Arrivederci Cellino - Have Your Say!

2/12/2015

Head of Content Keith Ingham offers a rallying cry to all Lufc fans who are tired of having the club look like a laughing stock. Below you'll have the chance to voice your own opinion.

I'm usually a mild mannered person who occasionally 'rants' when needs be. On this occasion I'm giving genuine fans the opportunity to post comments after this article to show that Massimo Cellino has little support within the fan base of Leeds United AFC.

I ask fans to put their thoughts on as a comment and I shall forward this article to the owner of OUR football club.

This season has been the lowest point for me in a good number of years and I'm sick of the poor coaches, lies and mismanagement of our once mighty club.

A single voice is ignored but thousands of them can't be.

Time to go MASSIMO !!!

Please be emotive with your comments but keep the language as decent as possible.

Together, Stronger

By Keith Ingham

We All Love Leeds want to ask fans to voice their opinion but warn that any threats of violence etc will not be tolerated and your comments will be struck from the record.

79 Comments

Steve levitt

2/12/2015 03:09:10 am

We are NOT Italian. Get to grips with Yorkshire or get out.

Terry O Brien link

2/12/2015 03:20:21 am

I'm a Leeds fan since we lost the 69/70 Cup Final, and as such I've gone through all the highs and lows.

However the current set up is an all time low...time to go....please, just go

John hpugh

2/12/2015 03:23:10 am

Just give us our club back

Chris link

2/12/2015 03:26:05 am

The club needs stability and investment. Cellino has had the time to do both. He offers neither. He should go and make way for a new owner that will be able to take the club forward.

Rob

2/12/2015 03:31:03 am

laughing stock of a club now with Cellino and his pathetic 'celebrity' hangers on.Get some people in who understand football and get back to Italy.

Ben

2/12/2015 03:34:47 am

All you need to do Massimo is put your money in, run the business behind the scenes, stop sacking managers and let them crack on!! Cant be that difficult can it? lol

Dave Peel link

2/12/2015 03:34:53 am

While I appreciate that you saved us from GFH (the only Arab investors without any money) please sell or if you don't put someone like Adam Pearson in charge and go and sit in your Miami pad you are clueless when it comes to running an English football club. Its embarrassing the way the club I have supported for over forty years is been run..

Petter-André Johansson

2/12/2015 03:35:37 am

Through ups and downs, I've followed LUFC since 1988. The last 13 years have been very hard, but especially the last 5-6 years stand out. First, the Ken Bates era, of which enough has been said previously. Then the sale to GFH, and their catastrophic tenure as guardians of LUFC. You'd be forgiven for thinking that they wanted to kill the club off.

But now, over the two last years, we've been run by Massimo Cellino, a person described as a man of "marked criminal tendencies ... capable of using every kind of deception to achieve his ends" (Cellino's arrest warrant in 2013).
During this time, we've seen shambolic treatment of staff, players and managers/head coaches, as well as statements littered with contempt of the fans on more than one occasion.

During the tenure of Cellino, we have never been higher than 10th position, and right now, we find ourselves in a relegation battle. The table doesn't lie, nor does the results of Cellino's tenure so far.

It is time for this to end, and for Massimo Cellino to pass on the club to new ownership without further delay. The experiment failed, and he needs to own up to that now.

Tom

2/12/2015 03:36:56 am

Never felt at such a low point supporting the club I love. The heart and soul of Leeds United is being ripped and many fans are at breaking point. Massimo Cellino has done nothing but make us a laughing stock since arriving at the club, never out of the press and the courts. The fans are turning on each other and don't enjoy coming to Elland Road anymore. Do everyone a favour and sell the club. We don't deserve this.

Terry Longbottom link

2/12/2015 03:43:53 am

Scrp the ticket banding and make it £20 maximum, scrap the £5 increase on matchday and scrap the £5 pie tax. We are in a recession, leeds,are a very poor side at the minute and thousands are staying at home streming live game on the internet free of charge, but yet our club chooses to penlise the loyal fans turning up every home game. Also sort the queues out in the pavillion, you couldnt get drunk if you tried its so slow getting served and charging 0p extra for Heineken is embarassing, i wouldnt mind if it was export, come on leeds get it sorted before its too late

gill

2/12/2015 03:45:22 am

What I don't understand is why buy a great football club and then try and wreck it ? Sacking managers before they have had time to establish themselves is simply plain poor business sense, and says more about the person hiring them than the managers themselves. Erratic, irresponsible and ineffective business decisions - and the crying shame is that its the players and the fans that suffer. Instead of criticising players and coaches for poor performances, its time to look in the mirror. Then "man up" and give our Club the respect it deserves.

