Bitcoin Forum

 With the sale of Manchester United imminent, who do you think would be the preferred bidder between, British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Qatar billionaire Sheikh Jassim?

 My odds are that Sheikh would win the bid and take fully control of Manchester United.

 However i feel the glaziers are reluctant to sell, due to the prolonged rounds of bidding and they're doing so to avoid much spending in the upcoming transfer window.

This is gambling and the wider with the bigger bag will take home Manchester Unite because at this point we can't really connect to dots that can link us to the right speculation and if the buyer has a lot of money to sign the best players in the next transfer windows that could lead to a facelift for Manchester United against the next season.
Manchester's city has really underperformed this season and if care is not taken the next season may be worst, because other clubs are ready to send money in getting their squad together by getting the best players on the board.

A qatar billionaire would be ideal as next owner of Manchester UTD, considering the owner of Man City  ;D. It would be interesting to see what will happen in the next months, I think that a big challenge against the two

Manchester's team could born.

We cant really know but one thing its sure, the fans i think needs to have a more clasical british guy than a foreign man, they had foreing and in the alst year they dont worked well.

So they need to come back to the foundations.

But like the guy above me said, its all about money, and the one who puts more its gonna take it.

I agree with you when you said the more money you got determines the number of world class players a club could get, but saying Manchester City under performed this season is something I don't understand, because when it comes to the transfer window they spent on good players that in return helped them achieve the treble, which is not easy to achieve, they're only few clubs that's done that and this season is one of if not their best, winning the English Premier league, FA Cup and UEFA champions league trophy and their striker halland winning the golden Boot in both Premier league and UEFA, of which they won't have attained if they underperformed like you said, well everyone have their opinions, but I think they'll do just fine cause they're on the right track, with the best players, best manger and right backing from their very rich owners.

Bidding is part of every auction for every big sale out there.I would probably like to see Manchester United to be bought by an English billionaire rather than a foreigner billionaire but as already said here the one who has the more money will most likely win this bidding.

For sport fans though it would be a great move if Manchester is taken by any billionaire as it means they will most probably be spending a lot of money making it a strong team,much stronger than Manchester United already is and the more such teams we have the better the Premier League will be,there will not be anymore a single team domination like Manchester City is doing in these recent years.

If it should be done base on highest bidder the Arab money will be the one to own it,because we have seen how much these Arab investors now have passion for football and can pay any amount to get what they want.

On the other hand if it comes to been biased,I think that the English man will have an upper hand in buying Manchester united,because the English men might never want to foreigner to buy the club since the royal family has a connection with the club. Time will tell who will become the new CEO of Manchester united.

man utd is a successful team that was built by the glazer family and until now sudha has hundreds of fans around the world reportedly are the most fans so even up to the 10th bid, sheikh jassim will not be able to buy man utd

the glazer family really takes good care of man utd and reportedly will never sell man utd to anyone at any time

There are a lot of rumors about contenders eager to take over the club. But supporters in these types of clubs also have something to say. You will probably end up with a wealthy American businessman. For example, you have Mark Cuban, known from the Shark tank program, who is interested in taking over a football team while he already owns the Mavericks in the NBA. You really have to come to Manchester with a big bag of money. But why should anyone buy it over? What are we missing in the current construction?

If they are only considering about the amount of money here, the Arab money is a tough competitor on this field.
However, it seems that they want the Brit billionaire to be the next owner of this team.
Rumors said that Qataris are making a 100% bid, whereas, the Brit is offering only a majority control.

https://www.espn.ph/football/story/_/id/37811103/sources-qatari-sheikh-submits-final-man-utd-bid

But up until this date, there's no one in papers who is to be the new owner. Seems that they are not very interested with Jassim's very lucrative offer.
The deadline was last Friday from Jassim's camp, and we haven't heard any news afterwards.

