The previous owners of AC Milan...no thanks
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Nonsense, he’s not got ties to a state, that’s the uptick.
If Amazon/Bezos or Steve Ballmer came in we’ll like that too, and they aren’t English.
How are so many still going on about the Glazers staying on as part of the INEOS bid when it makes absolutely zero sense and it was explained what majority meant pretty much straight away.
There we go. We should run a pot on how many bidders we're guessing on. I'll go for 5 (or 4 if we don't count the Ratcliffe stunt)
edit: It's hardly an '11th hour bid' though. They just announced a little later.
Not a fan of Ratcliffe but it's these American vultures we need to ensure don't get a sniff.
Not caring sounds like a cop out for you not understanding or simply claiming ignorance about who the owners could be tbh.
Either that, or if you don't care about how your football club is ran, then maybe you just don't care much about the club. Fair enough. There are plenty of fairweather fans.
If the Glazers owned Ajax and were looking to sell you to Quatar, do you think they would give a shit about your 'blood on the streets'?
Of course the Qatari bid is best for the sporting project. They couldn't care less about profits for one and they have more money than sense.
It's just that it stands for everything wrong with the world and is totally against the ethos of this great football club.
I can see why people are conflicted. I want to see the glory days return too but I don't want to be tarred with the same brush as human rights abusers and worse until the end of time either.
It's just that it stands for everything wrong with the world and is totally against the ethos of this great football club.
I can see why people are conflicted. I want to see the glory days return too but I don't want to be tarred with the same brush as human rights abusers and worse until the end of time either.
If we were debt free under the Glazers, they’d likely have taken huge dividends.
The debt borrowed to leverage the buyout was on awful terms, that swallowed up so much. Currently United pay 18m /year, that’s nothing for INEOS or the Qatari bid to take on.
Elliott probably a way for the Avram and Joel to buy out the other siblings
As much as I despise the human rights abuse and anti-lgbqt sentiment from Qatar, I would rather full ownership from Qatar than any ownership from Ratcliffe that involves the Glazers being involved in any way still.
Because so many are sooooo desperate for ME money, they are desperately trying to find anything wrong with the INEOS bid.
Doesn’t matter how many time it’s explained, they want to throw shit at INEOS.
Qatar needs to up the bid and price everyone else out really.
They are the highest bidder.
20 years ago pre Glazers when the club was well run and debt free, if the club had decided to build a new stadium then yes they'd have had to take on debt, build a new stadium and then pay the debt off. That's how most clubs do it and that's how it should be done.
United don't need a sugar daddy to fund a new stadium. If Spurs can do it a club the size of United can.
But in the unlikely scenario of United being taken over by Ineos I don't imagine a new stadium project would be green lighted until the Glazers debt was sorted. Which according to reports could happen as part of the sale.
Hedge fund fc
Who is that though?
Do we know that for certain?
Please don't do this to us again.
My initial thought as well.
So your assumptions based on your "own beliefs". Ignoring facts and evidens that both Qatar and SJR literally own clubs in the same league, one of them is the serial winner of the league and the other is swimming in mediocrity. OK!
That I see. Apologies in that case.
Reasonably confident that he doesn’t know his arsehole from his earhole, never mind the details of what’s going here.
Smoke and mirrors to show they aren’t linked to the state?
Yea old Jimmy’s hands are clean for sure. Don’t think he and Ineos have any ties with the British government at all.
For the life of me I cannot understand how anyone who calls themselves a United fan can support American hedgefunds or Ratcliffe's bid. This would be the final nail in the coffin for us. We cannot take anymore debt and we certainly need a shitton of investment to catch up.
Elliott sounds awful, but at least if they bid for Ajax there wouldn’t be blood on the streets in Amsterdam.
Kilduff man says there are 2 Qatar bids. Oooh yeah
ahhhh. Whataboutism at it’s finest.
Have we not got a poll on this? I would like to know who the majority of the fan base wants.
I wonder if persistent protestors like @Wumminator would prefer Elliot ahead of the Qataris.
Of course he'll probably say he wants neither but that'd just be a cop out. Obviously everyone will have a rank of preferences from good to bad. Let's hear it.
Of course he'll probably say he wants neither but that'd just be a cop out. Obviously everyone will have a rank of preferences from good to bad. Let's hear it.
100%
Can someone remind Elliott that Liverpool are also looking for investment.
TBH I do not have the knowledge about the Glazers other then you lot not liking them so I am probably way off my ski's here so I will repsectfully withdraw myself from the conversation.
Ineos bid doesn't mention investment in stadium redevelopment specifically and the mere thought of the Glazers having any remaining stake in us is a non starter for me.
Excellent point
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