We can spend a £1b if we want, but we can only make up to £100m of outgoing payments this summer.
Club Sale | It’s done!
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But three months for a simple holding? Jacobs is talking out of his arse here. No two ways about it. Very, very, very unlikely this company was registered before the last Qatar bid.
Doesn't the Reuturs article just say Qatar are negotiating FOR EXCLUSIVITY. It hasn't been granted? Basically Qatar are saying, please only talk with us and the Glazers saying no.
Correct. Reuters have not reported that Qatar have entered into exclusivity - only that they are discussing it, the situation is fluid and a bid from Ineos can prevent it.
The BBC (Simon Stone) have reported that no exclusivity has been granted - this does not contradict the Reuters report.
I stand corrected then.
Yes. Correct.
I promised myself I wouldn't get invested in the club sale / transfers this summer and was welcoming a summer of different sports and a break from what feels like daily football since the restart after covid. Yet here I am. I'm a weak man. This is going to be another classic united summer with twitter journos spouting shite.
Could we tempt Guardiola to jump ship? Qatari's are richer than Abu Dhabi so can surely make it worth his while
Er... No. That would meant next season we cant buy anymore. It doesnt really work that way.
Jim Brexit is someone who has a track record of mainly running clubs poorly, the achievements of Nice started badly and went downhill from there.. At any one time, I have at least 6 qatari's in my cellar. I don't do anything with them, I just periodically prod them and ask about the take over.
*The anti-Qatar posters* - ‘Whooo… whoooo do you think you are?’
To be fair it would be news worthy, if I'm not mistaken while they have lots of gas, they don't have much oil.
In what way will we not be operating fairly, we're probably the biggest club in the world with legitimate revenues and a fanbase that City could only dream of. Cheating won't be necessary for us
Well technically Jim was winning until the 5th bid last week
it’s a massive presumption to suggest they’d need to cheat to be successful. We already have massive revenues, we don’t need fake sponsors.
this is partly why we’re going to cost $6b+ and not a few hundred million.
They don’t say exclusivity has been granted. Granting exclusivity is being negotiated.
Nah… but Klopp on the other hand…
So how did Chelsea spend 600m last season?
That's not negotiating no.
This is almost exactly how I feel about all of this. Only thing I’ll say is that most billionaire owners will have made their wealth through highly questionable methods. This goes for the Glazers and SJR as well.
So in theory we could still be a long way from this actually being done
I thought you were telling us Ratcliffe had executed really smart business just a few days ago? Sheikh Jassim messed up you told us.
Haven’t the two bidders been negotiating for exclusivity since the whole process kicked off?
Or anyone else for that mattet, his claim to fame was doing an interview with Boehly last year. No one used to post anything from him before that.
We so so massively financially dominant before the Chelsea/City billionaires that this was always the case, hence why we were the ones breaking transfer records most seasons. I wish you well, I could care less what any opposition fan's opinion is or the rhetoric they spout in the press
Yeah that's how I read it. Misleading clickbait article
I guess Chelsea are a much bigger club than us with more revenue given they spent 600m last summer
Finally we know how it feels to be a Newcastle fan
Sad day for English football as a whole if it proceeds. I just hope for your sake you’re run like City or Newcastle rather than PSG.
Payments spread over 8 years
Howard Nurse jokes will never get old.
Jim Ratcliffe’s like, ‘can anyone lend me £12…?’.
Yes. Just a tad misleading.
Kinda silly to immediately compare us to a club with 115 charges against them though. The closest thing to City is PSG and they arent that "evil". So these predetermined "club is ruined" is very premature and baseless. The take over process hasnt even ended!
Exactly. So, no reason we can't spread payments over 5 years and make that 100m go a lot further.
It’s such a beautiful sight to not see the word Glazers in the thread title anymore. Best title edit ever. 
You would have to know two things. How much room for investment FFP allows new owners to have, I don't remember how much it is. And secondly you need to know how much room Chelsea had anyway. A silly example would be that if Chelsea were scheduled to be 200m€ under the FFP limits, they would have 200m available for investment without problems.
Tbh though, they've both been negotiating for exclusivity since February. If reuters are running a story about it, it likely means its close
Well no that’s a daft take.
What this suggests is that the Qatar bid has been chosen. The Glazers and Qataris are now entering into negotiations about how that exclusive period will work. New NDAs will likely be drawn up as they will be given far more access to club accounts.
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