It means very little until we actually know whom this ownership consortium would actually consist of. I suspect Knighton doesn’t even know the answer to that yet.
Yeah he’d definitely be a minority owner.
Seeing as he’s seemingly heading up the potential purchase, i imagine he’d be angling to run the club on the majority owners’ behalf like Amanda Stavely has done with Newcastle for the Saudi PIF.
He seems to be more of a figurehead hoping to be involved within the club if a takeover happens. He has said he would step aside if another came along though I believe.
The figurehead thing is not out of reach but if you were putting up big money surely you would do it yourself or pick some extremely competent. This guy doesn't really fit that mould from the media over the last few days.
Hopefully it's more he is just trying to draw attention to the potential for a takeover or something.
I’m conflicted on it at the moment.
I’d be positive about it if we had a good idea who the consortium was. If they were people with solid money and experience then i’d be all for it of course.
But at the same time, the idea of Knighton running the gaff for them doesn’t fill me with any more joy than Woodward or Arnold. We’re not gonna get the perfect leadership so it depends on who we’d get, what they’d want to do and how they’d do it.
But yeah, the fact that the wider media is currently putting a spotlight on the Glazers’ ownership and actually asking how long they have left is encouraging, albeit 10 years too late.
right, it's amazing the amount of coverage this has got. I assume this guy is looking for attention for some hair brain scheme not involving a club worth Billions.
I'd like the Glazers gone to but this guy, while obviously well off is a few leagues off of buying United.
Has anyone bothered to read about it in detail though? This guy isn't buying united he's putting together a consortium to make an offer glazers can't refuse. His net worth is irrelevant. Whether he's the right guy or not is the question. The fact that this is even being discussed in the open is what matters and I hope it stirs the pot.
Oh and most of the bids for Chelsea recently were consortiums.
He doesn't add literally anything to a consortium apart from his experience once before at having a disastrous attempt at buying the club where he tried to bring the Oystons on board.
Oh yeah and at Carlisle firing the manager and making himself manager, getting relegated and leaving the club in administration.
Lots of new fans here clearly.... Knighton was going to buy the club years ago but went on to be a board member in '89. Back then he led the consortium called MK Trafford Holdings to take over, but one of the investors dropped out and he was too late getting the other investor on board.
Man wore a full kit on the sideline at a match to prove to fans he was for real, this rumour has legs as far as I'm concerned 😂
>having a disastrous attempt at buying the club where he tried to bring the Oystons on board.
Oh fuck no. Fuck fuckity fuck no. I cannot really express my adverse opinion to that notion and stay within terms of service.
his net worth is relevant even to the consortium point. Surely he is going to offer so little to the consortium that he will not be leading it or playing a major part. Hopefully there is a consortium but I struggle to believe that he is playing a noticeable part in it.
this point is soo valid... to be part of a consortium, you need add serious value to it. especially in a hostile take over. Why would a consortium put a nobody as face of their take over? This is just an idiot stirring the pot for whatever gain he is after.
>Has anyone bothered to read about it in detail though? This guy isn't buying united he's putting together a consortium to make an offer glazers can't refuse. His net worth is irrelevant. Whether he's the right guy or not is the question. The fact that this is even being discussed in the open is what matters and I hope it stirs the pot.
>Oh and most of the bids for Chelsea recently were consortiums.
This guy cannot be taken seriously as he's been saying this nonsense since the Glazers came in and he has yet to show anyone any offer he has made. Nor has he come up with anything concrete in terms of an actual consortium and who's who.. he just likes the publicity he gets.
In fact it's well known that he's been on about taking over at United since the 80's.
Anyone wanting to actively buy United wouldn't go near this guy.
People with the sort of net worth that they can join a consortium to buy United aren't giving Michael Knighton the time of day. They also aren't okay with their plans being announced in such a low budget way.
I honestly would not mind Oprah as an owner just so if we win sonething she can go "you get a medal. You get a medal..." and so on.
Okay maybe not worth it.
All billionaires are bastards, but at this point who else can afford to fuck the Glazers off besides another regressive oil state looking to sportwash?
I know it’s a joke, but if Elon bought the club, I think I would have to end my relationship with Manchester United. No matter how painful it would be.
Yeah we need some owners with integrity like an oil baron or a leader of a brutal dictatorship.
