IAN HERBERT: The very soul of Manchester 部隊d is up for sale... Does it feel 権利 for it to 結局最後にはーなる in Qatar? As Gary Neville savours a sale 'to the highest penny', we shouldn't lose sight of the club's 身元

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Even in the hush of a warm Spring morning, there is the intoxicating sense of soul about Old Trafford. The old Munich clock on the corrugated red metal of the South-east corner. The red rose slotted into the 手渡す that Bobby Charlton slings over Denis 法律’s shoulder on the bronze 部隊d Trinity statue.

To walk the place and its surrounding terraced streets is to feel the 身元 of a club which has persevered and won through, にもかかわらず everything. Sir Alex Ferguson’s own story also fitted that narrative in the late 1980s, before the glories （機の）カム. Ask Manchester 部隊d’s 支持者s what 選び出す／独身 word defines their club and some will tell you: ‘反抗.’

All of which is why its soul hangs in the balance, 48 hours out from Raine Group’s 最終期限 for 企て，努力，提案s to buy the club.

Qatar is already putting lawyers to work, as Manchester City’s always do: 徹底的に捜すing through the rulebook, asking its 極端に 井戸／弁護士席-remunerated hotshots to find a way of arguing 黒人／ボイコット is white and that it’s 現実に 罰金 to own two European clubs at once.

And if they 後継する ? as they no 疑問 will ? Qatar will find ways to dress up 部隊d as its own. Perhaps Marcus Rashford in a bisht 式服 after Qatar-owned 部隊d （人命などを）奪う，主張する the 首相 League.

Qatari 投資家s could be の近くにing in on buying Manchester 部隊d as the 企て，努力，提案 最終期限 ぼんやり現れるs

Gary Neville has 示唆するd it is now too late to stop 明言する／公表する 所有権 of British clubs

Some, like Gary Neville, argue that the horse has already bolted when it comes to British football’s （資金の）充当／歳出 by Middle Eastern 明言する／公表するs, whose 治療 of their 労働者s and their women does not seem to elicit a me ntion. The 優先, Neville said on his own podcast this week, is ‘making sure the 冒険的な 事業／計画（する） is 絶対 最高の，を越す class.’

The ‘権利 owner of Manchester 部隊d’, Neville 宣言するd, would be the one which took the 負債 負担 off the club, 再構築する the stadium, re-engaged with the community.’ All of which would be pocket money for Qatar.

If Qatar is 手渡すd the Old Trafford 重要なs, some of us will 申し込む／申し出 written 思い出の品s of lives routinely lost and broken in that Godforsaken place. The 最新の depressing despatch is a painstaking 報告（する）／憶測 by the Josimar website. It relates how World Cup 安全 guards who worked at the tournament’s Stadium 974 last November have received no 支払う／賃金 and are 存在 asked to leave Doha.

Those who 最高潮の場面 this will be castigated as 部隊d-haters by some, in the same way that a section of Newcastle 部隊d’s 次第で変わる／派遣部隊 take to Twitter to 乱用 anyone 持つ／拘留するing Saudi Arabia’s human 権利s 記録，記録的な／記録する to the light. But whatever the deniers say, a little of the soul will have been 消滅させるd at 部隊d if Qatar is the next 一時期／支部, just as it has been on Tyneside, where Saudi Arabia is always the elephant in the room.

Reviled Avram Glazer might be, with his ridiculous ponytail, his garish Aston ツバメ and its orange leather 削減する seats, but this is a 事例／患者 of better the devil you know. The Glazer family have bled 部隊d of （株主への）配当s, feathered their own nest and 負担d up the 負債, yet they would be a より望ましい owner to the Qatar 投資 当局 (QIA), Qatar Sports 投資 (QSI) - or whatever iteration of ‘Qatar’ the 入札者s choose, to get a 引き継ぎ／買収 across the line.

Are the 首相 League and the 支持する／優勝者s League 現実に beyond 部隊d without the 介入 of a 湾 明言する／公表する? No. The club would have 現実に come a lot closer to both in the １０年間 since Ferguson walked away, had they not blown £1billion so recklessly.

Where along the line did the deception take 持つ／拘留する that Qatar equates to success in club football? It’s 12 years since QSI bought Paris Saint Germain and they’ve still not won a 支持する／優勝者s League.

