It was a response to a poster who felt the need to bring 'Mothers' into a discussion revolving around a football club. Which I found pretty strange.
I would never have anything to do with anyone that suppresses human rights. But in this particular case with the saudis I'm just a customer that tends to pay £££s to support my so called club. We're customers of the the club and because of the vast number of customers we have, the Glazers bought us via a LBO.
I have always preferred a fan ownership model that is already well established at top clubs around Europe, but that style of ownership isn't forthcoming anytime soon. And I can understand why people would want a Saudi ownership due to the vast resources they have at their disposal which would potentially see the club become dominant, not just in England but also Europe. Most people around the world watch football as a release from everyday stressful situations and care very little who the owners are.
And i also respect people who are strongly opposed to such a takeover on the grounds of morality. But if I had to choose between relegation or the Saudis, then I choose the Saudis, because I love united and would never want to see the club relegated.
It’s quite clearly a figure of speech though, and not a completely unapt one considering we’ve had posters outright say that they don’t care about being associated with the saudis and their crimes as long as the club is successful.
Even if we were successful under Saudi ownership it would all feel incresingly hollow. Having to watch as the manager be forced to answer for every crime comitted by the owners and the club being held in association with human rights violations would kill any joy from whatever success we’d see.
And then, when winning trophies start to become a routine thing and the shine starts coming off, that’ll be what we’re left with.
Wherever you are you’ll never be content in football, just look at City fans currently. You can’t buy eternal happiness. Premier league winners two years in a row yet a little bit of adversity and they crumble.
That’s all assuming a takeover would actually make us the best in the land again of course. I don’t think that’s a given at all, the work that the Qataris have done in PSG doesn’t impress me much.