Yes I am sure the Arabia mogul is going to win the bid at the end and this os because of what you mentioned which is passion for the game and I am certain the new owner will invest a huge amount into buying new players that will give Manchester city a facelift and placing them on a better position for the next season, but then let wait and see who walk away as the new owner and what steps their going to take to revive the club and make profits on their investment.

I've pondered on your question and I think the Glazier have over stayed their welcome because lots of their fans are already eager for them to leave, they need owner with big bags that would be able to compete with the likes of Newcastle and their neighbour ManCity when it comes to spending on suitable and world class players.
  moreover the glaziers, have taken more dividends than they've invested in the Club. the past years, Manchester United have suffered the loss of about £354m since their takeover as owners.
 And they're poor when it comes to investments in the club instance their Carrington training ground needs renovation, including the youth and females as well, the old Trafford stadium too needs renovation, no wonder some former players talked about  seeing same equipments they left 13years ago being used till now, even their famous legend Ronaldo complained about the swimming pool and training ground he left since about 2009/2010 still in same state and when it comes to transfer they're very reluctant in backing their managers early, imagine employing a banker in person of Woodward without football ideas and experience to be in charge as chairman. If the glaziers are handling the club well and having the interest of the fans in mind there won't be protests against them during every match day with posters saying glaziers out.

Your odds?? I don't get... Is there something I'm missing??
Can I get that straight... Is anyone supposed to debate/wager who's gonna buy the club?? Are there such option??...
Those Arabians are fuckin' rich and the value of Thier currency is worth more than ours - atleast... It's usually for anyone that places the higher bid, uuhhh, but sometimes there are usually some conditions anyways - since some billionaires don't even know how to finance and manage a club, which seems to be the most important part of the team's success... So personally, I Feel the dude from Qatar will go with it.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

but if it is all about the money, then, why this Qatari came to up until 5th bid last week and still no clear answer if he will ever get this team? though we don't know if it is on the works already.
yes, i can agree the Qataris have the highest bid because they can afford it. but we don't know all the reasons why it is taking so long for this negotiation.
there's no news yet on who is the final name that will take over on this team? try searching over the net though.

It is taking much time because the Glazers are seriously undecided on the kind of sale they would want. Both NIEOS and Sir Jim are actually offering the the Glazers a bid that could still keep them in the club. According or reports they want the Glazers to still hold on to 25% of the club and they are offering around 5.5 billion and also the local fans are actually leaning towards them and with this juicy offer of 5 billion and a share the Glazers are also considering them but the major problem is the debt and rebuilding process hasn’t even been discussed on to clear it which is actually not a good sign.

The Shiekh Jassim on the other hand doesn’t want a portion sale and wants to buy the entire club and also clear the debts and he has the plans of renovating the Old Trafford but his bid is still not accepted yet because he offered around 6 billion for the whole sale and this looks small to the Glazers. The local Fans and some club legend also don’t want him but most of the foreign fans support him. I believe it is just greediness of keeping the share or going on with a full sale that is keeping the deal still yet to be finalized. With the Sheikh declaring that last Friday was his last time to talk about the sale, news reported that the Glazes went to PSG owners to help convince the Jassim to increase his bid which I think is just ridiculous because he is Coming to inherit a debt affected club.

Before the end of June I feel that Jassim would be considered buyer because after all the Glazers have no united at heart

I will prefer to take jassim to take over manchester united rather than Sir Jim. The manchester city has been proving if middle east owner was also able making its club to be a great club. Look at how dominating manchester city in the EPL. Winning three seasons in a row and this time treble winners.

That's probably right but only if glazer will approve his last bid. Glazers demands 6.4bn but jassim is not willing to play as big as glazer wants.

