Rolling Italian news channels may well be tuned in across the screens at San Francisco 49ers’ Santa Clara offices. Or at least in Paraag Marathe’s office.
49ers Enterprises would, ideally, be heading towards the end of its time in the shadows at Elland Road right now. Had Leeds United’s Premier League status been assured, the investment arm of the NFL franchise would have been pushing the final few buttons on their surge to control in LS11.
Marathe may have had the decorators in, Collin Meador could have been sizing up a new chair or, more importantly, they could have been getting on with the critical business of hiring a director of football, appointing a head coach and getting ducks in a row for the coming transfer window. As it is, everyone is in a holding pattern.
