You know as well as I that football clubs are being run like a business these days with tycoons from all around the world taking notice of it's popularity. You have to be ruthless in business and you do step on toes. What interest would it serve for one business man to help another and create competition for himself then?

Novel idea, let's see if anything eventuates.

There is another point to consider and it was highlighted in the papers not too long ago; compensation to clubs when players who are on international duty get injured. Clubs are reluctant to release players for international duty especially when they are carrying an injury of sorts. One reason is of course that club sides aren't concerned with the nation side, and another reason is they don't receive sufficient compensation if a player gets injured especially for a lengthy period.

It's risky business and when a club like Leeds spend more than they have, it's called an investment. Sometimes it goes bad. Chicken and egg story but in the end, you need to put in money to make more money.

Can't quite remember the sequence of events but didn't Leeds qualify for the semi-finals of the Champions League? Read Fowler's book and they were in trouble even then. The following season was however a disaster.