ha sorry couldn`t resist.....at least most seem to have seen the funny side. Some people need to lighten up.
Club Sale | It’s done!
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The question is, will we reach 2000 pages before an agreement has been reached?
Stone saying sources involved in the process have played down the reports from Qatar.
Gonna be pain when we get the inevitable twist today, back to SJR is in Pole position blah blah blah.
Which is as credible as my dad saying that PeteReDevil has bought United
Fingers crossed.
Sad day for our city rivals. Their monopoly is over. Not sad the Glazers are about to depart forever.
Considering he has made borderline xenophobic posts in the past which he was rightfully called out for (with the trumpish reply "you don't like it because it's true), I would suggest the latter.
My original answer didn't explain well.
I was under the impression, the price for public shares would be the same as what Qataris pay the Glazers for their shares. In a hypothetical example of 35$ per share for the glazers, I thought public shares would be at the same price.
I am not sure though. The answer in your post above is slightly different.
And United becomes just one more state owned club.
I was actually going to ask about this on here as I want to get a few for my 1 year old son. If you don't mind, PM me if you have any good websites.
One of few currently, but one of many in the next 10 years
Still suspect it will be Ratcliffe. The Times are reliable and they say he's the favourite.
Wish he would do us all a favour and feck off. But no doubt he'll scrape together some unsavoury hedgefunds to join his unholy alliance.
Before we know it they'll be playing PL games around the world and nobody will give two shits about the league anymore.
That is a reasonable view and spoken by someone that seems to know the Qatari strategy. The Shard is also an example of this approach. Buying United fits directly with their vision of using sports investments to promote their country for tourism and now investments. It could also be private of course (unlike those who stick to Forbes' criterias, HBJ's family empire is most likely big enough to take on such investment on his own), but would be surprised if QSI ends up buying the club themselves after issues with PSG is sorted and general hostility has calmed down.
They were saying that before all the stuff from different Qatari sources last night. Now much like most of the UK media are quiet
Which still doesnt make it a good thing.
Feels like a proper gut punch, club as we know it is dead. For those who can enjoy the new state backed FM experiment I'm sure they'll have a grand time but it'll never be the same for a lot of us.
I said at the start of this I feel sorry for ETH. It looked like he could challenge on merit but now his success will be tainted by being another state plaything who bought success.
Is there a link for this?
Exactly, with the way things are going more and more games will be played abroad, and not just the finals. Hell, Spanish supercup is being played in SA ffs.
fecking brutal if Ratcliffe and Joel Glazer end up running the club after all this
Quality control
Cry me a river.
Yup.
No other word than dead.
And the reply to your post above mine says a lot about the state and stance of good number of our fans.
Man spent 250m last summer and wants to spend just as much this summer, if not more.
I’m sure he’ll be ok
Feck off. If you're happy to overlook any human rights/state ownership issue, that's your prerogative. But don't mock morally conflicted United fans. Some of us can't be bought out by Qatari billions.
So here's how I see it:
--> reports from Qatar that the bid was successful. There was not a single tweet from a journalist or an outlet who had not said this months ago already.
--> people got excited because one paper was half owned by the Sheikh's dad, but that outlet too, had said that Qatar have it and it will be announced "soon" a few months ago.
--> Some more congratulatory nonsense from other Qatari outlets or persons who are not proven to be knowledgeable on the process whatsoever.
--> The twitter excitement (all from one party) leads to some trading volume after hours.
--> Faisal Islam (BBC Economics guy) and Simon Stone both agree that the trading is abnormal, but that its connected to the noise on Twitter.
--> We wake up today and the reporters who have generally been timely in breaking milestone updates (if not 1st then within minutes of the person breaking it 1st) all say that there is no update as yet and no one has been informed.
--> reports from Qatar that the bid was successful. There was not a single tweet from a journalist or an outlet who had not said this months ago already.
--> people got excited because one paper was half owned by the Sheikh's dad, but that outlet too, had said that Qatar have it and it will be announced "soon" a few months ago.
--> Some more congratulatory nonsense from other Qatari outlets or persons who are not proven to be knowledgeable on the process whatsoever.
--> The twitter excitement (all from one party) leads to some trading volume after hours.
--> Faisal Islam (BBC Economics guy) and Simon Stone both agree that the trading is abnormal, but that its connected to the noise on Twitter.
--> We wake up today and the reporters who have generally been timely in breaking milestone updates (if not 1st then within minutes of the person breaking it 1st) all say that there is no update as yet and no one has been informed.
After all what? Kids or gullible adults taking Qatari sources as bible? The same sources that said the deal was done months ago and announcements were soon?
Money money money, daddy daddy daddy, want want want.
Yeah as expected the strategy will be that SJ buys the club as an individual with backing and then PSG will be sold or minority ownership followed by Jassim selling to QIA / QSI Win win win
ETH wants the funds.
The really frustrating thing is that we're one of the few clubs on the planet with the capacity to compete with state-backed clubs without being a state-backed club. At least other clubs can tell themselves they wouldn't stand a chance without their state-ownership, whereas the more rational United fans can't. We have so much less to gain from state ownership than the likes of City and Newcastle.
Hopefully it doesn't happen but I would be surprised if it didn't.
Make up your mind.Yup.
No other word than dead.
And the reply to your post above mine says a lot about the state and stance of good number of our fans.
How bad have the British press been then? said Jim is winning about a thousand times and even was in advanced talks wrapping up a deal they know absolutely feck all
The fact that it’s getting on for 11am and hardly anybody is denying the story says everything. Stones went so far to say people close to the deal are denying it’s been done….because it hasn’t been done yet, they won’t announce anything until the papers are signed
I’ve been saying this all along. The idea that they haven’t hired a team of world class negotiators was preposterous.
People just thought that if they were seriously they would put £8bn on the table and have it done which is just plain stupid.
He has a decent amount of funds even with Glazers. And would have them even if Ineos take over.
I think I kind of feel the same way.
If we get back to winning ways off the back of Qatar state cash, it really wont feel as good. It wont be the same level of achievment for ETH compared with Klopp and Liverpool
But I understand the importance to be rid of the Glazers, just happened to take selling our soul as part of the process. Maybe it was always going to be like that?
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