A couple of months ago, the Manchester Utd of England has hung the “for sale” sign since the Glazer family, who have owned the institution since 2005 when they paid 790 million pounds, began a story of enmity for having joined the club in that failed project of the “European Super League” where they tried to open, together with other clubs, the UEFA competitions.
After the anger of the fans and their active demonstration at the stadium, added to the period of poor results that the team went through to reach the state of grace it has today, the family wants to get rid of the club but the millionaire sum that the Glazers intend, causes the group of interested parties to shrink and the sale to be impossible.
In November last year, through a statement, the family had formulated the plan for the official transfer of the club to the international market. After a tireless search for interested parties, it appeared two possible offers which can seduce
The first of them is Elon Musk. The tycoon born in South Africa, but naturalized American and Canadian, and recent creditor of the social network Twitter, shareholder of the Tesla company and former owner of Pay Pal, is the richest person in the world with a fortune of around 218,000 Millions of dollarsas confirmed by a study conducted in 2021.
As confirmed by the prestigious British outlet Sky Sports on their social networks, the richest man in the world is preparing an offer close to 4.5 billion euros. Despite the billionaire businessman once denying the possibility of buying a sports team, he posted on his networks in August 2022 that “if I were to buy a club, it would be Manchester United” because they are his “favorite team to when he was little”.
According to what has been leaked in recent days, referring to the possible sale of the English club, the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani prepare a multi-million dollar offer to go head-to-head with Elon. Al Thani, emir of one of the richest places in the world due to his direct relationship with the oil business, is willing to pay some $4.9 billion for the historic club that has three Champions Leagues on display.
But it is an offer that does not seem to satisfy the wishes of the Glazer family, willing to sell the club for an amount of around 6 billion pounds.
Besides failing to cover what the family wanted, one problem with acquiring it via the Qatari Investment Fund is that it already owns Paris Saint-Germain, where world football stars such as Lionel Messi play, and both clubs under the same owner are not they can face each other in the Champions League.
Those interested in staying with the club will have little time to prepare their offers since Thursday 17 of the current month, i.e. in less than two days, the deadline for submitting the offer.
Source: Clarin
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