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The BackPage Weekly | How to Buy a Football Club: An Insider’s Guide

In November last year, the Glazer family rather unexpectedly announced their plans to sell Manchester United, a club which they bought back in 2005 for just £790m. The twists and turns of the bidding war have since been widely reported in the press. With the Glazers holding out for their lofty £6bn asking price, and the two frontrunners (Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani and Sir Jim Ratcliffe) reportedly falling well short of that figure so far, it will be fascinating to see how it all plays out in the coming weeks and months.

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