United Thread - 2023/24

[Chak19]

Not as good as my personal fav,letting their own youth team superstar Pogba go for nothing..and buying him back for 100Million....
Superb wheeling and dealing that.

You forgot that they let him go for free for a second time.

 

[Tracking back]

Not as good as my personal fav,letting their own youth team superstar Pogba go for nothing..and buying him back for 100Million....
Superb wheeling and dealing that.

It really is amateur hour at that joke of a club and has been for many years now.

What fascinates me is the level of deception the media are willing to peddle to collude in the illusion that the rags have actually got a future in football.

 

[One Fan Clapping]

I don't see it as an "investment" either, in the way that Sheikh Mansour has invested around £1.5bn in in a club worth £20m when he bought us, and we're now worth at least double that £1.5bn on any objective measure.

United's Enterprise Value, which is one measure of determining value, is probably around £3.75bn ($4.75bn) currently. You can't cut costs in football, like you can in most other businesses to improve the bottom line, and revenue upside is limited, so $6bn is a hefty premium when you know you've got £1bn debt plus major renovations to the stadium & training ground.

Ratcliffe's businesses are run on debt so he would have undoubtedly loaded more onto them. If the Qataris buy them outright, clear the debt and pump a load into infrastructure, then it's clearly a vanity project, not an investment.

Can debt be cleared though? Surely that’s owner investment and would be against FFP?

*Sorry if this has been answered before.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Bratty cnuts.

 

[Blue Til Death]

But I was always told that a **** is useful,and United are most certainly useless !!!

For clarity, Cunts are indeed useful, complete and utter cunts are rags .. !

 

[BridgyDids]

You forgot that they let him go for free for a second time.

According to Gazzetta in Italy today, Juventus would consider selling Pogba for the right price.

Surely, they now have the midfield to unlock him?

Get Pep to say he’s putting a cheeky bid in, and United will do the rest.

 

[Vienna_70]

Didn’t we get £30M for him as part of the deal

£19 million.

£8 million from the initial sale to Dortmund, and then £11 million because of the sell-on clause, when Jaded joined the rags

 

[Vienna_70]

Yes but my question was any players whose last goal for us was against utd..
Depends if kavalashvilli scored another goal b4 leaving us..

He scored three for City.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Can debt be cleared though? Surely that’s owner investment and would be against FFP?

*Sorry if this has been answered before.

Dent can be cleared by an owner and they can also spend as much as they like on infrastructure improvements. That all goes through the balance sheet. There's no way we could've afforded to buy the players we've bought and extend the South Stand/build the CFA, without Sheikh Mansour funding the latter. So we've benefited from that.

What an owner can't do is pay excessive amounts of sponsorship, which inflates revenue in the profit and loss account.

 

[Impeccable One]

You forgot that they let him go for free for a second time.

After he was injured 25% of the time, shit 25% of the time, average 40% of the time and they got a decent contribution from him 10% of the time