Manchester United investor Sir Jim Ratcliffe has no intention of criticising an old target.
Ratcliffe and his INEOS group attempted to buy Chelsea when Roman Abramovich sold the club a few years ago.
However, Ratcliffe does not want to point to Chelsea as a bad example of how to run a club, despite their lavish spending on transfers not yielding any results so far.
He told the Manchester Evening News on United's next moves: I don't want to finish up criticising Chelsea but what I would say is that in having bought Lausanne and Nice we have made a lot of cock-ups. We've made some really stupid decisions in both those clubs. But in Ineos - you mentioned the Ineos campus. One of the things that we say in Ineos: we don't mind.....there's a lot of organizations in the world where if you make a mistake you get shot, that's it, so nobody ever puts their head above the parapet.
In Ineos, we don't mind making people making mistakes but please don't make it a second time. So with that, we're much less than sympathetic when they make the same mistake twice.
We have made mistakes in football so I'm really pleased that we made those mistakes before we arrived here in Manchester United. If we hadn't, this would be a much tougher job for us. Because it is huge and it is very exposed."