And So, All right I'm here with Tom for the mid-week pod. Tom how you doing are you all recovered?

Yeah I feel like today's my first human day back from

from being struck by COVID but we turn around so it's not too bad to be fair.

How are you doing all right. Yeah, yeah, back to normal after also getting infected by the

plague a few weeks back. So, took a little while that did. But yeah, I'm doing all right and well it's a good day

We are talking on Wednesday evening and the deal to bring in Ratcliffe has been ratified by everyone, the shareholders, the stock

exchange, the F.A, the Premier League, so it is fully done 27.7% purchase of the club.

It will go up to 28 and a bit by the end of the year.

And for the first time since 2005 there is not a single Glazer

shareholder that is the majority shareholder. This is this is good stuff.

Yeah, I even saw some of our players like it on Instagram, which is...

It's always... Yeah, I always kind of think that they probably best not to just do that because then they've got to like everything and then people are just track like everything that they like, but I thought that was quite interesting.

And obviously he's come out and said exactly what the fans want to hear at the moment

with some of his statements and that's lovely to see talking about a new ground which is I think

his preferable choice I think he said and got to get

take united back to the glory days and focusing on football and yeah he's obviously

saying the right things right now so it and it is it's genuinely

excited. Yeah it's a new dawn isn't it we can we can feel better about the situation in the club today than we could day before yesterday and it's you're right he's saying all the right things It feels like he's here to be a

custodian of the club and for like mechanical reasons I think he hasn't

fully bought out the club there was that in the tender document we saw some of the kind of communication in detail. It wasn't the minutes of the negotiations, but the sense of the different types of structures of bid that Radcliffe put in before the

glazers would accept. And this looks like the only deal that was really on the table,

a minority shareholding for now, which will, I think, given the way it structured to go to a full ownership over the next three years or so. I mean, time will tell, but that there are strong indicators. I would say that is what is going to happen

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