Coming from a country and running a country are very different things but then you already know that.
Club Sale | It’s done!
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Correct but as part of the royal family they can just shuffle assets about and do what that like with their wealth , none of it is disclosed and won’t need to be.
He can spend 10bln if he wants and they’ll just shuffle the cash over if needed.
But that level of investment isn’t needed. As soon as they wipe the debt and the outstanding transfer fees we can literally outspend any other non state backed club but again no need to as the investment needs smart people in the right places .
Funny now how Keegan becomes our T1
Tariq wrong there. Our guy is the son of the center guy in the photo.
The potential Qatari owners DO NOT want to make ANY money from #mufc.
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Breaking news; Vince McMahon has submitted a $5.5m fronted by Sheikh M’Hand
? no thanksLet's get Ronaldo back
oh they will turn up for money, they just wont like it
Honest question, what do you want us to be outraged at? The human rights stuff or the outrageous money stuff? If the latter, this is (hopefully) a different story. We've always had the revenue to spend big even without owner investment - in fact, even with our owners taking money from the club. City's fortune came from nowhere - a small, failing club bought and invested in through dodgy sponsorship deals and shady money management.
Even with a rich owner there's no need for any of that dodginess. We don't need inflated sponsorship deals. We should be self-sustaining still when it comes to transfers with the benefit that profits don't need to go into paying down debt or dividends and that we can upgrade facilities without loading up further debt. That's harder to justify but as long as it's done within the rules I don't see the issue. Businesses get bought all the time and have their debts repaid, this is really no different.
The human rights issue is by far the thornier issue and I'm still not sure how to feel about it.
No because Jim wants to use loans. We dont need a super wealthy guy we just need a guy that can take the debts away. United can self sustain in the transfer market.
Really want our away fans to come to Trashfield with FSG masks
Nope. INEOS are going to use the likes of Goldman Sachs to fund their bid. feck knows what that would mean for our finances in the longer term.
Let us not pretend its anything its not. Its clearly state backed and some pretend Man United fan is heading it so you dont think they own PSG and Man United as well. Its clear as day its state funded.
SJR / Ineos is Glazer 2.0, they will need to borrow some cash to finance the move which in one way or another will end up hurting us.
Absurd money. If you think otherwise then you're dreaming. See PSG.
No no no it's just this random banker guy.
So only 12 min remaining for new bids?
Hopefully Jim will bid for them, and then do what any scouse hating United fan would like to do to them
Don't take this set up mentioned at face value. It will be state backed just presented as not to distance themselves from PSG ownership.
He’s desperately calling his local bank, “I’ve borrowed £3b, can you spot me another £1b… it’s Ratcliff not the Glazer just more debt than the Glazers”
I'm outraged at your racial and religious intolerance if that helps.
Not really. Don't give a feck. Just wanted to see if I could beat you at your virtue signalling game. It's football mate, will be fun to see Mbappe score hat tricks.
Soft deadline.
Sir Alex will pick up Ratcliffe at the airport anytime now.
How does this work. Do initial bids have to be in today?
Technically wont be a conflict of interest with PSG. But in reality it will be.
We're actually going to be built for success for a change
So if we go head to head for a player which both PSG and United want, who will be preferred?
Sheikh Jassim and us, we'll build castles in the sky
If the player likes Uber Eats League, PSG for sure.
United of course, nobody cares about Ligue 1.
Depends on the player I guess.
Ooh absolutely. Would be naive to think otherwise.
Don't be surprised to see a similarly setup Saudi bid being disclosed shortly
So we should be happy about basically fraud ownership?
INEOS has an absolutely massive cashflow. They can absorb the kind of debt they'd need to take on for the deal.
Any new owner will have to wipe the debt anyway. With FFP and Uniteds current finances the way they are we're fecked with that debt on the club.
Where's the Saudi bid? I wouldn't be surprised to see that it is in the same ballpark as the Qatari bid.
We always knew we'd be able to spend on players, but hearing heavy investment into youth and facilities is what I wanted.
Will be interesting to see how the other bids compare.
Will be interesting to see how the other bids compare.
PSG can become United’s feeder club
I think they will move away from PSG in the future
They only bought them to win the World Cup bid and the league interest is so low in Qatar
Pretty hard to build a CL winning team when you play in crap opponents every week
If you spend £5 billion on Man Utd in the best league in the world why have any effort in a club you got for £200m in such a boring league no one watches or cares about
Like the next time they want to spend their money on a Mbappe I would assume they would rather transfer them to us
Because despite the fact the bid has only just gone in, he knows exactly how our budgets will work.
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