End of drawn-out buyout in sight for long-suffering Manchester United fans

For Manchester United fans, the wait goes on. For those who wish to be rid of the Glazer family as majority club owners, it will go on a bit longer.

Though in

Jim Ratcliffe taking a 25 per cent stake,

the end is perhaps in sight. That was the suggestion last weekend when Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani withdrew from the process, with complaints of “a fanciful and outlandish valuation”.