Mighty Leeds Weblog

Gary Meenaghan At the turn of the millennium and a decade before he arrived in Dubai with grand ideas and a grander financial package, David O'Leary was coach of one of the most exciting football teams in Europe. The Irishman's Leeds United side of 2000/01 stood toe-to-toe with Manchester United and sucker-punched Arsenal; attacked Real Madrid at the Bernabeu and slugged it out with AC Milan in Italy. They were ambitious and energetic and boasted players worth tens of millions of pounds. Leeds were seen as the future of the English Premier League and yet in truth – and certainly in the club's financial accounts – their future could hardly have been bleaker. Within three years, and crippled by debts, they were relegated from the top flight. Another three years and they were playing in the third tier of English football, having voluntarily entered administration. Yet today, just over 10 years since the start of their final, ill-fated Premier League campaign, there is re...

Salah Nooruddin has already attended a meeting with chief executive Shaun Harvey and Leeds City Council. by Leon Wobschall Bahraini-based businessman Salah Nooruddin has been named as Leeds United’s new vice-chairman with immediate effect. United have also confirmed that Nooruddin, once a prominent employee at Bahrain’s International Investment Bank (IIB) – who purchased 10 per cent of club owner GFH Capital’s 100 per cent stake of the club in March – is the holder of 3.33 per cent in LUFC Holding Limited. Last week, Dubai-based GFH Capital told the YEP that several directors at Elland Road had been handed equity in the club after accounts of its parent company, Gulf Finance House, showed that GFH Capital’s stake had fallen to 86.67 per cent. The report stated that GFH had sold a 13.33 per cent stake in United during the first three months of 2013, 3.33 per cent more than it relinquished to IIB in March, with it having now been revealed that Nooruddin has acquired the additional e...