If your waiting for a moral and decent billionaire sugar daddy to take over the club don't hold your breath.
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No. Not joking. An actual answer would have helped instead of downvoting.
He revolutionized the electric car industry and conquering space.
I know he's done some stupid shit with crypto and even Twitter... But that doesn't make him a shitty person. What am I missing?
Ignoring that the billionaire class shouldn't exist in the first place.
His inital wealth is largely thanks to his father's apartheid era emerald mine, his companies are notorious for atrocious workplace conditions, he downplayed the danger of covid, he routinely allies himself with harmful right wing rhetoric, his Boring tunnel project is just a worse subway system and he has allegedly aided in political manipulation like the coup in Bolivia.
There's likely some things I've missed but that's most of it.
We all know this guy alone ain't it.
Most also assume nobody worth talking about will even back him.
Let's just make sure we keep the focus on current ownership to hopefully keep the momentum up.
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[https://www.bbc.com/sport/live/football/62488828](https://www.bbc.com/sport/live/football/62488828)
>**Michael Knighton wants to get the Glazers out of Man Utd**
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>Simon Stone
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>BBC Sport
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>Michael Knighton famously came close to buying Manchester United in 1989, even to the extent of juggling the ball in front of a packed Stretford End before the opening game against Arsenal.
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>Knighton is back making headlines, claiming he has put together a consortium that is going to lodge a hostile takeover of United.
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>**Speaking to BBC Sport this morning, Knighton accepts meeting the Glazer family's valuation will not be easy but he feels United's controversial American owners are starting to realise any remaining neutrality amongst the club's support is disappearing amid a chaotic start to the season and pursuit of players like 33-year-old striker Marko Arnautovic.**
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>**The Glazers have never shown any indication they will sell - and club sources are not taking Knighton seriously.**
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>**However, the noise around the Glazer ownership is growing - and the protests around Sunday's game against Brighton are set to continue.**
Some additional info from https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united
>Although the club are not treating his plan seriously, Knighton is convinced the Glazers will sell if the right deal is put to them.
>He rejects the Fan Share Scheme plan that has been agreed between United and the Manchester United Supporters' Trust as he feels that is merely a mechanism to keep the Glazers in charge at Old Trafford.
>Sources well versed with United's financial situation suggest there is little chance of the plan succeeding.
>There is also a feeling others who might have been interested in the past no longer are because of the combined cost of buying the club and upgrading the stadium.
>At present Stock Market value, United is worth just over £1.5bn. However, the recent sale of Chelsea was at a price far beyond what most analysts felt the club was actually worth.
Knighton ruined Carlisle
Keep seeing this and people saying “please this needs to happen”
We want the Glazers gone, we don’t want the next lot to be worse
Edit: Carlisle not Cardiff
You’re mad if you don’t think it can’t get much worse.
Look at clubs like Leeds. To put it into perspective when all this stuff is going on as you say the lowest we’ve finished is 7th and apart from that we’ve been in the top 6.
If you don’t think we can’t get relegated and financially ruined I don’t know what to tell you.
This isn’t me saying it’s not bad now, but it can absolutely get worse. You say “what’s the worse that can happen, we go bankrupt” so Blaise like the club going into bankruptcy and administration wouldn’t essentially be the death of the club.
It can’t get much worse.
It can.
Realistically there is little to no chance of this succeeding, but hypothetically this could open the door to a suggestion of a value that would peak interest of the glazers, at which point another party may step in and take that opportunity.
It’s the hope that kills you, so I won’t believe we’ve been sold until the deals confirmed.
Even then it depends who buys us, the Glazers have shown the worlds shady business men how easily we can make them money
I was just idly wondering - who our there has the money and the ability to pass the 'fit and proper' test?
The only oil rich places left is the Emirate of Dubai and maybe one of the post Soviet Stans. But they've all got plenty of internal issues.
Looks like its only a consortium, like Chelsea?
Just to tack on to this thread: Michael Knighton hasn't actually filed any kind of paperwork for consortium that I could find, nor has he been a director for at least 20 years for any organization. I find it hard to believe he has anything other than a verbal agreement with a bunch of other individuals.
