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The Big Thing: Is Sir Jim Ratcliffe going to bring big changes to Man Utd?

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Sports, News, Sports News, Soccer

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Big Thing, the TSS gang revisit the topic of Man Utd's takeover bid. With the Qataris apparently stepping aside (for now), Sir Jim Ratcliffe is apparently lining up a minority bid, which will see his company gain control of soccer operations...

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Today, we turn our attention to the perennial source of Taylor Rockwell's SADS, Manchester United.

1:38.2

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1:38.7

Sir Jim Rackcliffe is expected to purchase 25% of Man United for £1.3 billion in a deal which would give his company

1:46.8

the petrochemicals multinational INEOS control over the club's footballing operations. So yeah,

1:53.0

we have a situation where Ratcliffe will take over football operations but with a minority stake,

1:58.2

with the glazers apparently ceding power to him. Very interesting. My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me to discuss this and much more. We have the aforementioned Taylor Rockingwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, my friend. Hello to Graham Ruther than also joining us. Hello, Ryan Bailey. I look forward to this episode of Succession. That's what this is, right? It kind of feels that way. Kind of feels that way.

2:19.3

I do have my $400 baseball cap on, Graham. I am ready for it.

2:22.6

Joining us also, Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe.

2:24.8

Ahoy.

2:25.9

Ahoy, indeed. All right, so we have touched on this story, Graham, before. Of course we have on the big thing.

2:33.5

The stories advanced a little bit since we last

2:35.4

talk. The Qatar ownership bid seems to be in the background. We'll talk about that a little bit,

2:40.1

but maybe you could just give us a bit of a pre-see of what the current situation is with the

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