The British newspaper 'Times Sport' informed during the summer that Jim Ratcliffe, British employer and president of the chemical company 'Ineos Group Holdings S.A.', kept a "interesting conversation" with Joan Laporta, mandator of the FC Barcelona, with the aim to do with 50% of the club and inject between 2.000 and 3.000 million euros to solve all his economic conflicts.
"We said them that we would put two or three thousand millions, would renew the Camp Nou and would have the 50 percent of property, and would sign a writing to say that never we would sell it", aimed the English executive that, later, would remain astonished when discovering that it splits of the planning of the Barcelona Managerial Board went through to sell his television rights.
Ratcliffe Wants to 'adueñarse' of the United
Now, in base to 'Bloomberg', and after not reaching an agreement with the Barça, Ratcliffe has changed of aim with the purpose to do with a part of the Manchester United. The 'network devils', property of the family Glazer, would be bent to accept the proposal of the British above the one of the sheik catarí, Jassim Bin Hamad To the Thani, the one who already would have put on the table a figure that would oscillate between the five or six thousand million euros.
It is important to remember that the proposal of Ratcliffe would be alone by 25% of the actions of the club, what would fit with the pretences of the Glazer, those who do not see still with clarity sell the whole of the team. Like this the things, it will be necessary to see what occurs with the English group in the following months, taking into account that the value of the United in the stock exchange of New York has gone in promotion during the last year.