Don Goodman outlines potential Leeds United concern | OneFootball

Don Goodman has warned Leeds United of the financial impact of remaining in the Championship for another year.

The Whites are now at risk of failing to gain promotion to the Premier League ahead of Saturday’s final game of the regular season. The club’s fate is out of their hands following a 4-0 thrashing at the hands of QPR last Friday night.

Ipswich Town can now earn four points from their final two games and secure automatic promotion to the top flight regardless of Leeds’ results.

Two goals either side of half-time for QPR secured an important win for the Hoops, as they confirmed their survival in the Championship for another year while denting the Yorkshire outfit’s hopes of a Premier League return.

Goodman has highlighted the financial impact of failure to gain promotion for Leeds ahead of their final game against Southampton next weekend.

He didn’t quite go so far as to call it a potential disaster, but he warned that the financial impact of staying in the Championship could be massive.

“It’s hard to find the words as to what it will mean if they don’t go up in terms of the season they’ve had and the position they’ve put themselves in,” said Goodman, via MOT Leeds News.

“It would be, not quite a disaster – that’s too strong a word – but it would not be good at all given the finances. You already look at what happened last summer and you question the policy of building loan possibilities into players’ futures in the event of relegation.

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“You look at Southampton, they brought in something like £165 million for selling three or four assets. That’s what Leeds should have been doing last summer and then none of these problems would have come about.

“But they didn’t, and that comes down to the logistics of the contracts they struck with the agents of these players. They were all favourable to the players and not Leeds United.

“The future is not bleak as such if they don’t go up, but they could lose players and it would make it harder then to get promoted to the Premier League.

“Even if they do end up in the play-offs, it’s imperative they win those. The pressure is on for them to get back to the Premier League in order to ease their financial problems.”

Leeds United league position

Leeds are currently second in the Championship table, but will slip to third in the table midweek unless Ipswich Town lose their game in hand against Coventry City.

A 3-3 draw between the Suffolk outfit and Hull City on Saturday night did boost their top two chances, but their fate remains out of their hands.

Their superior goal difference over Ipswich does keep them ahead at the moment, with the teams level on points.

However, four points from games against Coventry and Huddersfield Town will be enough for Kieran McKenna’s team to seal a place back in the first division for the first time since 2002.

Financial blow of promotion failure will be big for Leeds

If Leeds secure promotion to the Premier League then it will be easier to cash in on those players that went out on loan.

That will then also help them keep hold of key players like Crysencio Summerville and Wilfried Gnonto.

However, if they remain in the Championship then those key young players could all be sold, especially with clubs circling around the Dutchman in particular.