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Iāll wait until weāre not sold to to even worse owners before opting for that GIF.
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Investors from Saudi Arabia and Qatar
EPL and sports washing. A better love story than twilight
Not possible to be sold to worse owners than we have currently 
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Is there any truth to the Amazon/Jeff Bezos stuff I read about a while ago?
Iād rather be owned by the Glazers than a Newcastle situation. If weāre owned by a brutal regime then thatās me done and Iāll confine my sporting misery to to the Bombers.
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The hope from many Man United supporters, is that Jim Ratcliffe would by buy the clubā¦. But I think that ship has sailed.
The Glaziers have probably put too high of a price on The club for anyone but a Saudi or Qatari take over.
The investment thatās needed at Man United is far more than the price of purchase. They also need to pick up the Glazerās debt and also major investment into Old Trafford and Caringtonā¦. Which simply arenāt up to Champions League standard.
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I fear you are right.
Thereās a hell of a lot of hype about Gustavo Scarpa amongst Forest fans after the friendly win at Valencia. He canāt play an EPL game until January but reports are promising.
for some reason Blackburn fielded a second string starting 11 in the League Cup match , but even so a 4-1 win for Forest and 27 shots at goal (!! WTF!?) - and by most accounts should have been 6 or 7 -1 - is a promising start post-WC . Nice to see Johnson , Awoniyi and Lingard all on the scoresheet. Now into the final 8 for the first time since 1994.
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rashford with a most of the field drible then a cracker of a finish
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Pool v City 1-1 20 mins in
City win 3-2 but thought they were far better value than that
Good match, plenty of action and if weād have taken our chances couldāve won. Nice way to blow the cobwebs out before the PL starts up again on Boxing Day.
Whatās the general consensus on first round of PL post-WC? Teams who had many players competing will show better match fitness, or squads that mostly rested/trained the past month?
Sir Jim isnāt what we need regardless.
He already owns Nice in France and he has hardly thrown cash at them to try and make them relevant and reportedly runs the club like a business - exactly what we do not need as itās what we currently have.
We need significant investment over the next 10+ years and need someone who can compete financially with the likes of City, Real, PSG etc.
Iām not entirely sure. There is no doubt the club can be smarter with its spending. The amount of money Woodward has wasted on transfers for players who simply are not up to scratch and then also the refusal to sell players when there are buyers lining up. Itās just a poorly ran club.
Man United spends more on transfers and player wages than the majority of clubs in the Champions league, and only less than Man City in the premier league. Every dollar spent is thrown on top of the Clubs growing debt.
You just need to look at what they spent on the likes of Van de Beek, Wan Bassaka, McGuire & Fred. These 4 players together cost Ā£170 million and theyāre all seat warmers (at best).
They spent Ā£80m on Antony because they left the sale too late. If they had have just paid what Ajax were asking earlier in the trade windowā¦ they would have got him for Ā£50-60m
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This also ties into the Glaziers though who have had people reside over key positions within the club for years who have no idea about football and how a successful football club is ran.
All the points you raise above are correct but it also boils down to the fact that Woodward, Arnold, Murtugh etc are not footballing people - theyāre bankers.
When new owners come in, we need to hope that they put a broom through the entire hierarchy at the club and put people in charge who have the best interests of the club and not the owners pockets, at the front of their minds.
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Highest spending club in the world.
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Feels like a new season is about to begin. Itās almost like the WC break has given us a preseason type feel to it.
I was a little down at the start of the season watching the Foxes get flogged, or hand games back when in a winning position.
Iām glad now (despite asking for him to leave) that we kept BR. He seems to have righted the ship.
Onwards and upwards.
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