Owner regrets buying championship club

Massimo Cellino: Leeds United owner reveals regret at buying Championship club

Massimo Cellino took over Leeds United in April 2014
Leeds United chairman Massimo Cellino would like to leave the club and wishes he had never come to Elland Road.

He was acquitted of tax evasion in an Italian court last week and is waiting to hear if his disqualification by the Football League will now be quashed.

Cellino told the Times: "It's better to walk out, not because I'm dishonest but because I'm tired and hurt and lonely.

"If I could turn back time and you ask whether I would come to this club, I would say never."

The Football League said on Thursday that his ban, which was deferred, would no longer apply once they saw the court's written judgment confirming his acquittal.

Cellino, who took over at Elland Road in April 2014, agreed to sell the club to Leeds Fans United earlier in the season before calling off the deal.

It was revealed earlier this week that his son Ercole had left the club's board, while his other son Edoardo was suspended in April from all football activities for three games and fined £5,000 for or using abusive and/or insulting and/or improper language on social media.

The former Cagliari owner now says he will sell the club if he gets the right offer.

"If somebody doesn't come in then I have no choice but to run it," he said. "A lot of people have called me, but they are just fishing. I don't see the money."

Cellino has been the focus of a number of protest from fans and says he feels unsafe as a result.

"I'm scared to take a train in case someone comes up to me. My family don't come to Leeds anymore because they are scared," he added.

Leeds finished 13th in the Championship this season.

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he is unfit to be concerned with the running of a football club.

he makes vincent tan look like a model owner!

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Tan has wanted out since the rebrand was reversed.

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Tan has wanted out since the rebrand was reversed.

Do you think that was the tipping point Nukes? Personally i would have thought it would have been after he'd spunked £100m up against the wall too see you finishing bottom of the Premier league in your only top flight season in 50 years, but it's all about opinions i suppose.

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Tan has wanted out since the rebrand was reversed.

Do you think that was the tipping point Nukes? Personally i would have thought it would have been after he'd spunked £100m up against the wall too see you finishing bottom of the Premier league in your only top flight season in 50 years, but it's all about opinions i suppose.

That wasn't Cardiff City in the Prem. To me it was a different club, and it didn't hurt getting relegated either. And to finish off it didn't even hurt that we got spanked any yr place either. That wasn't Cardiff City.

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Tan has wanted out since the rebrand was reversed.

Do you think that was the tipping point Nukes? Personally i would have thought it would have been after he'd spunked £100m up against the wall too see you finishing bottom of the Premier league in your only top flight season in 50 years, but it's all about opinions i suppose.

That wasn't Cardiff City in the Prem. To me it was a different club, and it didn't hurt getting relegated either. And to finish off it didn't even hurt that we got spanked any yr place either. That wasn't Cardiff City.

Brilliant Nukes!!
There's no argument there. Genius.

Bet tan does as well after reading this board?

Tan has wanted out since the rebrand was reversed.

Do you think that was the tipping point Nukes? Personally i would have thought it would have been after he'd spunked £100m up against the wall too see you finishing bottom of the Premier league in your only top flight season in 50 years, but it's all about opinions i suppose.

It's tans fault we finished bottom. He put the club in turmoil with the sacking of Mackay. When Mm was in charge we were never in bottom 3. Had he backed him in the January we may well have stayed up. Instead he put OGS in charge and he wasted millions in January and in the close season.

The relegation from the pl did not hurt in the slightest. Ccfc in red meant little to me. The club at the moment is rotten at the core (not to the core) and for as long as tan is there it'll remain that way.

Bet tan does as well after reading this board?

Tan has wanted out since the rebrand was reversed.

Do you think that was the tipping point Nukes? Personally i would have thought it would have been after he'd spunked £100m up against the wall too see you finishing bottom of the Premier league in your only top flight season in 50 years, but it's all about opinions i suppose.

It's tans fault we finished bottom. He put the club in turmoil with the sacking of Mackay. When Mm was in charge we were never in bottom 3. Had he backed him in the January we may well have stayed up. Instead he put OGS in charge and he wasted millions in January and in the close season.

The relegation from the pl did not hurt in the slightest. Ccfc in red meant little to me. The club at the moment is rotten at the core (not to the core) and for as long as tan is there it'll remain that way.

Dalman and Lim to blame aswell for the relegation also.

Bet tan does as well after reading this board?

Tan has wanted out since the rebrand was reversed.

Do you think that was the tipping point Nukes? Personally i would have thought it would have been after he'd spunked £100m up against the wall too see you finishing bottom of the Premier league in your only top flight season in 50 years, but it's all about opinions i suppose.

It's tans fault we finished bottom. He put the club in turmoil with the sacking of Mackay. When Mm was in charge we were never in bottom 3. Had he backed him in the January we may well have stayed up. Instead he put OGS in charge and he wasted millions in January and in the close season.

The relegation from the pl did not hurt in the slightest. Ccfc in red meant little to me. The club at the moment is rotten at the core (not to the core) and for as long as tan is there it'll remain that way.

Gareth, Malky contributed to his own downfall; hence the apology later

I would have preferred Malky see out the season, as I think Nukes 'other' Cardiff City (loved that! ) might well have survived but his position was sure untenable once his mate (Moody) dragged him publicly into his racist world?

Bet tan does as well after reading this board?

Tan has wanted out since the rebrand was reversed.

Do you think that was the tipping point Nukes? Personally i would have thought it would have been after he'd spunked £100m up against the wall too see you finishing bottom of the Premier league in your only top flight season in 50 years, but it's all about opinions i suppose.

That wasn't Cardiff City in the Prem. To me it was a different club, and it didn't hurt getting relegated either. And to finish off it didn't even hurt that we got spanked any yr place either. That wasn't Cardiff City.

Brilliant Nukes!!
There's no argument there. Genius.

Put that freaking jack back in his box Chiefy