David Smith

2/12/2015 03:46:48 am

Respect is a two way thing, a little modesty should be applied and at a
realistic timescale for fans to feel Massimo has Leeds United as the only priority he has to deal with. If that cannot be done then someone else should be given the chance to succeed which is what we all want.

todgertownwhite link

2/12/2015 03:46:59 am

The proof of the pudding was when PEARSON was running the club for the short period. Just shows that it IS possible to be normal when you have acommon sense football man at the helm.Good job you lost your yacht Mr Cellino,co's captain you ai'nt !

gill71

2/12/2015 03:48:58 am

like most leeds united fans, i am feed up promises and lies made by cellino, like buy Elland Road, training ground, this is the lowest the club has been of supporting this great club, Cellino time to go, please for the sake of the club, fans, please sell up. and please no more promises. go go go

Andy

2/12/2015 03:51:46 am

I have been a fan for nearly 40 years now , I am a season ticket holder going to all games both home and away but have never felt so distant from the team and owner as I do now and amazingly that even includes the Bates era.

The performances are awful with no passion , no team work and definitely no quality and that all stems from the top, watching Sam Byram our best full back being left out for a league 2 defender just because he wont sign a new contract on less money than he is on now proves the owner picks the team

Every manager he has picked has been sub-standard and not good enough for Leeds apart from Redfearn and once he had saved us last year Cellino decided to get rid of him due to his popularity as it was definitely not results driven

Cellino thanks for getting the finances in a more stable position apart from the many court cases against you but please sell the club and go back to Italy as you are not wanted at Leeds.

If Cellino is at Leeds next season then I will at least be saving on 3 season tickets as I wont be buying anymore while he is at the club.

bob hayes

2/12/2015 07:04:16 am

need new players not owner

Charlie Cairoli

2/12/2015 03:51:53 am

Cellino,

Like me you are a bit of a clown, but not as famous.

Now pack up your circus and all the freaks associated with this club that you have made a farce of and **** off.

I'm sure being Italian you will be able to find reverse gear in your Range Rover.

Mark link

2/12/2015 03:54:25 am

Veni, vidi, victus sum.
(I came, I saw, I failed).

When he arrived he promised so much and we waited, as ever, with baited breath but having failed to deliver it's time for him to go.
His heart may be in the right place but his insistence on total control means he is the main person responsible for our success or failure, for our clubs imagine, for our players and for our fans so when we're failing on the field, laughed at as a club, having the owner bad mouthing the players and staff in the press and dividing the fans it is time for him to walk away.

Stuart

2/12/2015 03:55:35 am

Please just sell up and for once in your life do the right thing for the fans and not for you!

bill james link

2/12/2015 03:55:37 am

i followed leeds for fifty years, the last few years have been awfull. do as i do , no more visits to LUFC till the .IYTY goes.

Brian

2/12/2015 03:55:59 am

Its obvious that most Leeds fans have had enough. Those of us who have supported the club for over 40 years are finding the present state of the club too much to bear.
We need owners who are qualified supporters. All we have had in recent years are crooks.

Bluesman link

2/12/2015 04:04:34 am

Goodbye Massimo, very disappointing outcome. You have failed!Admit it and call for a taxi! Free passage out of town!

cellino has had a try and has failed miserably ...he has no idea what leeds united is all about...bringing in 3 division players from italy..trying to pick the team..meddling.. petty jealousy...time to go cellino...do the decent thing and sell up to the

2/12/2015 04:06:58 am

Steve Sykes

2/12/2015 04:08:41 am

It's not hard to understand the values of Leeds United, it's traditions and most importantly it's supporters, who through the past very turbulent years have stood side by side, week in week out to support their, yes their team.

There have been so many false dawns, so many hangers on one disrespectful Santa look alike. We the fans want one thing and that is clarity, a vision as to where we really are. Nobody has a crystal ball that works but what they do have is knowledge, share your knowledge of the situation Mr Cellino, this way no matter how bad things are the truth is out there. It has come to a time in Leeds Uniteds History that you can if you want to adapt to the Leeds United way be the person who takes this mighty club forward. So much time and money has been wasted on doing things on the cheap, there is a great saying "buy cheap buy twice" get the right person in to mange the team give them their players and let the club thrive. MOT

John D

2/12/2015 04:09:44 am

Not defending any Cellino, but anyone who wants to run and football club must be Mad.Throw millions at a club with unlikelyhood of ever getting the money back....look at Bolton. Personally if things were going better on the pitch, off the field wouldn't be such a problem and everyone would be looking forward to 3.00 Saturday.
Unfortunately managing Leeds is a Poison Chalice and the Rotherham result was expected as that's what's been like being a Leeds fan for the last 10-15 years. Then QPR,as Evans said, practice playing proper football Monday-Friday then for 80 mins just its just a case 0f seeing how far up the pitch can you kick it!
Lot worse clubs off than us and in the end whatever happens its in the blood and we will still support our team whatever the future holds.