True. So many complicated progress happened. Jassim has been sending offer so many times but glazer was still rejecting it or not give an answer regarding it.

in my opinion, the owners of manchester united should have already sold to the candidate who offered the most money and who promised to put the club at the top and when i talk about the top i mean winning the premier league and european champions league, but this delay is putting all this at risk, it seems that the objective of the current owners of manchester united is not to see the team going far, since they bought the team that has not been doing well, has been hiring players in a bad way, they do not know how to put money in the player sure, the team has not been a team capable of fighting for the title

they are a set of disasters with them in charge and now even in the sale of the team they continue to do shit, I sincerely hope that they sell the team soon and that the next owner is someone with a better brain than theirs, we have already seen that just because a team was acquired by someone rich does not guarantee that this team will have good results, there are concrete examples of this such as the case of manchester united, chelsea and PSG that only wins Ligue 1 because in france there is no strong opponent capable of competing against them. but we also saw good examples like newcastle recently and manchester city. so it all depends on the style of the person who will buy the team

I don't know of any but I'll do a research about that, when I used (odds) in my statement, I meant the probability of Sheikh jasim winning the bidding war against Sir Jim and yes of course the Qatari owners would make the perfect owners for the Red devils when it comes to full financial support and more development of the club of which they've already pledged a billion $ for renovation or new building of stadium and training grounds including development of the youth and women football sector, while on their bidding process.

True. The Arabs will win this one too. Their money is worth more than GBP because they have that black liquid coming out of their soil and the whole world needs that liquid. If this continues like this, soon the Arabs will own Europe completely. They already own many football teams but I don’t think football teams are the only thing they own there. Since they have more money than anyone else, they will own every other failing asset the Europeans couldn’t manage successfully.

Similar stuff happened in Greece. Greece couldn’t pay their debt to Germany in the past and now they are living as a defacto German state.

So far, the two main candidates for the new Manchester United boss have remained unchanged, namely Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani. However, negotiations that have been going on for months reportedly have not reached a meeting point, because the offers from the two figures have not reached what the Glazer family wants. And maybe if it is in accordance with the agreement of both parties, especially the Glazer family, it will definitely be announced.
and if a change of ownership is achieved I think Manchesrer United will be a tough contender for Manchester City and Erik ten Hag should be able to capitalize on this and improve what his team needs and also work out the best plan for next season.

The glaziers are greedy lads and barely have the interest of the club in mind, Manchester United is valued at about £4.5billion and they're requesting for roughly £6billion from this bidders, whereas Sir Jim have offered to pay £5billion and is willing to take 51% shares while Sheikh offered to pay £5.8billion improving his previous bid of 5.5billion and have full ownership of the club.
 Now why not name the preferred bidder or sale to the highest, rather than trying to milk out more money from them, knowing how bad it would affect the forth coming transfer window and causing panic buys if they finally decide to sell.

It will definitely be the survival of the highest bidder, they both have enough enough, it now depends on the connections they have and ties they have already built with past relationships with thise in charge, also how they can maneuver their way to acquire the purchase of this football club, they will make it more of a gambling thing, those that bids for either the Qatar candidate or the British candidate to gamble or vote and also consider their various offers.

The sheikh has a good chance to win the bid, but it is possible that it will not be to take full control of the club but maybe a buy in as an investor in the club and have a huge stake in Manchester United. The current owners are hoping to be able to secure this of deal, so that they won't just leave the club. This is a possible end to the long going bargain and speculations about the new ownership, the kind of end that the glazers would want, but it is also likely that it may not go that way, they may be forced into selling the club entirely.

Glazer may try to determine which buyer that will able to take MU. As far as i know that if sheikh Jassim is willing to take 100% of manchester united. I will prefer to see jassim to take manchester united rather than its competitior.
Im sure that with jassim owned manchester united and this will make MU gets another great improvements.
MU will able to compete with manchester city. MU was not able to catch manchester city caused by it lacks of quality. I think that with jassim as the new owner will able to increase the performance from manchester united a lot.
I'll vote for jassim in this battle. There are so many fake news in twitter.

Arab money is not "taking over" England, we need to set that straight, City and Newcastle are the only rich clubs that are spending crazy amount of money that came from Arabic owners, and to be fair City owner doesn't really show up that much, UCL final was like his second game he watched if I am not wrong, so it is not really taking over.

