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(age 92)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Ealing" title="Ealing">Ealing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Middlesex" title="Middlesex">Middlesex</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">British</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Businessman</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Former chairman and owner of <a href="/wiki/Leeds_United_F.C." title="Leeds United F.C.">Leeds United</a><br />Former owner/chairman of <a href="/wiki/Chelsea_F.C." title="Chelsea F.C.">Chelsea</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Kenneth William Bates </b> (born 4 December 1931) is a British businessman, <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> executive and hotelier. He was involved in the development of <a href="/wiki/Wembley_Stadium" title="Wembley Stadium">Wembley Stadium</a> and is a former owner and chairman of football clubs <a href="/wiki/Chelsea_F.C." title="Chelsea F.C.">Chelsea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leeds_United_F.C." title="Leeds United F.C.">Leeds United</a>. </p><p>Bates spent five years as chairman of <a href="/wiki/Oldham_Athletic_A.F.C." title="Oldham Athletic A.F.C.">Oldham Athletic</a> during the 1960s and also had a spell at <a href="/wiki/Wigan_Athletic_F.C." title="Wigan Athletic F.C.">Wigan Athletic</a>. In 1982, he purchased <a href="/wiki/Chelsea_F.C." title="Chelsea F.C.">Chelsea</a> for <a href="/wiki/Peppercorn_(legal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peppercorn (legal)">£1</a>. During his tenure, he helped the club win a long-running battle with property developers who were attempting to evict them from their <a href="/wiki/Stamford_Bridge_(stadium)" title="Stamford Bridge (stadium)">Stamford Bridge</a> home. By the end of his reign, Chelsea were regularly finishing in the top six of the Premier League and had won their first major trophies since the 1970s, although they had a debt burden of around £80 million.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2003, he sold the club to Russian billionaire <a href="/wiki/Roman_Abramovich" title="Roman Abramovich">Roman Abramovich</a> from whom he received approximately £18 million.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2005, Bates bought a 50% stake in Leeds United, another club struggling under a heavy debt burden. In May 2007, Leeds entered administration, and were relegated to <a href="/wiki/Football_League_One" class="mw-redirect" title="Football League One">League One</a>. The club regained <a href="/wiki/Football_League_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="Football League Championship">Championship</a> status in 2010 and, in May 2011, it was confirmed that Bates had become the sole owner. In November 2012, Bates sold his holdings in Leeds United to <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Finance_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf Finance House">GFH Capital</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ken_Bates&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ken_Bates&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bates was born in Ealing in 1931. His mother died shortly afterwards and his father absconded, so he was raised by his grandparents in a council flat. He grew up supporting <a href="/wiki/Queens_Park_Rangers_F.C." title="Queens Park Rangers F.C.">Queens Park Rangers</a> but was unsuccessful in pursuing a playing career in football. He made his personal fortune in the <a href="/wiki/Logistics" title="Logistics">haulage</a> industry and later moved into <a href="/wiki/Quarry" title="Quarry">quarrying</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ready-mix_concrete" title="Ready-mix concrete">ready-mix concrete</a> and dairy farming. </p><p>Bates was involved with various other enterprises during the 1960s and 1970s, including projects on the <a href="/wiki/British_Virgin_Islands" title="British Virgin Islands">British Virgin Islands</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Rhodesia" title="Rhodesia">Rhodesia</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Leeds_United_F.C." title="Leeds United F.C.">Leeds United</a> fanzine Square Ball has published a photograph of Bates with Rhodesian PM <a href="/wiki/Ian_Smith" title="Ian Smith">Ian Smith</a> during a 1967 tour by <a href="/wiki/Oldham_Athletic_F.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Oldham Athletic F.C.">Oldham Athletic</a>, when Rhodesia was subject to UN sanctions.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="British_Virgin_Islands">British Virgin Islands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ken_Bates&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: British Virgin Islands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Square Ball has reported, having worked with a documentary made in the British Virgin Islands,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that Bates attempted to obtain control and develop most of the island of <a href="/wiki/Anegada" title="Anegada">Anegada</a> near <a href="/wiki/Tortola" title="Tortola">Tortola</a> on a 199-year lease, but was thwarted after protests by islanders caused the local government to change its decision and investigations began by the British government.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original agreement to lease the island was known as the Bates–Hill Agreement. Today, <a href="/wiki/File:Noel_Lloyd_park.jpg" title="File:Noel Lloyd park.jpg">a park on Tortola is named after Noel Lloyd</a>, a resident of the island who led the opposition to the agreement.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1976, he set up the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Irish_Trust_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Irish Trust Bank (page does not exist)">Irish Trust Bank</a>, but it wound up leaving thousands of investors out-of-pocket.