Andrea Radrizzani sends out-of-the-blue message to angry Leeds United fans on X — Leeds United News 24/11/24

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Danny Bloomer

Andrea Radrizzani has come in for plenty of criticism since his time at Leeds United came to an end and he has just issued a stark defence of his time at the club.

Radrizzani first invested in Leeds back in January 2017 when he bought a 50 per cent stake from Massimo Cellino, before then taking full control just a few months later.

After a difficult first full season in charge, Leeds’ fortunes turned on the pitch following the appointment of Marcelo Bielsa.

Bielsa helped Leeds end their 16-year wait for Premier League football by securing promotion in his second season, which should’ve made Radrizzani’s tenure as owner be forever remembered positively.

However, after securing a ninth-place finish in the first season back, it all began unravelling for Radrizzani following Leeds’ second summer transfer window in the top-flight.

Not only did the poor managerial appointments and dreadful player recruitment turn fans against him, but also how Radrizzani constantly embarrassed himself in public.

Radrizzani claimed Leeds had no chance of being relegated at the beginning of the season they went down, while also announced the ‘signing’ of Bamba Dieng before it was even official. Needless to say, the transfer fell through.

After leaving Leeds completely last summer, Radrizzani came under even more scrutiny when he offered to use Elland Road as security in his bid to buy Sampdoria.

With Radrizzani still an active user of X (formerly Twitter), his replies after often flooded with criticism from Leeds fans, and this week has been no different after a comment to Elon Musk telling him to become the president of Italy.

And clearly on Sunday morning the stick has become too much for him, as he tweeted a stark defence of his time at the club.

He said: “I hear you all. Since June 2023 I have been criticised, abused, insulted anytime I say a word about anything. It doesn’t change that we (management and club employees) invested, transformed, modernized the club and finally achieved historical promotion after 17 years thanks to MB.”

Though some of the criticism Radrizzani faces maybe a tad unfair, he doesn’t help himself by constantly responding to Leeds fans.

In doing so, he is only going to light the fuse further and open himself up to more ‘abuse’, which clearly he isn’t dealing with particularly well.

Radrizzani just needs to stop interacting with anything to do with Leeds and soon enough he will very quickly be forgotten.

That said, his attempts at using Elland Road as part of his deal to buy Sampdoria was unforgivable and so he shouldn’t be surprised that his time at the club is no longer looked back on positively.

MC did a great job to “clean” the past debts and make the club much more sustainable. I developed and put it back in the map of the world (thanks to MB who set a new work ethic and we supported unconditionally with infrastructure and recruitment) …now Paraag and Co. will take Leeds to the next level. We can see a lot of improvements already. I had hard time but I love Leeds and want to see you joyful (these time with a full stadium) . I regret MB couldn’t come back to save us as I wished, the only one who could have done it. Past is past. Let s go Leeds

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