Betty Buttocks link

2/12/2015 04:14:29 am

Italian stallion, more like pathetic penis - time to go!

Jonathan Davies

2/12/2015 04:14:57 am

The club does need stability and investment. Cellino has provided the latter, but has spectacularly failed on the former. This season I was full of optimism with Adam Pearson and Uwe Rosler on board and signings made. That fell apart when Massimo made the inexplicable decision to sack Rosler after 11 games replacing him with Evans who hardly has a better track record.
We can't constantly change managers on a whim Massimo. Yes we need the right one, but you need to give them at least a full season.
I could put up with Massimo (he's hardly the worst owner in the League), if he had a long term strategy and had long term faith in his appointments.

Steve

2/12/2015 04:15:31 am

Looks like the curse has not left my beloved Elland Road, this is a Soap opera worse than East Enders because it is so sad, I travel throughout europe with my Job, I am asked where do you come from? Leeds!!! the Response is always Leeds United, we are still recognised for what we are, so please Massimo GO!!!!! SELL THIS CLUB!!!!!!

paul wilde

2/12/2015 04:21:05 am

Mr Cellino, if i met you in the street i would not hesitate for one second.You make me sick with all your lies and bullshit i would just headbutt you,If i get arrested so be it.But it would be worth it

Dave

2/12/2015 04:22:08 am

Cellino you are a liar and an imbecile. Get out of our club now! We are not a play thing, or a circus for you and your c list celebrity sycophants. We are not a vehicle for bullying of staff that are employed and then sacked on a whim (resulting in the countless court cases that keep mounting up. We are not a vehicle for seeing how many prosecutions you can rack up for tax evasion. We are not a vehicle for constant under investment, under mining of our best players when you want to launch a vendetta against them and sell them off. We are not a vehicle for moronic ideas like the pie tax, charging extra for fans wanting to attend games on the day of a match or for trying to prevent our loyal and passionate support attending away games. We are not a vehicle for you to constantly break contract agreements with sponsors, suppliers and the like that result in more litigation against the club. We are not a vehicle for drunken rants before, during or after matches. We are not a vehicle for petty squabbles, empty soundbites and the endless talk, (without proof), that you are investing in Leeds Utd with your own money and have made us debt free.

If you want to run a vehicle that is suitable for doing all of the above then take over an Italian non league club, (the equivalent of a Trabant), as that is all you are suitable to run.....personally I still think that you are incapable of that!

More and more people see the evidence of your lies, incompetence, idiocy and infantile behaviour every day. If you want to re-gain any respect, rescue your tarnished and tainted reputation before its to late then it is simple. Sell the club to someone more astute, honest and with the best interests of the club at heart. Make a profit, admit Leeds United are too big for you and move on.

Henry G

2/12/2015 04:24:46 am

Having supported LUFC since the 60's it is maddening to see the state the club is in currently, im not sure if its better or worse than the shambles Ken Bates created , maybe just different. Messimo took over the club thinking he could turn it around with his undoubted enthusiasm and imagined experetise, he knows nothing of english football but thinks he does, even worse he seems incapable of taking advice, all the potential of his takeover has vanished with knee jerk reactions to every setback. He must go for the sake of the club but there is now so much financial potential within football how on earth can you separate the genuine football people from the vultures that seem to gather round our wonderful club.

2/12/2015 04:26:31 am

I have been a regular visitor to ER, and also attend away games. I have experienced the highs, and the lows. At this moment in time I have experienced all I can describe as a complete joke. Quite a few fans call for stability, and improvement on the field. I would suggest these fans take a long hard look in the mirror, they would then see that the ones causing the instability is themselves. I have seen so many non stories being jumped upon, that at most clubs wouldn't be given the time of day. I have attended games on a regular basis since 1979, and I've been proud of our fans. Recently these "fans" seem to love to create and support drama. It is there so called fans that have created a state of embarrassment I feel today. I turn up on match days to support the club I love, others seem to think it's acceptable to slate the players. Doing so only dents the confidence of the players.
I have seen chairmen of the likes of Manny Cousins, Leslie Silver, who were Leeds fans, and wanted the best for the club. In recent years we have had Peter Ridsdale, Ken Bates, and the real joke owners GFH. I was slated for asking questions of GFH, I was told to leave them alone to run the club. I was told they would generate success on and off the field. The same people who criticised myself, are now attempting to belittle the current owner. Can I suggest that you do what we should do, support the club and leave the running of the club to the owner. I doubt that would happen, as these "fans" would have to remove their blinkers, and grow up

