I would never do anything to damage United, whoever the owners might be, and I am sure that no United fan would want me to do that.
As I found at QPR, a club in the process of a takeover is paralysed.
When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest.
If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not turning into Brunswick. We will remain SRU, but we will be owned by the Brunswick Group. It's quite different.
Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.
I think when you sell your company and are no longer the master of driving it, it's quite difficult.
After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that 'Bill Shawn will stay here as long as he wants to be here.' Well, he wanted to be here until he died, but he wasn't allowed to.
At West Ham I had a fantastic relationship with the board but I was really upset with them when they sold the club without telling me. I then had new owners I didn't get on particularly well with.
The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
