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How many times do you reckon they've done rough revenue calcs of shutting the team down, selling the brand to Adidas and selling the OT land for luxury flats do you think? Carrington would make a nice spa hotel also |
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Next thing we’ll be finding out is that, the bidders who haven’t made themselves known, don’t exist, and were little more than a cunning ruse to get more money from the Qataris |
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It’s just as well Qatar’s investment in football isn’t to be measured in anything as tangible as silverware. In the 12 years since it took over Paris Saint-Germain, Qatar Sports Investment has spent a little over £1.5bn on players – or, to put it in terms Nicolas Sarkozy would understand, the equivalent of 16 Dassault Rafale multi-purpose fighter jets. It has inflated football’s transfer market, changed the landscape of the sport, brought the emirate to unprecedented prominence, and got past the quarter-finals of the Champions League twice.
You can see why a vocal contingent of Manchester United fans dream of something similar, of a Qatari takeover of their own. Who wouldn’t want this? Which fan, raised in a Salford terrace on stories of Eddie Colman and Paul Scholes, Ian Curtis and Albert Finney, on George Best v Benfica and Bryan Robson v Barcelona, hasn’t yearned in their heart of hearts to become a rabble of egos promoting a petrostate with a questionable human rights record? |
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Yeah I thought some had said success would cheapened by Qatari ownership because it would be the equivalent of playing on easy mode - but given QSIs failures at PSG, surely that would only magnify United's brilliance if they were bought out and went on to have success?
Then again some have suggested that United are in the title race and that OT basically only needs a lick of paint so maybe best if the Glazers stay, or Jimbo can bring his expertise from owning Nice (7th in Ligue Un). |
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