If these journalists get their way and the Qatar bid is thrawted then what? Utd end up with SJR or are stuck with the Glazers. Does anyone think they will write articles forevermore thanking Utd for saving football? Will they feck. It will be forgotten about 5 minutes later and meanwhile Qatar will move on and buy Spurs or Liverpool. Utd will stagnate and be left behind. To pass this up would be like winning the lottery and ripping up the winning ticket. Am I comfortable with Qatar as a country? No. But until every club in Europe forgoes all their dodgy sponsorship and ownership issues then why should we be the only idiots to make a stand?!
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It's as much fraud as all the American corps sending all their profits in their internal structures to the lowest tax jurisdiction.
This really must be like a dream come true for Ten Hag, he joined United at the perfect moment
Or your owners funnelling money through inflated sponsorships.
I mean does this guy whoever he actually is as no one seems to know that have the money to even buy us or is he a front to avoid the same people owning PSG and United?
Not that the finances of QIB really matter, but for future reference banks always have much higher assets as a proportion of equity or market value than other types of companies, because of the inherent financial leverage of the business model.
Imagine they turn it down and we're left with those parasites in charge
Fecking riots
Fecking riots
Think his dad was a minister? It’s impressive how nobody has a clue who the guy that’s just stuck 4.5bn cash in an envelope to buy a football club actually is
I’m from the Gulf and will explain it here.
Guy who bid is a banker and the son of the former PM, who was never the Emir.
Emi Martinez guy is current Emir’s brother and has nothing to do with the bid.
That’s about as simple as I can make it
Tell us more about him then.
Don’t feel you are the kind of poster we want on this forum.
I don’t think they would have gone public with it if they weren’t confident of it being accepted.
If you cant beat em join em!
The Al Thani name kinda gives it a way. He is a senior member of that massive royal family.
Am I right in saying the guy bidding is basically the uncle (on their father's side) of the current Emir and the Emi Martinez guy?I’m from the Gulf and will explain it here.
Guy who bid is a banker and the son of the former PM, who was never the Emir.
Emi Martinez guy is current Emir’s brother and has nothing to do with the bid.
That’s about as simple as I can make it
Highly unlikely at his stage
Not exactly a huge bank.
Rawk has been great reading the past few days, they are bricking it
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
So they’re going to spend money on the squad. What’s new? We’ve spent a crapload in the last decade anyway and saying they’re going to spend absurd money is guesswork. There’s legitimate reasons to not want them as owners but saying we’d be on some sort of cheat-code is not one of them.
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Of course it's option B
not been accepted yet right? i Fear a sting in the tail with some snide American tag team effort
It's extremely hard to pinpoint an exact net worth for the key members of the Al Thani family. This will probably be indirectly funded by the sovereign wealth fund anyway as they usually don't disclose financial statements.
Thank you! Finally a voice of reason.
What is going on here? I thought redcafe is supposed to be a positively selected sample of our global fanbase. I'm not recognising it here.
Are we really going to throw our values out the window at the first smell of some cash for a couple of trophies? So we (as a fanbase) were just pretending our outrage at city and chelsea for the last 15years?
I think I'm even more saddened by the reaction of our fanbase than by the prospect of having to stop supporting this club after 20+years. We are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. Where is the outrage?
Errrrrm…. Technically the Saudis and UAE can invade Qatar at any moment. They cut it off just a few years ago and stopped things getting in causing prices to skyrocket
Well, EtH's family is absolutely loaded by Dutch standards as well, so he's no stranger to having spending power in his own life.
But I guess this would be the first time he'll have in his job as a football manager.
Yep, I'm becoming cautiously optimistic about this. Everything is coming together for a really great run from United. The next 10 years should be fun.
Well said
Is a data room like Spurs' cheese room?
So when is someone going to rework Danny Boy into Thani Boy?
When you write it like that, it all sounds a bit grim.
It'd be nice to have a bit uncertainty still, and proper acknowledgement when/if we start to win things again.
Don't get me wrong we deserve someone to come in and give us back the money the Glazers have taken from us by rebuilding our infrastructure, but happy for it stop at that, it's got to have an edge to it still.
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To be honest it doesn’t matter who is the face of this bid. This is only to prove PSG and United are owned by two different entity
The QiA own the QIB pal or are at least the largest shareholders
May as well say we're worth north of 300B this just goes to help prove we're not the same owners as PSG *cough*
Sorry if I'm all confused by this guy. Is he 100% part of the royal family or is he just a rich Qatari banker with connections? If he's just a rich Qatari united fan without direct connections to the state then that would be great?
Do you really believe that Ten Hag is so much into star power - or do you think he has more interest to build a very strong team? If you do not want to have that superstar the top club EPL money (not being backed by an arabian state) actually should be enough. I actually thought that ETH could build you with a little time and without monstrous money that big and competitive team for the league and the CL that you wanted in the last 10 years...
Somebody has put a 5bn bid to buy united and everyone is like “how the fook is that guy or it’s his dad who was Emir. Oh it’s the older brother of the current Emir who was once Emir and but wasn’t interested in becoming Emir so now is not Emir. It’s the son of that guy”
And then just when you think it became all clear the small issue of a long ass name comes up and the confusion starts again. Love it.
And then just when you think it became all clear the small issue of a long ass name comes up and the confusion starts again. Love it.
We’d still spend within our means, adhering to FFP. Just means we’d have owners that wouldn’t siphon club-generated revenue to line their own pockets, and leave the stadium and facilities to rot.
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