Club Sale | It’s done!
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Hoping the announcement comes when Man City wins the treble and we still all the attention away 
Judging by the architecture its not Qatar and apparently its Mercedes too
Mercedes F1 = Ineos.
Ineos are the principal partners of Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 and also own a third of it (Mercedes also own one third of the team, as does Toto Wolff).
Yeah but Qatar/Monaco basically the same thing.
I have no idea what’s happening
I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me or making a different point. The Ronaldo spend was what typified the Glazer rule. It gave fans a short term buzz, pushed up share prices and did nothing at all for the football. It was badly spent money from a football perspeective but well spent from a marketing point of view. They turned us into a footballing joke. One worry about the Qataris is that they did the same to PSG but on a bigger scale. City may be plastic cheats but they are also incredibly well run plastic cheats.
Ratcliffe owns a third of Mercedes F1. Bought in about the same time Red Bull started winning.
None of us do mate. That's the beauty of this place.
Ineos car swallowed by Qatar barrier.
I wonder if the part of Yankers dragging this out is until the FA cup final. In the unlikely event that United win , they get to be on the podium to congratulate the players.
They can then convince themselves they left as some kind of not completely useless sh*tbags. I’m not sure this is the case but it’s as good a theory as any other as to why they are hanging on like a bad stench.
They can then convince themselves they left as some kind of not completely useless sh*tbags. I’m not sure this is the case but it’s as good a theory as any other as to why they are hanging on like a bad stench.
FFS
In 18 years at the club when have they ever tried to soak the glory in front of the cameras?
Even if they did announce a preferred bidder the deal wouldn't likely be done for weeks so it's not that, they've never seemed that fussed anyway although I'm sure like everyone they do have ego's that would like to bask in some shared glory.
I imagine it's that they expected there to be a Qatari state bid that would blow them away and a bid of that scale hasn't arrived and so they're still unsure what decision to make.
But overall we have to admit that we have spent more than enough to be competitive for the league.
We have been awful spending money ultimately
Hour bid, surely a sufficient age. No news for Qatar? The 11th then - it hasn't been accepted. If was, wasn't an age between the last bids. Can't see why, the new bid went in by now. Already dismissed before it has to be.
Hoping the announcement comes when Man City wins the treble and we still all the attention away
Would be better if they fail to win the treble!
Zero chance a multi-billion dollar deal gets dragged out unnecessarily for a trivial reason like this.
He’s right to point to it though.
We have spent lots of money poorly since, but we had to spend and gave ourselves no leverage due to the period the poster refers to.
It also allows people to ruin the narrative that we have spent more than City post SAF, ignoring the state of the two teams when he left and our complete inability to sell players for a decade.
More likely it’s being delayed to drown out the treble news cycle for Citeh
To be fair, off the top of my head the only top club that has been sold during my retrievable memory is Chelsea, and there seemed to be constant updates during that period, so perhaps that is what this is being compared to
I know he's a knob jockey but Goldbridge has just said that we will have £200m+(before player sales) to spend on players this summer!!Quoting one of his many "sources".
People still in here just chatting every day. Mental.
Respect for Ratcliffe as a business man but in sports he's like the reverse Midas
He's full of shit. FFP restricts us to roughly £100m before sales this summer, but player sales can increase that amount significantly (e.g., a £20m sale can potentially unlock up to £100m in additional permitted spending).
The problem with all this is Liverpool. They were in no better state than us before Klopp arrived. Once they lost both Suárez and Sterling, they were a desperately poor team. And yet they managed to turn it around spending a lot less than what we did.
Both periods - the underinvestment during the late Fergie years and the incredible wastefulness afterwards - are ultimately on the owners. No doubt about that. It's just at this point, lack of investment in the playing squad ceased to be a problem long ago and more investment in it doesn't guarantee anything. It's necessary, sure, because that's how football works but we can't just say "we haven't spent enough on players so we should throw more money at it".
I actually didn't know that regarding the sales. I was wondering about the FFP restrictions as we are in this crazy position than we could go on a massive spending spree dependent on who our owner may be.
Regarding Mr Goldbridge, I actually quite like him. Yeah I know....don't hate me. Well he's done well making a living out of something he loves and is passionate about. So fair play to the bloke. Also during lockdown I was so broken with work and the channel was my only pleasure and grace which was soothing when i had some spare time.....even though some of it was utter bollox. At least he doesn't spend 30 mins at the beginning saying hi to each member like on that other United channel with someone called Sam.
Pretty much what I was thinking.
I know I'm utterly sick of going back and forward with pointless discussion now, I just check in now and then.
It’s the Glazers. They are experts in dragging things on.Not looking like we're going to hear anything today either
Same here. Given it’s the most important determining factor for the clubs next couple of decades at least I should be glued. But feck all is ever happening so I just pop in once in awhile to confirm that feck all is still happening.
I don't mind Goldbridge. Never watched his channel but some of the clips I've seen on YouTube are hilarious (usually of him losing in FIFA or Fall Guys).
This was your 2000th post in this thread.
Is that 2000th posts overall on the CAF or 2000th just on this Glazer sale thread alone?
Just in this thread. He's still only in second place though.Is that 2000th posts overall on the CAF or 2000th just on this Glazer sale thread alone?
So Nice sit at 9th.
You don't understand, jroades and indykaila said we might, possibly hear some big, big news from Jim Ratcliffe's barbers cousin today.
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