United Thread - 2022/23

[Stoned Rose]

Apparently winning the League Cup is now “The Glory Days” again.

Michael “Glory Days” Mouse likes this.

 

[give it to gordon]

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What's happened have I missed something.
When did the league cup become such a big thing ?

 

[r.soleofsalford]

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Hahahaha.

 

[halfcenturyup]

With the ESL dead in the water there would be minimal return on investment for the huge sum that the Glazers want. Just buy a City or Newcastle type club and build it up.

Very much this. Everton is the one. New ground, big football city, local rival to destroy.

No-one is buying United to make money. So then you have to ask why?

 

[Blue Mist]

D Day for the tramps today. Can't wait to see the media tying themselves in knots explaining why Qatar buying the rags is good for football.

FFS get with the programme. It is an individual businessman who is buying the Rags. He is a life long fan who just happens to live, well ok, be born in Qatar. He made all his money selling refined products. He loves his mother, dotes on his children and donates 2% of his income to LGBTQ causes.

 

[waspish]

They going to stay and this false Qatar guy going to invest in the club be on the board!

 

[Grassland Blue]

Very much this. Everton is the one. New ground, big football city, local rival to destroy.

No-one is buying United to make money. So then you have to ask why?

Sportswashing perchance...?!

 

[The perfect fumble]

Sportswashing perchance...?!

Buying Utd is like washing your dirty kecks in shit.

 

[aguero93:20]

Buying Utd is like washing your dirty kecks in shit.

Washing the rags in shit would make them slightly cleaner though, defeating the metaphor.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Washing the rags in shit would make them slightly cleaner though, defecating the metaphor.

Amended

 

[remember arthur mann]

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[The perfect fumble]

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Was this before or after the 7-0 ?

 

[wolviedinho]

Sportwashing ok now?

 

[Gazza]

FFS get with the programme. It is an individual businessman who is buying the Rags. He is a life long fan who just happens to live, well ok, be born in Qatar. He made all his money selling refined products. He loves his mother, dotes on his children and donates 2% of his income to LGBTQ causes.

Qatar is a district of Salford don't you know.
Actually it'd be better if they bought Liverpool as they speak like they've got qatar in their throat.

 

[tommybooth]

Merge the dippers and rags and build a massive ground in South Wales. 500,000 seater should do.

 

[bakerdave76]

That Jassim fella is just another front, for the higher ups. His Dad was PM of Qatar and besties with the King. They just can't be seen to be having any connections with PSG, so up pops his son who happens to be a 'lifelong fan'

True.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

£5 billion quid doesn’t look like good value for money when the other club down the road is valued at £4.43 billion. No debt, a state of the art training ground, a stadium with hospitality facilitates that are second to non and will soon have a hotel and extended capacity of 60 odd thousand. In the portfolio is the soon to be largest arena in the U.K. Then add to that one of the most valuable and sought after playing squads in world football.

How much will it take to clear the debt, sort out the cow shed of a ground, rebuild Carrington? I hope they’ve got deep pockets.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

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I remember when $1.2 billion was a lot of money

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

£5 billion quid doesn’t look like good value for money when the other club down the road is valued at £4.43 billion. No debt, a state of the art training ground, a stadium with hospitality facilitates that are second to non and will soon have a hotel and extended capacity of 60 odd thousand. In the portfolio is the soon to be largest arena in the U.K. Then add to that one of the most valuable and sought after playing squads in world football.

How much will it take to clear the debt, sort out the cow shed of a ground, rebuild Carrington? I hope they’ve got deep pockets.

They'll ship migrant workers in, pay them next to nothing and treat them like sh*t.

But nothing will.be said in the end...

...now, where have I heard this before...?

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

Despite his political connections, already seeing Sheikh Jassim described as a banker by the likes of Dan Roan. That may be true, just as Sheikh Mansour is a businessman but unlikely to be referred to as such.