Changes behind the scenes at Elland Road

YEP chief football writer Graham Smyth talks through changes the 49ers are making behind the scenes at Elland Road

Transcript

00:00 Leeds United Commercial Matters then, obviously we've alluded to the Paul

00:03 Bell news, so he is departing his role as the exec director when it comes to all

00:09 things commercial and will be retained in a consultancy role in a

00:14 transitionary period. I think what the 49ers have done, I think a lot of people

00:21 assumed right that they'd been in the building for quite a while because they

00:24 invested during the Rajarzani era, they were his partners in the boardroom,

00:29 Moratti was vice chairman etc etc. Having that presence in the boardroom and being

00:36 a part of the ownership group is a very different thing from being able to walk

00:39 into any office or corner of Elland Road and lift up the carpet to see what's

00:44 underneath. Once you own the place then you have full license to

00:50 really dig into what is in your football club, what it does, how it

00:54 looks, how it functions on match days, how it functions in every sense. I get

01:01 absolutely no sense that Paul Bell has been removed from his position but I do

01:06 get a sense that the 49ers have been looking really intently at every aspect

01:11 of it, doing a really fulsome review of the club and how it operates. I

01:16 would imagine that this is just a fairly natural consequence of that and the

01:20 change that I think we'll see over the next months and years really.

01:25 It's going to take them time to build a Premier League worthy operation off the

01:30 field because the club that they bought wasn't particularly sized or scaled for

01:35 Premier League football.