Leeds tell bidders to put up or shut up

LEEDS managing director David Richmond has urged potential investors to put up or shut up as the club prepares for life outside the Premiership.

Richmond has slapped a one-week deadline on takeover bids and insisted no good can come of further protracted speculation about the make-up of the Elland Road boardroom.

Millionaire Leeds fan Steve Parkin has been linked with a buyout but Richmond said talk of any deal remained pure conjecture.