Fair play for your honesty. To me this is very close to best case because it’s the only plausible way for a new owner to be able to afford the Glazer’s valuation. Plus the whole gulf state ego trip project is the only way we end up with owners who won’t follow the Glazer model of primarily using the club to make themselves rich. It’s also the only way we can try and match the spending of City/PSG/Chelsea without bankrupting the club a la Barca/Real.
I don’t think I can stomach it though. The Saudis are just too nasty. I couldn’t live with our club being used a dick extension by them. No matter how many trophies we win.
I totally understand a large section of fans would be against it.
For the reasons we’ve both mentioned though, regarding the difficulty in finding a buyer that has deep enough pockets to buy us without then gutting us financially to re-line their pockets, means there isn’t any other possible
positive outcome.
At least we would be able to fully operate to our fullest potential. We are a behemoth of a club, a giant, built on the life’s work of men like SAF and Busby who elevated us to our current standing in the game. Why then should
we of all clubs be restricted whilst other clubs get a lottery win to bypass us and spend ten times what they could previously. We deserve an owner that doesn’t seek a financial return, like our competitors have.
The game has moved on, we would all go back to the glory years under SAF if we could, winning everything whilst being ‘morally sound’ (or robbed by our owners is another way of putting it.)
I’m sick of us having to work in spite of owners instead of being pushed forward and liberated by them like our competitors are.