Not true, obviously not Abu Dhabi rich but rich none the less and it would be a consortium so they would easily pool together enough money to do this. Look at Emirates, Dubai owned. They have no issues buying naming rights all over and spending money. They aren’t in it for milking funds so nothing like the Glazers and out of all the oil states Dubai is the least conservative and open minded so I wouldn’t oppose it.
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Yes there was a load of chatter around this, credible links too and I think glazers and/or their reps were in Saudi Arabia for discussions. Not sure why it broke down but they moved on to Newcastle after that.
Yeah and the middle east too much as we detest
Nah. This story is a leak designed to minimize the impact of releasing Ronaldo from his contract.
my guess would be when the Glazers (at least thought they) had a lot more leverage they were asking for insane amounts - upwards of 10bn
now that market conditions have sort of forced their hand, they are asking for something more reasonable
Yeap. Their cousins in Abu Dhabi had to bail out the Dubai economy/sheikh when they over played their hands a few years back
You have nailed it with second paragraph
Weren't Dubai interested in buying us a few months back. You think that Manchester United potiently being for sale, they could make a bid?
I think I'm out if a Newcastle type situation occurs here sadly. What I am supporting with my money and time matters a lot to me, football or not. But everyone has to find their own way on this. Looking back you could say it was inevitable but I'm appalled that many Newcastle fans, for example, can't, or won't, see the bigger picture.
Just on the Glazers other investments – they're heavily into fish oils apparently, which is one of the most damaging industries to marine wildlife. So there's that.
In sure they will be and are already making moves. Living in Dubai for a while now, and working for a rich Dubai club I know they don’t waste time. They’ll already be on the phones to necessary parties. There’ll be a long line of interested buyers though from all over but I just want us to be sold to someone who wants to see us challenge first and foremost. Someone obsessed with seeing United crush the opposition.
Dubai would definitely want that so they could challenge big brother Abu Dhabi and cousin Qatar. Let’s see how it plays out.
But buying football clubs are a tiny fraction of these owners wealth. We sit here talking about trillions this and that but, in effective terms, all you would need is what? 200 / 300m a year to spend? And it’s not as if the club brings in 0, Its revenue is double that. Fans compare these owners worth as if transfer fees will be 1.1 trillion v 1.2 for Mbappe oh City outbit us by many billions we can’t compete!
How is the state doing financially? Have the days of Khalifa bailing out Burj Dubai gone?
No don’t get me wrong, I agree that it’s not a bad post. I just think that the majority of people here (absent seeing a horrific and clearly profiteering prospective buyer) would take just about any decent buyer over the Glazers.
No he hasn't. He just said he wasn't going to hang around forever waiting for Man Utd to become available.
I know you’re kidding, but they actually talked about this on norwegian radio this morning (not the ole/ingrid bit), but the oil fund has strict rules to go by, one of them being they can’t own more than 10% of a company.
Long long gone, Dubai is doing as well as it’s ever been. Tourism obviously is the biggest earner and it’s never been better. The local clubs are spending more than they’ve ever including my club Al Nasr. So the money is there for sure now and most importantly it’s stable. There’s a property boom right now as well so I’m sure for Dubai it’s a great time for a big purchase like this. In buying United they’d own the biggest of the prizes compared to their fellow Arab owners and knowing them, it’s win at all costs. So we’ll spend spend spend, on the team, the facilities and stadium.
Oil fund was created to avoid expenditures like this. So it’s a no go.
There's no way we are getting sold for £6b
£4 at most along with the taking on off the debt
£4 at most along with the taking on off the debt
Never thought I'd see this day 
Just hope we don't get Glazers V2
Just hope we don't get Glazers V2
Hmmm… take your own advice & google “Lille owner”.
Exactly, they had to even give away the naming of their most iconic building. Imagine the scenes if something similar happened again and Old Trafford was renamed Etihad 2 or something
Chelsea just went for £4.25b a few months ago. we're worth more than Chelsea.
Chelsea were sold for 2.75b the rest is funds promised for stadium development, players etc
The Cheaper the better. I read somewhere it’s somewhere between 2.5b and 3b. That’s would be more attractive than the dirty scousers!
There's a state somewhere that will see this as the ultimate sportswashing possibility and plan on holding the club for as long as it's legal to do so. So probably the rest of our lifetimes.
Chelsea went for 3.2bn dollars.
I’d imagine that’s why the Glazers now want to sell, because United is clearly worth a sizeable chunk more.
I’d imagine any sale price with be set higher in order to settle the 500m ish debt in the process of the sale.
I think realistically they could be looking at a sale of 5.5bn to buy a debt free Manchester United.
I’d be absolutely flabbergasted if we were sold for less than Chelsea.
We're heading into recession. No one going to pay 6bil to buy a football club
The UK is heading into a recession, there are still many oil rich states able to pay silly money... And they will!
We'd be the first major team to succumb to oil money, would be quite the telling moment of the future of the sport.
I’m not getting excited until I know it’s a decent buyer and not another leech!
Feck it! Best news in years! Wohooooo!!
Feck it! Best news in years! Wohooooo!!
No chance the Glazers will sell as low as £2.5-3bn, they know what they have and how to extract the most value from their products. I would say around £4-5bn and the debt cleared to be more realistic. Would love whoever it is to come in and commence stadium redevelopment or the possibility of a new stadium as one of the first priorities. On the pitch we can still back Ten Hag as there will be a lot more money available from not having to pay dividends and loan repayments so recruitment will be fine.
Can a potential buyer spend whatever money of their own on infrastructure? Or does this break FFP rules?
Can a potential buyer spend whatever money of their own on infrastructure? Or does this break FFP rules?
Jeez fecking bargain, I'll pay that no problem from my change jar
ah right, fair enough.
I don't think credible journalists would be briefed for a full sale if Glazers didn't have multiple suitors lined up for their asking price.
We may well be further ahead than Liverpool & FSG, who did not explicitly say they would consider a full sale, whereas we did if I'm not mistaken.
We may well be further ahead than Liverpool & FSG, who did not explicitly say they would consider a full sale, whereas we did if I'm not mistaken.
The club have literally tweeted that they’re looking to sell. (If you read the article in the tweet that is)
an official statement from a public company about selling is probably not a PR exercise
Not a story leak. It's literally from our website.
Little late for that when the Russian mob, murderous execution state and bribery ridden whitewash oil state own teams or have owned in the PL.
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