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You can't stop it, unfortunately. You could have a million people turn out on the streets of Manchester and the Glazer's are still going to sell if the money is right. The only hope is they fail the fit and proper owners test, but that's never happening now.

Hopefully, the fans aren't as daft as the whoppers further North, who were waving Saudi flags around and wearing middle eastern clobber.
 
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You’ll get plenty of people who will welcome this with open arms, as others have said they really won’t care about the moral aspect, they’ll just see this as a way of fast tracking the clubs rise back to the top.

It’s a cancer but the time to nip it in the bud has already passed. This is why people were getting the hump with City and Chelsea and it wasn’t simply jealousy.

The only thing we can say as fans is we already are self sufficient, now we won’t have the leaches that are known as the glazers skimming off the top, so now we will continue to spend big and bigger without needing creative accounting.
 
I would ultimately prefer idealistic owners; local philanthropic self-made billionaires prepared to plough the requisite fortunes into the club - but that's not really how it works.

In general terms I don't have a major problem with Qatari owners, I completely disagree with their ideologies - they are extremely backwards in many ways, and I will never support or defend them.

Sadly, football is a corrupt industry - we've literally just had the World Cup in Qatar - the flagship competition. People weren't happy about it, but it all went down well. It's also worth remembering how as a country we are happy to sell weaponry to these countries, and welcome their leaders to Downing Street. Half of the stuff in our homes is probably made in China too - not great. I know a football club is deeper than that, but still.

My bigger concern is for other clubs and the league in general, it will no doubt descend into a willy-waving contest between clubs owned by Arab oil states, who can spend the most, sign the most hyped players, etc. That is not really going to be pretty - although it may be entertaining for a while. However, truth be told, I'd rather be one of those clubs than end up in mid-table irrelevance (we've had enough of that lately).
 
If you clear the.glazer enforced debt United would be a money machine. I'd still go with radcliffe as the perceived lesser of two evils
 
Doobedoo said:
What would you do as an Arsenal fan if they were brought out?
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What can you realistically do, boycotting does nothing. I'm struggling to get tickets as it is anyway due to bots and touts so it's not like I'm going much these days. I couldn't just stop supporting them.
 
CliffyG said:
What can you realistically do, boycotting does nothing. I'm struggling to get tickets as it is anyway due to bots and touts so it's not like I'm going much these days. I couldn't just stop supporting them.
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That is the dilemma. I’m a idealist at heart but I’m out numbered. :D
 
As I thought, the constant whinging about human rights was little more than another stick to beat City and Co with, when in reality you would do nothing about it when the money came to your club. This whole attitude of there's nothing we can do about it is little more than a get out. You really think they would be interested in this deal if every game United fans made it known what they thought of a murderous regime? If they actually took to the streets and voiced it or stayed away from games?

You either have the convictions to stand by your supposed morals on human rights or just admit in reality you didn't actually care that much. So they wouldn't care if you made your voices heard? But they heard quick enough when fans rallied against a European league.

I could understand it to some degree if we were talking a Crystal Palace fan but United spending has shown they don't even need this money to outspend them all. When a team like United falls to Middle East money and then Liverpool follow suit the game is truly dead.
 
Qatari bid is in.

Pass the teatowel @BaZ87

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