I feel like United being owned by Qatar wouldn't be all that weird, even would be more fun to see United vs City fighting on whole another purpose as well, and would make it fine. But, I am not against anyone who would be willing to spend a lot of money on the club, it is a historically amazing club that has been managed by a terribly cheap owners and need a new owner without a doubt, someone that would be willing to spend money on it is enough.

But that is like building a super league in a domestic league. You see how exciting Ligue 1 is? It's totally irrelevant to watch it unless PSG stops playing seriously and someone else has a chance. Everything starts somewhere. When you now say that it is not all that bad and only two clubs are owned by Arabs, I have to say that this is just the beginning. A take over doesn't have to happen over night. It happens insidiously because otherwise the resistance would be too strong.

This is one deal that started in November last year and has lingered up to this very moment. Whenever we think the Glazers are going to accept a particular bid, they kept stalling probably to give rooms for other incoming offers or for the two active bidders to up their offers. From where I'm from, we have a proverb is my native dialect which simply means "The person holding the yam, is the one holding the knife". The ball is on the Glazer's court and at this point all we can do is to speculate or choose our preferred bidder based on sentiment.

Between Sheikh Jassim and Jim Ratcliffe's offer, I would go with the former because his offer looks more juicy to me. £5billion for the total ownership of Manchester United and £1billon investment fund. Jim Ratcliffe's offer gives the Glazer family the opportunity to still be in the club as a minority share holder which is something that is not welcomed by most Manchester United supporters. It is been reported that the Glazers is going to reveal their preferred bidder this week and I really do hope so, so that united can be active in the transfer market.

I also heard that Sheikh Jassim has made an offer worth more than £5 billion to Manchester United, Sheikh Jassim promises huge additions to transfers and infrastructure, and writes off any previous debts. Those things are enough for MU to go a long way.
I don't know if this offer from the billionaire Qatari is accepted by the Glazer family, but I hope the sale goes quickly, I'm so fed up with the current MU.

Have you seen the news about the new ownership of Man United.

I think Man United had reasons to choose Ratcliffe over Sheikh, as the OP mentioned.

Indeed Sheikh had a good offer for Man United, but Ratcliffe also did not lose, they were both included in the best offer, UK Investors vs. QATAR there are many other reasons that Ratcliffe could consider as the new owner of Man United, believe it or not. Let's see. Ratcliffe won the new owner, not Sheikh.

I'm not a manchester united fan, but whoever will take over and become the owner of manchester united I think he can bring changes to manchester united also in the next season for the better, for example doing some shopping in the summer to strengthen their squad team and also overall remodel.

I know that Manchester United will be a great club next season if the owner can later overhaul all the management and the Manchester United squad, of course the competition next season will be very fierce if you don't make changes early on you will not be able to compete with other clubs, especially in the EPL in Next season.  ;)

Yes and no at the same time, from one side, its a lot of arab money on Premier League but in the other side they have some other owners, like some USA big players, also in a minor stake Lebron James have some shares of Liverpool.

As a Liverpool fan I hope not Qatar because it will make Man Utd much more powerful and they will be more dangerous. I suppose they spend a lot any way but I just fear them more with Qatar taking over. Even better would be the Glazers to stay though haha.

Some reports deny the rumor if glazer has talked with khelaifi but khelaifi itself already told if glazer was asked him to told jassim to increase his bid.
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12899725/manchester-united-takeover-glazer-family-asked-psg-president-nasser-al-khelaifi-to-help-increase-sheikh-jassims-bid

Sheikh Jassim already sent 5 billion bid to the glazer but it seems like glazer will not accept it until it will be facing what already asked before which was around 6 billions. I think that jassim can do U turn if glazer will not accept jassim's offer until the deadline.
I will prefer to see MU to be acquired by jassim rather than still owner by glazer family. It's pretty good to see that mansour to has a challenge from jassim as a new owner from manchester united.