Ian

2/12/2015 04:29:05 am

I hear the estimates of 30 million pounds thrown around a lot. And for buying the club, digging it out of the hole GFH left it in, and getting out from old preexisting lawsuits, it sure was needed and yes it is more money than I'll ever have to put in to the club. So you get credit for that.
But....you want respect? You want love? Money can't buy you love as the song says, or as you so eloquently put it in
" you can buy a whore for the night, but that is not love". In your tenure you have continued previous regime policy to sell our most talented players, for your own personal reasons, alienated the ones that have remained with false attacks in the media, constantly changed manager after manager hiring and firing on whims, insulting and lying about them in the media. You have created numerous new lawsuits with your 'people skills' and lack of a basic understanding of meaning of the words 'contract' or 'terms'.You have shown over and over again to have less impulse control than a toddler, no offence meant to toddlers. Your public tantrums against the League rules you attempt to ignore and circumvent, towards anyone at the club you perceive as being more popular than you or getting more credit than you are less than childish. And now the icing on the poopoo cake is your lashing out at us ungrateful fans. For not worshiping at your feet for every misstep we have been told our tickets will be limited for away games, and now the pie tax. If any good could be said of the pie tax, perhaps hitting the fans in the wallet may just be the straw that breaks the fan division and looses you the pro-Cellino faction. Well except for Lorimer, you CAN buy him.

Couchio

2/12/2015 04:48:33 am

Cellino

Your no good to the club you come in with all your false promises of buying the ground back this that and the other, then when people see the real Cellino the lying criminal who goes through managers like hooker goes through Jonny's. Then you have the audacity to have a go at the fans.

It's not our fault your a tax dodging idiot that couldnt run a 5 aside team let alone Leeds United. If you want to control a club and to pick the team then go out and but football manager on your PC.

We want stability a decent chairman who will hire a long term manager who can develop the squad and bring in some talent!!! The performances are a joke and your the punch line give it up and head back to Italy on one of you boats!!

Nick

2/12/2015 04:52:28 am

I'm 46 now and followed Leeds as long as I remember. Never been so low about the club management and performances on pitch. Cellino needs to go now! He has infected the club from top to bottom with poor decisions killing passion and desire to succeed.

Marc B

2/12/2015 04:52:38 am

Cellino....Get out of our club now. You are not wanted, liked or respected.....you are driving our club into the ground so please for the sake of all genuine Leeds supporters, please please please just sell up and close the door on your way out...

Chow

rpatz

2/12/2015 05:01:07 am

From the first sacking of Brian mcdermott( the first time) in your first 24 hours at the club, it has been a non stop circus of bullshit. The appointment of hockaday, thru to the appointment of Steve Evans ( another convicted fraudster) we have never had any period of sustained succes on the grass, by this I mean a winning run of games.

We don't know what state the finances are in, there's been so many lies and wouldn't believe you if you said were stable or debt free..Adam Pearson did but I'm sure that was scripted by you.

There's an under current at the club, the players and staff look depressed representing the regime while the Italian element of the squad can do what the fuck they want..even pull a sticky to undermine a good football man in Neil redfearn.

I think the circus effect comes with the new calendar... In years to come I think that will be used as an example of your tenure just like rids dales goldfish.

Sell to LFU.. Let them run it... But if you carry on with the antics of the last few weeks or months the fans will turn even more... Fans will stay away and most likely the hardcore that do turn up will be volatile

DO THE RIGHT THING

Timlufc

2/12/2015 05:15:27 am

Do you know what !!! Season Ticket holder on and off for over 30 years !!
And can't be arsed moaning !!!!!

Billy

2/12/2015 05:20:09 am

Time to go I'm afraid , after the circus with Brian Mac you had your chance , and I'm afraid you've blown it . I don't like bullies Ken Bates was one and you're one , I don't like the way you treat people . You've treated us with arrogance you've lied and you rule with fear not respect . I can remember times when you'd have no idea who owners were , sadly those days are gone .

