I didn’t see Whitwell and Ornstein do what those others did (SKY is an overpaid aggregator and Jacobs/Mail have had their pants pulled down and getting hammered on social media and accused of being paid/used for PR… haven’t denied these claims).
I am just claiming facts here mate. Its not as if I am inventing stuff about him. One can applaud some aspects of a person and not like other aspects as well. For example I applaud SJR as a business man even calling him the Bill Gates of Petrochemicals. i criticized his track record in football although I also highlighted that he seem to have learnt alot in the past 12 months in the way he managed Nice. The club is managed very well at the moment and that was thanks to the reforms they did throughout last year. As a person I think that he lack morals and what he says might differ sharply from what he does. There again most multi billionaires are like that as well.
Well no one really placed the Qatari bid in doubt and that despite many covering it up from the Athletic right to Bloomberg. Almost everyone believed that it was genuine up to this point. Back when the Qatari bid was believed to have won the only person I can think of who raised some doubts about the Qatari bid was Rhodes of the muppetiers. Back then no one thought of him being a reputable person and tbf I believe that he's part of INEOS PR
Also, Mark Kleinman did not once talk about Qatari bid as a news. Probably as a sentence in a Ratcliffe report.
I have a feeling that Raine played a fast one on SJR TBH. Back then every one knew that the Glazers needed external investment which means that if there's only one bidder then this was pretty much a buyer's market. I suspect that Raine kept the Qatari bid alive simply to push SJR to 'structure' the bid the way the Glazers wanted it to be. Ultimately there's only one clear winner here and its neither SJR nor the Qatari.
Wow you're so clever devilish.
Raine was briefing all media outlets both ways.
No chance Rio got his fake shit from Richard Arnold
I imagine it would have been very difficult for journalists. In which case if they can't confirm the story then either don't run with it or at the very least don't run so hard with it and report it as 'true'.
I agree
I was only joking. It is a perfectly sensible arrangement.
Feck ...that will be some proper 4D chess played by the Glazer's and Raine Group.
According to Sam peoples, Jassim made 4-5 bids. In each bid he never ever bothered to produce any proof of funds despite being repeatedly asked to do so. The Glazers kept stringing to that notion up until Jassim pulled out of the race on his own accord. How many months must pass and bids must be handled before raine concluded that he was not a serious buyer? Unless of course they were comfortable giving the impression that there were 2 bidders till the very end of the process
Lucky that they were only facing a naive young guy, with limited experience in business and especially huge corporate deals. And one without a shit load of advisors and lawyers.
Raine are duty bound to try and retain potential interested parties as long as realistically possible. Or face a lawsuit from the Glazers for not obtaining best interest/price/deal nature.
A reasonable take though I think you are overthinking it with the political angle.
I just don't know what to do with the info that we are working with Sport Research of a university? But of course connecting your self with top institutions would look better. All good if this is a good uni.
Yeah more likely he got it from dodgy sources in Qatar.No chance Rio got his fake shit from Richard Arnold
There's a PR angle of course - creating opportunities locally/giving to the community but I would assume it will be super helpful to have access to the research facilities + students/academics who will choose to do PhD's and higher education that gives us data. No idea what on but a guess would be a lot of work going into fitness, different types of training and recovery etc. rather than anything football specific .
Howson when he was there for the WC
Fully agree
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So those that opposed the Qatar bid based on the 'fact' it was a state bid and they didn't want to become a sports washing project and have bottomless pockets are now saying we should all be glad Ratcliffe won because the Qatar bid didn't really have the money and it was obvious all along?
Yep. You're right.
Lock 'em up, lock 'em up!
Full steam ahead!
Well if they actually had the money to back the levels of investment they claimed they wanted to pump into a football club, then it would almost certainly have had to have been a state backed bid.
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I’ll hazard a guess that nobody saw this coming!! Wonder what he knows about City’s dealings over the last few years.
Tell me how to feel about the red "cafe"
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Well no way Glazers would’ve done something like that (he’d have looked at them and laughed then said “feck no!”).
Their first big decision and it looks like a good one.
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