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Plus another half a billion to fix up the stadium and get the training facilities up to the standard required.

Tbf, I'd rather the Glazers than the Saudis. I'd rather we stopped existing as a club rather than them.

There are bad owners, and there are bad owners

The Glazers are aresholes but at least they don't kill people

If Saudi Arabi operate at Newcastle like they do at home we could see rival managers imprisoned an/or possibly murdered.

If a player scores a last minute winner against them, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them disappeared and/or tortured.

The Glazers will only sell once they believe they have extracted every last cent of value from the dead, decaying husk of the United brand and any buyer is vastly overpaying them for whatever is left. That is their mindset. I've said it before, but I think people miss it when they talk about top 4 as a Glazer priority - the Glazers are business people. They could not care less if United finishes in the top 4 or not. That will never be forced to sell by finishing outside the top 4.

All they care about is return on their investment. United has failed dramatically for almost a decade in sporting terms, but it is still worth almost twice what it was in 2012. Competitive results and financial results are two entirely different things for the Glazers. United could languish in mid-table for the next 20 years, but so long as the Glazers think they can extract a return greater than their investment they will never sell. The Newcastle purchase means that ultimately United will fall out of top 4 because Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea and now Newcastle will be wealthy clubs that are more competently run than United is. But United will keep paying the Glazers dividends regardless.

The grim reality is that the Premier League has become an arms race between investment funds, sovereign wealth funds and dubious billionaires. Only the last two care in some distant way about football. Top level football is utterly amoral. Most of the top level players were not selected because they were decent stand up guys. Same for the managers and coaches. Everyone looks the other way when it benefits their own team. The Glazers are not nice and decent people. The only people who can afford to buy out the Glazers are also not the type of people who got that rich by being nice and decent people. The dream of a white knight billionaire owner with no strings attached doesn't exist.

There is obviously corruption going on with a few big brown envelopes being handed out . When your talking about the sums of money and the character of the people involved corruption is inevitable. How is this deal ok but bskybs deal to buy United rejected? Football is becoming very distasteful with the money greed and corruption currently involved.

There were videos online of barrels of oil being delivered to the FA headquarters yesterday morning.

Do you guys think Scott Mctominay is on the same level as Darren Fletcher was . Personally i think he is far inferior and Fletcher was one of our most underrated players

Wouldnt be much in it. Fletcher was mainly a sub/rotation until he was 25ish and even then maybe he wouldnt have been a starter if Hargreaves hadn't been crocked.

Scott potentially can be better as Darren had that illness in his prime years.

That said Scott will need to keep progressing like Fletcher did.

Sancho not pullng up any trees again against Andorra

Didn't fergie play Hargreaves Fletcher Carrick Scholes Park all together in the big European away games at one stage. He even had Rooney out left and Ronaldo up top on his own . Extremely workman like and solid

He was very good, 2 great assists