Ownership means absolutely nothing. We wont be run by blood money. People fail to understand United make their own revenue. All the Saudis would do is invest it back into the club rather than take dividends. Our fans like to turn their nose up at people who would improve the club, same fans who only moan about glazers when we are losing. Prawn sandwich eating snobs.
Could Utd be sold soon?
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I agree If they can afford to 3bn - then 4bn is neither here nor there.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone remember how the story of the Glazer takeover broke and how long it took for it to finally happen? I can’t really remember how it came about and it’d be interesting to see if there are any similarities to what’s happening now with these rumours etc.
No, it demonstrates that the "morality" argument can be selective.
Not sure about the veracity of this story...
4 billion is peanuts if he offered 3 already. Unfortunately, he has his eyes set on us.
City fans gonna have a ball on Twitter if this happens.
They’re not much better. They probably don’t really want this to happen as it’ll make us much more competitive.
Is there a chance that Brexit and how it affects rates of exchange etc, interest, transfers might be making the Glazers have itchy feet?
Exactly
They purchased their first shares on March 3rd 2003. It took until June 28th 2005 for them to take full ownership of the club.
I’m guessing that if this Saudi mob want to buy United they’ll just rock up with a shit load of cash, so to speak, and it’d be a pretty quick affair?
It would be great if the Glazers sell the team, clearly they manage this club as a business and we are not going in the right direction sportwise. They have managed to potition ManUtd brand as the biggest, or at least one of the top 3 sports brands in the world. We are the most powerful club in the world when it comes to revenew but we have not even being a world top 10 club from the last 6 years. They have made clear that the goal is to make money and in order to do that all the team needs is to qualify to the champions league.
A very mediocre goal for a team as big as United. They are not going to invest or act to compete with City, simply because like Woodward said "success or failure on the field has almost no impact on the club's financial" so we may very well get used to have seasons like the last 6, were success if now reached if we reach the top 4.
United being sold to the Arabs will mean that they will invest on the team and bring the best in the market, we will compete with the biggest teams again. Arabs don´t care about the money, they do not run the clubs as bussiness, they use them for exposure and for that they need their team always winning. I know there is the thing about morality and where the money comes from but, purely from the sports point of view, the club being owned by arabs would be great.
I don´t know about you but I´m tired of seeing the same lame performances from my team. So yeah, I would very much support this.
A very mediocre goal for a team as big as United. They are not going to invest or act to compete with City, simply because like Woodward said "success or failure on the field has almost no impact on the club's financial" so we may very well get used to have seasons like the last 6, were success if now reached if we reach the top 4.
United being sold to the Arabs will mean that they will invest on the team and bring the best in the market, we will compete with the biggest teams again. Arabs don´t care about the money, they do not run the clubs as bussiness, they use them for exposure and for that they need their team always winning. I know there is the thing about morality and where the money comes from but, purely from the sports point of view, the club being owned by arabs would be great.
I don´t know about you but I´m tired of seeing the same lame performances from my team. So yeah, I would very much support this.
We’d all have to engage Trump mode
Fake news!
Good people!
Jose would have to be careful not to lose his head
Relying on a country that is 100 years behind the civilised world when it comes to women's rights to build a stadium for our women's team? Not sure that's the best plan.
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Yes, I'd assume so. The ownership situation is also simpler than it was in 2003.
MBS spent £452 million on a yacht not too long ago. If he wants United, that’s that.
Yeah they don't seem the type to mess around when it comes to business.
Well if this is true and it actually happens, I’ll wager Pogba suddenly decides that the Spanish sun really can’t compare to the Manchester rain and Lukaku is probably on the phone right now to that fat cnut of an agent and telling him to put out a misquote story.
Didn't he dump Raiola?
Edit Looks like he signed with Jay-Z's Roc Nation Sports in April: https://en.as.com/en/2018/04/20/football/1524223173_347522.html
I think Raiola is still his agent and the Roc Nation deal is with relation to everything commercial.
Moral high ground or unlimited success? Tough decision.
99.9% of City fans couldn't give a single feck about their slave-driven owners.
99.9% of City fans couldn't give a single feck about their slave-driven owners.
These are the kind of people that would buy up all world class players, change our chevy shirt logo to Lamborghini, and build us an even bigger stadium with toilets that would clean your assholes for you. feck yeah I’d welcome this intiative to buy is out. United are the real kings of England so we should start acting that way. feck City.
I did not know this. I bet when Lukaku told Raiola he was leaving the fatty picked up a chair in a rage ready to bust his head only for Jay Z to burst through the door and threaten to pop a cap in his arse.
From a pure footballing perspective it'd benefit the club, don't think we'd ever scoff at backing a manager if we had a sugar daddy and we'd be throwing our money at the Mbappe's/Dembele's of the world. It's just not that one-sided though, there's more to this than football really.
It doesn't mate, it shows very little at all really. People need to get to work, school, hospital etc. they have no easy way of knowing where their diesel/petrol is from. For what it's worth if you are in the UK like me, then the majority of the Fuel in the UK comes shock horror the UK's own operations in the north sea. Of the Oil that the UK does import most of it is from Norway and then Russia , Nigeria and other african countries. Very little of the UK's oil comes from the middle east.
As has been said earlier in this thread you don't have to take a stand against everything to make a stand against something.
I think, and I'm not 100% sure, he's still with Raiola but signed on with Jay-Z for other branding purposes, I'm not 100% on that but I remember a lot of discussion about it at the time.
If this buyout were to happen, would United not be affected by FFP regulations with regards transfers? Meaning would we be late to the party?
The owners wouldn’t even have to invest - just let the club spend what it generates.
Due to our revenue I think we'd be okay, City consistently outspend us and have a lower revenue stream and haven't faced any recent FFP sanctions.
Surely we make enough through our commercial shenanigans for that to not really affect us? Could be wrong though.
I wish we could do all things the “right” way believe me, but football is an over commercialized money pit and we’re just another club in the circus. I’ve accepted this long ago. At least we can say we have history and that we’ve earned our success to this point.
Ah I see. Fair enough. I consider myself corrected.
Wouldn’t this happen quite quickly if they were genuinely interested? They wouldn’t need to negotiate/penny pinch so I imagine if they are serious about it they’ll do it
True enough, I'll just consider this to be reaping the rewards even if they're pretty evil, I won't pretend I'll be shedding a tear if major investment leads to major honours in the future.
The money in football is growing at a silly rate. The club is a fat cash cow which is giving what the owners saw.
I very much doubt we will be sold and the Daily Mail is the worst source out there.
I very much doubt we will be sold and the Daily Mail is the worst source out there.
Imagine Woodward with unlimited funds.
I'd be signed as a Striker for £76,000,000
I'd be signed as a Striker for £76,000,000
This Saudi Prince clearly wants to play real life FM on cheat mode, happily for us he wants to play as Man United 