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The Price of Football

Leeds vice chairman interview, Burnley takeover

The Price of Football

Guy Kilty

Sports, Business

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Kieran speak to the president of 49ers enterprises, Paraag Marathe, who recently became vice chairman of Leeds United after 49ers Enterprises increased its stake in Leeds to 37%. They also look at the latest news on the Burnley takeover and why Wrexham AFC was the only National League club to be excluded from the emergency funding package. Follow The Price of Football on Twitter - @POF_POD Follow Kevin on Twitter - @kevinhunterday Follow Kieran on Twitter - @KieranMaguire Check out the Price of Football merchandise store here! https://the-price-of-football.backstreetmerch.com/ This episode of The Price of Football is brought to you by designer sportswear brand Fugati. Fugati specialises in making bespoke, fully customisable football kits for teams at all levels, so you, your teammates and your fans can all look your sharpest on matchdays. Go to www.fugati.co.uk and get 20% off their kits and clothing until the end of March 2021 using the code PRICEOFFOOTBALL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the price of football, the show that looks at the money behind the

0:15.5

beautiful game and it's even more exciting than watching Sky try to get 4 hours of live

0:21.0

tele out of one low move to West Brom on transfer deadline day. I'm Kevin Day and turning

0:26.8

down a free transfer to Swiss Ramble is Liverpool University's Kiran McGuire, Kiran

0:32.2

a predictably quiet transfer window I guess? Yes, if you've got no money you can't spend

0:38.2

it and that's the position of football at present. Also the players don't want to move because

0:44.4

nobody can offer them pay rises so it's a very sticky wicket indeed. Yeah my mother never

0:51.2

lived by that principle if you've got no money you can't spend it. Maybe something to do

0:57.9

with where they're from Kiran who knows. Later in this episode we'll hear from Farag Mirate,

1:03.4

the president of 49ers Enterprises which is the commercial arm of the San Francisco 49ers

1:09.2

he spoke to us about or cricket and oh yes and his investment in lead genoited which was

1:14.8

recently increased to 37% it was a very positive and upbeat chat here wasn't it? Yes I think

1:22.8

Leeds fans are going to be excited from what they hear I think he wants to retain what

1:29.7

he refers to as sort of the nuts and bolts the boots of lead genoited while still trying

1:35.2

to move the club on. So a few interesting revelations look forward to. Yes sadly positive

1:41.0

and upbeat and not words we can use about our first story. You did say Kiran that you

1:46.3

thought South Yorkshire may overtake the East Midlands as an area of concern and Lion

1:51.5

B. Hold several Shepherd Wednesday players haven't been paid their full wages this month.

1:56.2

Yes I mean there's good news for Shepherd Wednesday on the pitch. They presently that

2:01.9

they don't have a manager they don't have a director of football they don't appear

2:04.9

to have achieved executive but that's not stopping them from winning matches which you

2:10.1

know perhaps calls into question some of the some of the processes that you do see at

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