{"id":71345,"date":"2025-10-10T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/71345\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:03:07","slug":"man-utd-bombshell-takeover-is-advanced-as-real-bidder-revealed-amid-clause-whopping-demand-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/71345\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd ‘bombshell’ takeover ‘is advanced’ as real bidder revealed amid ‘clause’; ‘whopping’ demand ‘set’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been suggested that a Manchester United takeover is \u2018advanced\u2019 as a new report has revealed the real bidder and a \u2018whopping\u2019 demand.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week,\u00a0Saudi government official Turki Al-Sheikh caused a stir by claiming that a Man Utd takeover is advanced<\/a>, though he remained tight-lipped on the details of this proposal.<\/p>\n

He said on X: \u2018The best news I heard today is that Manchester United<\/a> is now in an advanced stage of completing a deal to sell to a new investor \u2013 I hope he\u2019s better than the previous owners.\u2019<\/p>\n

INEOS chief Sir Jim Ratcliffe <\/a>is currently running Man Utd. He took control of footballing operations at Old Trafford at the start of 2024 by purchasing a 25% stake in the club for around \u00a31.25bn.<\/p>\n

Ratcliffe fended off competition from Qatari businessman Sheikh Jassim to join Man Utd as the Glazer family eventually settled for a minority takeover.<\/p>\n

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Ratcliffe has faced heavy criticism since joining Man Utd as he\u2019s sanctioned a major cost-cutting programme and has targeted staff, fans and club legends.<\/p>\n

The British billionaire has big plans for Man Utd as he wants to take the club to a new 100,000-seater stadium and win the Premier League by 2028.<\/p>\n

However, recent revelations have indicated that Ratcliffe could be bought out and forced to leave Man Utd, with Al-Sheikh, who is responsible for the recent huge sporting events in Saudi Arabia, revealing on Thursday evening that he is \u201cnot the investor\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy yesterday\u2019s post about Manchester United\u2019s potential sale meant one thing: the club is in an advanced negotiation phase with a new investor,\u201d Al-Sheikh said on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust to clarify, I am not the investor, nor are they from my nation. I\u2019m posting this as a fan who wishes the deal to happen, though it might not necessarily happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now, a report from talkSPORT claims<\/a> the Glazer family have \u2018set a whopping valuation for a bombshell takeover\u2019, as the club is \u2018still valued at in excess of \u00a35bn\u2019.<\/p>\n

It is also noted that \u2018United sources are in the dark\u2019 over the claim from Al-Sheikh, but the group he is referencing\u00a0\u2018is believed to be UAE-based and several United legends have been approached about potentially investing\u2019.<\/p>\n

The report has also provided details on an important takeover \u2018clause\u2019.<\/p>\n

They add:<\/p>\n

\u2018The Glazers have already sold a minority stake to Sir Jim Ratcliffe\u2019s INEOS group, but there is a clause in that dela meaning Ratcliffe would be forced to sell his shares or match any offer the American family accept from interested parties.<\/p>\n

\u2018That so-called \u2018drag-on\u2019 clause became active in August.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been suggested that a Manchester United takeover is \u2018advanced\u2019 as a new report has revealed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1100,61,60,917,43,1102,24272,112],"class_list":["post-71345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-home-page","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-sir-jim-ratcliffe","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}