of course he did

Why under the picture of him playing for us does it say "leeds through and through"??

The 33 million we pocketed for him means I can just about stomach him to be honest.
Not is the same house league as Smith or especially Kewell IMO.

I'm the same tbh. Forget that he once played for us most of the time, he was a better defender with us then he has been with them and he's probably the only player out of that team who has actually left and gone on to win a few trophies!

Without that £33mil or whatever, I reckon Leeds would have folded.

£32.5million Robinho to Man City is the British transfer record.

Actually, by the time we paid of the 17.5 million Hire Purchase Loan when we bought him from WHU, his agent etc etc, we ended up with bug*** all

So, had we not sold him, we would have had to pay off the 17.5 million Hire Purchase Loan when we bought him from WHU, his agent etc etc.

With what exactly? Like I say had we not got rid of him for that massive amount we might have been in the schtuck.

I think they ended up getting nowehere near the 'advertised rate' for him though. Because these deals are paid for over a long basis, or this one was, Leeds were so in the poop that they settled early for a reduced amount from what I remember

Leeds were already in the red when, during the 2001-02 financial year, they took out a £60m loan which was secured against future gate receipts.

Just paying off the interest on the £60m loan costs Leeds around £4.62m annually - and ominously, from September 2004, they had to start paying back the capital as well.

At the end of the day - Rio was tapped up by Scum players during the world cup and wanting to leave

Think Rio if things had improved or we had got in the champions league would have wanted to stop with us, he had a business in Leeds and seemed to enjoy being with us and even got made club captain.

He got out of the club when it all started to go belly up and he, like the rest of the team would have known what was going on. Yes being at the 2002 world cup when the scum players were tapping him up made his mind up but least we doubled our profit on him when we sold him. Tbf, Manure will have known our situation too and they could have got him alot cheaper had they waited a bit longer to sign him.

So like LTID said, its probably thanks to there money we didn't go under!

Leeds even agreed to accept £1.5m instead of £3.25m from Scum as the final settlement on Rio Ferdinand's transfer
rlhttp://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/leeds-to-forfeit-acircpound175m-on-ferdinand-transfer-574881.htmlrl

Absolutely right. Shows just how much Leeds needed that cash. Imagine how much trouble we'd have been in without it.

Are you planning on making an attempt for the firsts this year?