It is expected that there will be a delay in the plans to acquire Manchester United, until next May, according to British reports, which revealed that the American Glazer family, the current owner, is waiting for a better offer. The Daily Mail reported this week that the Glazer family wants an offer of at least 6 billion pounds ($7 billion or 6.7 billion euros), after initial offers from Qatari Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani and British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, to a maximum of 4.5 billion. pound.
She added that this means that the sale of the club, which won its first title in six years by crowning the League Cup at the expense of Newcastle 2-0 on Sunday, may not take place before next May at the earliest. As for the newspaper, “The Guardian”, it indicated that there was hesitation among the six brothers in the Glazer family, because each of them had his own view on any acquisition, but the sale remained “under serious consideration by the family as a whole.”
Sheikh Jassim, 41, who was educated at Britain’s elite Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst and claims to be a longtime United fan, was the first to submit an offer by the ‘flexible deadline’ of February 17 and promise a ‘completely debt-free’ takeover. on United. On the other hand, Ratcliffe is considered a longtime fan of Manchester United and is one of the richest people in Britain, with an estimated net worth of 12.5 billion pounds ($ 15 billion) after the success of his global chemical company, Ineos.
