Sir Jim Ratcliffe reckons Man Utd rival Sheikh Jassim may not have existed
Sir Jim Ratcliffe reckons his rival bidder for a stake in Manchester United would possibly by no means have even existed.
Ratcliffe spent 12 months going head-to-head with Qatari Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani in a battle for management at Old Trafford. In the top British billionaire and lifelong United fan Ratcliffe got here out on prime, to safe a 27.7 per cent stake within the membership for £1.3billion.
Ratcliffe insists Sheikh Jassim by no means ever met fellow United house owners the Glazers – and isn’t certain if the person was real or not. Ratcliffe mentioned: “Still no one’s ever seen him, truly. The Glazers by no means met him. I’m undecided he exists!
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“I do not know (if he was the one bidder). They had been clearly there and there was a complete host of individuals on the crew and within the squad.
“I didn’t ever meet them. But it was it was a very odd affair.” Ratcliffe, in the meantime, revealed how the entire course of grew to become so difficult he taught about pulling out at one stage.
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And he additionally admitted he opened a bottle of high-priced champagne on the Monaco Grand Prix final May to have a good time getting the deal over the road – solely to find he hadn’t. Ratcliffe added: “The transaction was quite challenging. We met all sorts of obstacles on the way. It was obviously a rocky road for quite an extended period of time.
“The Glazers actually, from the start, most well-liked ourselves to the Qatari possibility. They kind of caught with us by way of the entire course of. That rocky street for a yr, has kind of solid a relationship between ourselves and the opposite shareholders.
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“We’ve all got to know each other. You get to know people better in adversity than when the whole thing is going swimmingly. I remember at the Monaco Grand Prix, which was in May, we opened a bottle of very expensive champagne and all celebrated.
“That was in May….however that was a false daybreak and we went by way of a number of extra false dawns after that. We had a couple of surprises on the best way. We simply stored bumping into issues.”
