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It seems that the chemical tycoon Sir Jim Ratcliffe as they call him, with a fortune of $ 13.3 billion, is moving aggressively to restore Manchester United to the British, and has already begun recruiting Wall Street experts for advice, especially after the Qatari offer made by Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani to The American Glazer family, estimated at 4.5 billion pounds sterling.
This has become evident to the real size of the English club in the Qatari balance, as the dream of the American owner seems to be dissipated in obtaining 6 billion pounds sterling, leaving debts and internal reforms in the club that may reach two billion pounds, so the chemical tycoon Sir Ratcliffe hired experts, to re-evaluate nothing more.
It seems that the slogans of restoring the glories of the club from the Qataris, or the slogans of returning the club to its origin launched by Sir Ratcliffe, are subject to complex translation processes that only accept the language of bidding, and not playing on the emotions of the English fans. Money alone is what matters to the Glazer family, which is not very popular with me. masses.
It seems that the Qataris are trying to build their empire in the British interior after purchasing many assets, so the help of Al Thani was sought, who assumed the position of Foreign Minister and headed the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), and had earlier succeeded in acquiring shares in Canary Wharf, Shard, Chelsea Barracks and Berkeley hotels. And Connaught is now striving to include Manchester United, the most famous English club in the world, into the Qatari empire.
the long term
Where the Qatari sheikh will seek to implement his plan to support coach Eric ten Hag financially, so that he will be able to sit at the top of the English Premier League and defeat competing clubs such as Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea. In the long run, unlike the American Glazer family, which has always attracted large numbers of fans with signs calling for them to leave.
But it seems that the British billionaire Sir Ratcliffe, who enjoys the approval of the British circles, led by the fans and the Football Association, will be a real obstacle in the way of the Qataris, in light of the British anger at the Arab incursion, and Ratcliffe’s call to return the club to the British, knowing that Ratcliffe has extensive experience in the field Sports investment, where he bought the French club Nice for 91 million pounds in 2019, just two years after he bought the Swiss club Lausanne Sport.
Therefore, Ratcliffe is trying to put pressure on the American Glazer family by bidding the appropriate amount at the right time, as he thinks, in light of the desire of the American owners to end the sale process and leave before the end of March of next year.
