Maybe meet a minimum threshold and convince the Glazers they're not cnuts and the club is in safe hands with them?
Yeah scrap that, good point
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
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Yeah scrap that, good point
WWE is hugely popular, 20/30K+ stadium sellouts, not cheap either + PPV TV as well as reglar mainstream TV
It’s so fecking bad, it’s as if Jim doesn’t want to win.
He’s have been better off shitting on a page and getting it published
Im finding this conflation of comparing an individual in a country to an entire state quite irksome.
I'd still prefer him to the Glazers because we know they definitely want to bleed the club dry whereas Ratcliffe just probably would do itt
Jim is the British bid but he doesn't even live in England. He's a tax exile in Monaco 
The Glazers also owned companies. I think before quoting INEOS £50b turnover people need to look beyond the wiki page to find INEOS actual yearly and average yearly turnover and look at profits.
Once someone does that get back to me. Might show a different picture, I’m just guessing.
People actually thinking those 4 lines of text represent the full SJR bid, and are not happy with it? 
Regarding sportswashing.
Qatar just held the world cup. The most succesful leagues in the world have changed their entire league schedules to accomodate it.
Qatar has the right reputation with the people that matter to them already.
They give not a single shite about what you or I think about them.
Qatar just held the world cup. The most succesful leagues in the world have changed their entire league schedules to accomodate it.
Qatar has the right reputation with the people that matter to them already.
They give not a single shite about what you or I think about them.
Get out of here.
Considering how big the bid is (around 4-5bn), dont think any consortium will not publicly announce their bid.
Think it will be settled by next bidding process
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If he was going to clear the debt he’d have said so. That’s one of the biggest PR points in relation to the club.People actually thinking those 4 lines of text represent the full SJR bid, and are not happy with it?
Of all the criticisms we can level at the Glazers I do not think choosing the highest bidder is up there.... I mean I am going to give you some money would you like £50 or would you prefer £75??
New car, caviar, four star, daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team
Think I'll buy me a football team
I don't understand what you mean
Not being stingy in what should be a lifetime opportunity to purchase his beloved club is a good start.
But we already have people disregarding their human rights record and treatment of LGBT+, basically normalizing this behavior. And they haven't even taken over.
How can you be so certain? There can be several reasons at once
Or a homohopic, mysognistic state and a company that is destorying the very earth we live on.
There are no good guys.
So you think them being an intermediary between the British and the Taliban makes them the Taliban?
As opposed to what exactly?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64684703
"...There are also expected to be at least two offers for United from the United States, while there have been suggestions of interest from Saudi Arabia.
That means there could be up to five parties trying to negotiate a full sale, with others looking to make a smaller investment in return for a partial stake in the 20-time English league champions....."
"...There are also expected to be at least two offers for United from the United States, while there have been suggestions of interest from Saudi Arabia.
That means there could be up to five parties trying to negotiate a full sale, with others looking to make a smaller investment in return for a partial stake in the 20-time English league champions....."
Taliban ffs
I think being associated with Manchester united brings far more scrutiny than it will help wash their image. And as you said, dont Qatar gives two fecks about their image. They already do what they want to do anyway.
What? He definitely wouldn't be as bad as the Glazers but taking loans for a big acquisition for something that requires huge amounts of investment in facilities, the stadium, the academy and the first team, but still having to make it profitable to INEOS shareholders doesn't fill me with optimism
Incoming "This shows you know nothing about sportswashing...." comment in 3..2..1
I am just describing what their statement says.
Let's be honest this isn't about PR anyway. The Glazers only care about the highest bid so Ratcliffe doesn't really need to bother with all that.
Avram is a Democrat or at least his point tail is
You expect fans to be ok with an owner who's clearly not even going to remove our existing debt owning the club? Why even bother getting rid of the Glazers in the first place? At least we'd know that the current team is showing some signs of improvement. Who knows what a new owner will do. A statement to being debt-free should have been the minimal requirement for any new potential owner and INEOS haven't even provided that with their mention of not adding "fresh debt" to the club directly.
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The British appeal feels a more like a plea to the Glazers, if Jim can match the Qatari based bid, at least in the early phase they could be inclined and feel they're doing the one right thing by some vocal fans selling to Jim/Ineos.
Glazers might be unsure to sell off such a high profile British club to Qatar if there's not much between the bids in what they collect. For some United fans it's a real problem of Glazers 2.0 or Qatar, neither will be compelling. We'd have to know much more about Sir Jim's bid as to me it seems many times more treacherous than the Glazers.
Glazers might be unsure to sell off such a high profile British club to Qatar if there's not much between the bids in what they collect. For some United fans it's a real problem of Glazers 2.0 or Qatar, neither will be compelling. We'd have to know much more about Sir Jim's bid as to me it seems many times more treacherous than the Glazers.
Seeing the tweets thread and Sir Ratcliffe won't be adding any new debt to buy the club. No chance of him coming in but leaning towards him to win the bid.
I am heavily in favour of the Qatar bid (of the two publicly announced) but let's not kind ourselves. It's as state-backed as it gets.
The main Qatari guy is worth $1.3bn in total, so he's clearly getting huge support from somewhere. You don't have to guess from where.
No point saying welcome now, I think he's gone
If it's anyone besides Qatar or Saudis I'm going to be so disappointed. I don't know how people prefer Radcliffe over them, he's made a mess out of Nize.
I would rather stay with the Glazers than change to Radcliffe. For me it's either the Arabs or no one, want to see some serious investment and our club brought back to the very top in the short term.
I would rather stay with the Glazers than change to Radcliffe. For me it's either the Arabs or no one, want to see some serious investment and our club brought back to the very top in the short term.
This is just the start I think. Looks like the LGBTQ+ united fans will get a lot of hatred online.
They're being snide.
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