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Premier League: Jim Ratcliffe finally arrives at Manchester United

The American owners remain in control, of course, but the sale of 25% of the shares to the 71-year-old industrialist represents a first significant disengagement since their arrival in 2005.

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Premier League: Jim Ratcliffe finally arrives at Manchester United

The American owners remain in control, of course, but the sale of 25% of the shares to the 71-year-old industrialist represents a first significant disengagement since their arrival in 2005. Before, perhaps, a more significant withdrawal? The boss of Ineos, already owner of OGC Nice among others, paid 1.25 billion pounds (around 1.44 billion euros) to enter the capital, according to the club press release.

The agreement provides that Ineos will have “responsibility for the management” of football-related matters. Ratcliffe recently declared that he wanted to see Manchester United, currently in sporting difficulties, “find their place again”. The club is eighth in the Premier League, 12 points behind leader Arsenal after its defeat on Saturday at West Ham (2-0), its eighth in 18 days. In the Champions League, he was eliminated in the first round, in last place in Group A.

This is not the epilogue that the new minority shareholder, eager to buy the club in its entirety, dreamed of, nor the supporters of the Red Devils, angry by nearly two decades of decried governance and synonymous, in their minds, with sporting decline. . The latter accuse the Glazers of having put the club in debt at the time of its takeover and of not having invested enough to allow the Mancunian institution to remain competitive.

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