Agreed. Money won't be an issue.
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You don't get rich enough that you can spend 3% of your countries GDP on a football club without being part of the royal establishment in a country like Qatar.
All sounding as good as it can, to me
My favourite part of his statement is "The bid will be completely debt-free.”
In fact, I like the idea of replacing TeamViewer on the shirt with the words Debt Free in large friendly letters.
In fact, I like the idea of replacing TeamViewer on the shirt with the words Debt Free in large friendly letters.
Qatar should be rejected in every way possible
Or that he enjoys being moved from a known situation to an unknown - because no one really knows what new owners will do (even if all they can think of is spending money).
Would they go public if they didn't feel confident of their bidding winning?
Dream come true
This better go through
Absolutely buzzing tonight
This better go through
Absolutely buzzing tonight
Come off the high horse mate. The club is going to cost a shit load of cash. You either get a state backed buyer, a crazy billionaire or a private equity firm with leveraged cash (‘leeches’). The type of owner you seek does not exist.
Imo there aren’t that many stars to get excited about outside of England anymore. If I were a rival I wouldn’t be worried about what he’d bring to the first 11 but the squad he’ll build behind it. If he can get 25 players all of high standard and be able to rotate without sacrifice then it could be machine like.
I’m not talking about two top class players in each position but having subs of the hugest calibre that doesn’t cause problems.
The FT have put out a full article on this. Mods, feel free to delete if necessary.
There's nothing majorly new here, but my suspicion about why it's this guy and not the Qatar sheikh or their two investment funds (QIA or QSI) seems to be somewhat confirmed. It's to provide reassurance that there won't be conflict of interest with PSG.
There's nothing majorly new here, but my suspicion about why it's this guy and not the Qatar sheikh or their two investment funds (QIA or QSI) seems to be somewhat confirmed. It's to provide reassurance that there won't be conflict of interest with PSG.
Yeah wishful thinking I guess.
Not legit. Just trying to make a name himself due to the lack of Qatari sports reporters.
There is no guarantee of success, especially in such a competitive league. Best case scenario is the new owners being stand off ish like the Glazers, but you don't pay billions for a toy that you have no say in.
For example, I could see them getting fed up with Antony and trying to replace him. Will be interesting how ETH works with that.
Islamic bank often operates under Sharia law which have more constraints that make them not as profitable as traditional banks (simply put they cant just slap an interest to a loan, there are rules to that). Their primary market also lies within people who also believe in Sharia law, so more limited. In my opinion they're a bit more ethical than traditional banks but Im not an expert on it.
Tbh was there this much media outrage when Abu Dhabi purchased city? I doubt it.
Do you think Ten Hag would rather have the Qatar bid fail and the Glazers stay on?
Who do you prefer realistically?
No one cared about City.
If I've traced the family tree correctly, the current ruler is 2 generations below the banker who's bidding for us. So like a grand uncle to the current emir
Can I ask someone to point out why Qatar is somehow not ethical ownership? Just 5 points. Thank you
But we could at least be somewhat against the idea of this type of takeover, rather than just shrug shoulders and say that's life.
I hope as a United fan he doesn’t go the PSG way. Leaves signings up to the manager, and focuses on signing young future WC players but unlike our previous boards (mostly before the Glazers funnily enough) won’t refuse the establish world class singing our manager thinks is essential.
The direction, centering and angle the rainbow devils decided to use for that picture
No beating around the bush.
I dont understand, but I respect your opinion. Is it a dream come true because of the investment in players we'll receive?
Look, I don't like the fact that to be competitive every big club needs a sugar daddy/oil state owner; but I'm pragmatic enough to understand that is the way the game has gone - City and PSG were just the beginning. I'm not going to say it's 'better the devil you know' with the Glazers, but at the same time, I'm never going to celebrate United becoming a sportswashing project for a state with an abysmal human rights record.
You have to identify the person first which we are all doing to our full capabilities but still can’t figure out.
I say they deserve to be the owners based on this genius decoy.
I just do not think he really would need crazy money for that. But yes, if Qatar buys the sums he will need for the same players will get crazy... And I think that ETH is the reasonable guy that likes some kind of natural growth and implementing the 2 academy guys into the squad each year. A Rashford for the team is far more important than Mr. Superstar from e.g. Brazil... (And I guess ETH has shown how he likes that he behaves)
We are going to feck the league up and I am going to enjoy every second of it.
I like that there will be a focus on youth. I feel like we have a greater reputation for promoting youth than any other English team yet our academy has fallen far behind the likes Chelsea and City, and even the likes of Palace are arguably outperforming us. Really want to see us focus on getting the best young players in the world again.
Both can be true.
No.
Exactly. Why do people ask these questions?
Will the Glazers have to pay the debt they created with their leveraged buy in
Yeah, let's just stick with owners who come from a country that routinely mows down kids while they are learning 2 + 2 and still support law enforcement that just love to use black people as target practice whilst our own people regularly abuse black players on social media.
Everything said and leaked so far doesn’t suggest they’re going that way. They’re very good at PR at least. The entire media campaign so far has been textbook.
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