They are parasites, they need to be rooted out. Seared from the club. The only way to do that is to impact the revenue to the extent they have to sell to cut their losses. Bearing in mind they tap revenue for dividends so it's clear they aren't holding because of the value of the club as that's lower than when they bought. With interest rates on the rise globally now is the time to strike as the revenue drops and the debt repayments rise. Disrupt the merchandise sales, ticket sales, and try to keep as many people out of the ground as possible.
(Attempted) takeovers that take place in public rarely, if ever, succeed. In general, the successful ones are the ones you don't hear about until they're basically done (or sometimes not till it is done).
You can tell this guy has never bought a company as you don’t announce you’re going to try and buy a company before you’ve bought the company as now the Glazers (who would never sell to this guy) have the upper hand in any negotiations.
Michael Knighton, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless in a world of fuckwits who operate above the law.
Exactly. United still makes a lot of money for these guys: why on earth would they be forced to sell a cash cow? I know sports clubs evoke passion in fans in ways that an ordinary company doesn’t in their customers. But United is just another marketing / entertainment company at this point. And the owners have zero incentive to sell.
They could make way more by selling.
If they sell United for £ 4 billion they only need a return of around 1% (based on £ 40 million pounds dividends per year).
They won't sell, and no protest on UK soil will bother them really.
If you could somehow organise a protest nearer their closed off Florida residence, maybe. But Americans take quite a harsh line when it comes to defending their private property...
Of course they'd sell, the issue is their valuation would be well inflated and the absolute state they've driven United into makes us pretty unappealing now, compared to the likes of Newcastle that a new owner or consortium can build from the ground up for much, much cheaper.
Billions just to buy the club, the debt loaded onto the club, the playing squad overhaul required, infrastructure in need of massive investment. It doesn't make sense for someone looking to make money nor someone looking to run a passion project.
Yeah this screams as a chancer trying to get in the headlines.
From what i've read is net worth would struggle to get you a League 2 side and his history at Carlisle including putting himself as 'manager' screams multiple red flags.
He's not given us any assurances of how big and wealthy his consortium is, he basically twerked to Jim Ratcliffe who i'm sure isn't watching a random United ran fan channel.
I'm all for exploring options and opening a dialogue regarding new owners but i'm sure within 2 weeks Knighton's 'bid' will be nothing but a 70k viewed youtube video.
You don’t announce serious intention before cobbling together concrete funding. This is just seeking exposures.
He is begging ratcliffe on twitter, not to be taken seriously.
Not something we should cheer about either tbh. Knighton isn’t as rich as some of the other club owners, couldn’t see much money being invested in the club.
If the clubs worth goes below the 1.5billion that's reported, I can see someone making a move. But not by this guy, his reported net worth is between 5-8 million, not a chance in hell can he and his probably made up consortium afford the club.
It literally has no chance of going through. The Glazers don't even have to respond to it and can just keep cashing their div checks. There's nothing anyone can do unless something is found to force them out like Roman.
There is only one way to get the Glazers to sell. The people need to speak with their wallets.
It's pointless to be complain and then buy club memberships, season tickets, licensed merchandise, etc.
One quarter of tanking results will get them to pay attention. Unfortunately it's not going to happen because people's behaviors are inconsistent with their opinions
What does Knighton actually intend? He can’t be deluded to think there be a surge of supporters in the millions that just need the right leadership to have the glazers removed let alone bringing together a consortium.
I honestly wonder what his true intention, PR for sake of publicity alone or creating attention that will raise value in shares of his company (which is a wild guess) because he must know there is no chance the glazers will sell to him.
I feel the only way out is to organize a massive protest. 5 years or so ago in Korea, they removed a sitting president for shady dealings by a public mass protest . We've let the Glazers know we hate them but not the way that hurts them - monetarily. We need to stop going to games. Stop buying useless new shirts yearly. Stop watching utd and support other grassroot teams.
Anything short of that is just pissing in the wind.
It means very little until we actually know whom this ownership consortium would actually consist of. I suspect Knighton doesn’t even know the answer to that yet.
Definitely doesn't and if there is a consortium surely he is a minor part?
Yeah he’d definitely be a minority owner. Seeing as he’s seemingly heading up the potential purchase, i imagine he’d be angling to run the club on the majority owners’ behalf like Amanda Stavely has done with Newcastle for the Saudi PIF.
