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Wed Apr 29, 2020 5:20 pm

LEEDS UNITED:


"We are well funded. We have a generous owner who is very committed to the club and we can weather the short-term but if behind closed doors was to persist into the long-term, it really brings some significant challenges and we'd be required to restructure the business model in some fairly radical ways.



Leeds United managing director Angus Kinnear says an extended period of behind-closed-doors football could result in 'radical' changes to the club's business model.

SKY SPORTS:

"The football financing market - certainly for Championship clubs - dried up overnight," said Kinnear, speaking on Wednesday's edition of Sky Sports' The Football Show.

"We are well funded. We have a generous owner who is very committed to the club and we can weather the short-term but if behind closed doors was to persist into the long-term, it really brings some significant challenges and we'd be required to restructure the business model in some fairly radical ways.

"The biggest challenge is around players' wages - that's the primary cost for all clubs in the Championship. That's what we'd have to manage.

"We have some very co-operative players who believe in the club and believe in our long-term future and we'd need to work with them if this situation persisted but we have real hope that, as the tide starts to turn, that if we all work together then a return to football is still a possibility."
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