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Pool may sneak into the CL (and Citeh lose the treble) IF Citeh are retroactively docked points

Citeh would be the 5th EPL team in the CL due to their winning it

Spuds would get Conference League and Villa would slide up to the Europa League

a fucking disaster if that happens soon (as Pool will then have CL to offer, plus a massive amount of new revenue)

plus Spuds will get millions more to play with

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Qatar the lesser of two evils

https://www.football365.com/news/mailbox-man-utd-qatar-jassim-jim-ratcliffe-glazers-saudi-sportswashing


A while ago I sent an e-mail about the takeover of Manchester United. In this e-mail I decried the choice between a Brexit backing tax avoiding twat or a mysterious Qatari Sheikh who realistically is just the public face of Qatar and all their human rights violations in this instance. Several months later, however, with no advancement in the sale despite bids closing well over a month ago, the Glazers have made the decision much easier for me. At this point in time I will take the Qataris and kicking the Glazers out over Jim Ratcliffe and keeping the Glazers around.

This is entirely because of the Glazers. To be absolutely blunt they’re parasites of the lowest order, and they give zero ducks about Manchester United. It’s self-evident that the only thing they care about is the money that they get. This entire sale has been a shambles from start to finish and it’s frankly embarrassing that they’re still trying to play bidders against each other after the bids have closed when what they should have been doing is finalising the sale through a constructive conversation with the winning bid. The fact that it’s taking them well into the summer and they’ll probably still be around in time for the opening of the next season when I’m sure that ETH, not to mention all of the fans, would have liked more certainty and more of a plan including a concrete budget in place for the summer transfer window is highly detrimental to the club and their strategy for the next season. And this is entirely aimed at securing the Glazers a higher bid. That is to say this is not a footballing decision this is a profit driven decision made by people who couldn’t give a fig about Manchester United.

So as much as on a personal level I probably would prefer Sir Jim, if there’s any chance the Glazers might stay with him in charge I have to say I prefer the other bid for a full takeover. Any model which keeps the Glazers on for a cut of any profit that we might generate in the future is anathema to me; they’ve already leeched way too much. They’ve already damaged the club way too much. It’s just a shame that Zilliacus pulled out off the saying what a clown show the process had become. Frankly he seemed to be the only decent person in the running. Now I’ll just have to somehow make my peace with Qatar owning my football club.

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