Richard Addison

2/12/2015 05:31:10 am

Mr Cellino says he won't sell the club until it's safe from relegation. Has the thought occurred to him that the longer he stays at the club, the likelier relegation will be? For one brief moment this summer, when Adam Pearson was in charge, there seemed to be some order and structure to affairs at Elland Road and we looked like a proper football club. That seems like a sweet dream, a brief interlude, in the nightmare that has enveloped us. Time to go, Mr Cellino.

Lewis Middleton

2/12/2015 05:40:27 am

Seeing my dad who has followed Leeds far and wide since he had enough money to get a train from Rotherham be as disinterested as he is now with the club should be a big enough wake up call for anyone. Me included in this, im 20 years old and should be buzzing for the weekend to see that famous white or yellow strip run out onto the pitch but im not, why? Many reasons but the main problem is the heart and soul has been ripped out of Leeds United. No class remains at the club its a shambles. Things need to change, the owner needs to change. You're not wanted Cellino its time to go.

Daniel Hawkridge

2/12/2015 05:44:34 am

MASSIMO CELLINO - when you came to the club you promised us to get out of debt and make us a great team again. you have got us slightly out of debt but yet to see us owning our own stadium and training ground. as for our team, we are a laughing stock!! let the manager decide on the players, you have no managerial experience so let the pros do there jobs!! we are not an italian team, we are a yorkshire team, get a grip or get out!!!!!

Gary E

2/12/2015 05:51:26 am

Massimo, the majority of the people should be ashamed of themselves on this, what respectful investor would come into Leeds and buy us after the way they all disgustingly treat owners, players, managers and anyone else that dares to question or do something they all dislike. It's a joke. Yes Cellino is not currently the greatest owner but he is by no means the worse, look at the owners at Bolton, Blackburn, Birmingham, Cardiff, Aston Villa and Newcastle, is this what fans want?

The fans think they know what is best for our club but they do not in the slightest know what is best, They think they can run the club better than anyone but they also cannot. The only thing that needs to be done at Leeds is for Massimo to take on some advice from people in Engloish football and take a step back from trying to be involved in the team and give a manager time.

The fans themselves are not better because they call for managers to be sacked and when sacked they then turn on the owner for not giving them enough time. The same goes for players, the Leeds fan base is one of the most fickle I have ever seen in football and the problem starts from fans expecting greatness when in reality we are no longer great.

I would say this though, the fans try their hardest to get you out and abue you, your family and all sorts of stuff but stay strong and do you best to oust GFH, they are the real cancer at our club and I feel with Massimo in full control 100% I think he wil do what is right for the club which is buy back ground and Thorpe arch. The fans need to concentrate their time on GFH and if they really wanted to help they would do their best to work with you to oust the moneyless arab investment bank that took Leeds to brink of a Glasgow Rangers collapse. I also know Massimo would sell the club if he felt he could not take the club forward somehow but as I just stated what club can move forward when you have an unwilling party just wanting to cash in on Leeds without doing any of the work.

Ignore the hatred because there is plenty of support out there but these people never speak up about it in fear of getting massive amounts of abuse, which I do across many Leeds groups because I speak logic and common sense but I don't let it deter me.

I highly doubt this will be read by Massimo Cellino and I also highly doubt that the original author of this apparent attempt at demoralising Massimo will put my comment into his petty letter with a clear agenda for hate. Either way I hope some Leeds fans read this and change their attitude and concentrate their efforts on supporting what in place currently with massimo and put their efforts to the real cause of the problem GFH.

Mark link

2/12/2015 06:20:53 am

So you think what's needed is for Massimo to have even more control?
At what point does he become responsible for his actions or is everything the fault of the minor shareholder GFH?
You suggest he needs to take advice but he clearly disagrees with you and thinks he knows better than everyone else despite mounting evidence against him.
As for calling fellow fans a cancer, shame on you.

Gary E

2/12/2015 09:27:51 am

Excuse me? I called the fans cancer? yes that's correct please point me in the direction that I once stated anything of that kind. I said the fans are equally at fault for the sacking of managers, ridiculing and slating of players and manager/owners and should be partly held responsible for the nagative attitude and vibe around Leeds as well for performances on the field by players. You cannot just blame 1 person aka Cellino for everything, that both naive and stupid.

Yes the minority partners GFH are to blame and the fact you disagree shows you are only about 1 agenda, which is to get Cellino out of the club, yet you let GFH sit there putting no money into the club, offering no money for players tranfers or having input into Leeds United at all but just sitting there waiting for the chance to sell there 23% shares for a massive profit without doing nothing for it.

