Quote of the Day
"Words don't buy football clubs; Money buys football clubs."-- Leeds Supporters' Trust Chair Gary Cooper, calling for Dubai-based investment firm GFH to show it can afford to buy the club. (REUTERS, 10/16)
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Follow The Money
Accounts of its Bahrain parent company Gulf Finance House show that the Dubai-based investment firm negotiating to takeover Championship club Leeds United, one of English football's most-famous clubs, "appears to have little financial fire power to complete the deal," according to Sa'Pinto, French & Weir of REUTERS. According to an internal document from '10 reviewed by Reuters and verified by four former insiders, the Bahrain company had "previously taken big fees from projects that rarely see completion." Dubai-based GFH Capital "is in exclusive talks to buy Leeds, which it estimates has a market value of around £52M ($83M)."
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