Houston_Blade
Well-Known Member
I think you're confusing 'United World' with the ownership of the club, UW don't own the club, Abdullah does.Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe he already owned 1 or 2 other clubs before the formation of United world in March 2020 no?
I would say “things going to shit” coinciding with Jack O’Connell, Dean Henderson and blades fans no long being able to participate in live matches due to Covid 19 could be more to do with it.
Remember Slav ruined last seasons promotion hopes who was most peoples first choice and who our chairman went out and got.
The United world restructure of staff at SU with the appointment of Heckingbottom on a long term contract was badly received yet seems to have been a master stroke.
Don’t get me wrong would I like an owner to be 100% focused on bank rolling blades, of course I would. However to have the 5 years we have had I can am more than happy with how things have gone and if we don’t sell anyone this window then it has been an excellent JTW for me irrelevant of the transfer embargo.
United World has done a decent job at the Lane for me as they are our owners and I think if we go up this season they deserve all the credit on risking finances by not selling the likes of Berge, Ndiaye, Egan, Fleck or Baldock to service a debt.
Whilst it is wrong and we should pay what we owe, if this gamble pays off and we get promoted then fair play.
In my view 'United World' is just a concept of buying a few football clubs and diluting focus away from the core business. Even the McCabe fuckwittery of affiliations with other clubs was more successful in that Lowton had a year at Ferencvaros before coming back and doing well for us. I don't see any upside of UW for the Blades at the moment really, unless it makes us massively profitable because we've managed to apportion all of the overhead to the other clubs in the group, then I don't see any future benefits either.