GFH took us to the brink of disaster and if it wasn;t for Cellino we would have been another Glasgow Rangers. You all loved Cellino when he was against the FL, you all loved him when he spent money on tranfers, you all loved him when he put his money where his mouth is and paid for Leeds to survive while he bought the club but hey ho, facts and circumstances don't seem to resonate with Leeds fans that much.

You have to give people time but as always at Leeds United the fans do not give anyone any time to do anything because they want it all now, like petulant children throwing toys out the pram. Like I stated and will state if GFH get lost out of the club like the cancer they are, Cellino would buy TA and ER, invest more money and most likely get us moving in the right direction. Until GFH are gone I am with Cellino because I too as many other businesses would be wiould not invest in something heavily that will ony help to gain other people who are not helping.

Take it or leave it, it is the truth of the situation, the problem is a massive chunk of the Leeds united fan base is to damn stubborn to accept the truths behind everything that is Leeds United.

Chris link

2/12/2015 10:42:37 am

Gary, Cellino has created too much distrust in the minds of many fans. There is no way back for him. Best if he goes straightaway. He is tainted.

NorthernMisery

2/12/2015 01:14:46 pm

Gary is talking utter tripe. Cellino put money into Leeds United because it was in the sales purchase agreement that he was too stupid / high to read properly.

He agreed to take on all of the debt even if he didn't get passed to become owner, which is what GFH were banking on,

Furthermore, Gary. We have been in admin in the past. We've had point deductions and started on negative fifteen points. Guess what, we're still here. We don't need a Cellino, we don't need Bates and we don't need GFH.

What we need is stable owners, ones who aren't crooked convicted fraudsters who are habitual liars and general pieces of shit.

Stop drinking the Kool Aid, Gary. It makes you look like a giant idiot.

NorthernMisery

2/12/2015 01:10:54 pm

Sorry Gary. You're the worst sort of enabler.

You're happy to let this verminous disgrace rape our club, so you're no better than he is.

In my book, you're not a fan of Leeds United if you're content to let him continue as owner.

Rich

2/12/2015 01:28:18 pm

You don't speak logic, you're a fool, if you think Cellino is the right man to own us then you're a fucking idiot!

Cellino won't take advice because he's an egomaniac, he believes he's doing right and fuck anyone who tells him otherwise!

Ppl like you who support this clown need to pull their heads from up their arse and see what damage he's doing to the club you say you support!

Mark link

3/12/2015 01:51:08 am

"the fans try their hardest to get you out and abue you, your family and all sorts of stuff but stay strong and do you best to oust GFH, they are the real cancer at our club"
GFH are no good I agree but Cellino is not the hero you so desperately want him to be either.

Mark link

3/12/2015 02:05:00 am

I apologise if I misunderstood that part of your comment.
I thought you were calling GFH and the fans a cancer but it may only be your sentence structure that gave that impression.

darren

2/12/2015 06:08:52 am

Mr Cellino,

what bugs me as well as all other good comments I have read prior is this

you have promised the re-purchase of Elland Road and maybe you might build a new stand for us from the sale of Ross McCormack, our stadium is old & tired and needs repurchasing and renovating to today's modern standards like everyone else's football grounds, the west stand especially, we are not only falling behind on the playing side but our ground is desperate for some love too, so my message to any new owner would be this, spend some money on our famous stadium please.....

Darren

Brad

2/12/2015 06:14:49 am

Been a Leeds Fan since I was 6 in 1968 - Messy-Mo is an Italian Playboy with more money than sense - the LAST thing we need. I mean no offence but PLEASE can we have our Club Back?!!! Leeds has become the Managers Graveyard !

Ricco link

2/12/2015 06:21:08 am

I backed cellino from day 1 , I cant any more If hes not going to sell cant we demmand the Football League to give him a Life Ban seeing there are other court cases been brought against him please think about this lets get the F L to do its job and do us a favour and get rid of this Cancer thats ruining our Proud Club

Tim

2/12/2015 06:55:18 am

Massimo, thanks for your reinvestment which helped save the club from financial ruin. However after 42 years of loyal support I shall no longer be attending matches. Poor team, poor management and a total lack of empathy with the fans will only see us descending into League 1. Please sell up ASAP and leave.

gelderd ender

2/12/2015 07:09:57 am

its run as a hobby like a toy we need help big time on the pitch the stadium is clapped out INVESTMENT a northern power house I think not that calender says it all leeds since 1966 if you didnt get down the ground by half one you aint going to get in very sad now

Wakey White

2/12/2015 07:27:16 am

I am 70 and have been watching Leeds since I was 6. I stopped going to matches last season because I hate what this man is doing to our club so I voted with my feet (I just wish that more of you would do the same. the club would soon be up for sale) Please go Cellino so that I can come back to the club that I love.