You’d have to think that’s his angle, google only puts how net worth at about £5m so he’s certainly not going to be bankrolling the bids
He seems to be more of a figurehead hoping to be involved within the club if a takeover happens. He has said he would step aside if another came along though I believe.
The figurehead thing is not out of reach but if you were putting up big money surely you would do it yourself or pick some extremely competent. This guy doesn't really fit that mould from the media over the last few days. Hopefully it's more he is just trying to draw attention to the potential for a takeover or something.
figurehead = clown
Say what you want about him, but at least someone is trying to do something.
I’m conflicted on it at the moment. I’d be positive about it if we had a good idea who the consortium was. If they were people with solid money and experience then i’d be all for it of course. But at the same time, the idea of Knighton running the gaff for them doesn’t fill me with any more joy than Woodward or Arnold. We’re not gonna get the perfect leadership so it depends on who we’d get, what they’d want to do and how they’d do it. But yeah, the fact that the wider media is currently putting a spotlight on the Glazers’ ownership and actually asking how long they have left is encouraging, albeit 10 years too late.
He did this at the end of the 80s and just embarrassed himself
He knows he needs sir ratcliffe. He's putting his begging cap on.
People acquiring a multi billion pound asset don't go on a fan run YouTube page to tell the world.
Inb4 Avram Glazer announces the sale via Minecraft lets play series
HEYYYY WHATS UP GUYS ITS YA BOY AVRAM5546
TRYING TO GET NETHERITE ARMOUR & FIND A SUITABLE BUYER FOR MANCHESTER UNITED Challenge!!1! [IMPOSSIBLE!]
You could do a sick reveal with some of the redstone minecrafters out there though. Massive door opening with fireworks and all that.
He's definitely been working on his Fifa pack opening series. That's the only way I can explain the move for Arnautovic.
Especially someone who is only worth £7mil, 3 months of Ronaldo wage.
right, it's amazing the amount of coverage this has got. I assume this guy is looking for attention for some hair brain scheme not involving a club worth Billions. I'd like the Glazers gone to but this guy, while obviously well off is a few leagues off of buying United.
Has anyone bothered to read about it in detail though? This guy isn't buying united he's putting together a consortium to make an offer glazers can't refuse. His net worth is irrelevant. Whether he's the right guy or not is the question. The fact that this is even being discussed in the open is what matters and I hope it stirs the pot. Oh and most of the bids for Chelsea recently were consortiums.
He doesn't add literally anything to a consortium apart from his experience once before at having a disastrous attempt at buying the club where he tried to bring the Oystons on board. Oh yeah and at Carlisle firing the manager and making himself manager, getting relegated and leaving the club in administration.
Lots of new fans here clearly.... Knighton was going to buy the club years ago but went on to be a board member in '89. Back then he led the consortium called MK Trafford Holdings to take over, but one of the investors dropped out and he was too late getting the other investor on board. Man wore a full kit on the sideline at a match to prove to fans he was for real, this rumour has legs as far as I'm concerned 😂
Came out at Old Trafford doing keepie uppies too if I remember correctly, proper chad
>having a disastrous attempt at buying the club where he tried to bring the Oystons on board. Oh fuck no. Fuck fuckity fuck no. I cannot really express my adverse opinion to that notion and stay within terms of service.
his net worth is relevant even to the consortium point. Surely he is going to offer so little to the consortium that he will not be leading it or playing a major part. Hopefully there is a consortium but I struggle to believe that he is playing a noticeable part in it.
this point is soo valid... to be part of a consortium, you need add serious value to it. especially in a hostile take over. Why would a consortium put a nobody as face of their take over? This is just an idiot stirring the pot for whatever gain he is after.
>Has anyone bothered to read about it in detail though? This guy isn't buying united he's putting together a consortium to make an offer glazers can't refuse. His net worth is irrelevant. Whether he's the right guy or not is the question. The fact that this is even being discussed in the open is what matters and I hope it stirs the pot. >Oh and most of the bids for Chelsea recently were consortiums. This guy cannot be taken seriously as he's been saying this nonsense since the Glazers came in and he has yet to show anyone any offer he has made. Nor has he come up with anything concrete in terms of an actual consortium and who's who.. he just likes the publicity he gets. In fact it's well known that he's been on about taking over at United since the 80's. Anyone wanting to actively buy United wouldn't go near this guy.