The clash between MU and M city gonna be the clash between 2 arabian billionaires.

True but glazer demanding jassim to increase his bid to close 6bn. Glazer shall aware if jassim can give up if glazer keeps pushing its buyer to buy the club as big as glazer wants. I don't even like to see that happens with manchester united.
Manchester united will be facing summer transfer season as soon as possible. it's the time for the club to rebuild the team again.

I hope glazer will make an announcement regarding the new owner from manchester united as soon as possible. Im feeling MU can be a better team under jassim.

this is what i was thinking as there is no confirmation yet about the new owner/s. i don't know where it is reported that they have chosen sir ratcliffe over the qatari sheikh. care to share the link if there's decision already? i am also following the news on this one as the qatari is offering billion of dollars here. so will money decide the new owner for this team? it has been said that the qatari had his final offer last june 9. so they are taking this long to disclose to public about the finality of their decision.

i'm expecting to see another arab man in the premier league, they managed to get a lot of things in britain football, and most magazines are saying that the Qtari banker is most likely the one who's gonna get it, it won't be surprising to me.

I am damn sure that it would be someone who is willing to spend money. That's the only thing I want to see as well, football may have become a lot more money oriented but there is nothing to be earned by denying that as a fact and just keep on trying to do the old ways, it is not going to work and United will get worse and worse if Glazer family barely spends a dime, they spend as much as they can get debt for and that's not really the way to grow.

If someone who is super rich ends up buying the club and then ends up spending 100+ million a year for many years, like consistently do that, then we are going to see the team slowly get amazing, sure it may not be great in a second, but they could become great on the long run.

It looks like Qatari billionaire Sheikh Jassim will win the bid and take full control of Manchester United.
He is a billionaire who could have brought Manchester United to become a great team because of the money he has.
That way there will be improvements for the players by making some better player transfers.

My hope is that this really happens and can make Manchester United like it used to be where can have strengths and a team that other teams fear.

But perhaps the Glazers do not want to sell MU white, they plan to sell a large amount of shares and control to Sir Jim Ratcliffe rather than transfer the whole club to Qatar, Sir Jim Ratcliffe is a candidate with many advantages. In addition to buying back most of the shares of the team, the British billionaire also allowed the Glazer family to keep a few shares of MU. However, instead of paying quickly like Sheikh Jassim, Sir Jim Ratcliffe took a long time to complete the deal.
It seems that MU fans don't care who Ratcliffe or Sheikh Jassim is, they just want to leave the Glazer house as soon as possible. As he said, the Glazer family is not easy to sell MU if Jassim does not increase the price to more than 6 billion.

I am trying to find out the progress of the continuation of the 5th offer from Sheikh Jassim. but I did not find any information, when referring to journalist Fabrizio Romano, except for his last tweet saying Qatar is offering its last bits.

Rumor has it, recently the Qatari newspaper, Al Watan Qatar has published a report that Sheikh Jassim managed to acquire Manchester United from the Glazer family. According to the Qatari media, an official announcement will be made soon. furthermore, the editorial director of Watan Qatar Fahed Al Emadi, has supported this claim. he agreed that Sheikh Jassim's offer to buy Manchester United was successful.
however, it should be noted that Al Watan does not make an exclusive claim on this news. While there has been no official statement on the status of Manchester United's takeover, the claims linked by Qatari media suggest there could be a positive outcome for Sheikh Jassim. So, let's wait and see if this news or rumor is true.

If yes, I would not be surprised at all. because apparently, Sheikh Jassim is desperate to acquire The Red Devils. even. he could have gone through political diplomacy to get United. because, Qatar has an offer that is quite difficult to refuse in the winter. nothing else, but we wait for the continuation and how Manchester United will become an international club. but if so, if MU changes ownership. I am quite sure, if Ten Hag will be given large funds to bring in the players he wants to bring to Old Trafford. that way, United can compete with their city rivals.