14 Oct 2023 20:11:14
Big blow that it's not qatar and on the face of it most of us won't be happy with sjr seemingly getting into bed with the glazers

But but but it's not the best news but it's certainly good news, the slow start of eventually getting them out, sjr will have our best interest and there will be investment! It cannot be a bad thing even if it's not the best outcome!

There is potentially light at the end .

1.) 14 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 20:37:05
Complete nonsense.

2.) 14 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 20:38:32
SJR will have no say in how the club will be run. Hell will purchase a 25% stake, which in turn goes directly to the Glazers.

3.) 14 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 20:47:56
He’s not going to of bought 25 % without guarantees of further control!
Why would he!

4.) 14 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 20:49:00
DLIB enlighten me? We’re all disappointed or most of us are but the bigger picture is there is finally movement!

5.) 14 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 20:53:31
You enlighten me?

6.) 14 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 20:59:30
He won’t be the controlling share will he, he needs to hit another 30 odd% won’t he, not sure he ever will. Glazers for the cash injection they wanted to carry on leaching off us.

7.) 14 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 21:15:45
If Ratcliffe buys 25% of the shares, all the money goes to the Glazers. It won’t do anything for the club. The toxicity will continue. The “movement” talked about would be irrelevant.

Yet again the club would spurn an opportunity. Continuity Glazer, people need to wake up.

8.) 14 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 21:32:15
Only reason Jim wants United is because of the rights he has to the so called oil or gas that's beneath the ground. This has nothing to do with putting the Manchester back into Manchester United (whatever that means) and him being a lifelong United fan. This is simply another ploy of making more money to fill his pockets.

9.) 14 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 22:33:11
I can't imagine there is that much oil or gas below ot, the glazers would have found it by now, knocked the stadium down and got us ground sharing with Salford.

10.) 15 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 23:58:53
Ratcliffe knows to get max value out of Utd they need top sponsorship and income from winning trophies. Yes he will want to make money but if the team keeps losing he knows he will lose out too. He also is allegedly a Utd supporter so should have a better idea than the Glazers about what the club needs.

11.) 15 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 02:47:50
You keep believing that he has the club's best interests at heart because he claims to be a lifelong supporter. And you actually believe the Glazers didn't know what was needed to get united challenging and successful. They chose not to do so because they view United as an American franchise. Am surprised they didn't do like their American counterparts, when they can't fully finance a stadium rebuild by asking the Manchester council to fund the new stadium and if they refused, threaten to relocated United to a next part of England.

12.) 15 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 08:26:17
Redman

It would be a terrible deal if the 25% investment is not reinvested in some form into the club. what does Ratcliff get from doing something like this. I realize the Glazers can just pocket it but that would be an outrage everyone. Let's wait and see the details.

13.) 15 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 08:51:06
Chris1
You disappoint me. That is bolloxology of the very lowest order. You delude yourself!

14.) 15 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 09:31:43
Fizz

What does anyone know here at this time to make such conclusive statements about the clubs future. Its all hearsay until a deal is announced and details come out.

Its all emotional statements based on the disappointment of glazers not being gone completely without any facts what things look like going forward.

15.) 15 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 09:54:56
Ahmad.

You keep telling yourself that but there are some facts to be considered:

Have the Glazers been bought out? Fact - NO.
Are they still on the board with a controlling share? Fact - YES.
Is the huge debt still there? Fact - YES.
Has SJR made any reference to clearing the debt? Fact - NO.
Has SJR made any reference to improving the ground and Carrington? Fact - NO.

Nothing positive in my view or emotional knee jerk so I'll stick with my thoughts on this.

16.) 15 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 10:05:04
Get a grip fizz my point is this, we all wanted qatar but let’s be honest before sheikh came along we were all desperate for Jim, and why? Because it meant the end of the glazers! We don’t know what this deal is but sjr is no mug and isn't going to invest 25 % of the clubs value for nothing in return! If the glazers don’t want to sell yet which seems obvious then this is the best we can hope for, a tiny glimmer! Not a lot the sheikh or sjr can do if they don’t want to sell! If that’s delusional then you need stop sulking and man up! We’re all disappointed but what can we do! Hope and pray that sjr gets those leaches out of our club as soon as possible as it appears now he’s our only hope .

17.) 15 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 10:31:44
Chris,

We did not ALL want Qatar at all, there are many many people who didn’t want Qatar. The fact that fans of our club are so gutted that we aren’t being taken over by that regime just shows where we are at.

18.) 15 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 10:44:51
Fizz

Everything you have listed is assumptions and your opinion. You might be proven very wrong on many of them including settlement of debt, investment in stadium and just a wholesale change of how the club will run going forward including the board.

unless you think SJR is a donkey and decided to give the glazers 1.5 billion for a club that lost 6 million last quarter I believe.

19.) 15 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 15:52:25
Fizz everything you’ve said is guesswork let’s all at least hear off sjr if and when this happens!