http://www.onthisfootballday.com/football-history/september-26-leeds-get-credit-crunched.php Find out what happened every day in football history Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.onthisfootballday.com/football-history/september-26-leeds-get-credit-crunched.php/comment-page-1#comment-3082 May 4 – The Dream is Well and Truly Over | On This Football Day Tue, 05 May 2009 00:02:30 +0000 http://www.onthisfootballday.com/?p=616#comment-3082 [...] heard the stories of Leeds United’s extravagant early 2000s pursuit of ‘the dream’ far too many times, whether it’s Seth Johnson’s wage negations or Peter [...] [...] heard the stories of Leeds United’s extravagant early 2000s pursuit of ‘the dream’ far too many times, whether it’s Seth Johnson’s wage negations or Peter [...]

]]> http://www.onthisfootballday.com/football-history/september-26-leeds-get-credit-crunched.php/comment-page-1#comment-2041 March 21 – By George! | On This Football Day Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:07:55 +0000 http://www.onthisfootballday.com/?p=616#comment-2041 [...] would lead the Yorkshire side to fifth in the table and pave the way for Ridsdale and O’Leary to ‘live the dream’ and go wild buying over-priced goldfish and over-paying Seth [...] [...] would lead the Yorkshire side to fifth in the table and pave the way for Ridsdale and O’Leary to ‘live the dream’ and go wild buying over-priced goldfish and over-paying Seth [...]

]]> http://www.onthisfootballday.com/football-history/september-26-leeds-get-credit-crunched.php/comment-page-1#comment-1715 November 23 - His name is Rio and he dances on the sand | On This Football Day Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:02:37 +0000 http://www.onthisfootballday.com/?p=616#comment-1715 [...] On this day things looked even rosier for the Leeds faithful when the club signed West Ham defender Rio Ferdinand for a whopping £18m. It seemed like a massive amount of money for an undoubtedly good player, but at the time it was a British transfer fee record, and a world record for a defender. Many questioned whether he was worth the money, but no one bothered to ask where the money was coming from, and if Leeds could actually afford it. [...] [...] On this day things looked even rosier for the Leeds faithful when the club signed West Ham defender Rio Ferdinand for a whopping £18m. It seemed like a massive amount of money for an undoubtedly good player, but at the time it was a British transfer fee record, and a world record for a defender. Many questioned whether he was worth the money, but no one bothered to ask where the money was coming from, and if Leeds could actually afford it. [...]

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