The LUFC Breakfast Debate (Tue 24 July)
Pontus Jansson has returned to Thorp Arch after international duty with Sweden.
Lets hope he can make a big difference under Bielsa.
Leeds are charged an average of £25,000 for policing on match days, more than any other Yorkshire club, new figures show.
The cost of policing Championship matches at Elland Road is nearly identical to the cost at nearby Premier League club Huddersfield Town, at about £34,500 per home game.
But the Whites pay nearly three-quarters of this cost while the Terriers pay less than half, because of the rules surrounding how clubs are billed.
Leeds United paid 74 per cent of its bill for the first six months of the season, while Huddersfield Town contributed 44 per cent and Bradford City just 16 per cent. It means, per spectator at an average match, the Whites paid 78p towards policing while the Terriers paid 63p and the Bantams paid just 7p. Leeds United paid a higher proportion of its policing bill than any Yorkshire club.
West Yorkshire Police said the discrepancies were due to the different policing requirements of matches.
Mr Foster said: “A category C match which is classed as high risk, for example, will require a higher police presence than a Category A which has a lower risk threshold.
“In terms of what it charges clubs, West Yorkshire Police follows an established national protocol of charging for the deployment of officers within an agreed ‘footprint’ of land owned, leased or controlled by the club.
Each club has a different sized footprint, affecting the number of officers required to police it, which means the cost of policing for clubs can vary.”
The most expensive fixture at Elland Road was the January match against Millwall, which cost £67,433 to police.
Leeds Utd are to refund subscribers who have bought the pre season LUTV matches after a flurry of complaints about the quality and coverage.
As a result the televisised friendlies against Oxford United, Guiseley and Las Palmas have been scrapped.
Radrizzani blamed the issues on a change to the “method of broadcasting”.
In a statement, the club said: “Following feedback from our supporters, the club would like to take this opportunity to apologise for any issues experienced on LUTV during our opening pre-season friendly games.
“Unfortunately we have encountered sporadic technical problems with the suppliers we have used to broadcast our pre-season fixtures.
“The method of broadcasting these ties is different to how we have successfully streamed games internationally during the 2017-18 season and we will be returning to these methods from the start of the new campaign.
The Rolls Royce of Elland Road