This is on big time i hope.
Imagine the scenes if a deal is struck, protests of happiness outside of OT, hell, throw the Glazers a leaving party, or a Get the feck out of our club party!
Sir Jim Ratcliffe: I want to buy Manchester United | Will make a bid for the club [Telegraph]
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Imagine the scenes if a deal is struck, protests of happiness outside of OT, hell, throw the Glazers a leaving party, or a Get the feck out of our club party!
Get out of our club you weird Humpty Dumpty motherfeckers.
Well quotes on here got him between 12 and 21 billion so if say he spends 5.5 clearing everything up he still has plenty left. Utd can then run itself
We've got to unite to make this happen. We can't let up on the pressure
A lot of noise these past few days. Feels like it's closer to happening than ever before.
This is the only thread which is of interest to me this summer. Have not had much interest in the transfer threads for some reason.
Maybe time for Green and Gold Cafe 
the club not commenting is basically meaningless at this stage
this is a bit of a journalists trick to add something to the story
when something like this breaks journalists will call the press office, and when they call they already know that the press office has a standard "no comment" policy on anything new breaking
so the press officer says the "sorry no comment" line, and the journalist reports it as "the club declines to comment".. making it sound like the club has already made a specific decision to not comment on this specific story, when in fact nothing of the sort has occurred yet
I didn't believe the news about minority share. The gene is out of the bottle if that makes the news. Selling United has never been wiser for these rats. The value of asset keeps diminishing and time is against them. This summer window has always felt a bit weird, even more than usual. Now we know why. When Neville said "something will happen soon" I felt he knew something too.
I think we will be out of our misery soon.
I think we will be out of our misery soon.
Surely the Chelsea deal has more to do with Abramovich’s ties to Putin over the Super League?
The sponsors are probably sick of the negativity the Glazers are bringing to the club and pressuring them to sell at this point.
Problem is I can't conceptualise that much money.
I suppose what I want to know is whether he's sugar-daddy-who-could-whitewash-away-human-rights-violations rich? Or just will-look-to-run-United-as-a-sensible-profit-making-venture rich?
The late bid is a reason why I still have lingering doubts on Ratcliffe's credibility. What is the point of making a late bid for the sake of testing the waters at United? The Saudis circled around our club for some time before they finally put their missile lock on Newcastle.
This isn't about disappointed or not getting your hopes up.
We have a viable owner and now it is up to us to make it happen.
This means protests, targeting sponsors etc... We need to do whatever it takes ( within the law) to make it happen. This is our one big chance.
Eugh just imagine it. Glazers sell up and Jimmy comes in, as a Lancashire born, life-long fan.
Backs the manager, overhauls the scouting department, invests in facilities, invests in the stadium. It’s almost too much to take imagining that something like this could happen.
Backs the manager, overhauls the scouting department, invests in facilities, invests in the stadium. It’s almost too much to take imagining that something like this could happen.
When putting in a bid for Chelsea he said something like it wasn’t about making money as they make money in other areas and it would be more of a sporting project.
At that time, I don't think the club was for sale. I think the possibility has been there since the failure of the Super League. Once the Glazers realised there was no further mileage to improve Utd's value without significant investment, that was their signal to cut and run.
I think discussions might be further ahead than we think
If he is worth $15 billion then yes that is that sort of money. It's probably a little less than City but that's twice of what was Roman's reported net worth.
Joel Glazer is reported to be worth $1 billion.
Let's hope we can have the biggest protest of all at the Liverpool game. We really need to make this happen. Let's kick the Glazers out once and for all.
Enough of been robbed for 17 years.
Enough of been robbed for 17 years.
I'll be devastated if Jim turns out to be penniless and living in a windmill, it's true.
If you dig into anybody with that amount of money you will find something undesirable, as it stands though nothing is known or stands out so the 2nd one.
He grew up in the area and supported United as a kid. He did end up supporting Chelsea as well after being based down there. He’s a massive sports fan and is 69 now. I’m not sure what motivation he’d have to be running the club as a sensible profit making venture. The ROI will be very weak in a business sense. My hope is that he’s looking to to enjoy his twilight years as much as possible with this venture. Even if he just clears up the debt it will give us £50m a year extra. The devil will be in the detail of course but on balance, at least from the outside, I can’t think of a much better profile for an owner.
Nah this is definitely further ahead than most people realise
I would assume the same as Chelsea, Ineos would go down as a separate investor or something?
The latter part probably judging from his work at nice.
Don't think protests are going to make a difference here pal. He'll either buy the club or not, regardless of protests. What's the point in protesting if the glazers are looking to sell anyway?
Go protest the government, that's what needs protesting.
Going from that crappy Chevy logo on the shirts to a Mercedes badge would be a sign of us finally getting the parasites out of the club.
Oh god please, let the nightmare end and change happen. Let's keep this this thread going, feck the distractions of silly transfers pushed by these jokers.
Jim will fix it
Sir Jim'll fix it !!
The only former players that could have enough money to be part of this would be David Beckham and Gary Neville?
Beeb picking it up means the only thing stopping this now is some bullshit block from the FA for some bullshit reason.
Great episode. Adore a good Simpsons referencewell done my man
I can't help but feel there is something in this, the right sort of noises from the right sort of sources. Not quite running it up the flagpole yet. But there is a little bit of hope I it I feel.
No chance in hell would they block British investment. It would do their image the world of good
Giggs is worth more than Neville but I don't believe any of them have anywhere near enough apart from Beckham.