OK, so obviously the Saudi Royal family aren't exactly the perfect owners.
However, if they were to take over, from a football point of view, it could be a huge deal for Manchester United.
Obviously, to compete with City and PSG and the likes, we don't need a takeover. Just owners that are willing to spend what United earn and not take a huge dividend every year, but aside from someone like the Saud's, who is going to do that? The only people in the market to buy a club like United are the Saudis or Mega Rich business families like the Glazers. The likes of the Glazer's are businessmen who are in it to make money.
City's owners and the Saudis, using clubs as passion projects to make their countries look good are the only people who can come into a club and spend all around them, without looking to take money out.
So aside from just having our own money to spend on players, what else could the Saudi's bring to us? You'd imagine they'd invest heavily in Carrington to make our training ground and academy infrastructure up their with the best in the world. They may make improvements which are needed at Old Trafford or even expand the ground. You'd imagine no expense would be spared on our scouting network. And all of this for us, unlike other clubs bought with oil, could be done without the risk of us going bust if the owners decided to pull out and without us having to cook the books like City.
I would prefer that United wasn't owned by the Saudis, but I'm not going to pretend I'd stop supporting United. So it would be interesting to see the benefits that would come from such a takeover.