They must all feel longing for the good ol days in League 1
Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the pundit class is on "favorable terms" with the UAE consortiums.
No doubt about it. And many in the media in general.
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They’re betting that Man City don’t get charged with anything. After that they get all the exposure they need/want. Now if they do get charged.. that’s when whoever struck the deal gets the chop and they back track with some BS statement saying they were not aware etc etc.
it would be interesting to have a look who has finished second everywhere since they have been winning. We would of had a few
Brilliant
Ourselves and Liverpool have finished second behind them three times each. Then Arsenal this season.
They've been calling them cheats and saying how hollow their success is for years, but as soon as there was opportunity to join them they couldn't drop their knickers quick enough.
Well played.
Doesn’t mean they want the potential Qatari owners to cheat (with United)
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Are you suggesting they’re all the same?
I haven't seen any United fans saying they want the new potential owners to make up fake sponsors and cheat their way to success
Plenty have definitely implied it. Have a rummage in the various threads about the potential United takeover, and the one asking if people would stop supporting United if we became the project for a nation state. Plenty of people are basically saying «I don’t give a feck so long as we win»
The Qatari takeover would be completely different from City's ABU Dhabi takeover, for one Man Utd are already a huge club with a huge fanbase and have the turnover to fund its own player signings so wont need billions pumped in from the Qatari's.
Can’t think of anything worst than being owned by a state.
City through their fake sponsors now earn more than United. For United to compete, Qatar would have to cook up sponsorships. Organically grown income can't compete with City's finances. For example in addition to billions on the first team, City have spent billions on infrastructure, buying clubs all over the world, academy, etc. I am not saying it's right but that is how it would be.
Man Utd is a big enough global brand to find legitimate sponsors that will enable us to compete with City and already have, the shirt deal for Adidas for example was for a world record £750m.
It doesn't. But the corollary of that is that we also won't get the sort of financial benefit from state ownership that previous clubs have.
Yes they can… But if they pay over the market price, UEFA would exclude the “overpay” from its FFP calculations..
This is not organic by any means (the bolded).
If you're up to date with how the bidders are, you'd understand
I understand that people with massive amounts of money can easily corrupt a western system and western laws as if they’re main purpose was to be open to corruption in the first place.
You dont get that kind of money without being shady. Nobody even knows how much they've got
I'm in total agreement. If we play within the rules of ffp, as long as we aren't getting drained, it won't really make much of a difference who owns us.
If the idea (which is what some people peddle) is that Qatar would simply let us spend what we generate, then the difference/benefit is exactly none/zero: because surely that is precisely what Jim has in mind too.
Billionaires will always be shady but unfortunately we can only ever be owned by a billionaire
They do sponsor one of their other club's(Nice)
