Simon Jordan says Manchester United fans who've criticised fierce rivals Manchester City and recently Newcastle United for state ownership won't be able to anymore. It comes after a Qatari group was linked with a takeover at Old Trafford.
Reports claim a takeover bid will be made in a matter of days with the Red Devils owners asking for a staggering £6billion to buy the club. The Glazers are looking to sell the Premier League side after a declining relationship with supporters and a number of years without a Premier League title.
Both Manchester City and Newcastle United have been highlighted by human rights activists' who claim takeovers at the Premier League sides were nothing more than an attempt at sportwashing. A section of Manchester United supporters have been vocal about state involvement at both clubs, but Jordan has fired them a warning.
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Jordan told talkSPORT: "They'll not be able to have any conversations about Man City's ownership or Newcastle's ownership anymore, if they get a wealthy Middle Eastern consortium in or state, all the vitriol that, undoubtedly Manchester United fans will have partaken in, will have to be dropped.
"There is an irony isn't there, 'we want our club back, we want our club back.' No you don't, you don't want your club back. What you want, is someone to come through the door and give you exactly what you want and that's your version of getting your football club back.
"We get it, I get it more than anybody that sport is business. But, when states own football clubs, their business is about something else. That's not an investment policy, that's an influence policy. That's a direction of travel that's very different from someone saying 'I want to be involved in sport,' like I did, and someone else saying 'I want to be involved in sport cause I want to make some money out of it.'
"Those you can accept a little bit readily than 'I want to be in sport because I want to leverage a major asset of a particular country and use it as an influencer."
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