Rickie Fowler’s financial experts recommended against investing in Leeds United.
Rickie Fowler, an American golfer, claims his finance team persuaded him to withdraw from the 49ers Enterprises takeover of Leeds United. When asked if he planned to invest in the team in the future, he told Sky Sports, “No, no, that’s all done.”
“Hopefully, with JT and Jordan involved, everything will work out.” My financial staff just did not advise us to do so, therefore we did not. But I hope they play well and turn things around because I know JT and Jordan would be very thrilled.”
Last week at the Open in Liverpool, Fowler was heckled by a Leeds United supporter who labeled him a coward. “Yeah, other than maybe a ‘coward’ comment here or there, 99.9 percent are amazing,” Fowler said of playing in front of UK fans.
Leeds United’s loss, Wober, transfers, injuries, Ampadu and Byram were all mentioned by Daniel Farke.
Ampadu makes his mark
One of the cornerstones of Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United era was Kalvin Phillips as an anchor holding everything else in place. The England international was transformed, as we know, by Bielsa into a defensive midfielder who dropped deep, collected the ball and protected it before triggering the moves the Argentine had crafted.
Whether he was splitting the centre-backs to receive the ball directly from the goalkeeper, or taking it from a Ben White or a Liam Cooper, Phillips had the strength, vision, passing, first touch and composure to move Leeds from the danger of their own box to the safety of midfield or beyond. If the Whites want to pass the ball out from the back under Daniel Farke, they are going to need more of what we saw on Saturday from debutant Ethan Ampadu.
The 22-year-old brought authority and confidence to the double-pivot on his very first outing in white. Playing to the left of the, yet again, impressive Archie Gray, Ampadu was asking for the ball from the first minute off Illan Meslier, Pascal Struijk and Cooper.
There would be swift interchanges in play with Gray, the full-backs, or the wingers, but what caught the eye was the range in Ampadu’s passing. Within the first 10 minutes, there were two memorable balls long over the top of the Monaco defence into Luis Sinisterra and Georginio Rutter.
