Leeds United executive director Adam Pearson has said that the club are in an “advanced stage” of talks that would see a re-purchase of the club’s Elland Road home, Leeds fan site 29HundredMiles.com has revealed.

The club sold the Elland Road stadium back in 2004 when the club was in a terrible financial state and needed money to pay debts. The re-purchase of the ground has always been seen as important by many Leeds United fans, it now seems to be something that will be happening in the near future.

29HundredMiles’ Simon O’Rourke and Daniel Kilburn met with Pearson at the club’s Thorp Arch training ground, which is also not owned by Leeds United. The site claims that Pearson said that he had been assured by Leeds owner Massimo Cellino that the club were “well in to talks” to buy back their home ground.

29HundredMiles claims that Cellino brought in a consultant who was tasked with finding the financial backing that would see Leeds re-purchase Elland Road. Despite this, the consultant has had little success at finding someone who will back Cellino’s bid to buy the ground, due to the Italian’s potential future bans.

Leeds will now continue to look at ways in which they can finance a move to buy the stadium back. What is clear though, is that the club are looking to address the issue that they don’t own the ground, and are making some effort to return it to the club.