He's a journalist who was seen with RA recently over in SA.
Saudi Takeover - Claim deal done
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He's a journalist who was seen with RA recently over in SA.
And somebody connected with Saudi hierarchy and was with RA recently
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Yes, so we're left wanting something that might kill the club that we know, all because the Glazers won't grasp what is staring everyone else in the face.
That lad! Love him.
Go home, you're drunk.
Making the point that to even suggest owning a football club would make even the slightest change is naivety of the highest order,
I don't know we'd be recognisable as United under ownership like this, we would be joining the clubs everyone says who's successes are meaningless (City and PSG), becasue they are owned by who they are, yet we'd be owned by an even richer and worse regime.
We are still the club with the highest turnover, biggest stadium, most support, etc, in the prem, we don't need this, we just need more intelligent football people running the club.
Ok. So what would be their motive in buying United? Why have the added scrutiny of buying United?
Can someone explain to me if it's about the Saudi royal family owning United or just some random Saudi Arabian investor?
I'd like to think we wouldn't need to fiddle the books to spend to comply to the FFP, like the other teo clubs mentioned. I'd like to think we'd be allowed to spend our income and have placed competent people in charge of the club.
Naivety from my part perhaps but I can't see how they'd kill us as a club. Excuse the words I'm about to use but they would 'liberate' us as a club and not worry about the burden of the debt and penny pinching, like under Glazer's.
Like I've said previously, I'm thinking about this purely from a sporting perspective and not involving politics.
No, I'm just providing anti Saudi posters some context and inviting them to explore any hypocrisy in those views.
Didn't they literally just chop up a journalist last year.
I get the point of your post but its like looking at the founding fathers of america and saying - well ok they own people as slaves(Fingers cross they realise how bad that idea is) but their views on free speech are super fecking dope or Queen Victoria might have caused a famine in Ireland but girl power!!!!
Just my view but I think it would be far better if people were just honest and said due to the deep-rotted affection they have for United all the nasty shite the saudi royal family are involved in doesn't out weigh that affection. Nothing good can come out of a Saudi owned United, the fact is a Saudi own United will only strengthen the royal family and their awful crimes. But lets at least be honest about it rather than trying to convince ourselves that spending £100 million on Jadon Sancho is somehow empowering the feminist movement in Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi are the dream owners for plastic fans.
So a person in Saudi Arabia tweets they would like owners to leave and that’s evidence of a sale?. Seems a stretch.
The guy who started this is a nobody in terms of Saud family, he’s just someone in a press office for one person. That’s it, it’s distasteful how desperate so many fans are to be owned by the Saudi’s. People should look into what they regime does and how they treat people and not what some low level employee is posting on LinkedIn.
And mass-beheaded 37 people in April.
My point was obvious mate i've reiterated it a few times now. Which was everyone can and does have their own opinion on what is and isn't morally right/wrong. You can't make absolute statements like
But what point have you been trying to make in our subsequent discussion though mate?
Thats a genuine question i would honestly like to know as i accept i could be completely missing it.
Its all paper talk but even if true they are immune to scrutiny.
Who are you implying here?
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Maybe in honour of buying United they'll it cut down to just 20 people at a time. Progress my friends, lovely sweet progress.
My statement is, like someone has just replied to one of my above posts, that they feel fans who want this buyout from Saudis to happen is distasteful.
So my original point was aimed at them. Genuinely mate, if you still don't understand this, I don't mind direct messaging you and clarifying further, as I believe our conversation on this is adding no real substance to this post.
Saudis would be immune to scrutiny? By whom?
That would be nice. And maybe offer an incentive to Rashford. For every goal scored we'll remove one person from the execution list.
They're going to be buying United to "keep themselves accountable" after all
You believe this to be true? Interesting.
Nah I'm paraphrasing an idiotic post I saw earlier. Let me see if I can find it.
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Oh, it was you.
What scrutiny?
I read reports about them donating substantial amounts of money to big media groups in Europe. I assume that a number of politicians are also recipients of similar "donations".
So I wonder why who ll do the "scrutiny"..
Probably a new shirt sponsor.
90 +5 min - Rashford penalty is saved.
Jeff Stelling - ''And we go live to the director box at Old Trafford''
90 +5 min - Rashford penalty is saved.
Jeff Stelling - ''And we go live to the director box at Old Trafford''
Oh boy.New thread material for the Caf, "Rashford needs to stop focusing on his brand and start focusing on saving lives."
Hahahaaha. Who's the idiot here? I asked the question and you latched on to it? I never said it was for accountability but you certainly did. What a funny person you are.
If you are immune to international scrutiny then armchair football supporters are not going to change your behaviour.
The fans of Manchester United? There is a billion of them after all.
Hahahaaha. Who's the idiot here? I asked the question and you latched on to it? I never said it was for accountability but you certainly did. What a funny person you are.
Even asking the question is next levels of naivety.
'Might Jamal Khashoggi have been saved if the Saudis owned United?'
So to all the people that will stop following United if this happens will you also leave the caf?
Which I totally get. But my question is again, why would MBS want to buy United if they're is no positive gain for him? Maybe it is true then that MBS doesn't want to purchase United, maybe it is some other Saudi?!
Hahaha ok.
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