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Club Sale | It’s done!
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The club will go to the highest bidder. I hope that those bidding are doing their homework. God forbid if some asshole comes in and puts us in more debt
We are Manchester United. We deserve to be fighting for all trophies every season. We deserve to be in contention to sign all the best players. We simply deserve the best.
None of the American owners will be able to offer that. Neither will this Ratcliffe guy if he's asking for help from Goldman Sachs (responsible for one of the biggest corruptions ever) and JP Morgan (main backer of Glazers thanks to Woodward who was their employee). No more leeches.
None of the American owners will be able to offer that. Neither will this Ratcliffe guy if he's asking for help from Goldman Sachs (responsible for one of the biggest corruptions ever) and JP Morgan (main backer of Glazers thanks to Woodward who was their employee). No more leeches.
It’s just about liquidity.
I represent myself
Honestly I'm utterly pissed off. The Manchester people are the nicest people I had ever met. I hate that some ahole comes in and exploit their good nature & loyalty which is what the Glazers did and what I feel Jim Ratcliffe would do.
So how much does he take out of Nice and Lausanne then?
Maybe. On the other hand once we are sold they might well look at a landscape that includes us, Newcastle, City and to some degree Chelsea and think that the ideal opportunity has passed. Maybe Joel and Avram will buy them instead.
No need to be pissed off.
1) United doing well
2) EtH looks very good
3) We have some great and likeable players
4) Glazers are going
5) United will be better off whoever takes over. The question will be by how much.
In terms of who buys the club after everything breaking over the past 48 hours I strongly suspect it will be Middle East ownership. The Qatar consortium although would not rule out a Saudi bid.
Nice cost less than Anthony did.
I got the feeling that Sir Jim would replace ETH with someone like Thomas Tuchel…
Just from how I heard him talk in the past..just speculation.
Just from how I heard him talk in the past..just speculation.
He can take his liquidity to Nice, or wait for Boehly to run his beloved Chelsea into the ground.
He is a good manager too but it is nice that you find him easy on the eye.
This is a ridiculous post. Absolutely baseless.
I hope that United are owned by owners who wants its best, it can afford it and will see themselves as custodians of a nation/world treasure. These years were tough on all of us but especially the local fans who had watched OT turning in this sorry state and had been belittled by city/Liverpool fans. I hope that better years are ahead
And?
Sources getting stronger,wonder if Saudi name is being used to eke bit more out of Qatar
I’ve got a feeling Jim is more of a Big Sam fan.
Its obviously going to be Qatar. Radcliffe can't outmuscle oil money. Plus haven't we seen Qataris and Glazers hanging out?
Done dealio imo
Done dealio imo
Would be devastated if it’s Sir Jim. British Glazer
Are you winding me up?
Ratcliffe and his fund can’t afford to play at this level, hence taking on enormous amounts of debt to try and make it work. That comes with cost, as we know all too well given the last near 20 years.
Qatar investors with the cash to pay outright are very obviously and clearly operating in a different way and have different motives.
This isn’t complicated. Trying to draw comparisons to what he does with Nice which cost around 1% of what United will likely cost is just absurd.
I don’t want oil money in a perfect world, but oil or Rat? It’s no contest.
If Saudi are in the mix too then we will end up with a ME owner. One might feck up but both? It's unlikely
How to lose the whole fanbase 5 minutes after taking over. Not going to happen.
I agree.
It's been said many times already,but at this level of investment the interested parties will all have some dodgy traits.
I don't get the hate for Ratcliffe, I would prefer not to be painted with the sportswashing brush if im honest and I'm sure we'll get more details of the bids and hopefully plans going forward I really hope whoever buys us involves the fans properly unlike the Glazers who didn't speak for 17 years!!
I don't get the hate for Ratcliffe, I would prefer not to be painted with the sportswashing brush if im honest and I'm sure we'll get more details of the bids and hopefully plans going forward I really hope whoever buys us involves the fans properly unlike the Glazers who didn't speak for 17 years!!
So people think oil money is dirty but happy take venture capital / wall street money.
What we need is owners who don’t want profit or dividends or care about ROI. We need investors who‘s priority is to invest and make us top again, and if that is oil money, so be it. We had leeches for the past 15 years and look where that led us
What we need is owners who don’t want profit or dividends or care about ROI. We need investors who‘s priority is to invest and make us top again, and if that is oil money, so be it. We had leeches for the past 15 years and look where that led us
Petty question, but who is richer, Qatar or Saudi?
I'm convinced at this point that @Plant0x84 is either an INEOS employee or related to SJR 
I think saudi
Those quotes about Ratcliffe if true are no good. Same situation as the Glazers in essence.
Saudi but Qatar has more than enough.
Prefer him than anyone from Qatar
Well there could be a contest.
If someone says they object to the morals and politics of a middle east country so much that they don't want to be owned by them, even if the alternative leaves us much worse off financially then I respect that point of view, not that I necessarily agree with it. Not whether we like the morals and politics that is, but whether we should turn their money away or not.
If someone tries to say commercial consortiums, American or British, will provide the same money for players and the stadium because tax and liquidity and economics everyone is too stupid to understand, then no, that I don't respect.
It just isn’t. INEOS won’t put the debt around the clubs neck, and they won’t take dividends. The article says as much.
Imagine the Glazers accepting a debt-fueled bid in order to have the last laugh
Which of the interested parties are most likely to invest in the facilities and rebuild the dilapidated stadium? I want them
Yeah Ratcliffe+Goldman Sachs dreamteam gives me the ick. Hopefully the Qataris blow them out the water.
Oil money. Take your pick.
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