plus £273M player investment£1.25 bn for 25% stake in Man United .. even a Dragon wouldn't have invested that!
Great good on him. Well that takes away another excuse for the Norwich scarf swirling lot.
He's applying his proven sports science methods and investing serious money. They need to be champions next year or else it’s failure.
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It will take 5-10 years to turn United around. Ratcliffe is taking on nation states and other equally well off US investors.
They have a crumbling ground and lots of players who they want to get rid of but no one else wants. Every transfer deadline we hear that they are open to offers for X Y and Z and they never leave till their contract runs out.
They’ve got no chance imo .Great good on him. Well that takes away another excuse for the Norwich scarf swirling lot.
He's applying his proven sports science methods and investing serious money. They need to be champions next year or else it’s failure.
Agree but cannot believe how much he has paid.Anyone in the petchems world knows how Jim works. If United fans think they're getting a benefactor they're way off the mark.
Indeed; somewhat hypocritical to support Brexit and then reside abroad.Just another obscenely rich Brit who got himself residency in a foreign tax haven to avoid paying tax into the British economy.
And that takes some doing.Indeed; somewhat hypocritical to support Brexit and then reside abroad.
Lives further South than the majority of Reds.
Failsworth is in the Oldham Metropolitan.At least he was born in Lancashire!
Although surprised he was not a Bolton Wanderers fan as he was born in Failsworth.
As in Lancashire. The historic boundary has never changed but in any case he was born in 1971 before these admin areas were invented.Failsworth is in the Oldham Metropolitan.
Farnworth is Bolton.
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Sorry. I did get confused with Failsworth and Farnworth.As in Lancashire. The historic boundary has never changed but in any case he was born in 1971 before these admin areas were invented.
He is 71, so was born in 52As in Lancashire. The historic boundary has never changed but in any case he was born in 1971 before these admin areas were invented.
Sorry, got that one wrong. I did mean he was 71!He is 71, so was born in 52