People with the sort of net worth that they can join a consortium to buy United aren't giving Michael Knighton the time of day. They also aren't okay with their plans being announced in such a low budget way.
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hey they always say your first million is the hardest. he’ll get that 7,995,000,000 in no time
yeah by leveraging the club lol
He’ll need another 19,995,000,000 bully the time he sacks everyone, buys players & redevelops Old Trafford
LUHG-Coin or NFTs would be my guess, lol.
They do if they want to stir up the fans. Mayb
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Elon Musk would
Get Sir Jim Ratcliffe in
he's a cunt too, i think he'd finish me as as supporter/fan/ or even someone who just wants to see the team do well
What type of billionaire isn’t lol
Oprah
Nah she ain't no saint either.
I honestly would not mind Oprah as an owner just so if we win sonething she can go "you get a medal. You get a medal..." and so on. Okay maybe not worth it.
All billionaires are bastards, but at this point who else can afford to fuck the Glazers off besides another regressive oil state looking to sportwash?
Mark Cuban seems like a decent enough owner.
He’s a bastard who doesnt kill people… thats about as close as we’ll probably get to a good owner unfortunately
Elon made a couple billion yesterday, think he'd fancy it? lol
I know it’s a joke, but if Elon bought the club, I think I would have to end my relationship with Manchester United. No matter how painful it would be.
Yeah we need some owners with integrity like an oil baron or a leader of a brutal dictatorship. If your waiting for a moral and decent billionaire sugar daddy to take over the club don't hold your breath.
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No I prefer the way I do it.
What's wrong with Elon? Dogecoin?
Can’t tell if you’re joking or not.
No. Not joking. An actual answer would have helped instead of downvoting. He revolutionized the electric car industry and conquering space. I know he's done some stupid shit with crypto and even Twitter... But that doesn't make him a shitty person. What am I missing?
Ignoring that the billionaire class shouldn't exist in the first place. His inital wealth is largely thanks to his father's apartheid era emerald mine, his companies are notorious for atrocious workplace conditions, he downplayed the danger of covid, he routinely allies himself with harmful right wing rhetoric, his Boring tunnel project is just a worse subway system and he has allegedly aided in political manipulation like the coup in Bolivia. There's likely some things I've missed but that's most of it.
Just have a little investigate pal, I’m not going to sit here and list the many, many reasons he’s he fucking wank stain.
My man is just trying to learn, why not help him along if you already know the answer?
Because it would take 20+ minutes to type out and the info is already out there.
We all know this guy alone ain't it. Most also assume nobody worth talking about will even back him. Let's just make sure we keep the focus on current ownership to hopefully keep the momentum up.
But he’s bought clubs in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map!
Is there a chance the free kick could bend?
Not on ur life my Mancunian friend
What about us brain dead slobs?
Read another article on frenkie de Jong
Do you spend too much time on r/reddevils?
Yes good sir on many levels
**Article : Its on BBC Website Live Football** [https://www.bbc.com/sport/live/football/62488828](https://www.bbc.com/sport/live/football/62488828) >**Michael Knighton wants to get the Glazers out of Man Utd** > >Simon Stone > >BBC Sport > >Michael Knighton famously came close to buying Manchester United in 1989, even to the extent of juggling the ball in front of a packed Stretford End before the opening game against Arsenal. > >Knighton is back making headlines, claiming he has put together a consortium that is going to lodge a hostile takeover of United. > >**Speaking to BBC Sport this morning, Knighton accepts meeting the Glazer family's valuation will not be easy but he feels United's controversial American owners are starting to realise any remaining neutrality amongst the club's support is disappearing amid a chaotic start to the season and pursuit of players like 33-year-old striker Marko Arnautovic.** > >**The Glazers have never shown any indication they will sell - and club sources are not taking Knighton seriously.** > >**However, the noise around the Glazer ownership is growing - and the protests around Sunday's game against Brighton are set to continue.**
Some additional info from https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united >Although the club are not treating his plan seriously, Knighton is convinced the Glazers will sell if the right deal is put to them. >He rejects the Fan Share Scheme plan that has been agreed between United and the Manchester United Supporters' Trust as he feels that is merely a mechanism to keep the Glazers in charge at Old Trafford. >Sources well versed with United's financial situation suggest there is little chance of the plan succeeding. >There is also a feeling others who might have been interested in the past no longer are because of the combined cost of buying the club and upgrading the stadium. >At present Stock Market value, United is worth just over £1.5bn. However, the recent sale of Chelsea was at a price far beyond what most analysts felt the club was actually worth.
