Not sure what does it have to do with us?
Club Sale | It’s done!
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Football is become closer to WWE with every passing moment I suppose.
Nothing important, but I will post it just to have a Twitter post on this page.
It’s possible but how many stages can they drag it out with only two bidders for a full sale. Neither seem interested in a bidding war and I’m sure one or both will run out of patience fairly soon.
I’m sure the Raine Group will be pushing them for a decision as well so hopefully we get some significant progress this week.
That thing has been in the works long, long before the Glazers wanted to sell.
As long as the bids are relatively close in size and below the Glazers' valuation, Raine will surely keep trying to push them up. We also don't know that they are only two bidders for a full sale and, even if there are, they are also competing against any offers of minority sale/investment, of which at least one is publicly known (Elliott Management). The risk, as you say, is one or more of the bidders walking away, but I'd bet on another round.
What is long-term for a 70y.o man?
If his plan is to make us an Ineos standard of football club then we are only a Woodward and an Ole away from that
WWE's merger with the UFC confirmed. Raine taking home a nice packet no doubt. Wonder if they'd been prioritising this...$21bn combined now.
They aren’t competing with likes of Elliott though that’s a completely different option for the Glazers.
It’s very difficult for Raine Group to go back to the same parties, with the same arguments, same tactics etc to try and squeeze more money. You can only play people off against each other for so long.
Anything is possible with the Glazers but it’s hard to see how much further the process would advance in terms of a full sale with another round unless they’ve ruled out partial investment. If they just want investment another round makes more sense as there seems to be more interest and I’m sure there is more variety in terms of what role each would play and how many shares they want etc.
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Holy feck, that's a big bag for all involved.
Rumours are Raine earned £30m from the Chelsea deal of the £2.5bn 'takeover' so 1.2%.
If you apply that to the same value of the new merger, Raine would earn $252m from it.
What is long-term for a 70y.o man?
GLAZERS VALUE MANCHESTER UNITED AT 21Bn
They had equally disappointing Sundays
Banking crisis a reason to stay? What bollocks is that? You're literally swimming in debt and increasing interest rates lads, this offers you a fecking life raft away from it.
Who knows what's happening, but they'd be mental to turn down 5b.
Think you have to be a bit mental to get to where they are in the first place
That's what happens if/when we get sold.Thick and gloopy?! The mind boggles at what that might entail!
According to Jackson's article, this idea isn't being briefed by the Glazers though. Jackson says the concerns have been raised by one of the bidders; I strongly suspect from reading the rest of it that it might well be Ratcliffe.
To be clear, I don't think you're being massively unreasonable mate. I myself am also quite worried that we might end up seeing the Glazers cling on. I'm just not sure this story actually quite aligns with what you've posted.
They are starting to take the piss now, the Glazers are going to ruin our summer aren't they?
None of this makes sense. Jamie is just posting random scenarios as if trying to find a way they’ll stay rather than telling us what’s actually going on.
What's the latest news from Qatar? Assuming you're from there
But doesn’t it make more sense from a failed bidder to have that excuse rather than the sellers who can simply say the price hasn’t been reached? Why would the Glazers need this reasoning?
Why would you assume I'm from Qatar?
It’s your accent
This is why I said that the Jamie Jackson story is (according to Jackson himself) based on what has been said by one of the bidders. Again, purely based on what seems logical to me based on the rest of the article, my guess would be that it's coming from Ratcliffe. I don't actually have any inside information, though.
With how crucial this upcoming window is for the immediate and long term future for the club, you would expect march going fans to get restless and potentially rowdy if we go into May with the sale still in limbo.
Oh for feck's sake, I completely forgot about my usernameIt’s your accent
Well they've ruined most of the last 18 so it's nothing new.
Nice fc are at 8th place BTW
What about Naughty FC?
Agree it's probably not a briefing from the Glazers. But their behavior is contributing to suspicions which has lead to the briefing.
I do expect more briefings in the coming days that point towards them staying. But to be clear, I don't want this to happen - I just can't for the life of me see new owners in place come the Summer. Would love to be wrong.
What an irrational assumption to make based on your username. What was he thinking.
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