or near the top of the PL. Delivery on the pitch is absolutely fundamental to attracting broadcasting and advertising revenue.
 


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