True colours

Sampdoria used to be big in the 90s - same as Leeds really!

Yeah yeah yeah, it's just business, and a dirty old business at that - but the business of football exploits all aspects of its organisation, including its fans. It's only naive to think otherwise, isn't it?

This is from the YEP - Radrizzani on closing his Sampdoria deal:

"Now we can say it was a real battle, but we can finally say that we made it,” Radrizzani added. “We are, to say the least, thrilled to be able to announce that we have completed the acquisition of this extraordinary club. The history and Samp coat of arms are saved and my happiness is that I think of all the people who were suffering for these colours."

Thinking of all the people who were suffering for these colours makes Radrizzani so very happy!

We'll see how happy Sampdoria fans are with this particularly incompetent, foolish businessnessman, in a few years' time - I hope for their sakes he's not the top decision-maker. I'm sure he'll do a cracking job of redesigning that Samp coat of arms.

Does this means he fully sells up or will he remain at Leeds partly?

comment by LIW Rad a %#@% and so is Orta (U8453)
posted 47 minutes ago
Strange one.

Sampdoria arent a big club, get low crowd and there no money in italy
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He'll want to muscle in on media rights.

If reports are true and the 49er's say they want full control than he'll have to sell up!..

If he doesn't then things will get harder for us!..

I remember him asking Cellino to back him in the transfer market and Cellino saying he'd only be wasting his money, I think if Cellino had backed him things might have been a lot better than they turned out!..

Problem is, if he doesn't sell up, then we'll have him and the 49er's at eachothers throats and that won't be good!..

comment by LufcGermany (U6066)
posted 36 minutes ago
If reports are true and the 49er's say they want full control than he'll have to sell up!..

If he doesn't then things will get harder for us!..

I remember him asking Cellino to back him in the transfer market and Cellino saying he'd only be wasting his money, I think if Cellino had backed him things might have been a lot better than they turned out!..

Problem is, if he doesn't sell up, then we'll have him and the 49er's at eachothers throats and that won't be good!..
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He doesn’t have to sell up, indeed he has a clause that allows him to block 49ers buying him out.

Having said that let’s hope he wants to sell!

Knowing our luck, he'll stick around focusing most of his attention on Samporia, with us as the poor relation - would be typical as nothing is ever straight forward in LS11.

His acquisition statement last night was nauseating.

comment by The Very Rev Wilko (U21072)
posted 49 minutes ago
Knowing our luck, he'll stick around focusing most of his attention on Samporia, with us as the poor relation - would be typical as nothing is ever straight forward in LS11.

His acquisition statement last night was nauseating.
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"His acquisition statement last night was nauseating."

So I wasn't the only one who felt that way about it!

Italian owners, always disrespecting their existing clubs by promoting their next cash machine.

https://www.instagram.com/p/slFs_wSv3f/?hl=en

Poor from Radz. His last tweet about Leeds was after our last win - very long time ago.

Also, only three players have come out and made statements since the season finished - Tyler, Rodrigo and Robles - funnily enough all 3 have nothing to apologies for. Wtf happened to the rest