Ah, I see. I misunderstood. Yeah, it's not ideal. I hope his goal is to get full ownership at some point. For now I'm happy with what he is saying and most importantly doing. I think there are reasons to be optimistic, though. For the first time in forever we are seeing real change at a structural level. We'll see if he puts his money where his mouth is going forward, but I have hope.
I think he will. I don't doubt the intentions with regards to wanting the club to be successful and wanting to regenerate the stadium, because if you listen to him he has clearly done plenty of homework on both things. He's turned me around on that much, but he isn't the owner of Manchester United. He's a minority owner for a majority where the priority of the majority is to leech off the club, and nothing he says or wants to do can change that.
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Sure, if this works those greedy bearded men make money. Either he takes full control or he makes a fortune we're great again prompting an oil state deciding buy them all out. That's said couldn't Ratcliffe have completely bought out the Glasers? Clearly they didn't want as much as the press were leading us to believe.
Glazers seem too short sited to me to go for that. They make money the typical yank way, by leeching it off people via owning assets and running them down.
The more successful Ratcliffe is at making the club money, the less likely they will want to give up pocketing it without having to put any effort in themselves.
Everything Ratcliffe says in that interview would involve spending money, which presumably would have to either be his own money or more leveraged debt, in which case he won't be happy with the fat yanks taking a share of the pie, and/or they won't be happy if the pie gets smaller.