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Did the Athletic say Jassim was approached, or Qatar was approached? In Jim O'Neill's interview on the UWS podcast, he said he and his people approached Qatar. He said they ended up buying PSG instead to be full owners, so that wouldn't be Jassim. Did the Athletic article expand further? I...

What about cheating like the 100+ charges City are facing for cooking the books? In other words, if it isn't allowed, are you still ok with cheating? Legally Qatar isn't going to be able to spend 500m+ per year like many (not necessarily you) are fantasizing about. The amount that Qatar and...

Fair enough. It's easy to become overly defensive in this thread. :lol:

I didn't really follow the Twitter takeover, so I don't know how big of a percentage the board that Musk negotiated with had. However, it's my understanding that different countries have different laws relating to this kind of thing. United is registered in the Cayman Islands, but of course...

Right, but it's not relevant to the Glazers or their sales process whether Qatar or anyone wants to buy the extra 31%. And they wouldn't buy that additional 31% as part of the same transacation. That would have to be done later. The current sales process is only for the 69% that the Glazers own.

The only chance of the Glazers leaving at all currently rests with the 51% option that Ratcliffe has offered, if you ask me. But you can't say that he doesn't intend to purchase 69% if he has put a bid on the table for that (which is at the same valuation of the club as the 51%). It will cost...

But that doesn't have any relevance to the current sale process. The Glazers don't care about that (other than a very small handful of Class A shares that some have), and it's not part of the same transaction. Qatar can't take any steps toward that unless/until they finalize control of the club.

It's been pretty widely reported, it's just less sensationalistic than saying that the Glazers are staying on. I'm not going to look it up now, so if you choose to think I'm making it up, fine.

How is it irrelevant? Ratcliffe's offer for 69% involves more money going to the Glazers than Qatar's offer for 69%. No one can offer to buy more than 69% from the Glazers. If they take the 50% option, Ratcliffe pays less now, but the Glazers that sell still get more now than they would from...

No, Ineos's current bid option for the Glazers' full 69% is more than Qatar's. The only way Ineos doesn't win this is if Qatar, for the first time since this whole process begins, actually makes a bid based on a valuation of at least 5.5, if not 6bn.

Except that it wasn't a world record bid, so he wasn't correct. They were outbid by Ineos, so it makes it pretty obvious where the line about "Jassim's world record bid" that he and several other journalists touted, came from. And before anyone jumps in and says that Qatar offered 100%, so...

Indeed, Preparing A Bid FC. Sheikh Jassim is the real Glazer 2.0 The next report will be that he's monitoring the situation.

Are you suggesting Nick Harris is lying? Or just taking Jassim's PR people's word on it?

Thank you. I was doing a bit of work, and was going to come back to this to look up Harris' tweet. Yes, the second tweet there says that Jassim's people say they won't use that, it's all his money. Well of course they will say that, won't they, if they're trying to convince people that it's...

The nine two foundation's public documents from when it was set up literally list state money, as well as loans, as one of the possible sources of funding.