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Posted by Mark Payne on 02/23/2010

Hot off the press from reuters guys:

Better have a read

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Posted by tricky on 02/24/2010

The Glazers are Americans they don't care about anything but the dollars i hear that carrington might be sold or even old trafford that would be disasterous i think its very much the time that United fans speak with their wallets. The Glazzers are very dangerous for the club to be in that much debt is not good for the future of the club. We went from the richest to the most debt ridden. time to force them out. Murdoch would have been a better owner.

Posted by Danny on 02/25/2010

The Glazers are not good owners at all.

They've leveraged a lot of loans and have placed the club in a period where it must fight to maintain financial stability. Terrible, indeed.

However, we should temper our rhetoric with reason. A previous poster in this thread "heard" that Carrington might be sold? From who? Where is the evidence that this plan is in the works? This kind of conspiracy-theory paranoia is only making United fans seem, well, fanatical and unreasonable. This type of blind anti-Glazer rhetoric is going to hurt us in the fight to remove them from ownership.

The Glazers are not the owners with bottomless pockets, spending anything to win. They are not trying to destroy United, though, either. They can't afford to. They are clearly trying to make money off of United in the long run. What we need is reasoned resistence to the Glazers.

And I think Harris and members of MUST are doing an admirable job in their resistence. Let's all keep our heads.

Posted by Jay Terrill on 02/27/2010

I agree that the Glazers are bad owners and you can look at the health of the club financially and our need to consider selling players or leasing out Carrington as a great example of our financial sickness. It kills me that protesting is necessary, but nobody wants this proud club to come anywhere near the disaster of Portsmouth. I disagree that the problem is simply that they are Americans. I am an American and have never been to OT, but I am a devoted United fan. I think that the Glazers must be out at Ot if United are to continue to be the great club that I have followed for so long. The problem with the Glazers is the same problem our rivals Liverpool are having with Hicks and Gillette. They are investors and see the club as an investment. They are not football fans and don't love the club like we do or understand the connection that the club has to its fan base. In America, there is nothing quite like the atmosphere of the EPL, people aren't as connected as we are to United.

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