I swear the next stage has been 3-4 weeks away for the past 3-4 months.
Club Sale | It’s done!
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Well run? First time I have heard that in connection with Mike Ashley. He even took the stadium name to promote his own business.
He would obviously hope to be successful, but bear in mind the Glazers weren't and they are still selling for a massive return, are they not?
In his chosen lane he knows what he’s doing. Running a football club is entirely different. The Glazers were very successful businessmen as well, yet are some of the worst owners you could ask for. Just because someone made a fortune in a chosen field means feck all really in regards to how they’ll operate a football club. Different world all together.
Do you think the owners of Asda would have the same interest in a corner shop that they own?
That the difference in size and investment.
The Glazers bought at the right time, just before the football boom.
And for many years they had the world's best manager to cover up their mess.
That is absolute bollocks. I’d argue it’s even more of a reason to stay away. If he can’t run a much smaller club, with much less of an expectation to do well, how on earth is he going to be trusted to run a 5bn + football club mammoth giant like MUFC. I hope he stays far away as possible from owning Man Utd. It’s been shown he can’t do it. TWICE!
If they couldn't run a corner shop well then I certainly wouldn't want them running a multi-billion pound organisation.
Smokescreen, man.
When the Glazers bought the club it was managed by Fergie on the football side of the club and the board managed the business side. And since Fergie retired they've tried replicating the manager model on the football side of the club with managers who haven't lasted long in the job, which meant responsibility fell on the chief executive at board room level in the absence of a head of football.
At any successful club in the present day, the head of football works closely with both the recruitment department and the head coach. And has them working in tandem, which aligns the whole process when it comes to planning for the mid to long-term. And that was something that wasn't happening at Liverpool until Klopp turned up and started working with Hunter, Fallows and Edwards who were much ridiculed prior to Klopp's arrival.
So whether it's old management or new management, it's important to align the whole process where the head coach is working together with the numerous departments on the football side of the club. And it's the job of the head of football/DoF to do that, and not someone from the board room.
My thoughts on this Ratcliffe thing exactly. You can’t run a club on “passion” alone. He’s shown he can’t do it, with two different clubs now. Please for the love of god, anyone but Ratcliffe.
He's running Nice just fine. Two 5th placed finishes and qualified for Europe. People seem to be expecting him to do a PSG.
But could he run Fine just nice?
Best just to avoid the thread mate
Depends on what you mean, they're weren't broke, their stadium isn't clapped out, he didn't lumber the club with a massive debt, so he used his business to name the ground, no different to City and any other club that sold the stadium naming rights - the only thing he didn't do was pump silly money in to buy tons players
Bloody hell mate.
The Glazers have completely put me off them being allowed near this club again
That's the key word for me: 'Substantial'. If the FT or Bloomberg had something new, that wasn't just a rehash of old speculation, it probably would have gone to print. Maybe there are a bunch of people lurking in the shadows? It just doesn't come across like that though. Right now it seems like Ineos is the most serious bidder.
Not as ideal finance wise as ME ownership but certainly significantly better than US minority investors like Sixth Street
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The Saudis bought Newcastle for £300m, loose change to them obviously. They could just give it to Amanda Staveley for her birthday and buy United instead.
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When we was outspending clubs in the 80’s what do you think people thought of us then?
Nasser Al-Khelaifi is a member of the UEFA Executive Which would probably help when it comes to acquiring another club. He’ll know exactly what to do to make it work
They're lurking in the shadows for sure.
I was thinking exactly the same thing earlier.
What would it come across like if bids were lurking in the shadows? Every article I’ve read this week from Reuters to the Athletic to the Telegraph have been saying the same thing - full sale the most likely outcome - formal bids middle of Feb with American bids to compete with INEOS and a Middle East bid expected. What are we not hearing that we should be if this wasn’t true?
As an outsider looking in he took you from a yo-yoing shadow of your former selves and solidified you as a prem club once more. Again, as an outsider looking in it seems like we have seen a lot worse.
Feck that's worse than Glazers
Flurry of bids will likely be last minute which is expected for these type of deals
Whoever takes over United is unlikely to be a proven and successful owner of football clubs previously, so doubts will creep in any way.
It'll go from one sh/t show to another.
There will be a period of uncertainty. However, if they keep hold of EtH, then they have won half of the battle. He is so crucial to us being back where we should be.
No it's not.
Yeah many would definitely walk with ME owners
Our business structure is clearly falling apart, it's why Glazers selling.
They only made profit because they entered market sooner than everyone. Even city has to keep the spending in check now
fecking wise up
Can someone who knows more about this US guy Ballmer tell us is he likely to be a similar type owner to Boehly at all
LA Clippers Ballmer!?!?
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