It's antiseptic and uninspiring.
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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I could not believe that people genuinely thought we would buy De Jong, even though he was openly resisting us and swearing his allegiance to Barca.
Gaitan was another one.
Wesley Schneider was also a yearly transfer that never happened.
I do hope that the sale of the club actually does happen. There would be a meltdown of epic proportions if the Glazers say, "We stay!"
Do we even need the word Club tbh? Let’s just call it sale. Or better still just use a dollar sign.
Pound sign you racist.
Muppets gonna muppet.
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Easy to change the title to "Club Sold" it must be preperation for a big day tomorrow Yay
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Can we have a theme song for the topic?
Club foot by Kasabian
Club foot by Kasabian
Big day today
This is going to be a good quarter.
The worst outcome for me is that we become a sportswashing tool like City and Newcastle have.
Whenever the Glazers are involved be very wary of the absolute crappest, shittest, biggest letdown of an outcome you can imagine.
Whenever they finally go - PROPERLY go - it will be a great, great day for Man Utd.
Where?!? I like a lot of chocolate on my biscuit! 
I swear, for some reason that was the theme song to anything football related between 2005 and 2010
I resent these 6 group of people so much, may all their sporting ventures fall flat.. come on Falcons, Saints or even Panthers.
What's this then?
Neverending story
I’m pretty sure that if Malcom Glazer was the one selling, we would have been sold by now (for that matter I don’t think the club would have been in the position we are today if it was him running the show at the top). The weak have inherited the club. None of these spoilt brats have had to work their way to where they are today and this is a sizeable portion of their inheritance. As a result, they don’t have it in them to take a decision with any sort of conviction. That is apparent with any financial dealings they have tbh. They’re scared to spend money or make any large financial decision because they’re so unsure of where they will end up since all of this is pretty much uncharted territory for these bumbling buffoons !
Saturday see you all Monday!
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I am still trying to read this thread and have seen numerous posters use this “reporter” as a source - can we make sure in future he is not seen as credible at all.
BTW - the replies to this tweet are vile. What a disgusting human. I wish I was surprised as 28k likes
Excellent thread title
Much ado about nothing would be better………..
Club Stale*Much ado about nothing would be better………..
the thread title should read: Kerfuffle day No: (insert day no here)
Club can’t be buy.
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بيع النادي
بيع النادي
Yep, here we go. It's always next week. Just one last thing to be done. And it will be the same next week.
Tomorrow never comes.
The Glazers are going to drag this out just to feck us one last time to sum up their entire ownership.
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Well that suggests an end.
This will never end
So Jim's last throw of the dice.
It was previously understood that Sir Jim would keep on-board Joel and Av (holdouts).
He could still do that by not purchasing their shareholding, representing about 32%.
Instead he could use those, saved, funds to purchase the problematic Class A shares.
Therefore he would eliminate the, potential, legal minefield.
He has probably already agreed, in outline, some sort of working arrangement with the holdout Glazers. However once he buys out the Class A shares then he would need to reformat the constitution of the company in terms of voting power, however on the basis that they have a broad arrangement that should not be too problematic.
So here the issue for him is that he's paying top dollar based on his offer of buying, initially, only 51%, and therefore he would now have to stretch himself to purchase, at that same higher cost per share, approximately 66% of the total shares. Jassim's new offer has now made that the minimum price he has to pay.
That may explain him canvassing new lenders. He 'now' needs to find the difference between his previous lower 66% purchase offer and his higher cost 51% purchase offer,, as opposed to the previous strategy of paying that higher sum over a longer period.
The above arrangement would make sense if the holdout Glazers were actually looking to stay on and are not simply saying that as a leveraged tactic.
Why would the Glazers not stay on?
They need money for other projects.
No dividends in prospect for years (sustenance money).
Could stay on but still need significant cash now.
Sir Jim won't have the 'extra funds' to upgrade the infrastructure/playing staff for some time to make any meaningful difference to the financial outlook of the club and therefore United will remain an outsider for many years - no massive boost in the value of the club and potentially a proportionate drop off.
The other four Glazers.
They will want as much as the holdouts.
The four will want to ensure that they receive max. value now and are not subsiding a higher payout in the future.
I can't believe that the holdouts can derail the other four and stop a sale.
They will have some sort of written working arrangement between them. However they probably don't want to trigger that to maintain the family harmony but will do so if things can't be agreed, by any maths 4 trumps 2.
That said we will probably know of Sir Jim's progress in the next few days and this may be a reason for The Times not receiving any definitive update of him conceding?
It was previously understood that Sir Jim would keep on-board Joel and Av (holdouts).
He could still do that by not purchasing their shareholding, representing about 32%.
Instead he could use those, saved, funds to purchase the problematic Class A shares.
Therefore he would eliminate the, potential, legal minefield.
He has probably already agreed, in outline, some sort of working arrangement with the holdout Glazers. However once he buys out the Class A shares then he would need to reformat the constitution of the company in terms of voting power, however on the basis that they have a broad arrangement that should not be too problematic.
So here the issue for him is that he's paying top dollar based on his offer of buying, initially, only 51%, and therefore he would now have to stretch himself to purchase, at that same higher cost per share, approximately 66% of the total shares. Jassim's new offer has now made that the minimum price he has to pay.
That may explain him canvassing new lenders. He 'now' needs to find the difference between his previous lower 66% purchase offer and his higher cost 51% purchase offer,, as opposed to the previous strategy of paying that higher sum over a longer period.
The above arrangement would make sense if the holdout Glazers were actually looking to stay on and are not simply saying that as a leveraged tactic.
Why would the Glazers not stay on?
They need money for other projects.
No dividends in prospect for years (sustenance money).
Could stay on but still need significant cash now.
Sir Jim won't have the 'extra funds' to upgrade the infrastructure/playing staff for some time to make any meaningful difference to the financial outlook of the club and therefore United will remain an outsider for many years - no massive boost in the value of the club and potentially a proportionate drop off.
The other four Glazers.
They will want as much as the holdouts.
The four will want to ensure that they receive max. value now and are not subsiding a higher payout in the future.
I can't believe that the holdouts can derail the other four and stop a sale.
They will have some sort of written working arrangement between them. However they probably don't want to trigger that to maintain the family harmony but will do so if things can't be agreed, by any maths 4 trumps 2.
That said we will probably know of Sir Jim's progress in the next few days and this may be a reason for The Times not receiving any definitive update of him conceding?
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The Beatles always knew this was going to be a protracted sale, that’s why they wrote a song about it.
This is the sale that never ends,
it just goes on and on, my friends,
the Glazers started selling it,
not knowing what it was,
and they’ll continue selling it forever just because…
it just goes on and on, my friends,
the Glazers started selling it,
not knowing what it was,
and they’ll continue selling it forever just because…
They didn't sing about a tomorrow that never comes, but a tomorrow that never knows...
James Bond also told us in 1997 that Tomorrow never dies
But he also told us in 2021 that No time to die. Hence we don't have a timeline from the Glazers !
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