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oldham_and_Wigan">Oldham and Wigan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ken_Bates&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Oldham and Wigan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After having been chairman of Oldham Athletic for five years in the 1960s, in 1980 Bates became co-owner and vice chairman of <a href="/wiki/Wigan_Athletic_F.C." title="Wigan Athletic F.C.">Wigan Athletic</a> with his old business associate Freddie Pye. He provided significant finance by way of bank guarantees that enabled the then manager, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Lloyd" title="Larry Lloyd">Larry Lloyd</a>, to sign a number of players, not the least of which was <a href="/wiki/Eamonn_O%27Keefe" title="Eamonn O'Keefe">Eamonn O'Keefe</a> from <a href="/wiki/Everton_F.C." title="Everton F.C.">Everton</a> for £65,000. Wigan duly gained promotion under Lloyd to the Third Division in May 1982. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chelsea_F.C.">Chelsea F.C.</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ken_Bates&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Chelsea F.C."><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Later in 1982, Bates purchased <a href="/wiki/Chelsea_F.C." title="Chelsea F.C.">Chelsea</a> for £1. When he purchased the club they were in serious financial trouble, as well as being tarnished by a notorious <a href="/wiki/Football_hooliganism" title="Football hooliganism">hooligan</a> element among their support. They were also struggling in the <a href="/wiki/Football_League_Second_Division" title="Football League Second Division">Football League Second Division</a>, a stark contrast to their successful era from 1955 to 1971, when they had won a <a href="/wiki/Football_League_First_Division" title="Football League First Division">Football League First Division</a> title, an <a href="/wiki/FA_Cup" title="FA Cup">FA Cup</a>, <a href="/wiki/Football_League_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="Football League Cup">Football League Cup</a> and <a href="/wiki/European_Cup_Winners%27_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="European Cup Winners' Cup">European Cup Winners' Cup</a>. After narrowly escaping relegation to the <a href="/wiki/Football_League_Third_Division" title="Football League Third Division">Third Division</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1982%E2%80%9383_in_English_football" title="1982–83 in English football">1982–83</a> season, Bates made the funds available to manager <a href="/wiki/John_Neal_(footballer,_born_1932)" title="John Neal (footballer, born 1932)">John Neal</a> to sign players including <a href="/wiki/Kerry_Dixon" title="Kerry Dixon">Kerry Dixon</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Speedie" title="David Speedie">David Speedie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pat_Nevin" title="Pat Nevin">Pat Nevin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Thomas_(footballer)" title="Mickey Thomas (footballer)">Mickey Thomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Niedzwiecki" title="Eddie Niedzwiecki">Eddie Niedzwiecki</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Spackman" title="Nigel Spackman">Nigel Spackman</a>, who helped the club win promotion and re-establish themselves in the top-flight with consecutive top six finishes. </p><p>Chelsea have spent all but one season in the top flight of English football since 1984, and by the time Bates stepped down as chairman in 2003 they were firmly re-established as one of English football's leading sides, having achieved seven successive top six finishes in the <a href="/wiki/Premier_League" title="Premier League">Premier League</a> and won several major trophies as well as signing a succession of high-profile players, including many foreign international stars. </p><p>In the early years, he fought a successful and long-running legal battle with <a href="/wiki/Real_estate_developer" class="mw-redirect" title="Real estate developer">property developers</a>, Marler Estates, who had purchased a substantial portion of the <a href="/wiki/Fee_simple" title="Fee simple">freehold</a> of <a href="/wiki/Stamford_Bridge_(stadium)" title="Stamford Bridge (stadium)">Stamford Bridge</a>, Chelsea's home ground. He re-united the freehold with the club (and thus secured its future) after Marler's bankruptcy following a market crash, which allowed him to do a deal with their banks and create the <a href="/wiki/Chelsea_Pitch_Owners" title="Chelsea Pitch Owners">Chelsea Pitch Owners</a>, an organisation set-up to stave off future developers and attempted to make the club more financially viable. He also had Stamford Bridge rebuilt as an all-seater stadium by 1995, and by 2001 it had a capacity of more than 42,000. </p><p>In the mid-1980s, he famously erected an electric perimeter fence around the pitch at Stamford Bridge to prevent pitch invasions, but the fence was soon dismantled after the local council refused him permission to turn the electricity on. </p><p>Bates spent 21 years at Chelsea, during which time he attracted the headlines on many occasions and employed no fewer than nine managers.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His match-day programme notes, in which he often attacked various individuals, were also controversial. In 2002, he was sued for <a href="/wiki/Libel" class="mw-redirect" title="Libel">libel</a> by Chelsea supporter David Johnstone after describing fans' group, the Chelsea Independent Supporters Association, as parasites; Bates settled out of court without accepting liability.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1990s, he was involved in a bitter dispute with Chelsea benefactor and vice-chairman, <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Harding" title="Matthew Harding">Matthew Harding</a>, over the club's direction, which led to Harding's being banned from the Chelsea boardroom. The dispute was ultimately ended by Harding's death in a <a href="/wiki/Helicopter" title="Helicopter">helicopter</a> crash in October 1996. Bates sparked further controversy the following year when he said of Harding, "I don't believe evil should triumph and he was an evil man ... This is a much happier ship at Chelsea now he's no longer around".