When Michael Oliver gives another stupid call against us.We should get Toto in as our new CEO
No no michael..... it's not right. That's so not right.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe: I want to buy Manchester United | Will make a bid for the club [Telegraph]
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No no michael..... it's not right. That's so not right.
You're talking about Liverpool selling a player for 140m and getting lucky with purchases. it's not the same
The point wasn't about Ratcliffe motives.
I'm a Red Bull fan in the F1 but feck id take Merc/Ineos owning United in a heartbeat haha
The glazers don’t spend - the club does. It goes on the club books. It makes sod all difference to them.
Remember that we generate quite enough, it's just that we don't re-invest enough of it.
But they don’t spend their own money anyways?
Nah. Players are assets and go on the balance sheet. Big purchases should only make the price go up.
This seems to follow on from what he said last time. It was never not interested full stop. He seems to want an entrance into the PL, that's for sure. It's about the Glazers and how they are positioned. If they are open to a sale in the near future, it makes a big difference to negotiating with them.
Maybe the Glazers resolve to hang on will start to erode with some of the negative financial trends and the sheer scale of the task. I don't think they're going to claw on forever, just for a dividend like people claim. There's realising billions of quid which can be reinvested, or there is a 20 mill dividend. The Glazers have and will continue to use us as a cash cow, but part B of their strategy has been the long term growth of our valuation, which may be at its apex.
Maybe the Glazers resolve to hang on will start to erode with some of the negative financial trends and the sheer scale of the task. I don't think they're going to claw on forever, just for a dividend like people claim. There's realising billions of quid which can be reinvested, or there is a 20 mill dividend. The Glazers have and will continue to use us as a cash cow, but part B of their strategy has been the long term growth of our valuation, which may be at its apex.
It's the only thing that makes sense. Our complete refusal to buy new players, removing high earners, zero investment.
The leaches are stripping it before selling it.
The leaches are stripping it before selling it.
That wouldn't make much sense
They allegedly sold an ambitious project and abandoned it within a year which is apparently why Galtier was looking to leave Nice.
Not necessarily no. The asset is more worth with good players and a team that can challenge.
sweating the asset i believe its called
Don't do that, don't give me hope
Vought would definitely have enough money to help us compete and Homelander could just threaten people to sign.
Funny that he is the majority shareholder in Mercedes and their team principal was only this week detailing that he studied Man Utd as a case study in what not to do in running a sporting business.
Clearlake has more money but they will also want a very significant ROI from their Chelsea investment - they are a private equity firm after all. They have an AUM of 72 billion but that is very different than a billionaire growing a club through their own funds.
Disagree. The budget is already set.
The club is more attractive and valuable if it’s doing well and has better assets
Amen Brother!!!
Whilst true, our income is still one of the very best available... The first team can take care of itself, the rest he can invest in over the years.
We will be fine.
That’s what I thought, 20 billion or so
Make it happen!
This. This all over.
So if he’s worth 7b and the reported price is 6b then it’s another leveraged buy out?
Thought his net worth was 12bn
What he’s worth isn’t the amount of cash he has to spend. Anyway, it wouldn’t be just his money. Probably similar to the way it was done for Chelsea.
Absolutely
It makes so much sense for them to sell for that price now. They probably know they will earn if they stay, but they are not running the sport side of the business good enough and might not gain a lot more even if they did succeed with Erik ten Hags project.
Fingers crossed.
Well look at this this way, Pool are competing with City. The right setup can be all the difference and the club can pretty much fund itself. Pool have run city very close and won the league on another occasion with a CL to boot. I don't think we need a whole lot of outside investment in transfers, maybe for the infrastructure e.g. stadium, training ground etc.
Times rich list had him just under 7?
Either way I don’t think he’s paying so much of his net worth out on one purchase
He’s worth about £11bn, but had a consortium for his Chelsea bid. Wouldn’t be just him.
Would be great, but with him being 70 years old in a month, we would probably need a new owner again pretty soon
Is he any good? I've not watched any of the harry potter movies.
Transfer deadline day bid for Lewis Hamilton? Arsenal fan but so was Mkhitaryan...
69 year old billionaire. I'll probably be dead before he is.
He’s looking to come in initially as a minority owner - maybe until he gets a consortium together to take full control?
In 2020 he was valued by bloomberg at 28.2bn £
Everyone billionaire will eventually want full control. What is the point otherwise?