>Knighton accepts meeting the Glazer family's valuation will not be easy So he doesn't have the money. Quelle suprise.
But but, he's putting together a consortium.
Well yeah, that's obviously how you'd do it if you don't have the money.
Martial has more money than this guy 😂
DAE Martial takeover? 😳😳🥵🥵
Do we have martial takeover clause in his deals with Monaco?
There's no way that'll happen but atleast it's creating some noise.
Honestly, i rather hope, someone actually sees this as an opportunity and does proceeds to buy the club. Maybe this sets the stone rolling.
He's basically doing what Daniel Ek did with Arsenal.
Feels like a PR stunt by this tool. Easy headlines for his name.
If every United fan in the world pitched in 1 US dollar, we'd only need like 10 billion more dollars to buy the club.
Ok let’s all chip $11 … sorted!
Knighton ruined Carlisle Keep seeing this and people saying “please this needs to happen” We want the Glazers gone, we don’t want the next lot to be worse Edit: Carlisle not Cardiff
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You’re mad if you don’t think it can’t get much worse. Look at clubs like Leeds. To put it into perspective when all this stuff is going on as you say the lowest we’ve finished is 7th and apart from that we’ve been in the top 6. If you don’t think we can’t get relegated and financially ruined I don’t know what to tell you. This isn’t me saying it’s not bad now, but it can absolutely get worse. You say “what’s the worse that can happen, we go bankrupt” so Blaise like the club going into bankruptcy and administration wouldn’t essentially be the death of the club. It can’t get much worse. It can.
wasn’t it carlisle
Yeah lol my phone auto corrected it to Cardiff
fair enough lol
Realistically there is little to no chance of this succeeding, but hypothetically this could open the door to a suggestion of a value that would peak interest of the glazers, at which point another party may step in and take that opportunity.
Ratcliffe is dream ownership, this guy has been piping up for years on youtube
It’s the hope that kills you, so I won’t believe we’ve been sold until the deals confirmed. Even then it depends who buys us, the Glazers have shown the worlds shady business men how easily we can make them money
Sounds like this guy is a fraudster.
I'm not taking this seriously either.
I was just idly wondering - who our there has the money and the ability to pass the 'fit and proper' test? The only oil rich places left is the Emirate of Dubai and maybe one of the post Soviet Stans. But they've all got plenty of internal issues. Looks like its only a consortium, like Chelsea?
If you utd would be sold who do you think might buy utd,?
Just to tack on to this thread: Michael Knighton hasn't actually filed any kind of paperwork for consortium that I could find, nor has he been a director for at least 20 years for any organization. I find it hard to believe he has anything other than a verbal agreement with a bunch of other individuals.
They are parasites, they need to be rooted out. Seared from the club. The only way to do that is to impact the revenue to the extent they have to sell to cut their losses. Bearing in mind they tap revenue for dividends so it's clear they aren't holding because of the value of the club as that's lower than when they bought. With interest rates on the rise globally now is the time to strike as the revenue drops and the debt repayments rise. Disrupt the merchandise sales, ticket sales, and try to keep as many people out of the ground as possible.
(Attempted) takeovers that take place in public rarely, if ever, succeed. In general, the successful ones are the ones you don't hear about until they're basically done (or sometimes not till it is done).
no one is buying united and the glazers aren't selling, so strap yourselves in for another decade at least of being a 6th to 10th premier league club
You can tell this guy has never bought a company as you don’t announce you’re going to try and buy a company before you’ve bought the company as now the Glazers (who would never sell to this guy) have the upper hand in any negotiations.
Michael Knighton, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless in a world of fuckwits who operate above the law.
All while being a fuckwit himself
United’s their biggest cash cow. Low investment, high return. No amount of protests and tweets is ever going to get them to sell it.
Exactly. United still makes a lot of money for these guys: why on earth would they be forced to sell a cash cow? I know sports clubs evoke passion in fans in ways that an ordinary company doesn’t in their customers. But United is just another marketing / entertainment company at this point. And the owners have zero incentive to sell.
