Faisal Islam said you know the deal is done when the shares hit 30. It reached almost 27 earlier and could spike again quickly
Club Sale | It’s done!
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So you don't trust Mike Keegan either or RMC sport in France?
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Wow, Times going really hard in opposite direction here!
They must really truly believe this to be this bullish.
Maybe it’s Jim Rat ft The Glazers after all. If Glazers are staying in any capacity, they should really get moving on transfers and supporting ETH.
They’ll really need to win over the fans after this.
This isn't really news though. Deals take time to close.
Interesting, given that AFP, along with AP, and Reuters are pretty much viewed the same in terms of international credibility.
Yeah all the above is true and I can't really moan at it. I'm coming at it from a different viewpoint.
Ok mate thanks for filling me in.
When they have seemingly have a horse backed
Reuters don't and their report wasn't dismissed. If people read the article, it says they were discussing exclusivity and nobody really disputed that. Simon Stone said that it wasn't agreed, Reuters never said it was
It's not from RCMSport but AFP which are basically around the top of news agencies with AP.
When it comes to reputability, Reuters blows any of these papers out of the water in terms of legitimacy of reporting
The fact that this guy is attempting ascribe credibility based on how many social media followers an account has, as opposed to historical journalistic credibilty, is pretty telling
Well my opinion is that the British journalists are the ones who are wrong, and that's far more likely than reuters chief journalist for mergersand acquisitions making a report that was widely dismissed as both keegan and the times have claimed
The negotiations are confidential, taking place under a non-disclosure agreement. Who exactly are the likes of Keegan and Jacobs supposed to be getting info from within the negotiation room?
its all the wording though. The Reuters report said they are discussing exclusivity not that its done, you can discuss it with "nothing new"
AFP and Reuters are comparable in terms of credibility and track record. Both globally recognized agencies (along with AP). AFP are apparently publishing something different from the earlier Reuters piece.
Especially interesting that there is absolutely nothing officially published or on Twitter from AFP
To be fair that could mean anything. We really don’t know what the starting point is here. Could easily mean waiting on results of the exclusivity negotiations.
The simplest answer could be Reuters thinks they have someone who talked and the rest don’t and that’s where the difference lays
Who is this?
Agreed, financial publications and those that have ties to the stock market are better placed to guess. Who are Keegan, Lawton anyway? They’ve told us the grand sun of nothing fresh off the press since the process began. They even categorically stated SJ had placed a bid when he hadn’t. That should tell you all.
what a shit show 
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always a circus, grabbing my circus peanuts for the show
''always a circus, grabbing my circus peanuts for the show
Attacking anyone having a different opinion is naive and stupid in the extreme. Let the process take its route. The fans can then decide from whatever different perspective or ethical standpoint they will carry on their support or otherwise.
Can’t find anything from them
Trust Reuters with what exactly? They report based on their sources but do you actually think someone at the club or Raine officially confirmed anything to then?
The answer is obviously not as that would be illegal so again exactly what is the trust here? They ain't making shit up but it doesn't mean the story will always check out.
Not really. From that tweet it sounds like AFP's source is someone in the Jassim camp, and that person is not revealing much. "Nothing to report" doesn't contradict anything we've heard.
Check his timeline. Clearly an unbiased influencer.
not really that different. Until negotiations are complete and exclusivity is granted, there is nothing new
Yep, now it's interesting. If it's Reuters vs Times then it's Reuters every day. Reuters vs AFP then it's two heavyweights
You don't have to get that info from someone in the room - security/hotel staff etc. People see who meet and how long these meetings take etc.
Times are literally just parroting what Ineos tell them to verbatim.
The fact fans have to 'choose' if we are prepared to support the owners of the club is a shambles in the first place. It shouldn't be like this.
I trust Reuters but both what they say and what the AP say can be true if the Glazers are basically engaged in a parallel sale process, save for the final decision, as has been previously reported.
Qatar can be negotiating exclusivity and Ineos could be at the same stage or similar and this would mean nothing has theoretically changed.
My biggest issue at the moment is the fact this may be holding up transfers of really great long-term targets and this gives another excuse to the incompetents at the club who don't really need any more 'help' to fail.
Qatar can be negotiating exclusivity and Ineos could be at the same stage or similar and this would mean nothing has theoretically changed.
My biggest issue at the moment is the fact this may be holding up transfers of really great long-term targets and this gives another excuse to the incompetents at the club who don't really need any more 'help' to fail.
Discussing exclusivity is however a different thing than awaiting clarity which is what AFP published.
"A source close to Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani said Thursday that the Qatari bidders were still awaiting clarity from Manchester United after a report suggested they could be offered exclusivity in the battle to buy the club".
Doesn’t really matter who it is. The point stands regardless.
Amusing seeing Times sports writers rubbishing Reuters on an acquisition story, sure Matts
It's Suhail the friendly ITK.
Is there anything from AFP themselves or just RMC referring to a source from them?
Doubling down. Hard to see them doing that if they werent sure of their source.
Seperate the reporting from the evidence people. Look at who has taken some very clear obvious actions. The company registration, Rio's video, Glazers asking for an SJ bid increase and more if you'll just look. Evidence! Evidence!! Evidence!!!
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