This "somehow" is so extremely weird. You yourself saw the issue just a couple of months ago! I'm very well aware of the fact that you've changed your mind, you want transfers so you no longer care about what you used to care about, but "somehow" implies incredulity: not only do you disagree, you can't understand why people would disagree. But, of course you can, it used to be you!
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This "somehow" is so extremely weird. You yourself saw the issue just a couple of months ago! I'm very well aware of the fact that you've changed your mind, you want transfers so you no longer care about what you used to care about, but "somehow" implies incredulity: not only do you disagree, you can't understand why people would disagree. But, of course you can, it used to be you!
It used to be me because other clubs were doing better than my club. I want mine to be the best and this is the fastest way. Life is short. I want titles. Completely superficial? Absolutely. This is football.
Sheikh Jassim toying around with these Glazers deadline BS.
If someone new comes in and bids the highest at the last minute will it be rejected cause of the deadlines?
Pretty sure it won't.
Pretty sure it won't.
Those are my principles and if you don't like them, well...I've got others.
Big meltdown from some if further bid from Qatar doesn’t materialise.
Correct. Always have something in the back pocket.
“Siphoning off” from businesses in Qatar is a fully legal and common practice. It was only recently they relaxed the rule on a Qatari having 51% share in every business for foreign investment, even then that is tightly controlled.
Imagine they're just messing around with United so they can make a quiet under the radar bid for Liverpool instead?
This deadline stuff is a load of nonsense I reckon. Just driving noise, drama, theatre around this sale. As if the Glazers care about a 9pm deadline or revised deadline. To think they do would be to think they are in some massive rush, or that they care about fairness and transparency around this sale.
Neither can possibly be the case, when have they ever been in a rush, whether it be to engage with supporters, take criticism on board or sign off a transfer? They are annoying, but completely sober around these things.
Why do they care about a timeline that is this week or next week or the week after. All they care about is someone opening their wallet and throwing it all onto the table. The hundreds of millions is fair compensation for a week here or there. They're not going to be keen to remove any serious bidders.
To be honest I think the Qataris and Jim know all this.
Neither can possibly be the case, when have they ever been in a rush, whether it be to engage with supporters, take criticism on board or sign off a transfer? They are annoying, but completely sober around these things.
Why do they care about a timeline that is this week or next week or the week after. All they care about is someone opening their wallet and throwing it all onto the table. The hundreds of millions is fair compensation for a week here or there. They're not going to be keen to remove any serious bidders.
To be honest I think the Qataris and Jim know all this.
That's a lot of saving stamps.
He better have them all counted before he goes in, would be a real shame if he was one short.
There was a deadline with the Chelsea deal. There isn't with this.
Exactly what I was hinting at. No one prepares a bid as long as we do so he’s fitting right into the culture
If you didn't have double standards, you'd have no standards at all.
Avram Glazer looks like your standard neckbeard who goes around forums rating girls 1/10 because their elbows are too pointy whilst he is the culmination of sweat and semen.
Or he has to re-work his numbers based on the target price he thinks he needs to achieve in order to win the bid.
Doubt it. They already have one full sale bid in.
Or the false Sheikh, remember him, is actually Sheikh El On-Musk
For half a billion less or whatever it is, they'll be waiting for that bid to come in before they make any decisions I bet
Genuine unrelated question, If the state of Qatar offered you £100m no strings attached, would you take it? Or if that seems too far fetched, work for them for a year with whatever you do. Would you take it?
Then it would at least prove that it wasn't a state bid!
“But I only said those things to sound cool in front of some random blokes on the internet that I don’t know…”
Game of chicken between Jassim and the Glazers. If he doesn't meet the asking price then it's a minority stake for Elliot I fear and stuck with Joel and Avram for a few more years.
The glazers aren't fools -- they will give him every chance to get his bid in. They know jassim is prepared to go all the way. Probably told him yesterday ratcliffe's bid was and the added some on top for good measures.
This is bullying. I’ve called the police.
Glazers hold little leverage if they can’t play the two bidders off each other. With current banking climate, the longer this drags on the weaker glazer position becomes. They’ll be greedy pigs til the end, but one hopes it bites them in the backside if they drag it on.
They have the lever of "not wanting to sell" or the Elliot group's involvement.
They or Raine have set this up with multiple scenarios
The glazers kids are not as smart as malcom. And that’s what I fear the most.
In any business you never assume the person on the other side is dumb or stupid. You never prepare things from that perspective
Wishing for a scenario where SJR's bid wins... seems unlikely but you never know.
That is not good enough for them though if it is not reaching the money they are looking for. They would be desperate to get a bigger bid and Jassim seems to be the guy who can go for it.
Jassim is just crunching through his numbers under different circumstances to make sure what the best offer needs or should be. Going through each line item if need be. A deal this big will have changes in one line item affecting possibly many other issues/items.
Lots of 'what if' discussions internally.
He has a business model.
Lots of 'what if' discussions internally.
He has a business model.
Wouldn’t take that Kaveh bloke seriously. He says one thing and then ends up contradicting himself by saying the opposite not long after.
He sounds so clever
journalists doing their best to make a routine process feel dramatic
no doubt we’ll have many twists and turns in the next few weeks before Qatar concludes the deal
no doubt we’ll have many twists and turns in the next few weeks before Qatar concludes the deal
Yeah. Probably putting together a deal for City
It's a normal practise.
Seems to me like the Qatari are considering pulling the plug more than anything else. They did the same with FSG when the latter tried to scam them. It will add to their reputation as hard bargainers, especially when they move on to another club down the line.
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