Qatar or Ineos - which owners would you prefer? | Vote now Private

Which owners would you prefer?

  • Qatar

    Votes: 961 62.8%
  • Ineos

    Votes: 570 37.2%

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Both are known to have a huge turnover of managers. Since 2018 Nice had 5 managers (Viera, Ursea, Galtier, Favre and Digard) while PSG had 4 (Emery, Tuchel, Pochettino and Galtier)
Doesn’t mean they sacked a manager doing good. Except imo Tuchel who was sacked because he didn't want to renew.
 
Paid to paint being top of the league as bad you mean? Whilst arguing the team sitting 8th (with 4th highest spending) is better run?

Whether you are pro or anti Qatar, pro SJR or on fence. Its obvious that PSG is more successful and better run than Nice (who have spent shitloads and had not much progression)

You can also argue however that PSG should/could have done better with the money they have spent, particularly in Europe.

But there is no argument that can be made that Nice are achieving success to the level of their spending.

Ineos has not achieved much in football, that doesn’t mean though that they have not learned and gained experience. However their recent time in football is a little worrying in my opinion.

Best outcome for United is one of the 2 private bidders are much better options than both

The obvious difference here being that PSG were already a club that had won titles and cups through the 90s and 2000s, Nice not so much.

It’s definitely a concern but Ineos are clearly not running it like Qatar are PSG and spending insane amounts of money on players. Would be interesting to see how Man City and PSG would have found life after the takeovers if current financial fair play rules were in place 15 years ago.
 
It’s definitely a concern but Ineos are clearly not running it like Qatar are PSG and spending insane amounts of money on players. Would be interesting to see how Man City and PSG would have found life after the takeovers if current financial fair play rules were in place 15 years ago.

The point about FFP is a good one.
Ineos is spending alot of money on the wrong types of players. I think thats a huge concern.
Although Im not 100% sure about the setup there, whoever is making the footballing decisions there is doing a bad job.

Similar to PSG when Leonardo was DOF
 
PSG are dominating their league and are no pushovers in CL. When Qataris bought them they were 15th. To me Qatar have invested a lot in the Parisian club and made them a force in Europe. If they manage to find a proper manager, they are likely to win CL. City are now unstoppable in the prem and are one of the contenders for CL. Money helps a lot in football, while money + a top manager puts you right at the top of the game. Nice have won feck all and are bound to win feck all, whilst INEOS are in charge.
Money helps yes.
But does United need to be state owned to be sucessful?
PSG is dominating a weak league by 5 points, you'd expect them to be 15, 20 points ahead with all the money. City have certain charges hanging above their heads at the moment.
 
Doesn’t mean they sacked a manager doing good. Except imo Tuchel who was sacked because he didn't want to renew.

You're right. However it does reveal an element of a little patience and quite frankly little maturity in managing clubs. TBF both groups seem to be learning from it. INEOS had hired Jean Claude Blanc as INEOS Sport CEO. He certainly has far more experience than Ineos head of football Bob Ratcliffe whose only football experience is that of being Jim Ratcliffe brother. The Qatari had replaced the horrible Leonardo with the much more respected sporting director Campos.
 
The obvious difference here being that PSG were already a club that had won titles and cups through the 90s and 2000s, Nice not so much.

It’s definitely a concern but Ineos are clearly not running it like Qatar are PSG and spending insane amounts of money on players. Would be interesting to see how Man City and PSG would have found life after the takeovers if current financial fair play rules were in place 15 years ago.

If you take in account that club size then yes they are spending at par to PSG.
 
The point about FFP is a good one.
Ineos is spending alot of money on the wrong types of players. I think thats a huge concern.
Although Im not 100% sure about the setup there, whoever is making the footballing decisions there is doing a bad job.

Similar to PSG when Leonardo was DOF

Doesn’t seem huge. €25 million net spend per year since 19/20. Maybe that huge for the top half of the French league though?

Does seem like they can’t find the right manager, but I don’t know enough to comment on what’s gone wrong.
 
Qatar has sacked their manager that was doing good?

PSG doesn’t look as bad as some are trying to make out. Not that that even bears any relation to United since the people running PSG wouldn’t have anything to do with United anyway.

