Or Jim comes in as an investor as a Plan B.
so why would he invest in those circumstances?
To flip it later together with the Glazers when they do sell out.
but there is one other interested bidder after a year and that person dropped out
Because his personal wealth is mostly tied up in INEOS, billionaires don't have bank accounts with billions sitting in them, they own shares and and other assets which they sell to raise money to buy something else
From their point of view they will get a far bigger return by borrowing than building up cash reserves. If they can borrow at say 6% to buy an asset, they know they can make a far bigger return than that. They have done it time and time again which is why their revenues are so high, but no particularly huge profits (more profit means more tax) - it all just goes back on more acquisition and further growth.
There is the option to not support Man Utd if people actually did care that much. People could have used the ownership publicity to protest agaisnt the Qatari regime's human rights record. People at the very least could (SHOULD) have boycotted watching the world cup if thats how deeply they feel, but we already know no one did that. In fact, it wasn't even important enough for almost anyone on here to want Harry Kane to risk a yellow card against Iran. A lot of people on here got angry at the mere suggestion from the odd journo at the time that maybe an England player getting booked to highlight human rights concerns, was more important than the fact they'd then have a yellow card in a world cup group game. So the do gooding stopped at even the most mild, indirect, meaningless possible hint of real life consequence or having to actually do or sacrifice anything.
Never. That is not on the cards at all. Without investment, United are looking at continued stagnation rather than collapse. Stagnation is still something to be avoided, of course.
Never say never, it's not likely but it can't be totally discounted, at present the club can services the debts it has, but failure to move forward on the pitch will ultimately cause income to fall, once the income falls below a certain level it won't be able to service the debt, I don't think it'll happen but the world is full of businesses that no one thought would fail but they did
They are clueless about transfers so this shouldn't surprise us I guess.
But I don't think you'd get many people claiming that Qatar owning united wouldn't make success more likely on balance, assuming they'd plow unlimited funds into it. It's not a certainty but on balance of probabilities it's more likely. I do think that the people against the Qatari takeover - me included - would argue that there are some things more important than on-field success. I think you're arguing against a point that not many people are making.
Spot on
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So many of these shite Twitter accounts have been saying this.
Piss off with random blue tick wankers
That’s some 14yo kids account
What's the point in sharing bullshit tweets? Honestly
Tbf It's not like it's fans putting the club on the market. Fans are fickle but creditors are not. Those debt is the road to ruin banners from the height of the Green and Gold campaigns have proven prophetic. It's mismanagement that started decades ago and finally caught up to them. You can only borrow so many times before your model starts to look like a pyramid scheme.
Are we just going to post any old fantastical shite from blue tick twats with a few thousand followers?
I never meant that the Glazers would be doing the investment - they would look to get it funded from outside and most of the chat and planning would most likely be just that - to allow them to appear to be doing something.
Even if this is true, this might be the most cringeworthy tweet I have ever seen
So by working his magic they mean calling his daddy to ask for money. I had a few tricks like that up my sleeve in college, too.
Fixed to add credibility.
I understand this point of view but I'd love to hear what you and all the other posters against Qatar or any state bid do about their atrocities on a day to day basis. Or does it only come into your line of sight because they want to take over utd?
Great post.
Great post.
Exactly thisIt’s always a choice. There were quite a lot of people I know who did actually boycott the WC - completely aware it makes no difference but not wanting to be part of what it represents. Maybe it’s just people getting older and realising football is so corporate these days it’s easier to not watch. I would stop watching games if we were owned by a state (regardless of which state it was) because I just don’t see the point. I don’t get - genuinely at all - how a City fan can celebrate what they are, the entire point of sport is that it’s competitive and it’s bloody hard to win things. United with unlimited money would become nigh unstoppable, there’s no one left in Europe with any clout bar 1 maybe 2 teams and the size of the club if state backed would blow City/Newcastle out of the water. It would be the least inspiring thing ever.
Aye man, if you can't beat fact based analysis with other facts the best thing to do is attack with whataboutery, non-sequiturs and false equivalences.
It is, after all, the 21st Century.
Reckon this was always going to take time.
It's quite simple, it goes something like this
I get all that, but it’s hard to see how the Glazers would ever agree to a 25% shareholder having operational control of a business enterprise.
