Well Radcliffe’s home is Monaco for tax purposes 
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Rat by name, rat by nature.
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These guys collectively have probably 4-500 CL appearances among them. This framing is ridiculous
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Maybe should have spend money on a PR consultant rather than a body language analyst.
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“No one suggested that”
Yeah I can see the problem.
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This is hilarious - I absolutely love the bit where Sir Rat declares that they must keep Rat boy:
"There are some great players in the squad as we know, the captain is a fabulous footballer. We definitely need Bruno [Fernandes] – he’s a fantastic footballer.”
They are on the road to nowhere with that attitude. Long may it continue. Long live Sir Rat!
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If you are going to (rightfully) criticise the current wage to performance balance under the previous ownership group, shouldn’t you at least be demonstrating tangible improvements under your own watch?
They just signed about 6 players for over £100k/week a piece, with some of them teenagers. De Ligt is on £195k/wk which is only just south of Virg who is our second highest paid player.
If you are going to charge the tea lady the cost of her tea bag, then you better be tightening up on every other area of the club. And that’s not happening.
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He’s doing to Manchester United what Elon Musk is doing to America. I’ve always said that billionaires are stunningly unimaginative people who have only one idea how to save money - get rid of poor people.
This Ratcliffe is another who is (or at least was) considered a genius in some parts yet he freely admits that he lacks the imagination to think of a way to raise £40k and is relying on people telling him what to do. Its both stark and instructive to watch Musk and Ratcliffe work. They think the same way, they act the same way, they lack imagination or independence of thought, they just do the shit performatively cutting miniscule parts of a budget while failing to identify the real issue and not giving a single fuck about who gets hurt by it.
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Someone who is used to shooting fish in a barrel is suddenly presented with fly-fishing tackle?
There is a long line of businessmen who have success in a field that they understand failing in another that they don’t. However, from what I have seen of Ratcliffe, his MO is that a business that disregards health-and-safety and workers’ rights will be cheaper to run than one that complies. I wonder how that leaky roof is coming on?
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Isn’t it also extensive use of government subsidies?
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We piss blood to get our stadium capacity from 45k to 61k, they go from 74k to 100k.
It’s infuriating, but the thing that stops us going north of 60k and makes extending so hard is that Anfield is in a built up residential area. The club has rightly endured criticism in the past for how it has treated residents.
Old Trafford has no such concerns and it’s basically built on waste lands. They’ve been allow to endless extend because there are no major factors preventing it.
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Yeah thank the Luftwaffe for that.
Though at this point in time why bother extending? Or building a new soulless bowl of a stadium.
It’s only taken several years to become very easy to buy a ticket.
I know yeah, we’ll see what happens in the future.
So, they were close to “going bust at Christmas” but they are now able to build a 100K stadium that costs two billion pounds? Those tea ladies they sacked really did a number on them when they negotiated their salaries.
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Looks just like a circus, perfect for Utd 
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That second video is giving Germânia vibes without the Nazis.
But yeah it looks like a circus tent and there seems little suggestion of how they pay for it.