With George's help, Sir Alex Ferguson and David Gill quietly contacted Crown Prince Tamim Al Thani, the chairman of the Qatar Investment Authority, as early as last year after the three companies formed an alliance. They have always been interested in expanding their influence through investing in sports. The latter strongly promotes Manchester United!
From trying to sell the Red Devils for 10 million pounds 16 years ago but ultimately failed because the buyer was unable to pay, to almost selling Manchester United to Rupert Murdoch for 600 million pounds seven years ago, to supporting Magnier and McManus and two Irish businessmen became the largest shareholders of Manchester United. These actions of Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards are enough to show that he has never given up the idea of selling Manchester United!
Originally, Edwards' sale of Manchester United was only his own business and had nothing to do with Ferguson, the team's head coach. After all, Sir Alex Ferguson has worked hard at Manchester United for many years and has made great achievements, and he is the number one contributor to building the Red Devils into the Premier League hegemon. As long as the results of the team are justified, no matter who becomes the boss of Manchester United, they will not take action against Sir Alex Ferguson. But the problem is that Ferguson and the two Irish major shareholders had a falling out over a horse called Rock of Gibraltar and became enemies. As a result, Magnier and McManus had been planning to expel Sir Alex Ferguson after acquiring Manchester United. Let's go and change Manchester United to a head coach who is more pleasing to their eyes and more obedient!
Ferguson certainly did not intend to sit back and let Magnier and McManus drive him out of Manchester United, the club he had invested so much effort and energy into. In George's previous life, Sir Alex Ferguson chose to cooperate with the Glazer family in order to get rid of the control of Irish capital. As a result, Manchester United, the richest football club in the world, was saddled with debts of up to 600 million pounds overnight, and at the same time, it also required annual payments. Repay £40 million in exorbitant interest. It is precisely because of this move that many Manchester United fans did not forgive Sir Alex Ferguson until he retired, thinking that he harmed the interests of Manchester United for personal grudges!
George still has great feelings for Manchester United and Ferguson. He certainly does not want to see the Red Devils become heavily in debt under the Glazer family's leveraged buyout and have to live on a budget for a long time in the future, let alone see My mentor lost his life due to a racehorse. Therefore, in this life, he took the initiative to intervene in the acquisition of Manchester United and introduced Crown Prince Al Thani to Ferguson and David Gill!
There is no need to go into details about the next development. Tamim Al Thani was very tempted by the proposal to acquire Manchester United and enter English football and immediately acted on it. Faced with the money offensive from the Qatar Investment Authority, the vast majority of Manchester United shareholders, including Magnier and McManus, surrendered and had no intention of struggling with money!
However, even so, the acquisition was not completed until half a month after the summer transfer window opened. This is mainly because several major shareholders of Manchester United, headed by Magnier and McManus, want to take the opportunity to make more money from the wealthy Qataris, which seriously slows down the latter's acquisition of Manchester United.
Unlike their previous resistance to the Glazer family's acquisition of Manchester United, most Manchester United fans are quite optimistic about the Qatar Investment Authority's takeover of Old Trafford. After all, Manchester United did not incur heavy debts due to the change of ownership. At the same time, Tamim Al Thani held a press conference as soon as the news was announced to express his support for Ferguson to continue coaching Manchester United and will invest in the transfer market. Huge sums of money were spent on Sir Alex to strengthen the team. These measures and changes have greatly reduced the resistance of Manchester United fans, allowing them to view the acquisition with a more calm and optimistic attitude.
Of course, at this moment, Ferguson still felt a little regretful. Because if the Qataris could move faster, or if Manier and the others could simply sell their shares to the Qatar Investment Authority earlier, then he might not have lost the battle for Ribery before!
The failure in the battle for Franck Ribery did not discourage Ferguson for long. After receiving a large transfer budget from the new boss, Ferguson immediately roped in David Gill and introduced several players he had been observing for a long time!
South Korean midfielder Park Ji-sung, who has performed well in PSV this season, joined Old Trafford for 4 million pounds, and England international Owen Hargreaves also transferred for 26 million euros. In addition, Dutch international goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar also switched from Fulham to Manchester United for a transfer fee of only 2 million pounds!
Although Van der Sar has performed quite well in the past few seasons at Fulham, when he joined Manchester United at the age of 35, everyone was worried about the Dutchman's decision - given Ferguson's performance at the goalkeeper position. The level of harshness, if Van der Sar's problem of losing his chain at critical moments when he played for Juventus relapses, then the Dutchman is likely to sit through the bench like several of his predecessors!
Only George knows how important Van der Sar is to Manchester United. It can be said that if Van der Sar had not come to Manchester United, the second glory of the Red Devils in his previous life might have been postponed for a few more years!
In addition, many players, including Nigeria's talented midfielder Mikel and Argentine youngster Fernando Gago, are also related to Manchester United. We just don't know who Ferguson will eventually select and then bring them to Old Trafford. Trafford!
Some people come and some people leave. No, shortly after the transfers of Park Ji-sung and Hargreaves were completed, Roy Keane, an important member of Manchester United during the Triple Crown, announced his departure from the team half a year earlier than in his previous life. Due to the decline in form and increasingly bad temper, which caused strong dissatisfaction among many newcomers in the team, Ferguson finally chose to terminate Keane's contract to calm the public anger!
By the way, this is actually not the main reason for Keane's departure. The reason why the Red Devils captain left Old Trafford was because his rude remarks angered Sir Alex Ferguson, which led to a complete break between the master and the apprentice. With Ferguson's temper, how could he tolerate someone criticizing him in front of him? Strong players such as Paul Ince and Stam were kicked out of Manchester United for this reason, and Keane will naturally be no exception!
As for Cudicini, who was originally intended to be the main goalkeeper but unfortunately suffered a serious injury and ended the season, his bad luck is obviously not over yet. Sir Alex Ferguson, who won Van der Sar, had no intention of keeping a sick patient in the team and directly returned the Italian who had expired on loan to Chelsea!
In general, Manchester United's combat effectiveness has been greatly enhanced compared to last season. If George wants to lead Tottenham to the first Premier League championship in club history, he needs to deal with a strong enemy!
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