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the end of his chairmanship, Stamford Bridge had been substantially refurbished and modernised, while he had become (at the time) Chelsea's most successful chairman. The club had won several major trophies and were consistently finishing in the top six of the Premier League, even finishing third and just four points behind champions <a href="/wiki/Manchester_United_F.C." title="Manchester United F.C.">Manchester United</a> in 1999, as well as qualifying for the <a href="/wiki/UEFA_Champions_League" title="UEFA Champions League">UEFA Champions League</a> with a top-class playing squad containing <a href="/wiki/Gianfranco_Zola" title="Gianfranco Zola">Gianfranco Zola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roberto_Di_Matteo" title="Roberto Di Matteo">Roberto Di Matteo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Graeme_Le_Saux" title="Graeme Le Saux">Graeme Le Saux</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Desailly" title="Marcel Desailly">Marcel Desailly</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Floyd_Hasselbaink" title="Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink">Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink</a>. However, its future was threatened by an estimated debt burden of £80 million, yet it was secured against the club's ground, Stamford Bridge. In 2003, he sold the club to Russian oil billionaire <a href="/wiki/Roman_Abramovich" title="Roman Abramovich">Roman Abramovich</a> for a sum of £140 million, making a £17 million profit. Bruce Buck, the chairman from 2004 until 2022, was in charge of the club's sale to Roman Abramovich. After the takeover, Bates was investigated by the <a href="/wiki/Financial_Services_Authority" title="Financial Services Authority">Financial Services Authority</a> (FSA) for allegedly owning undeclared shares in Chelsea Village plc, but the case was eventually dropped.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He stayed on as club chairman until March 2004, when he announced his resignation.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within a couple of weeks of his departure, he was back in the limelight as he wrote a one-off column in the <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Wanderers_F.C." title="Bolton Wanderers F.C.">Bolton Wanderers</a> matchday programme, when their visitors were Chelsea.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Partick_Thistle">Partick Thistle</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ken_Bates&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Partick Thistle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 1986, Bates purchased a controlling interest in Scottish club <a href="/wiki/Partick_Thistle_F.C." title="Partick Thistle F.C.">Partick Thistle</a> for around £100,000 via a share issue after being made aware of their financial problems by their chairman Miller Reid, who was an acquaintance.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bates installed veteran former Chelsea player <a href="/wiki/Derek_Johnstone" title="Derek Johnstone">Derek Johnstone</a> as manager with the intention of using Partick as a <a href="/wiki/Feeder_club" class="mw-redirect" title="Feeder club">feeder club</a> for Chelsea<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Billy_Dodds" title="Billy Dodds">Billy Dodds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Colin_West_(footballer,_born_1967)" title="Colin West (footballer, born 1967)">Colin West</a> were loaned from the <i>Blues</i> to the <i>Jags</i>, with <a href="/wiki/John_McNaught_(footballer,_born_1964)" title="John McNaught (footballer, born 1964)">John McNaught</a> also linked to both clubs).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 1989, a group of local businessmen including new chairman Jim Donald purchased Bates' shareholding in the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> club.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="FA_and_Wembley_Stadium">FA and Wembley Stadium</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ken_Bates&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: FA and Wembley Stadium"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bates was an active member of <a href="/wiki/The_Football_Association" title="The Football Association">The Football Association</a> (FA) executive and was involved in the early stages of the project to rebuild <a href="/wiki/Wembley_Stadium" title="Wembley Stadium">Wembley Stadium</a> and was appointed chairman of Wembley National Stadium Ltd in 1997. He resigned in 2001, citing a lack of support from the board.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Irked at the lack of progress, he later suggested that the best way to move the project forward was to shoot then-<a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Sport" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister for Sport">Minister for Sport</a> <a href="/wiki/Kate_Hoey" title="Kate Hoey">Kate Hoey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leeds_United">Leeds United</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ken_Bates&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Leeds United"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 2005, after failing in a bid to invest in <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Wednesday_F.C." title="Sheffield Wednesday F.C.">Sheffield Wednesday</a>, Bates became the principal owner and chairman of then struggling <a href="/wiki/Football_League_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="Football League Championship">Championship</a> team <a href="/wiki/Leeds_United_F.C." title="Leeds United F.C.">Leeds United</a>, purchasing 50% of the club.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was quoted as saying that he wanted "one last challenge". </p><p>Bates had a dispute with former club, Chelsea, having accused them of "<a href="/wiki/Tapping-up" class="mw-redirect" title="Tapping-up">tapping-up</a>" three Leeds youth players, accusations denied by Chelsea.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chelsea in turn reported Bates to the FA for his comment that the current Chelsea directors are "a bunch of shysters from <a href="/wiki/Siberia" title="Siberia">Siberia</a>", an alleged <a href="/wiki/Antisemitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Antisemitic">antisemitic</a> remark about Abramovich, something denied by Bates.