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I would argue that being owned by another foreigner (yes, the US is a foreign country to the UK) is just as bad or good as a UK entity. The governance of Man Utd is determined by corporate laws of Britain and so it doesn't matter whether our owners hail from a different place. If SA loses interest and capacity to support United they will sell us and somebody else will take over. This is the way our club has always been run.Because the club didn't succeed by playing their football under Asian rules, it's a western club from a western country. Chelsea are showing just how risky it could get if you have a foreigner who is an owner whose country might not play by your rules. He seems to have lost interest in what they're doing, they'll decline until he sells them, or he'll cling on to them as his only source of income and drain them of transfer funds. Putin don't like him anymore.
". Sure they have their wealth now, but they are oppressive regime. If there were to be a revolution and unrest there and the king lost his power there no one can know what would happen with his assets oversees.
Going Arab is tempting, but involves a lot of risk. We're not City so that oil rich owners are our only chane to greatness, we're already big and rich and we shouldn't do anything to rock the boat.
"Saudi Arabia is not the most stable place in the world." Really? What is your definition of stability? The House of Saud has been in power in previous phases and since 1902 in this phase. Wouldn't you say that Britain's inability to decide about Brexit, for example, makes it far more unstable? What would happen if there were a revolution and unrest in Britain (since it seems to be losing its position on the world stage)?
"we're already big and rich and we shouldn't do anything to rock the boat". If you believe that we are, in fact, already big and rich then we are watching different clubs. Relative to others we have, for more than a decade now, been unable to compete to buy reinforcements. It was only SAF's genius who allowed us to be competitive at first but ever since his retirement we have declined precipitously.
Rocking the boat, OTOH, is in neither your or my control. So, I am watching this Saudi story with interest and hope that they will bring a new era to my beloved club.