The number can’t grow. You all want the Qataris. It’s just a matter of who is willing to admit it
I'd much rather have Dubai International Capital buy out the club. I'd definitely be up for a DIC offer
Qataris are pretty abhorrent but anyone with that amount of money has likely got some kind of dodgy background in some capacity. It's pretty impossible to live nowadays without being some level of hypocrite and football is basically the perfectly example of that.
I'm sure there was quite credible stories soon after Jim acquired 27% that the Qatar bid was never as serious as it was initially reported.
There was some interest but it never materialised into a meaningful offer. I think the media were having a field day with it with next to nothing to go off as per usual.
The fact Jim was able to get 27% of the club up against so called bottomless pits of money says it all. It clearly wasn't as serious as some fans wanted to believe.
1) No, ultimately I prefer a clown car of a club to being a soft power vehicle for a repressive state.
2) If you don't care about that, there's still no reason to be certain that a Qatari owner wouldn't run the club badly. PSG haven't exactly been a model of stability and intelligent recruitment, and have so far failed on their primary ambition of winning the CL. Who's to say the next Qatari project would be better run, rather than worse run?
3) There have been blunders by INEOS, but I already feel a lot better than I did about being run by accountants who answered to the Glazers. Sporting achievement is now a central goal. Bringing in best of class talent to run sporting operations is a stated policy. Neither of these were ever the case under the Glazers. Now we have to judge them against those yardsticks, but only a fool draws solid conclusions a few months into their leadership.
Bringing in best of class talent to run sporting operations
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And then sacking them
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 3 minutes ago
RR said it best.
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He's always does. He's far too smart to be a football fan.
He's more of a tennis or polo man I think.
Maybe bowls? Maybe all 3.
Football fans are illiterate cants there's enough evidence on this board to support my theory innit blad?
Yes I would have preferred Qatar, rat face Jim could peel an orange in his pocket, tight wad miserable tw@t.
I'm sure there was quite credible stories soon after Jim acquired 27% that the Qatar bid was never as serious as it was initially reported.
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Wasn’t there rumors/reports on the sheikh not even being real?
Fack no.
I suspect that for the majority of those opposing their club representing a sportswashing exercise by a barbaric regime, potential sporting success never factored into the equation.
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 12 minutes ago
I'm sure there was quite credible stories soon after Jim acquired 27% that the Qatar bid was never as serious as it was initially reported.
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Wasn’t there rumors/reports on the sheikh not even being real?
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He's real because he runs a Qatari bank and his Dad was the former PM.
How serious they were about getting United though is another thing altogether. I imagine it would have been a serious conflict of interest with PSG too.
We've been priced out of the market by greedy yanks. Nobody is spending 5-6bn on United with a huge debt to clear also and massive new stadium required.
comment by Ali - 🇪🇦 🏴 (U1192)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
Football fans are illiterate cants
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Speak for yourself
No, not at all. The Qatari royal family can be fired into the sun for all I care.
It's barely 10 months since the takeover. 5 months since Berrada was appointed CEO. I don't understand how or why anyone expects things (which have been embedded over a decade) to change over night. This just seems to be the way in modern football.
FFS Jim hsant even started buying United outright.
The Glazers still own United. As I understand things Jim has a timed option to eventually own United but he cant do it under the present share option rules that the Glazers have imposed. That is converting class A shares into Class B shares as long as the two Glazer execs and their siblings own the majority of all shares. Jim has to have a long and hard conversation with them to buy the Club LS&B. Which I'm beginnining to doubt if Jim still wants to, at the price Glazers are ready to accept and the long term mess the club are in.
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 1 minute ago
FFS Jim hsant even started buying United outright.
The Glazers still own United. As I understand things Jim has a timed option to eventually own United but he cant do it under the present share option rules that the Glazers have imposed. That is converting class A shares into Class B shares as long as the two Glazer execs and their siblings own the majority of all shares. Jim has to have a long and hard conversation with them to buy the Club LS&B. Which I'm beginnining to doubt if Jim still wants to, at the price Glazers are ready to accept and the long term mess the club are in.
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Still needs to scrape the money together by taking away the kitchen staffs bus passes & finding second hand cones for training.
Glazers will want up to £10B to hand United over.
Even Jim doesnt have that much to spend on a football club. Only a Nation has that. Makes Jim's talk (Jim is great at the talk) of a new Stadium a distant dream right now. As if he will arrange the build a new stadium for the Glazers ownership. Creating a team that is better than the likes of Crystal Palace is the best he can do right now in the mid to long term in what he owns at United.