Even if we were funded by the same source (could be, might not be) Its not a Glazer situation where football people are not in total control of the footballing decisions.
Ties will be the same. On the outside not but if you think it doesnt have any connection with Qatar state and regime you should think twice.
As for people who'll decide on football things or not we dont know that.
 
You're right. However it does reveal an element of a little patience and quite frankly little maturity in managing clubs. TBF both groups seem to be learning from it. INEOS had hired Jean Claude Blanc as INEOS Sport CEO. He certainly has far more experience than Ineos head of football Bob Ratcliffe whose only football experience is that of being Jim Ratcliffe brother. The Qatari had replaced the horrible Leonardo with the much more respected sporting director Campos.

Leonardo was very bad for PSG.

So you mean Ineos originally hired Jim Ratcliffs brother to be DOF?
 
What??? You can’t see how a company with 60bn in revenue and 2bn profits wouldn’t be able to buy the club without loaning against a smaller 100 times smaller than the parent company? :lol:

Seeing what you want to see.

To be fair, that's just lack of research on my part. I'd gone off Jim Ratcliffs wealth and wasn't looking at is as Ineos as a whole.

You could be right though.
 
Doesn’t seem huge. €25 million net spend per year since 19/20. Maybe that huge for the top half of the French league though?

Does seem like they can’t find the right manager, but I don’t know enough to comment on what’s gone wrong.
4th highest spenders in the league for the past 4 years. Its alot of money and even worse its been on crap
 
If you take in account that club size then yes they are spending at par to PSG.

So you’re agreeing they are not expected to get close to PSG given the size of the club?

PSG are paying Messi double a year what Nice are spending on transfers.
 
4th highest spenders in the league for the past 4 years. Its alot of money and even worse its been on crap

Christ how shit is that league. €25 million a season is 4th highest? :lol:
 
I vote Qatari's... 'cos Bruno will look cool as feck lifting the European Super Duper League in a Bisht :drool:
 
Christ how shit is that league. €25 million a season is 4th highest? :lol:
Doesn’t make the league shit. Just means they have alot of over spending like we do in the PL
 
After this vote, no one on this forum is in a position to dump on City over their ownership, ever again. Obviously, our fan base is every bit as prepared as they are to just gleefully take the money, and pretty everything detrimental said about them applies equally to us.
 
PSG are dominating their league and are no pushovers in CL. When Qataris bought them they were 15th. To me Qatar have invested a lot in the Parisian club and made them a force in Europe. If they manage to find a proper manager, they are likely to win CL. City are now unstoppable in the prem and are one of the contenders for CL. Money helps a lot in football, while money + a top manager puts you right at the top of the game. Nice have won feck all and are bound to win feck all, whilst INEOS are in charge.
Were they? Qatar bought a majority stake in June 2011 and PSG finished 4th in the league in 2010-11 season.
 
Doesn’t make the league shit. Just means they have alot of over spending like we do in the PL

Makes it pretty obvious why it was easy for Qatar to turn PSG into such a dominate force with no FFP concerns.
 
Money helps yes.
But does United need to be state owned to be sucessful?
PSG is dominating a weak league by 5 points, you'd expect them to be 15, 20 points ahead with all the money. City have certain charges hanging above their heads at the moment.
Yes, United need money, and I doubt that Ratcliffe would make us competitive against the likes of City, Bayern, Real etc. We are also lagging behind in terms of facilities and infrastructure. As for City's charges, they cheated. Simples. I doubt Qataris would want to do that. They will invest money, but not cheat. No need to.
 
Makes it pretty obvious why it was easy for Qatar to turn PSG into such a dominate force with no FFP concerns.

French clubs and that includes PSG abide to different rules to the rest of Europe. In France the DNCG monitors all clubs on a yearly basis and validate their budgets, you can't overspend without proving the existence of funding.
 
French clubs and that includes PSG abide to different rules to the rest of Europe. In France the DNCG monitors all clubs on a yearly basis and validate their budgets, you can't overspend without proving the existence of funding.

The same rules were in place when Qatar took over?
 
