{"id":473962,"date":"2023-12-24T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473962"},"modified":"2023-12-24T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T22:01:40","slug":"official-ratcliffe-agrees-deal-to-buy-25-stake-at-man-united","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/official-ratcliffe-agrees-deal-to-buy-25-stake-at-man-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Ratcliffe agrees deal to buy 25% stake at Man United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Jim Ratcliffe has officially become a part-time owner of Manchester United as he agrees a deal for 25% stake at the club.<\/p>\n<p>The deal has been estimated to be around \u00a31.25bn and as a result his Ineos Group will take over the club&#8217;s football operations.<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old has also confirmed he will provide the Red Devils with $300m for future investment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Sir Jim Ratcliffe\u2019s message to Man Utd fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur shared ambition is clear: we all want to see Manchester United back where we belong, at the very top of English, European and world football\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a local boy and a lifelong supporter of the Club, I am very pleased that we\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/beCTgqZd7X\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/beCTgqZd7X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1738956531826110851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The news comes after a turbulent year at Old Trafford as the Glazers family announced they will be selling the club 13 months ago. Ratcliffe was in stern competition with Qatari Sheikh as a prime candidate for stake&#8217;s holder.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the Qatar investment group dropped out, but that still didn&#8217;t guarantee the British billionaire a success. In the end, he has taken 25% and will be part of a huge rebuild inside Old Trafford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Jim Ratcliffe has officially become a part-time owner of Manchester United as he agrees a deal for 25% stake at the club. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":473963,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16789,17425],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17559,21763],"acf":{"announce":"The bid is believed to be around \u00a31.25bn","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473988,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473962\/revisions\/473988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473962"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473962"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}