Since the Glazer family announced that they wanted to sell Manchester United, the world's most valuable football club has been involved in scandals with many rich people. The latest news is that one of the richest Manchester United fans on the surface of the earth, Sir James Ratcliffe, Britain's richest man, also participated in the bid.
In the 2022 Forbes Wealth List, although only ranked 111th in the world, with the strong performance of its petrochemical group Ineos in the war crisis, Ratcliffe still defeated the fund king Michael Pratt, who has fallen seriously in the epidemic in the past few years, the Indian investment family Sinduja brothers, and James Dyson, who has been in the limelight in recent years (you can tell which company he is the owner of by listening to the name), and is the richest man in the UK alone.
From this resume alone, although Ratcliffe is not worth as much as the rich oil families in the Middle East, and is far inferior to high-tech giants from the United States such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, it seems that he can barely meet Glazer's sky-high asking price, and his identity as a Manchester United fan is much stronger than Glazer vampires. Many fans think that selling the team to a Manchester United fan can be said to be the best ending.
But calm down and analyze, you will find that Ratcliffe is not an excellent choice. The reason is that he prefers to be involved in all the sports he invests in, rather than fully trusting the professional team.
Although the Glazer family picks the door and even sucks blood, the Jews only have money in their minds and do not easily interfere with team building, and the outrageous operations in the Manchester United transfer window in previous years are basically handled by Sandeko. Unlike Ratcliffe, he is a sports fan himself, so every time he invests in a sports economy team, whether it's football, cycling or sailing, he makes his own decisions about who to choose for the team.
Taking the French club Nice that Ratcliffe has owned over the years, for example, who has Ratcliffe brought in here? The front line is led by Nicholas Pepe, who was not played at all after the 80 million sky-high transfer to Arsenal, and the three players in midfield are Ramsey, who was also abandoned by Arsenal, Ross Barkley, who was abandoned by Everton/Chelsea, and Schneiderlin, who was abandoned by Manchester United, Joe Brien, who Fulham did not want, and Leicester City's old Kaspar Schmeichel in front of goal. Netizens said that this Nice simply changed its name to the Premier League abandoned team.
Of course, Ratcliffe didn't just pick up a leak from the Premier League, he also picked up defender Dent who Bayern didn't want, and Borussia Dortmund didn't want manager Favre (and then fired him just a few months later), so after buying a bunch of famous but completely unmatched people, Nice didn't rise in the rankings but fell down, and now it has become difficult to enter the top 10 in Ligue 1, and even was hung and beaten by the fourth division team in the cup, so Favre became a scapegoat.
It is conceivable that if Ratcliffe takes over Manchester United, he may also dismiss the original good boss according to his own preferences, and then buy a large number of English household registration books. Even if he is willing to spend money on Manchester United, in the end, I am afraid that he will spend a lot of money like Chelsea's Burleigh, but because he does not really understand football, he can only become the laughing stock of fans of other teams.