United Thread - 2023/24

[Combat Carl]

£35m bid for Onana Has the takeover happened yet? They've become a laughing stock.

 

[Impeccable One]

...you're on The Thin Ice fella

Think we need to call time on these Pink Floyd references !

 

[Holcombe bloo]

How is the new shirt protest going?

Not a pair of Zebra pants insight.

Isn’t megastore a bit 90’s ? Bit like their whole club stuck in the past.

 

[ysmsa]

Yes, it's not like bunging a doorman an extra fifty quid in a brown envelope, is it?

For the guys we are talking about it would need to be 100k a week to make it worthwhile. Maybe more. And it would have to be in cash, because any form of cheque or bank transfer would leave traces that can be detected by, among others, HMRC.

So this would involve obtaining around a million a week in cash, splitting it between the players (a suitcase each perhaps?) and them taking it away in their cars. I mean, no one would notice, would they? Who does the actual paying out? Khaldoon? Because if it's the equivalent of a wages clerk, that's an obvious security risk. A huge temptation to talk to someone about it.

Then the player gets his £100k home. What does he do with it? It can't be taken down to the bank, as again, the transaction would show. Anyone who pays in huge amounts of cash into a bank at regular intervals had better have a good explanation because someone is going to be asking questions. Heard of the Money Laundering Regulations?

Spend it? 100k a week? Really? You can't even put it on at Belle Vue Dogs these days. Shove it in a cupboard and leave it?

The sheer impracticality is obvious. What happens when someone leaves? Why would Jesus, for example, move to Arsenal and lose his £100k a week in readies? That's without thinking of the obvious legal issues.

They've been watching Ozark!

Can just see the Glazers towing a Missisippi paddle Steamer up the MSC and opening a casino in Salford docks.

 

[ysmsa]

What exactly is TeamViewer?

No idea but I always think of Rod Hull

"Hello Viewers"

 

[Vienna_70]

How is the new shirt protest going?

Not a pair of Zebra pants insight.

They’ve spelt GLAREZS wrong!

 

[Bilboblue]

It's a shite sponsor on a shite kit worn by a shite team.

Their actual logo is Blue but the rags didn't want a Blue sponsor's logo on their shirt, so they changed it to white.

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

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[Dubai Blue]

I'm not having that. What incentive do the rags have to find a new sponsor? They can just sit tight until 2026 and all the while, whilst Team Viewer continue to pay simply say 'nope not found one yet".
If you are right Team Viewer are even thicker than I thought.

Well, that's what the rags claimed in their statement to the stock exchange:

"Once a new shirt front partner is selected and takes on this role, TeamViewer will continue as a valued member of Manchester United's suite of global partners... TeamViewer's financial commitments to Manchester United remain unchanged whilst they remain the club's shirt front partner, after which their financial commitments will reflect their status as a global partner."

www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11095/12769103/manchester-united-to-end-front-of-shirt-sponsorship-deal-with-teamviewer

The "logic" is that the rags think they can get more than what TeamViewer are paying. And for TeamViewer (who are paying way more than they can afford), they get out of the deal early.

 

[FightLikeAGirl]

Which is quite ironic as he doesn’t have any hands, he makes a T-Rex look like Stretch out of the fantastic 4 :-) ..

I wish he was a T-Rex. Then he’d stomp all our opponents into the ground.