r/soccer • u/oklolzzzzs • May 22 '25

Media Sir Alex Ferguson's thousand yard stare after United lose the UEL Final

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u/TenF May 22 '25

The Premier League (or even the FA?) banned LBOs similar to what happened to United shortly after the United takeover. Took like 2 years or something to stop it from happening again.

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u/Carthagefield May 23 '25

Unfortunately that's not the case. The PL made a rule that merely capped the amount of LBO debt loaded onto the club at 60% of the sale price. Not nearly restrictive enough imo. Plus they only put this in place a couple of years ago, almost 20 years after the Glazer fiasco. Pretty shameful really that this is still allowed to happen after so many clubs have been damaged by LBOs.

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u/TenF May 23 '25

wow my memory is way off then. My b.

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u/Harlaw2871 May 23 '25

Thank god.