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon hearing that Chelsea had reported him, Bates said, "I haven't laughed so much since Ma caught her tits in the mangle."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The FA also agreed with Bates stating that he had no case to answer.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His own club Leeds have themselves come under scrutiny after non-league team <a href="/wiki/Farsley_Celtic_A.F.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Farsley Celtic A.F.C.">Farsley Celtic</a> accused Leeds of improperly signing youngsters from them.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The case brought against Chelsea was eventually dropped after the two clubs agreed to a settlement privately.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bates planned to eventually re-purchase Leeds' home stadium, <a href="/wiki/Elland_Road" title="Elland Road">Elland Road</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Thorp_Arch_(training_ground)" title="Thorp Arch (training ground)">Thorp Arch</a> training ground.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, he failed to achieve either of these objectives during the eight-year period of his ownership of the club (January 2005 to December 2012). </p><p>In May 2007, Leeds went into administration (with unpaid debts of some £35 million, having been reduced from £100 million four seasons prior) and suffered relegation to the <a href="/wiki/Football_League_One" class="mw-redirect" title="Football League One">third tier</a> of English football. Soon after, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/KPMG" title="KPMG">KPMG</a>, acting as the administrator, had agreed to sell the club to a newly formed company called <a href="/wiki/Leeds_United_Football_Club_Limited" title="Leeds United Football Club Limited">Leeds United Football Club Limited</a> of which Bates was one of three directors.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The consortium led by Bates bought the Club back from the Administrators, via offshore companies, for £1.5 million. Bates became unpopular with groups of fans, and during the summer protests were held at games, demanding that the chairman should resign. In May 2011, in anticipation of promotion to the English Premier League (not subsequently realised) Bates confirmed, according to the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>, that he had become the sole owner of Leeds United.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During Bates' time as chairman at Leeds United he worked with five managers (not including numerous caretaker managers in between managers leaving). <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Blackwell" title="Kevin Blackwell">Kevin Blackwell</a> was the manager when Bates joined Leeds and was sacked after playoff final failure and a disappointing league position during the following season.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Wise" title="Dennis Wise">Dennis Wise</a> was then hired to replace <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Blackwell" title="Kevin Blackwell">Kevin Blackwell</a>, but after being the man in charge of Leeds being relegated to League One (for the first time in their entire history), Wise decided to join <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_United_F.C." title="Newcastle United F.C.">Newcastle United</a> in a non-managerial role despite Leeds' good start to the season (despite a fifteen-point deduction).<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Gary_McAllister" title="Gary McAllister">Gary McAllister</a> was the man appointed to replace Wise, McAllister was able to guide Leeds to the League One playoff final (despite the 15-point deduction) but a 1–0 loss to <a href="/wiki/Doncaster_Rovers_F.C." title="Doncaster Rovers F.C.">Doncaster Rovers</a> saw Leeds banished to League One for yet another year.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 2008–09 season, Leeds were one of the pre-season favourites to promotion and after a good start their form faltered dramatically, and after a run of five-straight defeats (including a 1–0 loss to <a href="/wiki/Histon_F.C." title="Histon F.C.">Histon</a> in the FA Cup), Bates decided to sack McAllister.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 23 December, Leeds United hired <a href="/wiki/Simon_Grayson" title="Simon Grayson">Simon Grayson</a> as their new manager.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 February 2012, Bates relieved Grayson of his managerial duties,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> citing<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a string of defeats, a disappointment in Grayson suggesting that he was under "financial constraints", and need for a new voice and direction. <a href="/wiki/Neil_Redfearn" title="Neil Redfearn">Neil Redfearn</a> was installed as caretaker manager until <a href="/wiki/Neil_Warnock" title="Neil Warnock">Neil Warnock</a> was appointed as permanent manager on 18 February 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 21 November 2012, Bates finalised a deal to sell Leeds to Middle East-based private equity group <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Finance_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf Finance House">GFH Capital</a>, with them gaining 100% shareholding in the club. It was announced Bates would remain as chairman until the end of the 2012–13 season and then become the club president.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The takeover, a cash deal worth £52 million, was officially completed on 21 December 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 July 2013, Bates officially stepped down as chairman and moved to the position of honorary president.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was replaced in the role of chairman by <a href="/wiki/Salah_Nooruddin" title="Salah Nooruddin">Salah Nooruddin</a>. 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