Grizzlyslapper

2/12/2015 07:55:07 am

The way that Cellino runs both his private and his professional affairs is shameful. From the starting point at his takeover you would have thought it pretty difficult for the great name of Leeds United to be dragged further down in the mud but this is the only area I can think of in which he has been a success. Please, please sell up.

David

2/12/2015 08:24:09 am

Please please sell up and go back to Italy where you can avoid paying Tax and VAT to your hearts content.
I have followed this great club since 1969 and have never been so deflated at what is little more than a circus act.
Poor choices of managers, constantly backtracking on your pointless promises, awful signings of second rate no hopes who should never be allowed to wear the famous white shirt.
You have overstayed your welcome by some considerable margin so for once do the decent thing and sell up to someone with money to invest who understands and cares what LUFC is all about.
TIME TO GO MASSIMO.

Karl major

2/12/2015 08:28:38 am

People laugh at the plight of our great club, you have embarrassed us, your methods are not appropriate to Yorkshire or Leeds United, please sell the club to someone who will restore the club to it's former glory. This is the English club with the most potential, the rich investors of this world would be interested if they were made aware. Please sell up and leave.

8rs

2/12/2015 08:54:32 am

Way too many things have either gone wrong, been incredibly wrong, and illegal. Your inept and bewildering appointments of head coaches/managers beggars belief. Can you not get it into your head that its YOUR choice of coaches that is at fault?

I have absolutely NO respect whatsoever for a person who cannot even bring himself to support the club he claims he loves. Staying away because you don't like hearing the truth is cowardly, particularly as you claim to be one of us.

As to appointing people to work for you, I do believe that not even one person who you've appointed is still with the club. I don't count your family as appointments.

You never were, you never could be, and you never will be. If you want some modicum of respect from us, then go, and go quickly.

Dan Hill

2/12/2015 09:22:46 am

His hearts in the right place, he did save us financially. Personally, I like Massimo. Yes he's made some decisions I don't agree with, but I want him to stay.

NorthernMisery

2/12/2015 01:08:18 pm

His heart is not in the right place. He's a complete narcissist who makes decisions (for the worst) on a whim. He is incapable of telling the truth and he's as bent as a nine bob note. He didn't save us financially, it's a myth. He loaned us money that at some point he will want back. Stop believing the lies.

Paul

2/12/2015 09:23:58 am

Think we need to lobby the FL and ask for a life ban. Cellino is making mad decisions that are affecting the future of the club. All the court cases , industrial tribunals etc are of his making, but it is costing the club serious money. Money better spent on our threadbare squad.

Harj link

2/12/2015 09:43:32 am

you've no idea about british football, no idea how us fans feel, no idea how foolish you look,& make us look, no idea on players, no idea on how to treat your staff....we want you out cellino...out, out, out......

S Coley

2/12/2015 09:45:20 am

I cannot believe that anyone any longer thinks that Massimo Cellino has any future at Leeds United. Like many I was in favour of his ownership when He took and over and invested in the club. However his erratic behaviour, man management and his never ending fraud cases have made the club a laughing stock. Nothing will improve on the playing front until the club has consistent ownership with a long term plan on and off the pitch. You can't have one without the other.
Mr Cellino needs to sell the club before his next ban and give the immense fan base something to look forward to for the first time in many many years. I have supported the club for over 40 years and things have never been as depressing as they are now. It is about time the club had some stability and success and neither can be achieved with Mr Cellino running it.

Paul

2/12/2015 10:35:32 am

What you don't realise had you had been a bit sensible you could have been a hero ...you are absolutely clueless to the might you had at your fingertips ...you have probably blown it ...hero to zero in a few months

Jeff craven

2/12/2015 11:11:11 am

6 managers in 18 months say it all and that's before you mention bans, court cases and staff sackings. The man is the most amateurish owner in the entire football league

David

2/12/2015 12:55:24 pm

massimo make a decision for gods sake.

either sell or choose a manager and back him for at least one year.
no more chopping and changing

Coachking

2/12/2015 01:03:16 pm

Cellino. I despise you and your never ending disgusting lies and the way you publicly humiliate and belittle employees whether they be players or staff. You make me feel sick to the core that you have embarrassed our great club with your pathetic prejudices and self serving decisions. You are not fit and proper. You are a pathetic human being imposing your disgusting will onto our club. I have no respect for you. Take your money and just fuck off because you are not going to get the love here that you crave. And when you finally go and taken your stench with you I will look out for the court decision that sends you to that Italian prison cell where you of your kind belong.

