This is further along than we all think.
Co-incidence the glazers were at the game at the weekend?
Co-incidence the glazers were at the game at the weekend?
Sir Jim Ratcliffe: I want to buy Manchester United | Will make a bid for the club [Telegraph]
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69 is a great change, considering we've been shagged up the arse for the last 17 years.
Anyone coming is needs extra 2b to be spent on stadium and training facilities….. sure we can sell naming rights of stadium over 20 years to get half of it back!! But we need instant cash injection who so ever buys us..
In terms of players recruitment and salaries, we make enough money to compete with anyone in the world if we have no debt or dividends (we will even attract more once we have proper owners)….
add a few lines of "feck the Glazers" just to hammer home the message"we love Jim Ratcliffe we do, we love Jim Ratcliffe we do, OH RATCLIFFE WE LOVE YOU"
Loans and/or further investment can be used for the stadium. An owner doesn't need to spend billions outright
Oh man, this is just so perfect it couldn't possibly be true, could it? Getting rid of the Glazers and at the same time NOT getting bought by some shitty oil-pumped regime, but an old-school English dude that has even been a fan?
Billionaires operate in the same circles. Maybe Elon Musk truly knew something we didn't until later today
This is the only thread that matters at the moment. Goodness gracious, am I allowed to be a tad happy?
Apparently Brailsford has fecked things up at Nice. Hope he isn’t given a major role. He always came across as a little too smug whenever he gave interviews during the Team Sky days.
Why announce to the world? Just do it.
People don’t realise how much money Utd makes cause so much of it goes to the Glazers and debt repayments. We don’t need anyone pumping money into the club to spend extortionate amounts, we just need it not all being taken out.
What's that based on?
This would be the most exciting thing that's happened since the treble season for me.
Don't quite buy this, I feel this is much further along than is been let out.
his company is worth 60 Billion, aswell as other investers
You lot cool with the whole him being a massive brexiteer thing?
I agree
No such thing as a nice billionaire.
Still a better chance of them being good than the Glazers though
Yup, were you cool with Romans dirty money?
I think that is a little harsh. He has not loaded them up with debt and is looking to make them self sustaining. Money has been available for infrastructure and it is doubtful that they would have had the money to sign Ramsey and Schmeichel in the latest window under previous ownership. I am under no illusion that he is going to be a sugar daddy owner, that is not who he is but I also don't think he is here to asset strip the club like the current leeches.
Without the Glazers siphoning off millions in dividends and with a responsible approach to getting rid of the debt the club can easily afford to be competitive in the transfer market and invest in infrastructure. I am mostly invested in getting the stadium restored/rebuilt and the long promised upgrade to the training, academy and Womens facilities and then upgrading and replacing the people making the football decisions. A proper DOF with a real scouting network would save us from spaffing millions up against the wall repeatedly anyway.
That doesn't mean he or his investors have 60 billion on them at this present moment.
Coming from a Chelsa fan
Loved it.
As long as they buy us and get rid of the parasites we can have a testtube and bunsen burner as our badgeSo we'll become a chemical club
the stadium and training facilities revamp wouldn't cost 60 billion either
If those reported £4billion in saved taxes are going to feck off the Glazers, then I'm setting up a UKIP party in my country on my own.
You lot were okay with Romans Blood money so I’m sure it’ll be okay
Would be interesting if something is potentially in place with the recent uptick in transfer news. Wishful thinking on my part.
Thanks for the input @Laurencio
Weigh up a potential owner being a brexiteer versus owners milking our football club dry and not putting a penny in.
I'd be cool with almost anyone but the Glazers
Cash is King.
I think so too...
Half the people on here wanted the Saudis. He must be like mother Theresa to them.
If that’s the worst it gets then meh. No such thing as a good billionaire.
Of course it's much further down the line. These things take a while. Jim didn't just wake up yesterday and think he might buy some United shares. It'll be so close to finalisation it's safe to start letting folk know it's happening. I'm usually a glass half empty guy but I can't help but feel we are this close to hearing what we've been desperate to hear for years.
It may also be coincidence but since this story started I've seen tweets about United suddenly going in with big bucks for a couple of players. It may also be BS of course!
It may also be coincidence but since this story started I've seen tweets about United suddenly going in with big bucks for a couple of players. It may also be BS of course!
The caf cares and does not care at the same time.
Brexit is in the past. United are being shafted today. Couldn't give a feck.