That assumes that it's a state-funded bid. But if it was a state-funded bit, a few hundred million more to get it over the line would seem very surmountable. After spending 220 billion, whats a few hundred million?
Probably because A) He can't afford it right now, B) Glazers can't (due to eventual legal repercussions by the minority shareholders) or don't want to give away full control, or C) both.
That's right, class B shares have 10x voting power. Also I believe glazer class B shares turn into class A shares whenever sold, but I guess when Jim buys those, there will be some amendments made to that clause.
More like 2nd worst. For some, the alternative would have been the 'soul of the club being sold'.... though I am not sure what the soul of the club is. My tipping point was when the PL came into operation.
Both is correct i think.
I might be wrong but remember Keegan reporting something along those lines a few months ago. If someone remembers/finds this feel free to confirm it/correct me.
Because the Glazers rejected full control offers from both Ineos and Qatar. Just like Jassim and his team, Ratcliffe also submitted a bid for all Glazers shares in the first round of bidding, all the way back in February.
It’s not about the price right now, that’s why the Glazer brothers want to stay as they think they can get more money years down the line.
I cant help but think that Israel-Palestine tension played some part to this.Glazers being Jews would not want to take money or sell their prime asset to ME country.
I assume we might get sold again. I would imagine that a football club being sold is a fairly common happening ever so often?
My guess is that one of the investors was a representative of the Qatari state. But Jassim himself is probably not a state representative (and he certainly isn't one officially at least). That's just a shot in the dark guess though.
I dont follow that logic. Jassim has for many months been asked to chip in a few hundred millions to be in front of Jim. At some point the limit is just reached, else the seller could just continue to do so until eternity and until no money left of Jassim.
Casey Evans, that tweet isn't funny. If you tried making people laugh you have failed successfully.
And who decides who gets to spend the said money? And why we couldn't afford competent people at every level is money is not an issue? Thats right because competent people won't work glazers. And i wonder why. The buck stops with the glazers.
So your tipping point was arguably the clubs greatest ever period? So you thought we’ve had no soul since 1992? Am I reading your post correctly?
I bet you used something that is financed by Qatar in some way as well.
And yet they freak out when we are not winning games
Are you referring to the news they building two manufacturing plants in Saudi or is there something more?
Yes. Its a key process from the Saudi's to make economic infrastructure more stable. With this Ineos is actively investing in the very thing some of the most rabid anti Qatar posters here feared so much for United.
Maybe don't trivialise my genuine feelings on this matter with your trite analysis, jog on kitty!!! the equation is simple, the idea that the Glazer's will be gone was very much dangled, and now it is a distant dream, the details don't really matter
Liverpool where very close at a point and even beat them, so the idea that this was the only way to close the gap is clearly nonsense.
But you get that it’s a fraction of Ineos as a whole right? I’m not saying I’m thrilled by a petrochemicals company becoming a minority shareholder but that investment is peanuts to them and, unfortunately, if you are in petrochemicals you are going to have a presence in the Middle East.
This all only works if Ratcliffe had been hired, which he hasn’t… he’s bought in so the Glazers couldn’t out him if they wanted to.
Well we will, no doubt, be used as a political tool here as well. I am not quitting United over Ineos, and I wouldnt have done with Qatar either. What grinds my gears are the posters on here who actively mock the posters who wanted Qatar, and act like Jim and Ineos are such saints compared to Qatar. They simply are not. They are cnuts. You dont get to where Jim is, especially in that business, without blood on your hands one way or the other.
im delighted because it’s something, anything where the Glazers have less of us with a view to even less is a win in my book.
Yep, we should want rid of Ineos, but a large proportion of our fanbase demanded Qatar because it meant Mbappe. Can't see it happening.
These lazy false equivalences betray an argument from necessity. Choice is not always variable, and often coerced via circumstance. Take an ambulance. Runs on Saydi/Qatari farmed gas, right? But not calling one for someone in need on this basis creates another moral quandary.
Its really not hindsight. Tons of fans including me questioned his business sense at the time.
It's on Thursday
10X the businessman and yet it's a win-win situation for the Glazers. They have a no lose model here
Yes. The moment the clubs sold out. It was pure commercialism after.
If you look at my post history you will find I dint support Qatar. My preference was neither of the two.
