July 28 2007
After the takeover was completed,a press conference was announced to be held on 28th of June in Ellend road stadium to officiate the takeover.
All the media personal had already arrived and were already seated in there respective seat.The press conference would start at 5pm and it was already 4:55 so the journalists were looking for Oliver Bryan's arrival.
Soon after, Oliver Bryan arrived in the venue, following him was another person whom the journal didn't knew so they didn't pay him much attention.
Oliver Bryan took his seat and next to him sat the person following him garnering some curious gaze on him.They were wondering who might be the person as by the look of it he also seemed part of today's press conference.
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When Oliver arrived at the venue for the press conference the place was already filled in brim with local media and some national media journalist.He looked at Ryan who was following him, Ryan was getting a lot of curious gaze from the journalists which was making him nervous than he already was. seeing Ryan like that Oliver patted his solder to ease some of his nervousness.
Oliver picked up the microphone and patted it to cleck if it was on.
"Mr Bryan would you like to say something to begin with"the host said to Oliver.
"Ah ya , first of all Good evening to everyone present in this venue I understand that you all are eager to know all about our takeover and our next plans for the club but first let me officially introduce Ryan cross the new manager for Leeds . Mr cross Will be taking over our the position of our former manager Dennis wise . I also want to thank Mr Wise for all he has done for the club and hope for his future sucess now please do carry on ."
As he said that the journalists seemed to be shocked as they have never heard of the person named Ryan cross before.
After that the host announced the commencement of the press conference.
As soon as the host announced to begin asking questions all of the reporters immediately raised their hands.
"Mr Bryan first of all congratulations on acquiring Leeds . I'm John Kelly from Yorkshire morning post.i want to ask about your current feeling after acquiring Leeds, the steps you took and your future steps for the club "
"yeah it's a relief to get it over the line, it's been a long and tortuous route.um I first thought of acquiring Leeds October last year and there have been many ups and downs during the process. For a while the takeover seemed almost impossible but I'm glad it did happened. As for the club's future sustainability is our top priority , we've appointment some really good directors that are all fans of the club and we all Wana make it work you know, sustain it for the future. "
"Mr Bryan in terms of the takeover I believe it was done in a dept free situation a lot of people are in doubt what it means,is the financial situation in Leeds stable now, also you pick up the club at a time where last year or two it's been making huge losses so how are you looking to bring those figures to opposite and make it sustainable"
"Yeah it is a big challenge but we've put together a very robust business plan, we've made certain assumptions on that and we think it's workable .we've got a great team to help us do that and we're looking for the future obviously there will be some bumps along the way but we're confident that we've got the skills and knowledge to get over those"
"Hello Mr Bryan . I'm Emily Heart from Daily news .I Want to ask you what does it means to you personally to be the chairman of the club."
"Very privileged I would say,I been a supporter of the club since I was about six or seven when I got to watch my first game at Ellend road so to be able to help contribute towards its future and hopefully make it successful is very important for me as well . we've not come to just take the club and sit with it as it is, we are here for improving the club and gain sucess and for which sustainability is the key factor ,and we have appointed Ryan cross as the manager for it,
Ryan is very very enthusiastic about his work , he wants to work with the senior management team and the board to make it successful and we're already looking at new players and Will be bringing those into making some announcement in the future ."
And like that the press conference carried on for the next 20 minutes where the majority of questions were for Oliver with occasional questions for Ryan here and there.
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July 29 2007
# Pos Name Age. Nat
1 G. Casper Ankergren 28 DEN
25 G. David Lucas 30 ENG
12 G Alan Martin 18 SCO
28 D Fabian Delph 16 ENG
27 D Scott Gardner 19 LUX
3 D Paul Huntington 20 ENG
2 D Frazer Richardson 25 ENG
5 D Rui Marques 30 POR
18 M Robert Bayly 19 IRL
17 M Sébastien Carole 25 FRA
30 M. Filipe Da Costa 23 POR
4 M Jonathan Douglas 26 IRL
14 M Jonathan Howson 20 ENG
22 M Andrew Hughes. 29 ENG
26 M Ben Parker. 20 ENG
7 M David Prutton 26 ENG
8 M. Alan Thompson 34 ENG
11 M Ian Westlake. 24 ENG
9 F Jermaine Beckford 24 ENG
10 F. Leon Constantine. 29 ENG
19 F Tore André Flo 34 NOR
20 F Tresor Kandol 26 ENG
Ryan was currently looking at clips of some of the games of previous season with the first team squad list in his hand.
"so how are players we currently have"Oliver who was sitting beside him asked.
"we have quite a decent side for league one I would say " honestly Ryan thought the squad was quite capable for contending for the league title , but the 15 point deduction imposed by the FA could make it extremely difficult.
"For the moment we will stick with the 4-4-2 formation with Beckford and kandol in front . They could easily give us a minimum of 20-30 goal contributions . The midfield and Defence also looks quite good although we might have to work on the left side of the field , both in midfield and in defence.For the goalkeeper position Ankergren seems quite reliable for now.."Ryan said looking at Oliver who was patiently listening to him.
"Do you have any player in your mind right now for the left midfield and left back positive then "
"Well about that I might need your help in sending me some recommendations there from the scouts,I don't know many good players who might wana play in league one so."Ryan said a little embarrassed for his lack of knowledge
"Haha don't be embarrassed Ryan it's your first time managing a league one side and theres generally lack of information related to players in league one so it's only natural."Oliver said patting Ryan's soldiers.
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Bryan residence...
Currently Oliver was looking in the diary where he recorded Ryan's memories to find if there was any unnoticed quality players he could get but that was getting quite difficult . Most of the players in the memories were players who were good enough to be remembered and majority of the said players wouldn't want to play for a league one side and those who would join were mostly those who were still green behind the ear.
"Ha..." Oliver sighed, it really was difficult runnings a football club with just the future knowledge he had thank god he had the help of Ryan and the scouts at this moment running a premier League side seems more easier than a league one side he thought.