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Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, owner of the INEOS group, is a fan favorite and a lifelong fan of the club.
This Friday the application period for the purchase of the Manchester Unitedwith proposals that will come from the billionaire Jim Ratcliffeowner of the group INEOS, of Saudi Arabia, Qatar y USA.
The English club, one of the most valuable in the world, declared its intention to put itself up for sale in November and since then only Ratcliffeone of the richest people in the United Kingdom, He has publicly said that he wants to get the United.
The team is now in the hands of the family Glazer, who bought the club in 2005 for around 900 million euros. The possible sale at this time is estimated to exceed 4,000 million, although in England it is pointed out that the figure that the Glazer they want is around 5,500 million euros, above, for example, what the Chelseawhich was bought by billionaire Todd Boehly for 4,970 million euros.
Ratcliffe is the fan-favorite choice, according to a survey of The Athletic. The billionaire has been a lifelong United fan and has already contacted the banks JP Morgan y Goldman Sachs to receive advice on a possible purchase.
In addition to possible offers coming from United States, Qatar is another of the possible candidates, with the possible role of Al-Khelaifipresident of the Paris Saint Germain. This option, however; is remote, since the regulation of the UEFA It does not allow the same owner to own two clubs that can play the same competitions.
A similar case occurs with Saudi Arabia, who already owns the Newcastle United through the PIF investment fund.
The possibility that Qatar o Saudi Arabia be done with clubs of the Premier League raised the doubts of human rights associations such as Fair Square, which has asked the competition to “protect the integrity of the league”, ask the Premier and the UEFA that “prohibits any purchase of this nature”.
Once the applications have been submitted to Raine Groupthe group that oversees the purchase and has already assisted in the sale of the Chelseathe family Glazer They will decide whether to go ahead with the operation and which offer is most interesting to them. The objective is that, if carried out, the operation is resolved by the end of the season.
