Fanta Stick
Full Member
Please, leave Jesus out of it.
Please, leave Jesus out of it.
Every single poster in here knows more about this takeover and the intricate details than some bellend called Nick Speed on Twitter.
I'd genuinely take updates from 26 year old Fish and Chips paper than him.
You are completely missing the basis here. You are making it out like I aim it at those take a stand on isolated issues - I'm not. Only those that force their stand on others by being patronising.
Just quoting this so it doesnt go unnoticed.Well let's look on the bright side.
When all these patronising whingers that don't want Qatar for their owners feck off and stop supporting United, at least this website will speed up a bit.
Every cloud....
they've been temped for thatJust quoting this so it doesnt go unnoticed.
I hope you wanted the flag the stupidity of the post rather than agreeing with itJust quoting this so it doesnt go unnoticed.
People are ready to swear against the Qatar takeover because of their human rights issues, I get that, but then where will progress come from? you think Qatar give two ships about amnesty? realistically the only way change will take place is following a civil uprising, which is unlikely, massive UN embargos which would be undermined by other nations and would never happen due to the west's dependency on oil from the middle east, or maybe instead through assimilation, the more we isolate and and disengage then we miss out on conversations.
Most people, myself included are happily oblivious to what occurs outside their bubble, look at the world cup and even the just the possibility of takeover has raised awareness with millions of people, engagement is the best way to influence change, face it there is a high probability we get bought by Qatar, this will bring more scrutiny on Qatar, surely that is actually a good thing
Well it's not the same as I wasn't suggesting that or even saying anything of the sort.The same way as you are suggesting that every middle east person is a human rights offender.
Sucks doesn't it - man I miss the comparative innocence of the 90s (to be fair, helped that I was a teenager and that we were so successful...)I think that requires a massive amount of integrity. I’m in a similar boat, so I know how hard it is
Of course. It's a horrible post which needs to be shown.I hope you wanted the flag the stupidity of the post rather than agreeing with it
Ironically these same posters would probably stop watching us if we stopped competing, and even fell to the championship. Which long term could happen under Glazers.Well let's look on the bright side.
When all these patronising whingers that don't want Qatar for their owners feck off and stop supporting United, at least this website will speed up a bit.
Every cloud....
Like I said, I think I'd walk away from football. I can't imagine ever loving another club as much I loved Utd - maybe if I lived in the UK still I'd watch my local lower league team, but I live in Australia these days so I'd probably just try and get into Aussie rules insteadI admire your beliefs.
Just out of interest, who would you go on and support if it wasn't United? Would you quit Prem teams altogether and go lower league? Wrexham?
Please, leave Jesus out of it.
Ironically these same posters would probably stop watching us if we stopped competing, and even fell to the championship. Which long term could happen under Glazers.
Ultimately which owner we would ‘prefer’ is irrelevant given we have no say in the matter.
What we have a say in is whether we continue to support the club regardless who the owners are.
Given this is a lifelong club to most of us, no one should be crititicised for supporting the club, whoever it is owned by. Supporting a club doesn’t mean you support or endorse the actions of its owners. If anything walking away from a football club is far harder than walking away from a certain product that you have moral issues with.
My guess is, why pay more when you can just do what the Glazers have done.
They have majority control. They control the board, can pay for executive jets for useless travel without any consequences.
If you invest, i.e. put more money into the club then you’re benefiting all the shareholders in this case the 31% A class shareholders.
Therefore, like the Glazers, there is a danger that you don’t bother investing because it doesn’t benefit you. Every pound spent is like giving away 31p to your silent partners (in theory).
Having read others’ comments, a way around this is to dump loans onto the club, the basis being those can be repaid to you.
However even to be in a position to dump loans onto the club you need the support of the majority, therefore if Sir Jim takes on a simple majority of 51% he would still need the Glazers on board to do anything worthwhile.
For those reasons SJ wants complete control so that he is not benefiting the silent 31% and can basically get on with things immediately.
Because they are relying on finance, I expect they haven’t been given the funding to buy the class A shares because the lenders view buying them as pointless or SJR himself has decided that buying those shares is pointless. Which for him it would be.
The only real value to the Class A shares is if you want to own 100% of the club so you can take it private, delist it from the NYSE and avoid the financial transparency that comes with that.
