The third and final deadline has passed for offers to be submitted for the ownership of Manchester United Football Club, which is currently still kept under lock and key by the Glazer family.
Both front runners for the club, Sheikh Jassim and Sir Jim Ratcliffe are believed to have delivered their final bids well ahead of Friday night’s 10pm UK cut off, meaning that the Glazer’s will spend the next few days evaluating them before deciding whether to offer one or the other a period of exclusivity.
Of course, the Glazers remaining in charge of the club can’t be discounted at this stage as it seems that neither bid will have reached the £6bn that it’s believed the Glazer family initially wanted to cut all ties with the north west giant.
The bids appeared to differ quite significantly from the outset, with Sheikh Jassim’s Qatari delegation understood to want to buy the club outright, whereas Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos backed bid was only ever for 69 percent of the club, the same valuation as the Glazer’s currently hold.
On Saturday afternoon, The Times reported on the shock development that Sir Jim’s bid was actually higher than that of Sheikh Jassim’s, and it was also revealed that was the case in the second round of bidding too.
If it’s cold, hard cash that interests the Glazer’s, then there can only be one winner, and it will be very interesting indeed as to what happens over the course of the next week.
Sir Jim all day long untied fan not the bussard mentally of the glazers money money money bankrupt the club,take the money and run you have bled the club enough.
You can’t be a United fan if you’re siding with SJR, he wants the leeches to stay
Except he he put united further in debt and keep those vultures in the loop with them having 20% stake. Qatar all day long debt free and development all round, team,ground and trg ground as well as local area
What,Ratcliffe owning 50% and the Glazers staying? The worse deal possible for Utd fans. And then the Quataris will probably go buy Spurs or Liverpool. Where will that leave us?
This is nonsense. How can Sir Jim shit all over the fan base and our future with his debt and Glazzer love affair. We need money. We need to riot against Sir Jim. Sir Jim just wants a piece of the CAKE.
It is time for the Grazer to leave the club to someone who know what football is all about and not money, money, money
What does SJR know about football. How is running football at Nice FC going?
Sir Jim has been reported as having to borrow to buy the club, the debt would remain and he is open to the Glazers keeping 19% of the club. Sorry but if any or all of this is true the Sir Jim is NOT the owner we need. We need the Glazers gone and gone completely, we need the debt gone as well.
The glazers will accept SJR bid cause it’s a big payout and they keep 20% which means they still pocket 20% of profits made by the club. SJR will bring a bigger debt to the club so it will be another 5-10 years before investments will go into the club
You’re right, I think sheikh is our best option
Your completely wrong. If Sir Jim was in charge it wouldn’t matter how much money the club made as the managing director and main shareholder HE would decide if the company paid a dividend or used the profits for the good of the company. It’s a very shrewd and clever offer. When it comes to business acumen Sir Jim leaves the Glazers for dead. Check him out PROPERLY.
Seems most Utd supporters are happy to be giving their weekly money to women-hating, oppressive, hompohobic, anti-Christian, middle eastern dictators who wouldn’t deign to pss on them.
I think this is pure hatred here, how are they anti women? Because they want their women to abide by there culture and that makes them anti women? Or, so you want them to abundant their culture and embrace your own? I seriously concur.
You made mentioned of anti christian, how can you justify that? For me personally the Qatari give man utd fans the deal they wanted, so the earlier we support this jasim the better for the club and the fans, whereas the more you continue displaying your hatred towards this man because of religion and cultural bases, the more the club perish 🙄.
Finally someone with some ethics. I will walk away from United after supporting them for almost 60 years. The Qataris are part of an evil oppressive regime. I do not want my club to be owned by a dictatorial homophobic, sexist murderous dynasty. Well said!!!
Chuks
Bye bye
They’ve already clarified all these assertive believes. Truth is Utd as a club has suffered enough. Pls let’s keep sentiments aside and find a way out of the debt and rot the Glazers had thrown us into.
Finally someone with some ethics. I will walk away from United after supporting them for almost 60 years. The Qataris are part of an evil oppressive regime. I do not want my club to be owned by a dictatorial homophobic, sexist murderous dynasty. Well said!!!
Why not City fans have done for years and now Newcastle are too. Every club in the World would welcome their financial backing to make their club more successful. And if you believe anyone who is a billionaire doesn’t have some skeletons in their closest more fool you. You don’t get that rich without screwing some one over on the way. Sir Jim has links to fracking which is accused of destroying the water table and the environment.
It’s only foolish people who bring religion, culture and beliefs everywhere even when it’s not been called for. So primitive. Have some shame
I reiterate the sentiments I expressed days back… SJR is not not good for Manchester United. We will remain a mid table club under him!
Sir jim is not really ready for the job,the Qatari’s should be given more of support in the takeover saga fans.glazzers most go 100%.
Let the club be sold in other to make changes at the club.
I think that the Glazzers should leave the club totally.. all they do is to take money out of the club and can’t invest anything in it..
we don’t want Jim Ratcliffe or glazer we want Qatar enough of the debt we can’t not allow this injustice again man u need a new owners and only Qatar can give us what we want . all united fan all over the world should not stop the protest against the glazers we don’t want to see them as owners anymore even sir Jim Ratcliffe we don’t want .
The fans who live for meteoric and consistent success need the Glasers gone and money invested in both the team and the stadium, only one proposal offers that.
The Quatar consortium could live with sustainable profitability and enjoy the kudos owning MU would bring.
Sports washing it would be yet every national league has accepted it and turned a blind eye.
MONEY makes the world go around.
Sell it to Sheikh Jassim. He has wealth and passion to improve the team and infrastructure of the club leaving it debt free.
****off sir jim we don’t want you,You’re a snake and a liar if you claim to support Man Uunited.You’re a leech trying to get what you can out olf our football club.
Al Thani will invest in the club and future of the
club and area what more can we say. Jim n Co
has not got enough Dollar
Qatari investment currently is the best compared to Jim racthcliffe simply because the club has so much of depts. Jim isn’t going to clear it. What about redevelopment also borrow money,
Qatari investment : 0 dept, redevelopment which cost easily 2 billion. Jobs provided for development of surroundings. Many improvement will be solved if the Qatari takeover. We can compete with any big club when it comes to buying players. For god sake get rid of anyone that have control with the glazzers
Glazer’s and Ratcliffe must go ,we are tired of playing second fiddle to city while they
are doing nothing but milking the club.
Glazer Family Should Leave For Good Enough Is Enough We Want Change Now And That Change Is Qatari We Go For Afull Suport.
Sincerely, some of you are our problem in Man UTD, imagine wanting SJR to be in charge of Man UTD, how well did he run Nice ?
You want the Qataris to embrace your culture so he will be accepted in England..no way, concentrate on football.
No CEO of a club runs it without conformity with the existing laws in UK.
Why don’t all of the fans just vote with their feet ? How many games would they need to boycott to have a significant effect.
Hi I agree the fans should boycott home and away games until the quarries buy the club
Qatar a God send…….not one of us is perfect
Qatar aGod send ……..not one of us is perfect