Dave Luke

2/12/2015 01:03:53 pm

I started supporting the great Leeds United in 1970 at the age of 9 when we really were "great". We were a club feared throughout European football.I purchased my first season ticket in 1977 & have had one ever since. In all those years watching the team I have never felt so low as this season watching a team crumble sometimes from the kick off. There is bad vibes throughout the club
which unless addressed will not turn around the poor results on the field. With the ongoing troubles
that Massimo Cellino has hanging over him it would be best to let go of the club as soon as possible to someone who can turn our fortunes around. I can't see us getting out of this downward spiral unless this happens. Why is there nobody out there willing to pick up our club off it's knees & get us on the up again. This club needs a Chairman like Middlesbrough have in Steve Gibson if there's one out there!! MOT

Northern Misery

2/12/2015 01:05:57 pm

I'm reiterating what I've said for over one year - Massimo Cellino is a crook. A convicted fraudster. A man of marked criminal tendencies, willing to use any means necessary to feather his own nest. He is a proven liar and habitually incapable of making logical decisions, either from a financial perspective, a club perspective or pertaining to managerial selections. The players he has signed are woeful and furthermore, he has given the club loans in exchange for equity so it will now cost any perspective buyer more to get rid of him. He is the worst sort of cancerous owner a club can have. It's a disgrace that this man is even allowed to enter a football club, let alone own one. It is time for this heinous piece of work to go forth and multiply on one of his many vehicles that he has attempted to defraud a government with. He treats people like crap and he's just generally a massive stain on football. I want him gone and I want his klingons like Terry George and his gormless, weird, possibly incestuous offspring gone too. I would rather Verne Troyer took a dump on the statue of Billy and let that steaming midget nugget run the club than leave a feckless, gormless moronic liar like Massimo alone to piss about with our club and ruin it beyond all repair. Cellino Out. Now.

Allan

2/12/2015 01:17:25 pm

Mr Cellino
I am going to show you respect in contrast to the lack of respect you have shown to coaches, players and fans during your ownership of our once great club. Please respect the wishes of the fans as expressed in this article and sell the club, as your ways are not our ways. You must now recognise, as we fans now realise, that you will never be able to bring stability to the club, a pre-requisite to enable the club to prosper and unite as in our famous anthem. Please accept that it hasn't worked for either you or us and show the club and it's great supporters respect, dignity and humility in the manner of your leaving.
Yours respectfully.

Stu Hirst

2/12/2015 01:29:11 pm

34 years supporting. 20+ years travelling all over, as most have.
No more.
I won't be back to Elland Road while he owns the club.
Pathetic non-leader, awful businessman, ruining our club.

Any fans who still support him; shame on you.

Wayne

2/12/2015 01:36:59 pm

Massimo Cellino. Get out of our club. This will never work for you here, you just don't have a clue what you're doing

You're a liar, a coward and act like a child. You have treated our club with so much disrespect giving us a whole host of incidents that equate to some of the most embarrassing this club has ever witnessed.

Just leave. Please just leave

FatBob

2/12/2015 02:11:38 pm

It's time to go Massimo, you know it, I know it, any sane Leeds fan knows it. You, have done more damage per year than any other owner we've had. I dread to think how much you'd do if here as long as Bates was. You, your sons, Terry George, not one of you has any idea how to run. Football club in England. Ever since 31st Jan 2014 when you so embarrassingly made your entrance you have been a stain on the club. Just do one, take your money and go. Before I, like many others, finally give up on this once great club.

Keith Ingham

2/12/2015 03:18:26 pm

Just a massive Thank you to all that have made contributions to my article. With the article in the 'Mirror' alleging that Cellino will sell the better players in the squad in January it is time for all Leeds United fans to make a stand in whatever way they think necessary. If we do nothing we all will see our club end up in the mess that Blackpool FC now find themselves in. Together, Stronger.

David Smith

2/12/2015 03:43:51 pm

Wow now that's really frightening. If Cellino doesn't sell up and our earlier comments might make him decide to dig in and take what he can while he can. No point in spending to watch our money frittered on his next tax evasion scheme. It might come to a fan boycott to be loyal to the Leeds United we love and one day will return.

Tony

3/12/2015 12:23:02 am

How long will you keep hold of this football club when the attendance figure is a big fat zero, it may not come to this
before January but carry out your threat to sell our best players it may just be the spark to set Elland Road on fire.
So don't be a spiteful person and please sell this wonderful club
as is without a fire sale of players
to someone with a bit more ability

Arrivederci Cellino - Have Your Say!

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