Yes agreed, also lets not forget reliable reports suggested a SECOND Qatari Bid was expected, no one knows where from or from who.
The guy buying us is 42, yes but he’s not the Emir of Qatar.
If one were to believe this bid is truly not linked to the state then the vagueness of it all is starting to sound a bit shady.
His dad is the guy who bribed Prince Charles with cash in tesco carrier bags - he’s proper shady
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I hear you, but that's of course, assuming they would be pumping in oil money with little to no respect for FFP.
What makes you worried about that? The womens team are clearly being supported well at the moment and I can't imagine that would change. I'm more surprised that they bothered mentioning the womens team because its such a tiny part of buying United. You should be pleased they mentioned it rather than having a dig because of some weird interpretation of a perfecly normal comment.
I think this is only in your head.
You were asking about the Emir. The guy who's buying us Sheikh Jassim is only 40. Sheikh Tamim the Emir of Qatar is 42, so unless he is deposed or dies young he'll be in the position for a long time to come.
I hope when they deliver the bid to the Glazers they at least have a bit of class and use M&S bags this time.His dad is the guy who bribed Prince Charles with cash in tesco carrier bags - he’s proper shady
This casual way he posts as if it’s a statement of fact is what gets to me.
Just think of Ed Woodward on steroids. Think Di Maria multiplied. Here’s the thing: the Quataris and Saudis will be in a direct schlong-measuring contest.
This is the issue, you read that and came up with this. That's not what the statement said.
He simply isn’t going to do that. It makes no sense. It’s a furore based around a PR puff piece that has very little specific detail driven by twitter. It’s an assumption by the journo/fan base because he hasn’t stated specifically he would clear it. Look at the nonsense because they used the word ‘majority’. Criticism of both bids is welcomed, but it’s not balanced or based on reality. We simply don’t know!
Because they Qataris and ME royals in general are notoriously coy on their financial data and inner circle. The evidence being that he is still an Al Thani and while he doesn't belong to the key branch of the Al Thani family (with the Emir), they still are a significant branch of it. I think the poster who mentioned that it is a possibility that the state via it's sovereign fund will take over eventually when the situation with PSG is resolved, is a solid theory. Owning Manchester United is too big for them to let a "non-important" member of the Al Thani family owning it all by himself, so they are most likely using him as a proxy. In the short term though, it fixes the public issue with links to the PSG ownership.
They will be eventually. Liverpool are currently on the same boat as we were last year, where Glazers tried investment from outside which failed. Because nobody with money wants to own a minority share without any say except hedge funds.
well damn I didn’t know that, that’s interesting.
Is it impossible that this guy has agency to buy United on his own accord and not linked to the Qatar government?
Who knows what the future holds. Until it happens I wouldn't worry about it.
He knows feck all.
That's Boehly's Chelsea!
I'll preface this as 'Hypothetically' so I don't upset anyone, seeing as we're now pretending this isn't a state backed bid. But hypothetically if United are owned by the Qatari state then they will likely just put a team in charge and it will operate fairly independently much like PSG. I doubt the Emir or whoever would be hands in the day to day running.
Is it possible that Fredo buys a grand hotel casino in Las Vegas on his own accord and not linked to Don Corleone?
Either Avram or Joel i dont remember which was the driving force behind the purchase of Utd, the father just oversaw the bid.
It will be state funded but not state owned. Sheikh Jassim will likely be influenced by the Qatari state but that's still a significant difference to being state owned.
Woodward was the architect of the deal. He's an accountant by trade.
Significant or semantic?
Significantly semantic (or semantically significant?) for most people here trying to keep their heads in the sand. Nigel Pearson doing the Ostrich speech came into my head right now!
Lucky then that no one is pushing Pro-Quatar propaganda. So…
It’s all we have to go on. Same way you can say Jim is the only answer when all you have go on is the very same puff piece.
Pretty much every business they inherited has been run into the ground.
I'd say significant, because of the level of separation between Sheikh Jassim and Qatari state entities from a governance perspective. He will get the money from state sources but they will not have any enforceable equity in the club from a legal perspective. Qatari influence relies purely on personal relationships that are loose to begin with.
People want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the funds of the Qatar state while also claiming it has nothing to do with the Qatar state.
If it’s all his private wealth then it’s a incredibly worrying deal.
To be fair to them, retail complexes going down aren't exactly their fault. I can visit the trafford centre in peace these days; when they inherited it the place was packed.
I think that's pretty much what most people think. Legally it won't be state owned but the state are bank rolling the endeavour.
I love how with SJR everyone is like "we simply don't know" but with Qatar its "get your head out the sand" the money is 100% coming from the state.