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comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 8 hours, 47 minutes ago
I'm sure there was quite credible stories soon after Jim acquired 27% that the Qatar bid was never as serious as it was initially reported.
There was some interest but it never materialised into a meaningful offer. I think the media were having a field day with it with next to nothing to go off as per usual.
The fact Jim was able to get 27% of the club up against so called bottomless pits of money says it all. It clearly wasn't as serious as some fans wanted to believe.
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More recent stories seem to indicate that the Glazers actually didn't want to sell, and kept changing the goal posts with the Qataris who had a 4.7bn bid ready. The Glazers didn't want to lose United as it is Thier biggest cash cow. Pretty much after being messed round several times, they realised that Galzers were not willing to sell United out right. Hence Jim coming in
So....is Uncle Jim just a slightly better Micheal Knighton...?
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 36 seconds ago
So....is Uncle Jim just a slightly better Micheal Knighton...?
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I reckon Michael Knighton could play Keepie Uppie with a football and volley it in the net better than Jim can.
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 36 seconds ago
So....is Uncle Jim just a slightly better Micheal Knighton...?
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I reckon Michael Knighton could play Keepie Uppie with a football and volley it in the net better than Jim can.
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But can he run a marathon and still make it in time to watch his us win the cup like Jim did?
Flip flop Robb coming to his senses.
It is alright brother, just admit it Ineos have done some questionable things.
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 19 hours, 44 minutes ago
I'm sure there was quite credible stories soon after Jim acquired 27% that the Qatar bid was never as serious as it was initially reported.
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Wasn’t there rumors/reports on the sheikh not even being real?
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Bloody Jeremy Beadle
comment by scholayScholes (U13961)
posted 8 hours ago
Flip flop Robb coming to his senses.
It is alright brother, just admit it Ineos have done some questionable things.
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I haven’t flip flopped at all. I have suspicions that Ineos aren’t going to be any better than the Glazers but even if that ends up being the case i still never ever want the Qataris to take over. This article was just to see if anyone did.
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posted on 13/12/24
The number can’t grow. You all want the Qataris. It’s just a matter of who is willing to admit it
posted on 13/12/24
I'd much rather have Dubai International Capital buy out the club. I'd definitely be up for a DIC offer
posted on 13/12/24
Qataris are pretty abhorrent but anyone with that amount of money has likely got some kind of dodgy background in some capacity. It's pretty impossible to live nowadays without being some level of hypocrite and football is basically the perfectly example of that.
posted on 13/12/24
I'm sure there was quite credible stories soon after Jim acquired 27% that the Qatar bid was never as serious as it was initially reported.
There was some interest but it never materialised into a meaningful offer. I think the media were having a field day with it with next to nothing to go off as per usual.
The fact Jim was able to get 27% of the club up against so called bottomless pits of money says it all. It clearly wasn't as serious as some fans wanted to believe.
posted on 13/12/24
1) No, ultimately I prefer a clown car of a club to being a soft power vehicle for a repressive state.
2) If you don't care about that, there's still no reason to be certain that a Qatari owner wouldn't run the club badly. PSG haven't exactly been a model of stability and intelligent recruitment, and have so far failed on their primary ambition of winning the CL. Who's to say the next Qatari project would be better run, rather than worse run?
3) There have been blunders by INEOS, but I already feel a lot better than I did about being run by accountants who answered to the Glazers. Sporting achievement is now a central goal. Bringing in best of class talent to run sporting operations is a stated policy. Neither of these were ever the case under the Glazers. Now we have to judge them against those yardsticks, but only a fool draws solid conclusions a few months into their leadership.
posted on 13/12/24
RR said it best.
posted on 13/12/24
Bringing in best of class talent to run sporting operations
---
And then sacking them
posted on 13/12/24
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 3 minutes ago
RR said it best.
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He's always does. He's far too smart to be a football fan.
He's more of a tennis or polo man I think.
Maybe bowls? Maybe all 3.
Football fans are illiterate cants there's enough evidence on this board to support my theory innit blad?
posted on 13/12/24
Yes I would have preferred Qatar, rat face Jim could peel an orange in his pocket, tight wad miserable tw@t.
posted on 13/12/24
I'm sure there was quite credible stories soon after Jim acquired 27% that the Qatar bid was never as serious as it was initially reported.
—
Wasn’t there rumors/reports on the sheikh not even being real?
posted on 13/12/24
Fack no.
I suspect that for the majority of those opposing their club representing a sportswashing exercise by a barbaric regime, potential sporting success never factored into the equation.
posted on 13/12/24
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 12 minutes ago
I'm sure there was quite credible stories soon after Jim acquired 27% that the Qatar bid was never as serious as it was initially reported.
