Sir Jim Ratcliffe is reportedly lining up Sir Dave Brailsford to lead the overhaul of Manchester United should his bid for the club be successful.
Potential Qatari investors have already got what they want without even buying Manchester United
22.02.2023 - 18:17 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Where to even begin?
You could spend reams of words explaining every caveat and trying to encompass every point of view. Yes, the Glazers are bad. Yes, they've degraded Manchester United for nearly twenty years. Yes, it's great they look to be selling up at long last. Yes, fans can have little say about who buys the club. Yes, it's probably impossible to get a truly good owner in elite-level football now as the money required is absurd. Yes, Sir Jim Ratcliffe isn't perfect. Yes, it's unfair that a long-awaited victory for supporters is being tarnished by the fact the club could be sold to a state - or at least to someone with extremely strong links to one.
But do you know what else is unfair? Being persecuted for who you are. Being illegal in your own country. That's unfair.
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The petty concerns of winning trophies and signing players and having a nice stadium seem rather irrelevant when looked at through that prism. Football means a lot. A whole lot to a lot of people. But it doesn't matter that much.
Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, the face of the bid to buy United, would argue - if there was ever a need to - that he is a private investor, separate from the state and thus separate to Qatar Sports Investments, the Qatari government's investment subsidiary which owns PSG, which would allow a bid to get past any Uefa red tape around the same investors owning two clubs in the same European competition (the Champions League).
The truth is that Sheikh Jassim is the son of Qatar's former prime minister and is also the head of one of the largest Qatari banks, the Qatar Islamic Bank. The largest shareholder in that bank is, erm... Qatar's sovereign wealth
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