Literally no chance of that ever happening though.
Dubai a contender to buy Man Utd
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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?
You prefer homophobic misogynistic head chopping vermin ?
All I want is someone who can run the club well and provide the structure for success. Preferably without using the club for sportwashing if possible. Take your dividends if you must, just manage the damn thing sensibly.
Agreed. I hate the Glazers but at least we're not used for sportswashing. I'd rather a normal(-ish) businessman like Boehly.
Afaik, Emirates are hereditary titles and places like Duchies and the UAE is made up of several of them.
…. But what happens after the Arabs get bored of waving their football ding dongs at each other?
United need to be self sustaining and not fed by a sugar daddy like City.
United need to be self sustaining and not fed by a sugar daddy like City.
I called this 3 weeks ago…
Worth a change.
But let me tell you this. If they don’t get United, they WILL buy Liverpool…..
Have a look at a breakdown of Dubai's GDP
We just need Lewis Hamilton,Conor McGregor and Snoop Dogg to join together and we sorted.
Still think we haven't heard the last of Elon Musk to be honest
Still think we haven't heard the last of Elon Musk to be honest
Dubai have been up to a lot of head chopping?
Abu Dhabi has been funding (from oil) the other Emirates for years but Dubai is not (or atleast lesser now than before) dependent on Abu Dhabi funds anymore due to tourism and being an international financial hub (will probably, if not already overtake London in that regard). Both Emirates/cities are probably the two richest in the world and probably have the largest reserve of feck you money so doubt it would affect anything if both owned the Manchester clubs. Dubai is also way more liberal and western-oriented than Abu Dhabi.
I've read oil production counts for one percent of their GDP.
Great. Let Liverpool's club and history be sullied instead if they want. It makes not being a Liverpool fan all the better.
I misread that and wondered why she would sponsor our clubBurj Khalifa Old Trafford
No morals, only trophies
Dubai knew their oil was running out so they’ve diversified their investments, including tourism.
I don’t see what’s in it for Dubai. Saudi need the sports washing, Dubai is already accepted as a business and tourism hub.
I don’t see what’s in it for Dubai. Saudi need the sports washing, Dubai is already accepted as a business and tourism hub.
Iceland is beside Greenland, Greenland is owned by Denmark, Denmark is part of NATO, the USA are also part of NATO and they dropped nuclear bombs on Japan.
So you have to ask yourself do you really want people like that to own the club?
Think I'd prefer Sir Jim Ratcliffe. Or Elon Musk.
Would stop supporting the club. Don’t want to be part of a sport-washing operation by a bunch of literal human slavers.
Everything is possible!
But yeah, I'm talking more about some billionaire United fan (or group of) passing through a mid life crisis.
I would certainly prefer Dubai to the Glazers.
Gdp is not income. Dubai attracts business because they offer incredibly low levels of tax. They can do this because the state is tiny and makes a lot of money from oil. They assume that once the oil dries up and they start levying taxes that businesses will stay. Given the state will still be tiny they probably won’t have to raise taxes that much to keep turning over, but if they don’t they also won’t have the oceans of cash they currently have. If they raise taxes in line with what the rest of the world charges what business in their right mind stays in a desert with 50 degree plus heat and a repressive regime?
The Glazers are definitely the least worst option. It does matter what your owners do outside of sport, as much as some people may want to pretend it doesn't. I hope this doesn't happen.
Yeah, Glazers not selling guys. Move on.
Where are you from?
They tend to prefer the nicer stuff like stoning and chopping limbs off.
They are still misogynistic homophobic vermin also.
No way mate. They're significantly better and still shite, but Saudis are another level.
Homosexuality whilst illegal isnt as agressively prosecuted and Christians aren't publically executed. I know that's a low bar, but it's a massive difference.
Ireland.
I think it's a way better option than the Saudis solely based on that the influx of tourists, foreign companies has made the Dubai Emirate way more liberal and western-oriented than it used to be (like 15-20 years ago). Saudi Arabia are planning to build an isolated Dubai in the desert, but doubt that will make the country more secular.
Both owned by an emirate nation, Manchester city and Manchester United finally put their differences to become one super club, under their new name symbolizing the merging of the two clubs: Manchester United.
How on earth is fan ownership possible? Unless you are referring to Ratcliffe who is a fan but also very very rich.
The fanbase between us couldn't raise the 4-5bn between us all. We'd not even raise 1bn.
The only way the Glazers go is being bought by wealthy people sadly.
I also don't want UAE money though.
£3.75bn is a reasonable price for the biggest sports franchise in the world. Which United is. Nobody could have this lack of success, investment and upward mobility and retain the kind of popularity and profit worldwide as we have.
Ugh. Please no, we don't want to become another one of those state backed clubs. I want to see less of that in football, not more. Especially when you consider the sports-washing angle to it all. Hard pass on this one.
ChesterMan Tited?
Oh ffs... Out of the frying pan into the fire
Works great for Barceloana.
If we could ge rid off Glazers and not get a sheikh that promotes no human rights that woulkd be great thanks.
I don't believe that figure for a second otherwise Ratcliffe would have already paid it. Didn't the Saudis already offer around 4 billion a few years ago? Glazers want way more than that