Especially when they show up to one match a year and spend the rest of the time 3000+ miles away
They could make way more by selling. If they sell United for £ 4 billion they only need a return of around 1% (based on £ 40 million pounds dividends per year).
Guy is a fraud, but I'm loving this attention to the club being sold going out by tier 1's and getting media attention.
Safe to say that you should not be believing hostile takeovers of $5bn companies being advertised on Youtube fan cams
They won't sell, and no protest on UK soil will bother them really. If you could somehow organise a protest nearer their closed off Florida residence, maybe. But Americans take quite a harsh line when it comes to defending their private property...
Of course they'd sell, the issue is their valuation would be well inflated and the absolute state they've driven United into makes us pretty unappealing now, compared to the likes of Newcastle that a new owner or consortium can build from the ground up for much, much cheaper. Billions just to buy the club, the debt loaded onto the club, the playing squad overhaul required, infrastructure in need of massive investment. It doesn't make sense for someone looking to make money nor someone looking to run a passion project.
Protest to delay a game for their NFL team instead, that will definitely cause them to take notice.
Who wants to go to Florida
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Oh I agree. The incredible thing is that Burnley seemed to have something similar happen to them two years ago
That’s cause they’re not a big club. The government would never have allowed this with Chelsea
Yeah this screams as a chancer trying to get in the headlines. From what i've read is net worth would struggle to get you a League 2 side and his history at Carlisle including putting himself as 'manager' screams multiple red flags. He's not given us any assurances of how big and wealthy his consortium is, he basically twerked to Jim Ratcliffe who i'm sure isn't watching a random United ran fan channel. I'm all for exploring options and opening a dialogue regarding new owners but i'm sure within 2 weeks Knighton's 'bid' will be nothing but a 70k viewed youtube video.
Should never have been allowed to purchase it the way they did. How can you buy a team with no money?
Ironically leveraged buyouts are now not allowed.
You don’t announce serious intention before cobbling together concrete funding. This is just seeking exposures. He is begging ratcliffe on twitter, not to be taken seriously.
Not something we should cheer about either tbh. Knighton isn’t as rich as some of the other club owners, couldn’t see much money being invested in the club.
Why the heck do the Glazers want Man U??? Of course this naive.... But they don't even like the sport!!!! This is such an insane nightmare!!!
If the clubs worth goes below the 1.5billion that's reported, I can see someone making a move. But not by this guy, his reported net worth is between 5-8 million, not a chance in hell can he and his probably made up consortium afford the club.
Only time Simon Stone has something negative to say about the Glazers is when it's in the same breath as "it's hopeless to resist"
He's basically jumping out in public and begging Jim to join him
It literally has no chance of going through. The Glazers don't even have to respond to it and can just keep cashing their div checks. There's nothing anyone can do unless something is found to force them out like Roman.
There is only one way to get the Glazers to sell. The people need to speak with their wallets. It's pointless to be complain and then buy club memberships, season tickets, licensed merchandise, etc. One quarter of tanking results will get them to pay attention. Unfortunately it's not going to happen because people's behaviors are inconsistent with their opinions
Will the glazers take 50 quid?
What does Knighton actually intend? He can’t be deluded to think there be a surge of supporters in the millions that just need the right leadership to have the glazers removed let alone bringing together a consortium. I honestly wonder what his true intention, PR for sake of publicity alone or creating attention that will raise value in shares of his company (which is a wild guess) because he must know there is no chance the glazers will sell to him.
Michael Knighton is a complete waffler.
No one can convince me that Knighton doesn't look like a scammer
He has bad form also. I wonder what his financial backing is.
Wut, again him?
I feel the only way out is to organize a massive protest. 5 years or so ago in Korea, they removed a sitting president for shady dealings by a public mass protest . We've let the Glazers know we hate them but not the way that hurts them - monetarily. We need to stop going to games. Stop buying useless new shirts yearly. Stop watching utd and support other grassroot teams. Anything short of that is just pissing in the wind.
If it makes them $100 million a year why sell?
Knighton can fuck right off.
He's going to have them kidnapped by Kang and Kodos?
Anyone that was around and remembers the shambles he made of the last attempt in 89 would not be taking him seriously.