Sir Jim Radcliffe is not a sportswasher or a hedge fund and he is a fan of Manchester United. Does this make him the best option for United fans to support?
would be that fronted by Sir Jim Ratcliffe. United were always going to be of considerable interest to the only people with the financial wherewithal to buy a club of this size and grandeur, and that will only have strengthened with the team’s upturn on the pitch.
Much has been made of Ratcliffe’s previous connections to Chelsea, but this feels like little more than a billionaire doing billionaire things. Having a Chelsea season ticket because it amounts to the equivalent of a pocket’s worth of loose change is a very billionaire thing to do.
finished in fifth place and reached the final of the Coupe de France before losing to FC Nantes. Galtier took the step up to PSG at the end of last season, and But it should be repeated that this history with substantially smaller clubs is of limited use when trying to assess whether Ratcliffe would be successful at Old Trafford.
As ever with the sale of a football club, the answer to the question of what the club is worth can only be realistically answered as ‘what someone is prepared to pay for it and what the owners are prepared to accept to sell it’. There will doubtless be a lot of chin-stroking about this sale in comparison with the sale of Chelsea last year and plenty between what Manchester United and Liverpool might sell for over the coming months, but such speculation is largely futile.
There will, of course, be some who believe that all that matters is how much money any new owner is prepared to throw at the team, never mind the source of that money, but there may be more who want United to return to a model by which the owners are custodians of the club who represent Manchester United with honour, who build a broader base than just wielding a cheque book every time things start to look a little sticky, and who represent something beyond the predatory part of the capitalist...
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