And where along the line did the deception take 持つ／拘留する that Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the English 化学製品 engineer and 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of the INEOS group, is in some way a poor relation in this 追跡 of 部隊d?

The Glazer family, にもかかわらず 負担ing the club with 負債, would be more より望ましい to Qatar

Qatar's 企て，努力，提案 for the club should remind fans of the lives lost and broken by the 2022 World Cup

Sir Jim Ratcliffe is の中で the 確認するd 入札者s 捜し出すing to buy the club from the Glazers

Ratcliffe might not match naked Qatari wealth or the 資源s of the lunatic member of this conversation, Elon Musk, but he would be a proprietor who understands what defines 部隊d. He knows about the significance of the clock and the statue and the plaque on the 鉄道 橋（渡しをする） where the Old Trafford fanzine 販売人s stand. Would the 首相 League and the 支持する／優勝者s League be beyond 部隊d under Ratcliffe’s 所有権? No.

In the 物陰／風下 of the old stadium on Monday, running 修理s were 存在 undertaken by a 会社／堅い whose 先頭s’ livery 約束d ‘smart and 安全な・保証する 接近 解答s.’ It was a pretty good summation of what this 広大な／多数の／重要な club is crying out for now.

‘They're going to sell to the people who give them the highest penny,’ Nev ille told his own podcast, appearing to savour that prospect 大いに, but neglecting to について言及する that a club with its soul 損なわれていない is inestimably より望ましい to one which is richer than God.

MY MATE MAC IS ANOTHER SILENT VICTIM OF HILLSBOROUGH COVER-UP?

It is because the 追跡 of answers about Hillsborough has gone on for 34 years that I can call some of those caught up in it my friends. Mac McLoughlin is certainly one of them.

He was a South Yorkshire street 巡査 on 義務 that fateful day, who 証言，証人／目撃するd the 無資格／無能力 of his superiors and the 荒廃 which 広げるd, faithfully wrote it all 負かす／撃墜する in his pocket 調書をとる／予約する, and only discovered years later that his 声明 had been deliberately doctored to 転換 非難する on to fans.

Mac never 回復するd from the sense that he should have done more for those who died and was 苦しむing a 決裂／故障 when he left the 軍隊, a year or so later. I …に出席するd his 独立した・無所属 Police （民事の）告訴s （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 審理，公聴会 with him 10 years ago because he had asked for some moral support. He told the （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 all that his superiors had tried to hide.

Now he has been told to 準備する for a letter about the 独立した・無所属 Office for Police 行為／行う review of that day, which will be published next year. He wonders: how will he be 裁判官d? Could he have done more? What have his superiors said about him? They are the questions that have always 消費するd Mac, another silent 犠牲者 of institutional cover-up and 支援する-事情に応じて変わる which is so unceasing.

UEFA HAVE TO WIELD THE AXE

Thank you, UEFA, for the weasel 声明 in which you ‘welcome’ the 報告（する）／憶測 into your own disgraceful mismanagement of the Paris 支持する／優勝者s League final and the その後の 非難する you placed on Liverpool 支持者s for your own 無資格／無能力.?

Your 340-word 声明 commits to ‘learning’ but does not 現実に appear to 明示する who you ーするつもりである to 解雇（する）.

A review showed organisers were to 非難する for mismanagement of the?支持する／優勝者s League final

I was standing in the rain on a filthy Elland Road day, a year ago, 報告（する）／憶測ing on the policing of 物陰／風下d v Manchester 部隊d, when dozens of young men, barely old enough to know the significance of their words, sang about ‘the 滑走路’ and ‘the snow’, after 注ぐing out of the stadium.

It was the older men の中で them whom I was most struck by, not these stupid, callow juveniles singing about Munich.?

The fathers, the uncles and the older companions were the ones who could ? and can - shut 負かす／撃墜する this abomination.?

But they did not. My two boys would not sing in th at way but I like to think I would be 有能な of having something to say if they did.

物陰／風下d and Manchester 部隊d 非難するd 詠唱するing from fans regarding?悲劇s on Sunday

Kevin Keegan, one of football’s most engaging individuals, was 72 on Monday. He was a trailblazer who played and managed from the heart and has always had something 初めの to impart.?

We do not hear from him now because he has 出発／死d the game utterly. What a loss.

Kevin Keegan, who turned 72, is a 抱擁する loss for the game he has 完全に 出発／死d