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It’s amazing how the match last night has become one of the greatest Premier League games ever, but our 5-4 against Fulham doesn’t even get a mention.

I know the reasons, but it’s just another example of the media bias towards our horrible neighbours in Trafford.

And it’s fucking sickening!
 
tweety said:
The Rat has gone up in my estimation. Similarities with the Salah situation but imo his comments are justified unlike Salah. I hope he fucks off to Saudi, he's their only decent player who appears to give a shit.
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They wanted to sell him. They didn't. They needed to borrow another £100m to finance their transfer spending because they didn't get anything for him. The story here is pretty clear.
 
Today's Manchester Evening News, 16th December!

Ten pages of puzzles on the front page.

The paper also had 4 pages on the team at the swamp!

Why not just put 14 pages of puzzles on the front!?
 

Bruno Fernandes: Man Utd wanted me to leave, their lack of loyalty hurt​

Story by James Ducker
• 5h•
7 min read

Daily Telegraph website.
 
Vienna_70 said:
It’s amazing how the match last night has become one of the greatest Premier League games ever, but our 5-4 against Fulham doesn’t even get a mention.

I know the reasons, but it’s just another example of the media bias towards our horrible neighbours in Trafford.

And it’s fucking sickening!
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It's hilarious.
Forget scraping the bottom of the barrel - they're clean through and knee deep among the last remaining detritus of attempted relevance, having waved goodbye to the Wee Beat City and even the Tallest Floodlight milestones way back.
One of the (therefore their) greatest games (and therefore moments) is now a draw where they threw away tje lead 3 times.

You know, they just might actually be learning something...
 
The Salford lad. said:
He hasn’t forgotten how badly they treated him.
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He's that one kid that every school football team had that thought they were better than everyone else, and they were usually a full-kit-wanker Rag's or Dippers fan. The ones who were always greedy with the ball and moaning if nobody passed to them. Weirdly, the team always used to play better without them in it.

I hope he stays another 5 seasons.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Just checked quickly and they issued $425m secured notes, which will be held by various parties. These have to be redeemed in 18 months time. There's another loan from Bank of America of $225m which has to be repaid by 2029. That's around £480m at the current exchange rate.

Then they've got a revolving credit facility (i.e. big overdrafts) with BoA, Nat West, HSBC and Santander. That totals £350m and they'd used £265m of that at the end of June. They also borrowed an additional £100m to finance transfer spending in this last quarter to September.

They also owe £550m in Trade Payables, which will include outstanding instalments on transfer fees as well as money owed to suppliers.

That's total outstanding debt of close to £1.5bn
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Thanks for the replies and research, matey, interesting stuff.

I was thinking about the original loan though, rather than stuff that's gone on since they became owners.
The debt to pay for their purchase of the club.

Is there a record of where that initial money came from?
That's what i was surmising when i asked if the original debt was somehow loaned from themselves via some trickery accounting, so that all along the interest repayments have actually been going to the glaziers, not a bank or whatever.

Again, maybe i'm in fantasyland with my thinking, but summat smells wrong.
 
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