The Athletic I'm joined as I always am by my good friend and producer Mike Zimmerman and Mike how you doing good as always John how are you I'm doing very very well not least because we've had one of our favorite guests back on the podcast this time around.

We were joined by Abbicek Raj, who is Tifo's financial expert.

There's a lot of the illustrated videos that are financially waited.

But he's such a good guest. He knows his subject very, very well and is just as a fantastic way of being able to

set things out in a way that's understandable for me and you Mike.

Yeah absolutely I mean Abishak took off his glasses and became Tifos football finance

expert channeling his inner Superman if you will but really dove into the Manchester

United takeover the potential takeover as I should say with Jim Radcliffe and Eos looking

to be a minority investor getting 25% of the stake,

but really owning the sporting control as well.

And Abbishak really, he talked about talked about I guess the benefits for the

glazers in that scenario the benefits for Sir Jim Radcliffe and also the benefits

for the club as well you know for their financial future and as a Manchester

United fan is this actually a good outcome

if this were to happen.

Yep and we also talked about plenty of other things that I think just sort of orbit around the concept of financial

fair play in the various leagues around Europe.

There's so much for us to get our teeth into and so I think the best thing for us to do is to hand over

to Abbichak who is the expert here. Well, fortunately we're joined today by someone who can help us answer these questions because by Day

Abishek Raj is an associate partner at Bainen Company, a management consultancy firm.

But at night he takes off his glasses and becomes Tefo's football finance expert and it's always a pleasure to have him on this show.

So Abbishak, thank you so much for joining us again.

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