Special/ SME
After he made his historic offer to buy Manchester United, Sheikh Jassim appeared on social media, Instagram, in a rare photo that brought him together with his father and two brothers, Suhaim bin Khalid and Fahd.
Where the Qatari billionaire struck his stick forcefully to overcome his rival, British billionaire Sir Ratcliffe, who may come out empty-handed, especially after the enthusiastic and positive negotiation between the English Premier League giants and the Qatari consortium, to settle the £4.7 million purchase of Manchester United.
Sheikh Jassim excelled in playing on the sensitive chord represented by the failure of the Glazer family to win over the English fans, taking advantage of this gap and the desire to remove the control of the American family completely, in making an attractive offer to buy the club and extract it from the Glazer completely, at the time when he presented Sir Ratcliffe made a meager bid for a partial purchase that would keep the Glazer family in control of the ancient English club.
This came during the rise in the club’s shares on the British Stock Exchange at a time when the purchase is being made from the discount, which may attract exclusive offers for the English cake that raised Sir Ratcliffe’s saliva and prompted him to make another offer that might topple the Qataris’ offer, which won the approval of the English Premier League.
