Sir Jim Ratcliffe: I want to buy Manchester United | Will make a bid for the club [Telegraph]
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We all agree. But I highly doubt wall street bankers care if they are popular with fans if they get their dividends and a big profit when the club is eventually sold.
Ratcliffe is the ideal owner, but its hard to imagine he actually gets the deal done ahead of yet more American investors.
Mofos weren’t buying this when the Saudis were sniffing around cause “freedom” and optics.
Two sides of the same coin.
True , but I still prefer not being owned by oil sheikhs .
Yeah sure, I’d rather not be owned by any of that kind of scum killing and oppressing innocent people for profit.
Surely it’s Neville?
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has pushed himself to the front of the queue in the battle to buy #mufc. There is growing confidence the Glazer family are finally ready to sell control of the club in the face of mounting pressure from fans.
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Despite the imminent Casemiro signing, this is much bigger on all scales than any transfer we will make this summer. Take nothing away, I’m happy with the signing of Casemiro and us trying to get Antony from Ajax too but I just feel it’s papering over the cracks. This is the one I really fecking hope happens!
Following Barcelona model... Hurry up Sir Jim!!
Alright man strong convo
Point was it isn’t played out in public eye which we’ve agreed.
Yep. The only if is there’s an investment that comes along with bigger returns (or the same) and less attention so it’s less of a headache
I hope your right
I cannot see fans bowing to this. The fans reaction to the ESL last year would hopefully be timid compare to the outrage over this
Theyre looking for cheap money and low risk to their investment. Start a crypto, united coins...
ICO through binnace with Ronnie heading it up..
Absolute scumbags.
Not content with slowly destroying the club over the course of the last 17 years, they want to ruin us over the next few decades too.
Is there anything Jim can do to put pressure on them to sell? We require more than passive interest right now.
If they even start to dream of doing a Farcelona on us, show them why there's a pitchfork on the crest.
Feels like there may be blood in the water. We need to keep the pressure up on the Glazers, keep them in the newscycle etc.
Does anyone have suggestions for those of us not close enough to regularly attend matches / protests?
Does anyone have suggestions for those of us not close enough to regularly attend matches / protests?
Sir Jim doesn’t want to run the club for profit. He is nearly 70 and wants to set up a legacy. He has said he knows how important the club is to the city.
Hope we don’t lose momentum because of a few last minute signings.
Hope we don’t lose momentum because of a few last minute signings.
Contact the sponsors. Say that you are boycotting their products until the club is sold to fit and proper ownership I.e. Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Monday will be very important.
This is really surprising (as in I didn't think they were that stupid) - I thought they want no drama on Monday and went all in on getting Casemeiro signed to make it look like they do something and then when the heat calms they do this on the sly
Instead they are doing it whilst knowing people are ready to march and cause a scene
Instead they are doing it whilst knowing people are ready to march and cause a scene
Good shout - I'll do just that. There's a list of United sponsors on the website handily enough.
That is obviously what they're hoping, but you'd like to think most are beyond getting distracted so easily this time.
The fact they're always so quick to do something as soon as the pressure is on is a good sign to me, they're clearly quickly influenced by the mood of the fans, and feel they need to react, so it'll be interesting to see what happens if it's sustained properly this time.
Heard our sponsors love a good #GlazersOut
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The Glazers look like they’re floundering, but they’ll hold on to the bitter end. I doubt even Radcliffe offering £5b would make them flinch. I hope I’m wrong. I also hope Radcliffe is serious.
I mean they've taken out whatever they put in and more. Why would they refuse £5b?
It's an absolute travesty that these cnuts could walk away with that much money.
Casemiro was his signing
The NFL Broncos just sold for $4.65B. And they're nothing special as a brand. Have a couple Super Bowls but they're not an iconic franchise like Manchester United. As a brand they are unrivaled and that will probably be more and more true going forward because I think the Premier League is a bit undervalued. It's a tougher league on the owners due to no profit sharing and cap like the NFL has, but this sport is truly the world sport and I think estimates on its value rising are wise.
Also team ownership in the world's yacht club is partially prick measurement. If you're the billionaire in the room who owns MU you're a porn star. Imagine saying you're the owner of x/y/z run of the mill NFL team vs being able to say you own the world's biggest sports brand. Of course owning Chelsea doesn't count since they would require vagina measurements but for the rest it applies.
I think the Glazers want a minority owner who funds their BS while he waits patiently in the wings and allows them to exit with a good team. But what they're going to get are big time offers that undermine the solidarity among the siblings and leads to them cashing out.
So right now Sir Jim has positioned himself in the corner where the yacht club will be smelling blood in the water and he's the hometown kid everyone is rooting for. It will probably be bids, so the question is how much does he want it.
This won happen for another few months, if at all.
feck that.We need need to keep this front and center in the news,not just the back pages.Pound the sponsors on the socials as others have said.Ramp it up 'til they break.
Big question is if the fans would start a serious protest again. For some reason I doubt it
If the Glazers start selling future profits for immediate cash? Maybe I'm being naive, but that feels like a line crossed, especially after Barcelona premiered to the world what a shit show this path is
The club have denied this story. The Times seem to be doing PR work for Ratcliffe which I’m not against as I want the Glazers gone but it’s interesting to see what power money brings. Sky and the times have suddenly been relentless the last few weeks about the Glazer ownership - this is all part of a plan to force them out.
So apparently only Joel wants to remain - surely targeting each glazer individually and offering them a wad of cash for their shares is the way to go in order to get a controlling stake? Even do a deal where you guarantee he stays on the board as vice chair or something if they don’t won’t to feck him over too much.
At some point it will, but deals like this will take months and even years.
It's a good point that the article is a bit misleading, making it sound like the Glazers are actively pursuing this path instead of the idea being floated to them.
I don't really know how the Glazers are set up, would it be possible to buy them out one by one? Isn't there a big discrepancy between the shares and the control each Glazer has? Joel having way more control than the number of his shares would suggest and so on. Surely that would make an approach targeting them individually tricky
If Joel 'Martial is the next Ronaldo' Glazer needs a little push, I'm sure our fanbase can oblige.
The fact some of the parasitic kids want to get out is great and somewhat ironic, since divide and conquer is a strategy the Glazers have used on the fans but hopefully this time it's their turn to be divided.
The fact some of the parasitic kids want to get out is great and somewhat ironic, since divide and conquer is a strategy the Glazers have used on the fans but hopefully this time it's their turn to be divided.
Years?