At this point he is the class of 92. I can't imagine anyone using the Nevilles, Scholes or Butt to get the masses on their side. The guy has serious football pedigree. No better person really.
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What’s Stephen Merchant got to do with the sale?!
I rest my case your honour
I rest my case your honour
Eyes bulging with imagined riches.
Not to sound incredibly naive or anything...but just because the government likes the prospect of a massive cash injection to the area by the Qatari's, does that mean they'll have even the slightest bit of influence over the the Glazer's decision? Surely not, right?
Who gets approved by the FA, PL and government will have influence. No point them accepting an offer if they know it won't get accepted or drag on for long.
I rest my case your honour
Stephen Merchant and Sam Matterface love child?
It's a complete red herring...As others have said, it'll be the Glazers decision and not the govt - this isn't the Chelsea sale where the govt seized the club from Abramovich.
Besides, 'Leveling Up' is a Boris Johnson slogan and not a Sunak policy. It never really meant anything, it was a load of crap.
It's not the owner really, it's the money. If we start spending massive amounts of unearned money like PSG and City, then there's really no point to supporting United anymore. Yay our owners are rich, we win.
I dislike the Glazers because they're quite parasitic, but at least we're trying to play fairly with our own money, hell we're even playing with a handicap with the debt etc. I guess it depends how the new owners run the club really before I judge.
I didn't ask you originally. You made a silly statement and I asked you to continue doing so which you gladly did
I didn't ask you originally. You made a silly statement and I asked you to continue doing so which you gladly did
That's what you get for trying to engage in a serious conversation in here. Thank god for the ignore button
I knew a white guy a few years ago from Crewe who used to spend his doll payments the second he got them. Abramovic would never spend a penny if he owned Chelsea.
Oh my days, this would be a dream scenario.
This need to get done asap, it's already mid Feb now. We need to spend big again in the summer. The squad need investment because it's not ready to challenge yet.
Aren't we doing that now?
Can one of you beautiful gentlemen or ladies bring me up to speed on this? Or are you all still arguing over who makes the best owners?
Bids in by Friday. Thought to be 5 serious ones. Qatar look the strongest currently.
Come back to this thread on Friday.
As others have said, next Friday is the soft deadline for written offers. INEOS will be bidding. Mystery private (ie non-state) groups from the USA, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are being reported as 'likely' to submit offers. I guess we'll find out during the course of the following week (w/c 20 Feb) who the possible contenders are.
Jim Ratcliffe was last seen hoking down the back of his sofa
Are the above confirmed? I know that references has been made to those who bid for CFC and that one is confirmed to not be in, but I mix them up.
With that said, if one of these known US pro team owners were leading a consortium to get us — I think they would be more public.
Since they aren’t, my bet is that the US interest mostly comes from “financiers” led consortium. I.e. were most of the money comes from a firm like the 6th Street that in return would get a share of our broadcasting money (like Barca have done) for a long time, someone being more of a figure head, like Pagliuca, and a few other investment funds.
My thoughts on Twitter about the potential bidders:
User error. I meant to reply to someone who responded to me. 19 years posting here hasn't taught me much, clearly.
Aa far as i understand there's no rules against owning multiple clubs it's owning multiple clubs which play in the same UEFA competitions.
United and PSG are likely to play in the CL most years. So unless UEFA rule they are separate entities one of the clubs wouldn't be able to participate.
With Nice there's not the same likelihood.
It's well known that in game theory you maximise your highest final bid by running a series of rounds of sealed bidding, thus squeezing everybody's highest possible bid from them. That's what we will see in the next month.
But it should also still be mentioned a bit more often than it does - we can easily go into Europa and them. If he bids for us the same questions UEFA will need to ask
For the 100th time, we have FFP problems regardless of who the owner is. We need to sell heavily before we can buy.
No, we don’t!
We don’t if we get CL.
This is not true. The debt could be paid off by the new owners, so you're just stating the current status quo and assuming it's fact.
The new owners (whoever they are) can help with our cash flow problems. They can't do anything (at least in the short term) about amortisation of intangible assets. United need to a) sell players, b) increase revenues, or c) do both.
Champions League qualification obviously helps with b.
Champions League qualification obviously helps with b.
Yes, this is correct. RB Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg didn't have a problem until they both qualified for the UCL in the same season. UEFA are concerned about the integrity of the competition, which is understandable.
City have only had one Spanish coach, Guardiola.
All the while flying with Emirates to go on holiday in the UAE.
And yet they still played each other in an UEFA competition
Yes we do.
CL is a necessity but not sufficient. It was made clear we need sales and CL football.
Yes it is. I'm not posting the Ornstein tweet again. It's feck all to do with debt.
Just read the credible reporters news and stop ignoring it to suit your fantasy.
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