{"id":1222680,"date":"2022-10-12T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/ratcliffe-told-by-glazers-man-utd-not-for-sale\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T16:06:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:06:29","slug":"ratcliffe-told-by-glazers-man-utd-not-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/ratcliffe-told-by-glazers-man-utd-not-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratcliffe told by Glazers Man Utd not for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/127061172_gettyimages-592211022-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Manchester United owners Avram and Joel Glazer have spoken with Sir Jim Ratcliffe\" title=\"Manchester United owners Avram and Joel Glazer have spoken with Sir Jim Ratcliffe\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manchester United owners Avram and Joel Glazer have spoken with Sir Jim Ratcliffe<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Britain\u2019s richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe says the Glazer family told him they do not want to sell Manchester United \u2013 but he is still interested in buying a Premier League club.<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe, 69, was unsuccessful in his bid to buy Chelsea in May.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire, whose Ineos group owns Nice in France and Swiss club Lausanne, met brothers Joel and Avram Glazer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is owned by the six children of the father and they don\u2019t want to sell,\u201d Ratcliffe said.<\/p>\n<p>He told told a Financial Times Live conference: \u201cI met Joel and Avram and they are the nicest people. They are proper gentlemen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it had been for sale in the summer, yes, we would probably have had a go following on from the Chelsea thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we can\u2019t sit around hoping that one day Manchester United will become available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>United have been owned by the Glazer family since 2005.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/127060585_gettyimages-1083147012.jpeg\" alt=\"Sir Jim Ratcliffe\" class=\"wp-image-2170907\"  \/><figcaption><strong>Sir Jim Ratcliffe<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Their Premier League home game against Liverpool in May last year was postponed because of an organised protest by United fans against the owners.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of supporters marched to Old Trafford in protest before the same fixture this season, in August.<\/p>\n<p>Lancashire-born Ratcliffe, the majority shareholder of chemical group Ineos, made a late bid for Chelsea worth \u00a34.25bn but lost out to a consortium led by American investor Todd Boehly.<\/p>\n<p>In a BBC Sport interview following that offer, Ratcliffe said he is originally a United fan has \u201csplit loyalties\u201d between the two clubs.<\/p>\n<p>On still being in the market for a Premier League club, he said: \u201cThe most popular sport in the world is football and it is the sport closest to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we should have an asset. Not a Premiership (club), I think a premier club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"OSkEJesMqAs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Curbing Child Marriages: Tema residents urge Gender and Education Min. to boost advocacy (11-10-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSkEJesMqAs?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United owners Avram and Joel Glazer have spoken with Sir Jim Ratcliffe Britain\u2019s richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe says the Glazer family told him they do not want to sell Manchester United \u2013 but he is still interested in buying a Premier League club. Ratcliffe, 69, was unsuccessful in his bid to buy Chelsea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1222682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7424,697,11069,5593,464,3299],"class_list":{"0":"post-1222680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-glazers","9":"tag-man","10":"tag-ratcliffe","11":"tag-sale","12":"tag-told","13":"tag-utd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}