Source: Telegraph
Leeds United have the potential to be a top-six club, says Peter Lorimer
According to Lorimer, Leeds have top-six potential thanks to their size of the newly promoted Championship club's support but the Scot has warned that maintaining upward mobility will be anything but a formality. [LNB] "I firmly believe we are potentially a top-six-in-the-country club we are as big as your Villas and your Tottenhams," Lorimer said. [LNB] "Potentially 'crowd base' we are as big as these clubs and bigger than most clubs in the Premiership but you only get there by achievement. [LNB] "You don't get there by saying we are and I think everyone knows potentially we can be there but we have to get there. [LNB] "When you can command crowds of 38,000 like we did on the last day of the season everyone is looking from the outside thinking what kind of football club is this." [LNB]Nowadays Lorimer is a director at Leeds and is convinced that chairman Ken Bates is keen to make sure the Yorkshire club build on last season's promotion from League One. [LNB] "I speak to the chairman on a reasonably regular basis and he has no intention of us just being a Championship club he wants us back in the Premiership. [LNB] "He wants it to be full at Elland Road every week. He wants us to be a name that is back in the football world not just what happened to poor old Leeds United' and that is the challenge we now have. [LNB]Lorimer is already relishing the new season with manager Simon Grayson having strengthened his squad with the signing of goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, striker Billy Paynter and defender Paul Connolly [LNB] "The whole city is alive again and looking forward to the season," said Lorimer. "The club and everyone around it can see the light at the end of the tunnel. [LNB] "It is a terrific league with list of local interest. It will be a super league to be in but hopefully for just one year. [LNB] "I am looking forward to big crowds at Elland Road. Our fans will love it. There is lots of history such as us going to Derby and Nottingham Forest and Burnley plus derbies against Sheffield United, Barnsley, Doncaster and Middlesbrough." [LNB]