The same rules were in place when Qatar took over?

Yes which is why the new owners were asked to put large reserves in the name of the club. That way they couldn't leave one morning with PSG having a massive bill to pay.

And to be clear it is not an FFP rule or anything like that, the point is to protect clubs finances. Sugar daddies are allowed, they just can't make promises that they can't pay.

Edit: It applies to all sports.
 
So you’re agreeing they are not expected to get close to PSG given the size of the club?

PSG are paying Messi double a year what Nice are spending on transfers.

In the past 4 years Nice were the 4th biggest spenders in the league. Yet they were 5th, 9th, 5th and they are currently 9th as opposed to big spenders PSG who achieved the goal 3 times out of 4.

Messi was a free transfer. He scored 24 goals and made 17 assists in 37 matches. Ramsay is Nice best paid player (Pepe is paid more but he's on loan), he scored 1 goas and made 2 assists in 26 games.I think PSG are just achieving the expectations set. Nice are vastly underachieving though.

Ineos own a Swiss club as well. There are barely any news about them. I think they have since been relegated
 
It’s strange how this whole ‘I just want united to be successful’ ‘logic’ being used to justify a Qatari ownership doesn’t apply to Mason Greenwood. We’re short a striker, he is contracted to us, he could win us the league… you just want us to be successful right?
 
Yes which is why the new owners were asked to put large reserves in the name of the club. That way they couldn't leave one morning with PSG having a massive bill to pay.

And to be clear it is not an FFP rule or anything like that, the point is to protect clubs finances. Sugar daddies are allowed, they just can't make promises that they can't pay.

Edit: It applies to all sports.

So irrelevant to my point? Qatar can pile as much money into the reserves as they want.
 
It’s strange how this whole ‘I just want united to be successful’ ‘logic’ being used to justify a Qatari ownership doesn’t apply to Mason Greenwood. We’re short a striker, he is contracted to us, he could win us the league… you just want us to be successful right?

Irrespective of QATAR/Elliott/SJR/Satan/God/Morals bid, it would be very unwise to introduce Greenwood now. The guy hasn't play football for months, he's likely to disrupt the dressing room and will add more heat to a squad that seem doing all the right things.
 
It’s strange how this whole ‘I just want united to be successful’ ‘logic’ being used to justify a Qatari ownership doesn’t apply to Mason Greenwood. We’re short a striker, he is contracted to us, he could win us the league… you just want us to be successful right?
Small fish. With many other better options

Ownership is big fish mate. Where both options are bad.
 
So irrelevant to my point? Qatar can pile as much money into the reserves as they want.

I simply gave you the context of the league spendings, following a series of posts where you were seemingly surprised by the figures.
 
I simply gave you the context of the league spendings, following a series of posts where you were seemingly surprised by the figures.

Okay, apologies. You were replying to the post about Qatar having an easier ride at the beginning due to less FFP, I thought it was about that.
 
I don't get that view. How will it be hollow if there are already 2 (3 if you count Chelsea, and more will come) multimillionaire team owners. It's not like we are competing alone.

It's either hop on the train or get used to competing once every 3-5 years until we slowly transform in a midtable team in 20 years from now.

As I've said before, we don't need unlimited wealth to create success we just need to spend the money that we generate better.

You've answered your own question! Just because City and Chelsea have had hollow success, that doesn't mean we need to go down that route.
 
In the past 4 years Nice were the 4th biggest spenders in the league. Yet they were 5th, 9th, 5th and they are currently 9th as opposed to big spenders PSG who achieved the goal 3 times out of 4.

Messi was a free transfer. He scored 24 goals and made 17 assists in 37 matches. Ramsay is Nice best paid player (Pepe is paid more but he's on loan), he scored 1 goas and made 2 assists in 26 games.I think PSG are just achieving the expectations set. Nice are vastly underachieving though.

Ineos own a Swiss club as well. There are barely any news about them. I think they have since been relegated

I mean, spending 4th highest and finishing 5th is not really a problem. The other seasons are troubling though as you’d expect them to be pushing for European places by now.

I’ll ignore the bit about Messi being a free transfer. Come on.