Could not believe what I was reading here, the Bahraini owners were asking McDermott to submit team line-up AND tactics to them 24-hours before each match for their approval.
Christ Almighty, can you believe the nerve of these people? Owners are entitled to question team management but this is madness.
http://m.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/latest-whites-news/leeds-united-gfh-in-amazing-attack-on-whites-boss-1-6541471 
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Just as the fans should expect to relate to Duchatelet now who in turn manages Riga. It either works or its time to move on and we don't move, nor does the chairman so...
They actually spend very little time in the UK so getting any compensation would be very hard.
This is all going to get very messy.
I think this sort of stories will keep surfacing with so many foreign wealthy business people coming into the world of English football these days.
I listened to Trevor. Cherry on Talkshite about 3 weeks ago and he was at a total loss as to why a true investor (as opposed to a bunch of chancers) had not come in for LUFC. They are the only club in a thriving city with a large fan base that could so easily support Prem football.
But footy ownership is a major headache and Roly & Co are angels in comparison.
Their fans are Millwank of the north and they are as seriously deluded of their actual size in English football
Yes undoubtably Leeds are a huge club with regards to fan base
Due to them being a single club city
But as a club they are not in the league of
Man U
Man citeh
Liverpool
Arsenal
Spurs
Chelsea
As big powerhouses of English football
All of the above have grown due to the premier league (except man citeh and Chelsea whose billions from owners have assisted )
Leeds went from top 4 in the prem to 3rd division
They have never managed to use the premier league money to the benefit of their club
They needed to be asset stripped and bought back down to bear bones and to start again
With the mentality they are a big club waiting to happen instead of a big club on its haunches
Until that happens Leeds will go from league to league and barn pot owner to barn pot owner
And I personally won't give two f**ks in fact I will quite enjoy it
If them and covendisentry went bust and vanished forever I wouldn't bat an eyelid
It's one thing to say an owner should have control and influence but another to say they should micro-manage processes in specialist areas where they have no experience or knowledge.
You wouldn't want a hospital owner telling a surgeon how and when to operate or a building co. manager telling an electrican how to wire a house. They would rightly say we want these results and to reach these standards and remove the sawbones or sparks if not achieved but unless they have the experience how can they tell a manager to pick a team.
I'm not saying owners shouldn't have a view or the right to sack but if you appoint an expert you do that because they have expertise you don't.
I don't think it is just foreign owners either, it just that a lot of the new mega rich "investors" looking to make a quick euro/dollar/yen happen to come from abroad and come with totally different attitudes. Not so much because of nationality, although that is a factor, but because of their aims ie make money quick.
I add I don't think RD is I that group but he and or his advisors got it badly wrong in January as they didn't trust or believe the specialist they had in place so they got a different specialist in.
Because their players are on mental wages their behind the scenes structure is still prem league standard
Their fans are Millwank of the north and they are as seriously deluded of their actual size in English football
Yes undoubtably Leeds are a huge club with regards to fan base
Due to them being a single club city
But as a club they are not in the league of
Man U
Man citeh
Liverpool
Arsenal
Spurs
Chelsea
As big powerhouses of English football
All of the above have grown due to the premier league (except man citeh and Chelsea whose billions from owners have assisted )
Leeds went from top 4 in the prem to 3rd division
They have never managed to use the premier league money to the benefit of their club
They needed to be asset stripped and bought back down to bear bones and to start again
With the mentality they are a big club waiting to happen instead of a big club on its haunches
Until that happens Leeds will go from league to league and barn pot owner to barn pot owner
And I personally won't give two f**ks in fact I will quite enjoy it
If them and covendisentry went bust and vanished forever I wouldn't bat an eyelid
Very poor post indeed. Very poor.