United Thread - 2022/23

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Plus he is a billionaire, they don't tend to give their money away.
How does he get a return for his 5 billion pound investment to buy the club, the one billion to rebuild the swamp and the copious amounts of payments needed to keep Ferguson and Charlton to haunting the place like the 2 old guys from Muppets Christmas Carole.....

 

[the blue panther]

Q. What kind of billionnaire would pay £5/6B for scum?
A. A scummy one.

If this fantasy about sonny Jim were ever to occur, they're still scum; so is he, and they aren't catching us anytime soon.

 

[Blue Mist]

You cannot simultaneously claim something is too valuable to sell and has no value for a potential buyer. These are two directly contradictory statements.

5Bn is 250 years worth of dividends at the rate they're taking them out. They'd make 250m/year investing it safely vs. picking up 20m in dividends.

Malcolm Glazer was the driving force behind buying the club and he's long dead. The 3 brothers might see the value in taking the 5Bn profit.

Ratcliffe is desperate to own a big name club, and he's a local childhood fan with the means to do so.

Everything in your post is wrong.
There are 6 siblings who own shares not 3.
If Ratcliffe was do desperate to buy an English club, why did he submit a bid for Chelsea after the deadline had passed?
The Glazers do not want to sell.

 

[manimanc]

Would it not be easier to name players utd are not after?

Scattergun R us.

 

[waspish]

He's worth 4 billion not 12. If he bought he would have to borrow. He has stated he has no interest in owning a minority stake.
The Glazers have said they might sell a minority stake so where is the story ?

It’s the media pushing it and Neville who started it last week with his rant “time for the glazers to go” its a story also while there at the bottom of the league being shit will be pushed Sky the media want there winning toy back!

 

[KS55]

So why did he want to buy the chavs? If I was a fan of the scum I would not invest in a rival to decrease our chance of winning trophies or staying up in this case

He moved to London and decided he did not have the time to travel north to watch footy, so he became a Chelsea season ticket holder.

 

[ysmsa]

Glazers selling a stake

Luke Shaw puts a bid on the table,

"Rare to Medium please with double chips"

 

[urban genie]

Ratcliffe is a well known rag, a Mancunian.

A Yonner you mean


Only good thing to come from failsworth is the hat factory ;-)

 

[Blue Mist]

£110m bid for Felix turned down.
They turn to his teammate Cunha, who is apparently telling his agent not answer the phone to them.
Offer to double Casemiro's wages to £380k week stalled as player has no interest.
Ajax winger Antony doesn't want to go to United.
And Frankie would rather take a wage cut than talk to them. Great wage reduction tactic for any club now - 20% less or we'll accept United's bid.

It's daily rejections! There going to beat my record for one summer as a shy 16 year old, several times over!

Have a feeling from Ronaldo's comments he's really going to put the boot in once the window shuts and he's safely in Italy or Spain.

The rags transfer policy has been likened to a child in a sweet shop. The trouble with that is the shop keeper will always sell.
I prefer the rag transfer policy is like a 15yr old in an off licence, not only will the shop keeper not sell, the lager refuses to leave the shelf.

 

[fulabeer]

If you can create a coherent sentence using the same word eleven times consecutively, then I'll be impressed.

Pep once said
"I'm so so so so so so so so so so so happy"
Does that count? :)