williamrickson

I believe our owner was looking at Manchester City Everton and Newcastle elected for Manchester City due to wiling selling new ground land round stadium and being able to get good publicity by playing on Manchester rivalry.

Plenty of competition and no club has unlimited money You thought City would dominate yet Liverpool are well on top this year City are in a good position though I think Chelsea are as well Arsenal are improving again Spurs have great new Stadium perhaps wont help much right now United are still linked with buying all the best players even thouhg they have all that debt and there owners will be hit hard by the Corona and they also have wage and player issues. Wolves and Leicester are looking great Everton could improve again and now there will be you guys

Manchester United fans have changed there tune on Middle Eastern Ownership first it was bad when it happened to us then it was going to be good when it was going to be them not you that Saudi Arabia took over now its bad that its happening to you So I was wondering if people on here had changed their mind ?

First off our owners are not Qatari I am not sure you would make the same mistake if our owner was say American. Also would be interested to know in what context you discussed our owners human rights record the world cup migrant workers rights etc that you got wrong. Was it when we played you for example in which case in what way is it relevant ? Or was it in some big ethical philosophical political debate in which case fair enough

Manchester City fan I come in peace I think most City fans will welcome your take over much rather fight for a title with you lot than London clubs or two clubs closer to home. Some of us will be wondering what you have been saying about our take over. Are you being consistent about Middle Eastern human rights and spending huge sums ? In my view the more competition the better it is for me as spectator I had a look at your take over topic and I think you are right to expect huge investment in both the club and Newcastle its self but do not expect it to be straight forward. First off whilst FFP is going to be relaxed due to the Corona virus but in a very minor way and if City are successful at CAS or in court it could be altered or scrapped. You are also helped by the change to the rules around new owners but. We got in ahead of the start of the rules and some would claim we fiddled the figures with UEA sponsorship money (I can explain later why this is not really the case and why City will win at CAS or in court and should never have been punished first time round let alone second) (Can Saudi Arabia do the same ?) Expect to probably over pay for a lot of players who are better than what you have but not amazing and then have to get rid of them for not very much money as you move up the league remember Wayne Bridge etc at city in the early days. On the investment in Newcastle area do not expect it to be that quick City have been slow to expand the ground the Academy took a while to be built compulsory purchase of United fans company. There is still a huge amount of land to develop New Arena finally proposed but still a lot left to put forward on site of the former proposed super casino and I think elsewhere. in the city I have read that the owner has something like 300 - 400 acres of land but the land everyone talks about is the academy 80 acres plus immediately round the ground a lot will depends on what the owners want and how much land is available more land more ambitious much much slower. I am sure our owner could have had thousands of flats built round the ground in no time but he wants some sort of Disneyland entertainment education sports thing and there is public transport to consider. Do not expect any early criticism of spending or human rights to go away at least not anytime soon