Leeds owner Andrea Radrizzani has embarked on an angry Twitter rant after the Daily Mail ran a story that said Leeds might be sold if they fail to win promotion to the Premier League.
In an extraordinary allegation, he also questioned who was behind the article, hinting that someone or something is out to deliberately hurt Leeds.
The national paper claims that Radrizzani has gambled on winning promotion and getting the £200million windfall that comes with it.
They claim Bielsa will likely leave as well if Leeds don’t win promotion.
Following the story, Radrizzani sent a number of angry tweets, telling the journalist Craig Hope to come and talk to him before writing “nonsense” next time.
He added “I don’t know and don’t care about your goals”, before sending another tweet questioning who was behind the article and then saying “but seriously we don’t have time and energies for your mind games.”
In a third tweet he finished by saying, “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”
@DailyMailUK @CraigHope_DM rather then write a lot of nonsense, next time please come for a cup of tea and I am happy to disclosure my projects insiders so you can stop make non sense assumption just to attack and unstable our club. I don’t know and don’t care about your goals
— Andrea Radrizzani (@andrearadri) February 25, 2019
And who is the ones who are behind but seriously we don’t have time and energies for your mind games. We have more important daily biz to care in @ElevenSports (profitable and successful in most to the markets in 3.5 years!) and @LUFC . Good luck to sell few more papers
— Andrea Radrizzani (@andrearadri) February 25, 2019
https://t.co/iy2gIoGcrN You don’t really get it …what doesn’t kill us make us stronger..Nothing will take us aways from our goals and kill our ambition.
— Andrea Radrizzani (@andrearadri) February 25, 2019
OPINION
Andrea Radrizzani is not happy about this article and he took the extraordinary step of taking his beef onto Twitter for everyone to see. The timing of the article is poor, with Leeds deep in a fight to win promotion back to the Premier League. They play QPR tonight and after spygate it’s yet another off-the-pitch matter that could distract the club from what’s really important. In one tweet Radrizzani asks who is behind the article and seems to be hinting that it’s designed to hurt Leeds. We’re not sure if he’s hinting at other clubs or business interests, but it’s an extraordinary allegation. We’re not sure if there’s any truth behind the article but it would seem like good journalism to contact the owner and give him the right to reply before publishing something like this. As to Radrizzani’s extraordinary claim about sinister forces? We’re not sure if he’ll feel the same way in the cold light of day and sometimes Twitter can be an impulsive media and you can live to regret posts. Just ask Donald Trump.