Club Sale | It’s done!

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Cloud7 said:
We’ll definitely reach there. We occupy so many pages with the same circular discussions that have been going on since the start, and combined with the slow rate of progression on this, this thread has a long way to go. Then of course when there is an eventual announcement there will be an explosion of posts.
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I'm close to 30k that I need to find more threads to add my incoherent thoughts to, so I might as well camp here.
 
Twitter rumours INEOS are thinking of pulling out.

No idea where they have originated from though
 
both parties should pull out. leave the glazers in the creek without a paddle. i doubt the markets would be kind to the share price, as clearly there arent any other bidders interested at this valuation....
 
Superden said:
both parties should pull out. leave the glazers in the creek without a paddle. i doubt the markets would be kind to the share price, as clearly there arent any other bidders interested at this valuation....
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Aren't they at risk of being sued by shareholders if they don't sell to Qatar at the moment seeing as that's the highest bid?
 
JPRouve said:
Yes, it's a local paper and yes they are reliable for Nice information. Generally local papers are more reliable in France when it comes to sport, with the only exception of RMCsport and the Midi Olympique(Le Midol) in Rugby.
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Trying to think if I have heard of them before all the Ratcliffe takeover stuff. Surely we have been linked with NICE players before but can't think of any names
 
crossy1686 said:
We need that to happen to be honest otherwise the Glazers are going to keep flashing their arse until another bid comes in
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I'm not sure that this would be great news. If the only competitor drops out, surely Qatar could just lower their offer to a point where the Glazers might be even more hesitant
 
Woziak said:
Let’s hope all we want as united fans is for the Glazers to go and if it’s SJ I’m ok with that because if at his core he’s truly a united fan he will only want the best for the club, not to use it as a personal ATM like the Goblins have, debt we must get rid of the debt, Arsenal can spend £200-300m this summer because they have a rich owner and no debt, let that sink in they can go buy Declan Rice, Julian Timber and others whilst we scrimp and scrape enough sales to buy 3rd and 4th choices , eventually that’s what debt does even to a super club like United!
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Tbf to Arsenal -- they are getting rid of their two bete noires in one swoop.
 
Just over seven weeks until the season starts. If it's a full takeover then I don't see how it will be completed before September/October now at the earliest.
 
LawCharltonBest said:
It’s the Nice version of the daily express
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Followed by OGC Nice on Twitter. I posted the next news we would hear would be from INEOS. They’d either increase their offer or walk away. I think that’s basically it. Now we’ll probably hear something about exclusivity between glazers and Qatar becoming official.
 
Woziak said:
My take and it’s probably wrong ;

1. After Qatari 5th and final bid which I think was more than reported but SJ said ok we’ll give you £5.4/5.5bn providing it’s done in 2 weeks this was the final Bid now made on or around the 7th June after Naser Al Khalelfi (PSG CEO) was asked to intervene.

2. The Glazers through the Raine Group got back in touch and said your very close can you go up a little bit more to the Qatar bid, they said no and after the 2 weeks they would potentially pull out. The Raine Group went back to Qatari and said ok we’ll do the deal but if we offer you exclusivity you have to pay a little extra like £5.6/5.7bn, Qatar said yes. Then the leaks came out last week first from a Qatar new publication (Later flagged as a hoax) then Rio, then finally Reuters, then the tabloids started to do a full 180 on SJR side and started to predict a Qatari win and the shares soared to $25. The caveat was also stated that SJR could still win with a new bid but he was running out of time.

3. A Silent weekend, probably mostly due to strict NDA’s but also a lot of bad press about SJR, leveraged buy outs, poor Nice records, a huge potential libel and law suite from the 31% minority share holders should he win pathing the way for a SJ/Qatari win, even informing us that SJR would have more issues with Uefa and EPL Director fit and proper test.

4. Early this week, shares dropped but still stable at just under $24 as the 5th and final Qatar bid was coming up to the 2 week deadline, Reports now stated that finally INEOS are losing confidence of wining, the old proverb “he who talks first normally loses!”

5. Conclusion we are in the home straight, but greedy Joel and Avram have probably said we just can’t do it unless we get £6bn so either Qatar relent and give in or they just walk away!
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I read what you are writing with interest. Just one thing I don't understand. Are you saying that Qatar have to bid £5.6-5.7bn to win the club or just to become the preferred bidder? If I read no 2 is seems they will do the deal if they pay that amount. But when reading no 5 you feel they still want more cash in the end? So I guess they want £5.6-5.7bn just to pick Qatar as the perferred bidder and they they want another 400mills to seal the deal from your perspective?
 
Spoony said:
Who the feck's nice Martin?
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The ginger fella from Game On who keeps making everyone tea.

cyberman said:
Momentum is only going one way at this stage
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Into a vacuum of nothingness that Avram Glazer feeds upon before belching out new Universes populated solely by Man City treble wins and Man Utd noodle deals…?
 
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There selling to Qatar everything is pointing that way.

Whether you choose to believe it or not is an entirely different issue.
 
Bosws87 said:
There selling to Qatar everything is pointing that way.

Whether you choose to believe it or not is an entirely different issue.
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It's always been Qatar. Because they are way richer. SJR was a stalking horse. Annoying that it's being dragged out when we could be going on a spending spree. By now Murtough will know he's about to be sacked so probably not even trying to sign anyone.
 
glazed said:
It's always been Qatar. Because they are way richer. SJR was a stalking horse. Annoying that it's being dragged out when we could be going on a spending spree. By now Murtough will know he's about to be sacked so probably not even trying to sign anyone.
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Oh yea he’s definitely gone, I doubt any of the transfer committee will survive ?
 
hellhunter said:
I'm not sure that this would be great news. If the only competitor drops out, surely Qatar could just lower their offer to a point where the Glazers might be even more hesitant
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They're going to ride this out until one of the bidders says enough is enough in the form of a bigger bid or dropping out. They have no intention of selling while both parties still want the club.
 
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