IMO I wouldn't read into the timing of this. News orgs tend to repost articles on Twitter multiple times throughout the day for visibility.
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IMO I wouldn't read into the timing of this. News orgs tend to repost articles on Twitter multiple times throughout the day for visibility.
Here's the likely AFP piece as aggregated by Yahoo.
https://news.yahoo.com/qatar-bid-man-utd-awaiting-172540726.html
They don’t seem to be. They’re just quoting the Qatari camp as saying they’re still waiting for a clear answer. The Reuters article said they were close to being put into exclusive negotiations and were the favs but Ratcliffe could still bid higher. It didn’t say it was done yet. The issue is the Reuters headline didn’t match the article - headline made it appear like they had been named preferred bidder.
Cup to the door is it?This thread would have been on a different level in the glorious past of the forum. Popcorn memes galore would have been the order of the day. .what a shit show
always a circus, grabbing my circus peanuts for the show
Reuters' reputation took a massive hit for their reporting on the war in Ukraine, but that obviously will be minor compared to if it turns out that they are reporting fake news to a desperately hungry group of football fans.
100%.
You won't necessarily see it yourself because AFP sell ready to publish articles.
Yeah that's the weird thing, it would be one thing for them to say that they had conflicting reports from their sources, but both keegan and the times said that reuters report had been widely dismissed which it obviously hadn't
Really does seem to be an exclusive that others are scrambling to come up with
You think Reuters source is some guy who sells an assistant in their office coffee? Reuters is one of the few that would have the better sources than most, if not all, newspapers
Someone would've brought out The Gods by now
I thought the De Jong saga would be hard to top in terms of pure mad bastardry but boy, this takeover stuff has blown it out of the water.
Thanks! Yeah this makes it interesting again. Never ending story this
The Glazers are the greatest 'divide and conquer' merchants out there.
They have split the fanbase, journalists and now news agencies are going at it
Indeed.
Yeah I'm desperate for Qatar to be chosen as bidders but it's ridiculous to suggest that The Times aren't reliable. That's what the kids on the internet would call 'cope'.
Ineos are still in this race.
Ineos are still in this race.
I do hope all this saga bullshit stops with new owners though. Literally everything we do takes an absolute age with so many ups and downs.
Yep, PSG are owned by the QSI which in turn part of the QIA.
The article literally said that the reuters report had been widely dismissed. It wasn't offering a conflicting viewpoint, it just flat out lied
That what having only two not so optimal choices to choose from, spiced with both being from each end of the spectre with the process being prolonged and you have the recipe for a civil war among the fanbase.
Yea, its a reliable source. But the times have had all the big Ratcliffe briefs
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-want-to-buy-manchester-united-says-jim-ratcliffe-bjqk2bfrx
We know who is feeding Keegan every time he speaks. Worth considering the same with the times
Who are the downtrodden in this scenario? People only want the best for the average person in Qatar. That doesn't mean they have to be onboard with how its government behaves, and be happy with it being involved in taking over United.
I can only hope that in a Post Glazer MUFC world that we make up for all of the drug out processes over the years..... Plain and simple they are the worst businessmen and some of the worst people.
The club was not yours to begin with.... you made a mint now FECK OFF.... just go. No farewell tour... we don't need 20 rounds of bids.
The club was not yours to begin with.... you made a mint now FECK OFF.... just go. No farewell tour... we don't need 20 rounds of bids.
Times vs Reuters. One will lose a bit of credibility after this. With this last tweet Reuters is sending a message to Times.
Lets see what Times will say now.
Lets see what Times will say now.
QSI and QIA have been separate entities for a while. QSI own PSG by themselves.
I always look out for cautiously worded sentences in M&A related articles.
"No official updates from Sheikh Jassim's side" stands out to me - of course there aren't any official updates. There likely won't be any official communications on any of this until there's an announcement on which buyer goes through to exclusivity.
Yes, clearly they aren't making stuff up. Neither are Reuters.
It's just reporting what their sources say.
My assumption is that British sports journalists (the top ones) have managed to get hold of sources on both sides (INEOS and 9 2), to go along with their usual club sources. Whereas Reuters have been fed something directly from Raine/Glazer advisors.
The cosmic ballet goes on
Interesting. That makes me more certain that Reuters sources are closer to the actual process, not the bidders.
They took players in on a free and still spent a fair bit on top. In 21/22 and 22/23 they spent €80m and €90m net on transfers respectively, compared to Utd’s €110m and €230m. When you factor in the wage bill, €620m and €729m, then they’ve doled out in wages & transfers half a billion euro more in 2 seasons than the 3rd most valuable football club in the world, and the PL 3rd biggest spender in the last decade. How is this anything else but financial doping to the gills? That they embarked on a shitty strategy that brought them no European glory is all the more damning.
Keep up, the Glazers hate Jim and he hates them. Calls them the Bellenders and keeps ordering Taco Bell to their address
According to wiki, QSI is a subsidiary of QIA
Think this was posted this afternoon. A comment that "not all the criticism of the Glazers is fair" stuck out, but nothing too ground-breaking in this other than talk that the shareholders will be fuming if Ratcliffe wins
Cheers for the summary, I was about to listen to it but couldn't be bothered - Reuters are very biased these days
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I can't remember what journalist it was, I think it was some guy at the Athletic who said months ago they were contacted by the Qataris after writing a article which mentioned QSI was a subsidiary of QIA and they said it wasn't true.
The journalist mentioned that was when he first had the feeling their was concrete interest in United as the Qataris never bothered to make the clarification before then or attempted to try to make them out to be separate entities before.
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