Dubai fanboys in the mud
Club Sale | It’s done!
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
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What is ineos worth?
'Preparing a bid'. He already has the United transfer policy down
I don't know if this is good or what I want to be honest. It's annoying that unless we get taken by some ME nation, we aren't in the same financial league (in terms of potential investment) as our rivals
I don't know if this is good or what I want to be honest. It's annoying that unless we get taken by some ME nation, we aren't in the same financial league (in terms of potential investment) as our rivals
INEOS (annual revenues of £65bn) would presumably purchase the club, rather than him personally. Worth noting though that Ratcliffe's personal net worth (£21.05bn) is around three times that of Ambramovic and around five times that of Todd Boehly, for example.
We are about to get the bestest PEDs. 
His pro Brexit, pro fracking opinions say otherwise. But I guess you said better morals rather than decent morals.
Chelsea weren't bought by a ME nation and look at them...
Gerronwivit
Others talk about getting #GlazerOUT, that Ratcliffe's kid tries to make it happen. He is someone you can trust. A man of action.
Sportswashing at it's best there.
This is what I’m thinking. Now the first have gone public, I expect others to start going public
No doubt this will be the first of many different bidders to come out with their interest.
Come Sir Jim
Get in there Lewis
that will trigger a few on hereThis.
I think we are going to start hearing a lot of noises now on who wants to buy us.
No surprise that bluffer Ratcliffe is the first to go public with his intentions of bidding, he loves his name in the headlines. Let’s wait for the serious players to get involved.
we'll be broke with that INEOS shit. Give me state funds
Chelsea's new owners seem to have a few quid, right? Ineos annual revenues are more than three times those of Clearlake Capital and Ratcliffe's personal net worth is five times that of Todd Boehly.
The floodgates will open now. Good stuff.
Ben Jacobs knows next to nothing on this or other matters.
If INEOS or Dubai were t buy us them being multiple times poorer than the Saudis or Abu Dhabi wouldn't matter because the competition for transfers and amenities would never reach levels where such a difference matters. It just depends on what their plan is and their ability to identify and attract managerial talent at executive level.
True. A debt free United can compete with most without investment anyway.
Where did he backtrack? All I see is that QSI themselves are ruled out, but that doesn't necessarily mean that QIA won't be involved. However, if QSI isn't involved, then I wouldn't expect QIA themselves to be heavily involved at this stage.
Im a Max fan not Lewis but I'm all for new United Ownership. Hell if Toto wants a change in scenery he can be our CEO.
The more people who care about sports the better.
Plus if Ineos buys us Hamilton having a minor stale in it is a no brainer for him as he is already on a team they part own
State only please.
Pretty sure he broke it in the first place!
why ?
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United have been competing with everyone with debt. United don't need a sugar daddy to be highly competitive and they don't need to be debt free either and the same applies to Real Madrid.
Retweet this one if you like, I did because I think the first journo to break an actual bidder to get #GlazerOUT deserves a retweet. Wouldn't mind seeing it being the most retweeted tweet by the ST ever.
agreed, so long has the club is run well and financed well and OT is updated, bring on who ever.
Of course.
Exactly right. Yes, the Saudi PIF has hundreds of billions of assets under management, but when you are talking about purchasing football players, whether you have 10s of billions or 100s of billions, is really immaterial. You can afford what you want when you want, including infrastructure investment, which is the all-important thing here. United can continue to compete in the transfer market without outside funding, but the club cannot afford to do that AND fund the required refurbishment work to the stadium and training ground. Ratcliffe/Ineos can.
We don't need a sugardaddy nation state (unlike City, we generate plenty of legitimate income) - we need someone to remove the debt burden from the club's balance sheet and invest in infrastructure, so United can continue to fund transfers from our own operational cashflow.
We just need to be debt free and we'll run. That's it.
He'll be outbid. Hopefully
Yeah that's true, I'd imagine next summer would be the only season where we need overstretch our transfer spending because we need a midfielder and striker plus possibly a couple more signings for depth but after that we can get by spending £80m - £120m per season. We just need to push the boat out next season and trust the young core emerging under Erik Ten Hag - Martinez, Antony, Rashford, Dalot and Garnacho.
Is that code for CL qualification => more money?
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