Big Jim’s officially in..

Originally Posted by AK14

So it’ll be for the share percentage of what the glazers own and the rest will stay where it is?

The debt is a worry, no?

Very good

Originally Posted by Finport Red

It’s marketing garbage. They’re just not dumb enough to replace ‘fan’ with ‘customer’.

And if anyone thinks by ‘fan’ they mean the middle aged blokes who frequent here and who live within fifteen miles of Old Trafford, they’re deluding themselves.

Exactly. Just sounds far too much like sanitised PR speak from 'a man of the people'. Transparent to say the least, what's less transparent so far is his plans to pay back the borrowed money (and why he's borrowing it in the first place if it's not coming from United).

What exactly are you expecting from a one paragraph offer statement?!

Originally Posted by Finport Red

So, an extension of the current set-up with more noses in the trough and a plethora of Wall Street leeches to satisfy. Debt remains, but hidden under a paragraph of grandiose throwaway sound bites of ‘making United great again’. An idea that might last as long as Jim’s ticker holds out, but will be gone soon after that.

Yep. Amazing how easy people have fallen for the PR. Might as well just send out a release saying "We get you."

ffs

Originally Posted by Wayne Jenkins

The idea that he's some hardcore red who won't use the club to pay back the money he's borrowed sounds like fanciful nonsense.

Some people are lauding him without knowing anything about him if we're honest.

Worth reminding again - he bought Nice and put his brother in as CEO. You can imagine how that worked out.

I understand why some are latching on to Ratcliffe but the Ineos bid statement isn’t even trying to hide the reality.

It’s just the Glazer’s with better PR.

Originally Posted by tatty

I understand why some are latching on to Ratcliffe but the Ineos bid statement isn’t even trying to hide the reality.

It’s just the Glazer’s with better PR.

It's baffling, he's a bluffing @#%&! that's going to keep us in debt

Originally Posted by Ethers

What exactly are you expecting from a one paragraph offer statement?!

I dunno. Maybe not a copy and paste from a bid for a rival club.

So just to get this right, some bloke from Qatar who’s never been to Old Trafford is definitely to be believed with what he says in a one paragraph offer statement, but the guy from Oldham talking about realistic aims is just PR nonsense.

Okay……

I don't believe any of them, personally. All shysters and bad bastards imo.

Originally Posted by Jethro

I dunno. Maybe not a copy and paste from a bid for a rival club.

Originally Posted by Jethro

I dunno. Maybe not a copy and paste from a bid for a rival club.

Which part is copy and pasted?

Originally Posted by Ethers

So just to get this right, some bloke from Qatar who’s never been to Old Trafford is definitely to be believed with what he says in a one paragraph offer statement, but the guy from Oldham talking about realistic aims is just PR nonsense.

Okay……

It's utter madness, chatting like they've read the bid.....

The hoops these Qatar heads are willing to jump through....

Originally Posted by Ethers

So just to get this right, some bloke from Qatar who’s never been to Old Trafford is definitely to be believed with what he says in a one paragraph offer statement, but the guy from Oldham talking about realistic aims is just PR nonsense.

Okay……

TBF how do you know he's never been to Old Trafford? It's not like he couldn't afford it. He could've been (and claims to be) a lifelong fan, who's biggest dream is close to coming to fruition. He could even lurk on here. Billpig...???

Originally Posted by Ethers

Which part is copy and pasted?

£#%&! me go for a walk or something. I didn't mean literally.

Originally Posted by dunk

I don't believe any of them, personally. All shysters and bad bastards imo.

Behind every fortune is a crime, and all that.

Originally Posted by dunk

I don't believe any of them, personally. All shysters and bad bastards imo.

Correct. None of these vile @#%&!s should be allowed anywhere near the game, but with the filth running the sport, and politicians allowing it all to go ahead as long as their snouts get near the trough, the best we can hope for is someone taking the debt off our back.

Originally Posted by BarryX

TBF how do you know he's never been to Old Trafford? It's not like he couldn't afford it. He could've been (and claims to be) a lifelong fan, who's biggest dream is close to coming to fruition.

Sure he is

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

It's utter madness, chatting like they've read the bid.....

The hoops these Qatar heads are willing to jump through....

Very weird. None of us have any idea of the details of either bid. Both statements are just carefully worded PR releases, you’d be crazy to read too much into either of them.

But evidently all the financial experts on here have popped out of the woodwork again

Originally Posted by Jethro

£#%&! me go for a walk or something. I didn't mean literally.

Go for a walk or something

Fair play for admitting you were chatting shit.

Originally Posted by Ethers

Very weird. None of us have any idea of the details of either bid. Both statements are just carefully worded PR releases, you’d be crazy to read too much into either of them.

But evidently all the financial experts on here have popped out of the woodwork again


Go for a walk or something

Fair play for admitting you were chatting shit.

‘Majority’ is the single word that bothers me.

Big Jim has been to old Trafford more times than most of the Qatar cheerleaders on here....