So why try and chastise those that will continue to support the club if Qatar do buy us? Is it not their right to make that decision themselves based on what they do or do not know about the owners?
For many stopping watching the club is akin to you not quitting your job over moral objections. Just because you would find it easy to walk away doesn't mean that applies to everyone.
Ok so they don't intend to take it private. Hmmm.
Every so often in this thread some braindead idiot makes some version of the following argument:
"Do you have the same morals in all areas of your life? Or do you use an iphone? Wear Nike clothes? How is your laptop made? Where does the petrol in your car come from?" Etc.
Which is an obviously stupid argument because absolutely nobody with an ounce of common sense thinks the moral standard required to object to someone owning the football club you support should also require you to give up things actually required to live and function in society, or force you into major life decisions. These are not comparable things.
The example of your friends' jobs fall into the same dynamic. They need to work to actually live and function in society. And while they could possibly change jobs to one that isn't in some way connected to oil states, that would be a massive life-commitment to make for moral reasons, and a wildly impractical standard to expect people to live their lives by.
Which means it's not at all comparable to the very minimal moral standards required to take the position (almost totally consequence-free for your actual life) that "Qatari state ownership of Manchester United is bad and we should be against it". It's a very low bar people are failing to meet, which is why they are (and will continue to be) criticised as overly amoral.
Diogenes of Sinope says hi.
I fully appreciate those entertaining purchases of ethically sourced products. However, many of these poor people have no chance or choice to earn a living besides working for unscrupulous employers. It's a chance to survive and feed themselves and their children. It's desperate out in some countries. This is why people travel to work in such places as UAE, Qatar, and Saudi. It's not a choice but a necessity. You can argue and debate quite rightly these countries have the resources to give their workers better conditions and pay. The other option is to travel and cross many borders and possibly the channel to search for a better quality of life in Europe. Here again, our politicians are on their cases and treated inhumanely.All you're proving here is that you, and others are willing to bend your morals depending on your needs and wants.
I think @Marcus means, why are they offering Glazers the chance to stay on.
This is a load of rubbish. There is nothing in life that is a necessary that can’t be done ethically and morally.
Fact is, people pick and choose when they want to live ethically/morally.
People need to stop lying to themselves and own it.
You don’t need to work for certain employers with ethical issues.
You don’t need to use a smart phone.
You can choose to drive an electric car.
Etc, etc, etc….
What exactly they can do to be honest , Glazers are the only one making decision ultimately .I think fans and media have been too patient with this deal. The Glazers are very obvious in their disregard for anything but maximizing their sale price.
This is a load of rubbish. There is nothing in life that is a necessary that can’t be done ethically and morally.
Fact is, people pick and choose when they want to live ethically/morally.
People need to stop lying to themselves and own it.
You don’t need to work for certain employers with ethical issues.
You don’t need to use a smart phone.
You can choose to drive an electric car.
Etc, etc, etc….
I think fans and media have been too patient with this deal. The Glazers are very obvious in their disregard for anything but maximizing their sale price.
What exactly they can do to be honest , Glazers are the only one making decision ultimately .
I usually post #Glazers out on social media platforms, including official Man United ones, but similar post seem very few.I don't know, protests, social media campaigns etc. Some even tried to attack their residence if I'm not mistaken - which I discommend btw.
But instead we have posters gleefully revelling in their lack of morality, by which I mean quite literally saying things like "I'm sick of morality" and "I don't care about morals in football". Or opting to make the sort of nonsensical false equivalence arguments I have to believe are disingenuous attempts at sophistry, as it would be very disrespectful to think they're actually stupid enough to believe their own bullshit. And I think those posters and fans fully deserve the criticism they get.
You have no choice but to do many things in desperation. It's not always a choice, but survival. Difficult preaching these morals to people on empty stomachs in such countries as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and many parts of Africa.This is a load of rubbish. There is nothing in life that is a necessary that can’t be done ethically and morally.
Fact is, people pick and choose when they want to live ethically/morally.
People need to stop lying to themselves and own it.
You don’t need to work for certain employers with ethical issues.
You don’t need to use a smart phone.
You can choose to drive an electric car.
Etc, etc, etc….