well the article (which has been backed up by The Times) said Glazers were in "exclusive" talks with Apollo
Sir Jim Ratcliffe: I want to buy Manchester United | Will make a bid for the club [Telegraph]
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Kieran Maguire thinks it will take a minimum of £4bn, perhaps 5bn for Ratcliffe to entice the Glazers to sell.
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Still don't get it I mean at 22m per year it would take 227 years to reach 5b
There's a reason so many investors wanted Chelsea. The PL is a cash cow and will become an even bigger one going forward.
Elon is not stupid if he thinks it can make him money and the club be used as a huge advertising platform for Tesla worldwide he would be interested he likes to be a brand collector however sir Jim Radcliffe would just be too much of a wet dream if that happened, the guy would change so much and so quickly he’s a born leader and a born winner, my fear is The Glaziers will sell and we will be bought by a state, even the Chinese state or an oil rich state as a play thing.
He tends to priorities reducing fixed costs at first, don't know if he can do that with a football club as there might not be much overlap that he can rationalise.
the Apollo links are worrying. Yeah, maybe fan pressure can prevent this, given the Epstein links - but the mere fact the Glazers are looking at Apollo shows once again that they don't give a flying feck about the future of the club and fans' feelings. Not surprising obviously, but it'll really sting when they bring in another soulless American company after Ratcliffe, who's pretty much a fan's wet dream for this club, showed interest.
Read the financial stuff posted. It was NEVER just £22m a year.
That they received?
There been anymore news on this today? If the Glazers just sell part of the club to some equity fund, after all this, it'll feel like a dagger to the heart. Hope momentum keeps up.
That was their dividend alone. Think there's fees, amongst other things, that don't get reported too.
Feels like something is happening with this.. please..
Let stick together and get behind the protect on Monday.
Let stick together and get behind the protect on Monday.
Think they were mentioned somewhere, around 25ish million in total on top of the yearly dividends.
I think people are confusing the amount of money they cost United and the amount of money the Glazers pocket
It's pedantic, I know, but couldn't you construe, "Glazers are in exclusive talks to sell a minority stake in United to US private equity firm Apollo", as ONLY pertaining to the sale of a minority stake? So they could be talking to anyone and everyone about selling the whole club.
Also Pascal Sauvage. There’s a theme here.Is it just me or he does look like the French waiter in Mr. Bean's Holiday?
After seeing his quote on Fred and our stupid spending, I am all in for this guy. He knows his oranges.
What's his quote on Fred?
When speaking to The Times about the possibility of taking over United back then, he said: "[Ineos] never wants to be the dumb money in town, never, never. They [United] are in quite a big pickle as a business.
“They haven't got the manager selection right [Ole Gunnar Solskjaer], haven't bought well. They have been the dumb money, which you see with players like Fred." United paid Shakhtar Donetsk around £50m for the Brazilian in 2018.
Agreed you would want objectively competent people in charge and Neville has proven to be neither.
Neville is too emotionally involved. Strikes me as a decent bloke and a good public speaker but his opinions when it comes to football and United in particular seem to be largely based on outcomes and his general feeling(s) at any given moment.
Please let this happen. Out with the parasites.
Its one of his businesses who will buy it and they are valued at 60 billion I read
I understand he prefers to use private finance rather than Glazer's approach to not actually paying off the debt they inflicted on the club. I'm sure he'll be able to get better terms for the debt repayment, particularly if its part of a package to also fund the huge investment needed in stadia and facilities. The area around the ground is ripe for much higher quality development than it currently has in terms of commercial and retail opportunities too.
Football clubs are a status symbol or an adventure/passion project for billionaires. If the club can wash it's own face then a lot of owners would take that.
A football club of our size would be a terrible investment if you only cared about regular profits. The amount we would cost would earn him more in interest than it would in dividends from the club.
The only way he could make money would be if the clubs value drastically increased and he sold it.
If an owner let's us spend solely from our revenue without taking anything from us and without piling on the debt, we'd have enough money to compete with anyone. We don't need a sugar daddy owner who pumps his own money into the club for transfers. Though yes it must be conceded that if we intend to properly repair Old Trafford and spend big in the transfer market for the next 3-4 years then that's where we might need a bit of external funding.
Do it Jim. Global supporter base will all unite under one banner.
When some billionaire’s net wealth is quoted as being “estimated to be worth” £xxx billion, they are talking about the estimated sum total of all their assets. Not the cash they have in the bank.
This will be the estimated value of their stock holdings in various companies, their investments, properties etc, etc.
I’d be very surprised if someone said to be worth £13b or even £20b, had anything close to £1b available out of their personal funds, to buy a football club, unless they liquidated (i.e. cashed in) some of those assets and that’s not a likely scenario.
So how is SJR going to fund a takeover?
You can be sure he won’t have £4b or £5b sitting somewhere, ready to be spent.
Somebody or some entity will provide the dosh and that provider will be owed in some form or other.
As long as the club, as Utd’s balance sheet, are not the one’s owing that money, this time round.
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This will be the estimated value of their stock holdings in various companies, their investments, properties etc, etc.
I’d be very surprised if someone said to be worth £13b or even £20b, had anything close to £1b available out of their personal funds, to buy a football club, unless they liquidated (i.e. cashed in) some of those assets and that’s not a likely scenario.
So how is SJR going to fund a takeover?
You can be sure he won’t have £4b or £5b sitting somewhere, ready to be spent.
Somebody or some entity will provide the dosh and that provider will be owed in some form or other.
As long as the club, as Utd’s balance sheet, are not the one’s owing that money, this time round.
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Guarantee we’ll stop hearing about this in a few weeks and it’ll just be like oh yeah that never happened.
It would be Ineos buying the club, like with Nice. If they wanted to stump up the cash then I imagine they would do.
No updates. It's dead 
I tend to agree this will unfortunately not happen, if there was any scope to the Glazer's selling their cash cow, then we would have been bought by somewhere from the middle east or asia already, props to Jim seems like he is a good guy but if we were available to buy Newcastle would now be a championship team
Yes, unless the protests reach Glaser doorstep and stay there. That is if Sir Jimbo is serious about this.
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My body is ready
This is all down to price, and at the end of the day if the Glazers don't get that price this sale won't happen.
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they pretty much took loan from the club to buy the club...
ONEOS
or not...
is there a list of their businesses social media accounts anywhere? Would love to do my bit