Britain’s richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe know Manchester United again for sale. Therefore, Ratcliffe is ready to buy his idol club.
Since the end of last November, Manchester United has been officially sold by its owner, the Glazer family. This conglomerate family from the US has owned MU since 2005.
At that time, the Glazer family bought MU for 970 million Pounds to control 90 percent of its shares. Now the Glazers are really going to let MU go.
Because the Glazer family had flown to the Middle East during the 2022 World Cup, to offer MU to a number of Qatari, UAE and Saudi Arabian businessmen.
However, there is no clarity regarding the Sultan’s interest in buying MU. Now another name has appeared who has expressed his desire to take MU from the Glazers.
He is Sir Jim Ratcliffe, a British businessman who owns the fourth largest chemical company in the world, INEOS. Ratcliffe definitely wants to buy MU because he has been a fan of the club since he was a child.
However, the opportunity to acquire MU never appeared until the opportunity finally came. Therefore, Ratcliffe wasted no time in making a bid for the Glazers.
“We have officially joined the process of taking over the club,” an INEOS spokesperson was quoted as saying BBC Sport.
Ratcliffe actually offered Chelsea £4.25 billion last year, but was rejected. He was also linked with Liverpool last November but was strongly denied.
Jim Ratcliffe whose hobbies are cycling, running and skiing is not a new name in the world of European sports. Because he also has two football clubs, Nice from France and Laussane-Sport from Switzerland. He also owns the cycling team that competes on the UCI world tour, the Ineos Grenadiers, in addition to being a sponsor for the Mercedes Formula 1 team.
Will MU be successfully acquired by INEOS? Let’s wait.
(mrp/ran)
