Spiderman wrote:Ricardo Da Lepp wrote:I said "no".
I don't want someone with a fraud history (wriggled out of on a technicality I understand from an Italian patient of mine) or with tax evasion offences pending, any where near this club. We've had enough irresponsible and reckless administration with Ridsdale's era, and lack of transparency with Bates.
I don't want someone who tried to turf the manager out of the dugout before he'd even bought the club, and certainly not someone who told said manager he was sacked when he had no authority to do so.
I want somebody with real substantiated financial backing, who understands football, who understands business and who is responsible, to run the club. Vaguely normal might be nice too. Not someone who has made serious waves around the place and destabilised it before actually having legitimate, sanctioned control and ownership.
When you book your car in for it's mot do you check out the history of the garage owner?
When you go to a Restaurant do you ask if the Chef is fit & proper?
If you bought your good lady a ring from a jewellers would you ask the owner where he gets his gold from?
These examples may appear a bit random but I use them as I know of the above three businesses where they came with the highest reputation yet all three were a front for something more sinister.
I wouldn't take my car to a garage without some kind of recommendation or prior knowledge, hence I always use the one in our village. I know the business, the owner and their track record.
If I'm going to try a new restaurant then I doubt I would book there without some kind of recommendation. I would want to know about their food hygiene rating and general business running. There are one or two in this region whose owners I have had dealings with, who are so "out-of-touch" with real life and their responsibilities, that I would never recommend them, less still actually go and eat there.
I rarely buy jewellery, but when I have, it has again been with a local business that is established, proven and has a reputation.
In each case there is potential for harm from a dubious business, be it safety or financial, and I manage that risk accordingly by being reasonably circumspect. None of these examples deal in the sorts of sums of money that would pass through a football club like Leeds United though. Where money of that level of magnitude are involved, I would expect a high level of scrutiny and appropriate regulation. Given the level of scrutiny we now face merely in our dental practice from the CQC, (right down to the number of sinks in each room and having your mops colour coded) (no seriously it's true), I don't think it is unreasonable that a multi-million pound business is run responsibly and by individuals in whom we should be able to have confidence to act professionally and abide by the law.
)that is likely to use diamonds rather than Argos and its cubic zirconia (sp).