—
Wasn’t there rumors/reports on the sheikh not even being real?
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He's real because he runs a Qatari bank and his Dad was the former PM.
How serious they were about getting United though is another thing altogether. I imagine it would have been a serious conflict of interest with PSG too.
We've been priced out of the market by greedy yanks. Nobody is spending 5-6bn on United with a huge debt to clear also and massive new stadium required.
posted on 13/12/24
comment by Ali - 🇪🇦 🏴 (U1192)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
Football fans are illiterate cants
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Speak for yourself
posted on 13/12/24
No, not at all. The Qatari royal family can be fired into the sun for all I care.
posted on 13/12/24
It's barely 10 months since the takeover. 5 months since Berrada was appointed CEO. I don't understand how or why anyone expects things (which have been embedded over a decade) to change over night. This just seems to be the way in modern football.
posted on 14/12/24
FFS Jim hsant even started buying United outright.
The Glazers still own United. As I understand things Jim has a timed option to eventually own United but he cant do it under the present share option rules that the Glazers have imposed. That is converting class A shares into Class B shares as long as the two Glazer execs and their siblings own the majority of all shares. Jim has to have a long and hard conversation with them to buy the Club LS&B. Which I'm beginnining to doubt if Jim still wants to, at the price Glazers are ready to accept and the long term mess the club are in.
posted on 14/12/24
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 1 minute ago
FFS Jim hsant even started buying United outright.
The Glazers still own United. As I understand things Jim has a timed option to eventually own United but he cant do it under the present share option rules that the Glazers have imposed. That is converting class A shares into Class B shares as long as the two Glazer execs and their siblings own the majority of all shares. Jim has to have a long and hard conversation with them to buy the Club LS&B. Which I'm beginnining to doubt if Jim still wants to, at the price Glazers are ready to accept and the long term mess the club are in.
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Still needs to scrape the money together by taking away the kitchen staffs bus passes & finding second hand cones for training.
posted on 14/12/24
Glazers will want up to £10B to hand United over.
Even Jim doesnt have that much to spend on a football club. Only a Nation has that. Makes Jim's talk (Jim is great at the talk) of a new Stadium a distant dream right now. As if he will arrange the build a new stadium for the Glazers ownership. Creating a team that is better than the likes of Crystal Palace is the best he can do right now in the mid to long term in what he owns at United.
.
posted on 14/12/24
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 8 hours, 47 minutes ago
I'm sure there was quite credible stories soon after Jim acquired 27% that the Qatar bid was never as serious as it was initially reported.
There was some interest but it never materialised into a meaningful offer. I think the media were having a field day with it with next to nothing to go off as per usual.
The fact Jim was able to get 27% of the club up against so called bottomless pits of money says it all. It clearly wasn't as serious as some fans wanted to believe.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
More recent stories seem to indicate that the Glazers actually didn't want to sell, and kept changing the goal posts with the Qataris who had a 4.7bn bid ready. The Glazers didn't want to lose United as it is Thier biggest cash cow. Pretty much after being messed round several times, they realised that Galzers were not willing to sell United out right. Hence Jim coming in
posted on 14/12/24
So....is Uncle Jim just a slightly better Micheal Knighton...?
posted on 14/12/24
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 36 seconds ago
So....is Uncle Jim just a slightly better Micheal Knighton...?
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I reckon Michael Knighton could play Keepie Uppie with a football and volley it in the net better than Jim can.
posted on 14/12/24
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 36 seconds ago
So....is Uncle Jim just a slightly better Micheal Knighton...?
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I reckon Michael Knighton could play Keepie Uppie with a football and volley it in the net better than Jim can.
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But can he run a marathon and still make it in time to watch his us win the cup like Jim did?
posted on 14/12/24
Flip flop Robb coming to his senses.
It is alright brother, just admit it Ineos have done some questionable things.
posted on 14/12/24
comment by Baz tard - ineos your face (U19119)
posted 19 hours, 44 minutes ago
I'm sure there was quite credible stories soon after Jim acquired 27% that the Qatar bid was never as serious as it was initially reported.
—
Wasn’t there rumors/reports on the sheikh not even being real?
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Bloody Jeremy Beadle
posted on 14/12/24
comment by scholayScholes (U13961)
posted 8 hours ago
Flip flop Robb coming to his senses.
It is alright brother, just admit it Ineos have done some questionable things.
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I haven’t flip flopped at all. I have suspicions that Ineos aren’t going to be any better than the Glazers but even if that ends up being the case i still never ever want the Qataris to take over. This article was just to see if anyone did.
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