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/ 1167 days agoTwo bids submitted before deadline to acquire Manchester United
Manchester United have received two offers to buy the club. Current owners, the Glazer family, previously issued a soft deadline for potential buyers set for Friday. Ahead of the cut-off date, British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe and Qatar's Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani both submitted offers. Ratcliffe wants to take United back to the top […]
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/ 5740 days agoLeicester City Bought By Asian Consortium
Good God. The Premier League may be starting this weekend but the Championship is doing its hardest to get all the attention. It may be bad news for Bristol City today, but it's potentially good news for Leicester City who have found investment from a number of Asian companies, who are in a consortium led […]
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/ 6170 days agoWest Ham's Takeover Is Well-Considered, Stable and Boring
For those not emotionally invested, the sale of a prominent Premier League club is chum in the water. We want easily caricatured nutballs in charge, huge transfer budgets, grandiose schemes destined to fail and decimations of the club’s staff. We want entertainment. Given that context and the club’s unique penchant for disaster, West Ham’s sale […]
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/ 6648 days agoYou Cannot Make a Revolution with Silk Gloves
ESPNsoccernet is reporting that Red and White Holdings Ltd. has increased it's share of Arsenal F.C. to 24%, making the group the second largest shareholder behind Daniel Fiszman who has 24.11%. The lock-down agreement preventing a takeover bid expires in April. Cue the Darth Vadar Theme (David Dein enters)