All for it… except I don’t want our season to be over after the 2nd game of the season… makes the rest of the season boring and not interested. Let’s make some signings and hopefully this guy will take over very soon.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe: I want to buy Manchester United | Will make a bid for the club [Telegraph]
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He's got the perfect surname for a bluemoon nickname.
I agree, but i'd rather see a couple of bad seasons with improvement year on year than absolute stupidity and ineptness year on year.
Knowing we have a vision and we'd be working towards it fills me with some confidence (providing this happens)
Maybe Sir Jim heard Knighton was trying to buy United again and thought 'Like feck you are'.
Errr....how can he hold a stake in Utd and own Nice FC (french football club). Dont UEFA normally not allow this?
Ever heard of Red Bull or the City football group
?We would. Not overnight but it would happen sooner rather than later.
not a problem, just bribe them
It doesn't matter if they put their own money to begin with. IF someone were willing to pay 4-6bn for the club they get to choose between that money and the annual income it generates.
1) Their dividends and director salaries barely adds up to a 1% annual return in the 4bn scenario. That's less than inflation currently.
2) The club is going from bad to worse. Revenue and earnings can't be expected to get better, very much the opposite (unless Superleague, etc. - that's clearly not happening)
3) No brainer?
Issue actually is finding someone ready to toss away all that money taking it off their hands.
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cant play in the same league or competitions as far as I know.
He might be forced to sell Nice perhaps
Oh definitely him. Legend
It will take years to get back to where we were, with or without the Glazers. But when there is consistent bad news there is suddenly stories of the Glazers wanting to sell, appointment of DOF, link to big name players. I don’t believe any of it. The Glazers know fan revolt is brewing and the club are now in overdrive to stop mass protests. Hopefully match going fans ignore the fake news.
Gary Neville has retweeted the original Times tweet (on the OP for reference).
We will see sooner rather than later. If all this turns out to be false the revolts would truly turn out messy so I'm not sure this is a good strategy
Tell that to Red Bull and City Football Group
100%
Yea I thought hes more likely to be mates with some like that. Pure hunch obviously
It’ll be probably involve some loopholing like INEOS owns Nice but Jim Ratcliffe owns United.
Or he sells Nice to fund his United venture.
If the Glazers had any sense, they'd sell and get out of there asap.
They know they're hated, they know they're not wanted and if someone is willing to buy, it just makes sense
They know they're hated, they know they're not wanted and if someone is willing to buy, it just makes sense
Dont forget ratcliffe also owns 33% of Mercedes F1 team. Utd marketing arm being the relentless machine it is, i can see some Mercedes/Utd teamup merchandise in the future (if he bought utd).
Hot things happening it seems
Fk the FDJ thread lets turn this into a 2000 pager
Fk the FDJ thread lets turn this into a 2000 pager
Ratcliffe has no mileage in saying something to help the Glazers, he clearly wants to buy the club. Whether the Glazers are producing a few well timed "no comments" to distract from club woes, is another question. I strongly suspect that Ratcliffe wouldn't talk so bullishly unless there was at least some sense that the club was available for purchase.
They're different companies I think, but I could live with AMG on our shirt
That all sounds rather refreshing though to be fair. That said - haven't Nice been shite?
Now that we've been bought by Ratcliffe. What can we expect?
FECK GLAZERS!!!!!! GO SJR!!!!!!!!!
An appropriate message to convey for my landmark of 600th post.
An appropriate message to convey for my landmark of 600th post.
How’d this cat make his money?
This is exciting
i actually can't believe this.
Well well well. I don't want to get sucked in, just as I didn't want to for the previous Glazer news. But it's hard not to hold out hope...
Do you think De Gea is in on it, too? Keep us in relegation zone till the deal is through? Clever.
Leveraged buy outs
Chemicals.
Hard not to get sucked in when you want something to be true
Yup, seems very surreal
I'm already so invested in this I can't help it.
This would be so amazing honestly. I really didn't think the Glazers would consider selling anytime soon. I still don't think it's anything like a certainty but hoping to hear something concrete soon. Not expecting it to change much about this season but it means we would have a chance to prepare properly for next season by getting the right staff and recruitment team in place.