A little more than a month before were put up for sale by the Glazer family, Sir Jim Ratcliffe appeared at a Q&A event hosted by the Financial Times at the Ironmongers’ Hall in London. Predictably, the subject of United came up, even though the prospect of the
investing in the United Arab Emirates, Ratcliffe brought up that he knows and has met Khaldoon Al Mubarak, City’s chairman. “I went to talk to him about chemical investments,” he said. “We were there for about two and a half hours and after about two hours and 15 minutes, we got onto the subject of chemicals. You can probably imagine what we were talking about.
, were now worth billions, football might indeed no longer be as risky a business as people used to think,” the book concludes. CFG has been regularly cited as an example to follow by would seek to replicate their success in half the time. Almost four years on from those remarks, you would be hard-pressed to argue they have achieved that. Bob is no longer part of
regards the operation at the Etihad. Whether Ratcliffe’s pre-existing relationship with Khaldoon smoothed talks over or not, Ratcliffe praised City’s approach to the negotiations — not only contrasting it with ’s wranglings over the release of sporting director Dan Ashworth but comparing it to Pep Guardiola’s reluctance to keep unhappy players in his squad. “We had a very grown-up conversation with City about Omar Berrada. When things got done, we sorted it out very amicably.
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