24 Nov 2022 17:31:29
The Guardian suggests that the reason both Liverpool and United are up for sale at this juncture is the failure of the ESL idea. This makes some sense. The establishment of a franchise position, securing participation, revenues and profits without the threat of relegation, was their goal. Every businessman loves a monopoly. It's how all the American sports leagues work. And they have college sports to feed them with talent, generating enormous sums of money for the top schools, bumper pay packets for top college coaches, and an indentured workforce, unable to sell their skills for anything more than a dubious degree, room and board. Ronaldo, the slave would have loved it!

1.) 24 Nov 2022
24 Nov 2022 17:53:59
It's a simple I think. Both United and Liverpool were bought by investors and the potential for growth in the wake of the failed ESL there is little scope for growth in the short to medium term.

Pair that with a potentially turbulent next 2-3 years in terms of global finance it seems a sensible time to cash out your chips.

The other option is to stick it out for the next 3-5 years at least.

2.) 25 Nov 2022
25 Nov 2022 10:35:39
Hopefully we get new owners who will invest in the club and have the right infrastructure to allow Utd to compete at the top again.

3.) 25 Nov 2022
25 Nov 2022 11:28:10
The Glazers invested in the bare minimum. I don't mean that in terms of money (as few clubs have spent more on transfers than us over the past decade) .

I mean that buy players to play for you is the minimum a club needs to do. You can't play without players.

Yet if you truly are investigating in a club then you invest in all areas.

You don't just try to have to best players on the pitch, but you aim to have the best stadium, the best training ground, the best academy, the best people employed.

As you can't be the best club unless you aim to be the best in every category, not just players on the pitch.

In truth the only thing the club has been best in class at under the Glazers is maximising income. No club has legitimately brought in as much money through sponsorship and merchandising than United have under the Glazers.

While they have invested just enough by buying players to maintain that income.

I'd hope for ambitious owners, they do not have to be Manchester United fans. In fact part of me would prefer owners who aren't fans as fans don't make the best decisions as we tend to be too emotional.

I want owners who want our club to be the best in every aspect. Best team on the pitch and best team off it as well.

I'd prefer the new owners to not have a questionable history with human rights. I'd like them to be upstanding, moral people. But I appreciate that there are very few billionaires with the funds to buy the club who probably fit that criteria.

4.) 27 Nov 2022
27 Nov 2022 14:09:19
Oooooh I'd prefer our owners weren't oil tycoons with questionable human shut up and go get a job.