Candidates to buy Manchester United refine their latest offers

There are a few hours left so that the candidates for the purchase of the Manchester Utd they can adjust their third and final offer, which must be submitted before Friday at 21:00 GMT, although uncertainty remains about the Glazers’ real will to disassociate themselves from the club.

In five weeks the Red Devils will end a good season, having won the League Cup, qualifying for the Champions League and an imminent FA Cup final against their local rival. Manchester City at Wembley on June 3.

Who will be at the head of the club at that time? Nobody knows yet.

After setting a high sale price, close to 7,000 million euros, the American family glazer it chose, at the beginning of April, to launch a third round of offers after those carried out in mid-February and at the end of March, which seemed to be far from that number.

In addition, Joel and Avram Glazer They already warned in November, at the beginning of the process, that it could not “there should be no guarantee that it would lead to a transaction”.

The President’s proposals Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), Jassim bin Hamad Al Thanilike that of the British millionaire Jim Ratcliffethe two main candidates for the purchase, seem to have fallen below 6,000 million euros, which would already constitute a world record in the history of all sports.

There is no doubt that the club with a record 20 English Premier League titles on its shelves is a sporting asset unrivaled for its aura and global commercial potential.

High debt and necessary investment

But the reluctance of potential buyers is understandable, since with the club they will also recover 700 million euros of debt and will have to make a large investment in the Old Trafford stadium, far from current standards and which was not retained for England’s candidacy. and Ireland to organize the Eurocopa-2028.

Jim Ratcliffeowner of the petrochemical group Ineos and of the clubs Lausanne-Sport from Switzerland and the Nice in France, it has not wanted to buy more than 69% of the club, leaving the remaining 31% in the hands of various institutional investors, while its Qatari rival would like to acquire 100% of the club.

This offer suggests that the Briton, a fan of the club since his childhood, does not expect to go much further than the amount already offered.

After Friday, it is likely that the intrigue will continue for a few days, but time is pressing and the fans of the club, mostly tired of the owners for years, want to turn the page and start a chapter with the person who will mean for better or worse a change of the glazer.

Source: EFE