I for one welcome our new oppressive owners. Hazard on the left, Bale on the right, Kane up top. What beheadings?
Could Utd be sold soon?
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You took that literally? No wonder you beleive The Star. Yarh, great fun.
You can't expect everyone to know everything about every sponsor United have. There must be hundreds. You can expect that people could at least take a look at the owners though. It's fairly easy to find out the truth about City's real owners for example and take subsequent offence.
If you want to raise awareness link an article about our dodgy sponsors.
This! Unbelievable how naive people really are?!
So much silly comments. NO we wont become an oil club. Why? Because we generate our own revenue of 600m a year. The only difference would be that would be given back to the club rather than shared in dividends and letting our club be sucked dry.
I don't understand why people who think like this don't simply change allegiance and support the most successful club. The net result is the same.
Maybe you should have looked into it. The Salmans literally rule Saudi Arabia. They are the ruling royal family who also double as ministers of the most evil and barbaric regime in the world which doesn't give a flying feck about any sort of human rights. It's already a tragedy that any western country is allied, or even friendly, or even has any sort of diplomatic ties with these supervillains. They should be boycotted by anyone with a shred of self-respect.
No dude, It wouldn't.
If the club was sold to a billionaire who wants to pump money into the club (as opposed to The Glazers, who leach money out of the club), you'll be watching every single match we play, if only to see the Galacticos play football, for the World's biggest football club.
Unfortunately everything you say is correct. However, our club already has ties with Saudi's...
Indeed.
We need to stop this oppression.
Being forced to watch the best attackers on the planet, play for our club, while they score many fantastic goals.
It would be utter torture.
Sure. Let them replace Woodward with Trump. Oh and appoint Kim Jong-un as the DoF. We could literally capture any player we want.
Mixed feelings. Would be great to shut Citeh down and outbid them for players but the Saudis are some I find the most reprehensible and have been very vocal about it. Thus by beloved football club being owner by them...........
They often do change allegiance.
No, not to Saudis.
I just want the Glazers gimps out of our club, the fact they have drained over £1bn from our club is sickening.
There is no doubt that the Saudi regime is abhorrent. And, indeed, the UAE regime funding City is not something I’d want to ‘support’. However, I feel it’s a little naive of us to just write off the possibility of Saudi buyers at United and in turn to stop supporting the club.
The reality is Saudi investment is all around you. Any of you use Uber? The Saudis have invested $3.5bn there. Do any of you aspire to owning a Tesla? The Saudis have a significant stake in Musk’s operation. And as a matter of interest, how many of us question the source of the fuel in our tanks everytime we fill up at a station? I’m not seeing too many ‘boycotting’ their local filling station.
Yes it wouldn’t be the ideal change in ownership. Yes I’d question what the club is all about. But I’m doing that anyway under these US owners. Professional sport is so awash with money now that Saudi investment at United wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
The reality is Saudi investment is all around you. Any of you use Uber? The Saudis have invested $3.5bn there. Do any of you aspire to owning a Tesla? The Saudis have a significant stake in Musk’s operation. And as a matter of interest, how many of us question the source of the fuel in our tanks everytime we fill up at a station? I’m not seeing too many ‘boycotting’ their local filling station.
Yes it wouldn’t be the ideal change in ownership. Yes I’d question what the club is all about. But I’m doing that anyway under these US owners. Professional sport is so awash with money now that Saudi investment at United wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
I dislike the Glazers as much as the next man, but you simply cannot compare a bunch of money-grubbing yank businessmen to the Saudis - the latter are some of the most deplorable cnuts on the planet.
Free samples for all fans. A baggie on every seat. That would be a great selling point.
In an ideal world the class of 92 buy the club,however thats extremely unlikely so at some point some empire out there either Microsoft/Google,or an oil rich state will show an interest in Utd,I personally do not have a problem with this because currently we have owners who in 13 years have not fully addressed the debt,have been lining their own pockets and only interested in profit,IF Saudi for example were to take over the club then the debt is gone and we can categorically compete with any other club including City and psg for the very best talent,am not too bothered about the morality of it all,I just want Utd to be debt free and competing year in year out for the EPL and Champions League!
Actually I will probably take you up on that offer.
Oh the Irony..
Please do!
Oh the Irony..
Eh?!
Like which sponsor? Also it's a bit different having a sponsor. Also Dodgy things also lies on a spectrum and Saudi are on the extreme end of that as they've just chopped up a bloke inside their embassy in a foreign country. If some posters here detest people for hating on a regime that does something as despicable as that than I'm really worried about their moral compass and they'd basically be able to justify anything bad they do in life if they use arguments such as everyone is dodgey.
You were the one accusing people of standing on their high horses and being disrespectful.
unless Scholes inherited a couple of billion I'd day it's less than 'unlikely.'It's all relative. Some of even most of our sponsors might be dodgy. But there's a difference between fraud and blowing up a school bus. Or a man that puts his signature on judgements for women to have their head cut off.
Yeah ok but why only appalled? Can't you do more? I mean you must be able to do more. Why don't they boycott their own government and move away to a more politically correct country.
It's hypocrisy of the highest level in my opinion.
It's one thing to accept sponsorship from certain middle-eastern businessmen of questionable character, quite another to allow an evil dictatorship to take control of your club entirely with the sole purpose of using said clubs brand as a means to launder their filthy image.
You have to draw the line somewhere, no?
I never said people were being disrespectful. Where I say that?
Minority stakes in Uber and Tesla are just investments as part of MBS’s diversification strategy. If the Sauds were to buy United, it would be qualitatively different - a PR exercise to try to launder their horrendous reputation. I’d rather not participate in that process and, unlike buying petrol, it would be very easy to boycott it.
Yea, I see your point exactly. I just don't understand the notion of cutting ties with the club if someone takes over?!
I am very attached to the club, maybe that's why I can't understand some people saying they'd cut ties with the club?!
Making it a completely pointless post.. You might as well have suggested Jesus of nazareth as a buyer.
First of all, read the post that was written to me. Then, understand the context of my reply. If you still have difficulties understanding this, dm me. Let's not clog the thread which has no direct affiliation to the original post.
Not suggesting anyone,merely giving my opinion..if thats ok with you....
Yes it's an emotional thing and some people are also really affected by the actions of the Saudi government. For example: I couldn't sleep for the night when I saw the news about Jamal Khashoggi where they described how a staff inside the embassy heard the struggle, the cry for help, the sudden silence and use of bone saw to dismember his body. This was a guy who went to get his paperwork for his marriage and had absolutely no idea about what was about to happen to him. You should just allow people to feel anger towards the perpetrators of this heinous crime instead of questioning their moral stance. Yes we all love United and probably will still continue to support the team even if the takeover goes through. Yes, some may try to boycott the club but I know it's going to be extremely hard because United is so ingrained in our everyday life.