It appears Manchester United fans will not just be having an aderent and loyal club fan as owner if events should go as wished for Old Trafford faithfuls.
Sheik Jassim currently is a better position to take over the ownership of Manchester United and it seems tue club will be expecting an experienced football business billionaire who at the end of the race.
Prospective Early in the new millennium, Sheikh Jassim, owner of Manchester United, served a brief term as the club's president in Qatar.
The front-runner to acquire the Old Trafford team is Sheikh Jassim, who filed a fifth proposal for the club last month that is rumored to be for 100 percent ownership.
Failsworth-born The owner of Ineos, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, is still in the race and has made several offers, though it's understood that his most recent one is for majority ownership, which might allow the Glazer Family to continue in some form.
It won't be his first time playing football. At the turn of the century, Sheikh Jassim collaborated with Al-Sadd in his native country.
The position didn't require any hands-on work and the duration was brief. The club returned to the top of the table during his brief term as president, and player sales were profitable.
As an illustration, consider the former Portsmouth striker John Utaka, who joined the team after being acquired for a whopping $1.5 million by the Qatari League from Ismaily in Egypt. The Nigerian player joined French team Lens after being transferred for just over double that amount.
The Al-Saad business plan under Sheikh Jassim included selling players for a profit as a key strategy, indicating that he would not spend money on players for the sake of it, unlike the Glazer family.
He said: "Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al Thani, not to be confused with the brother of the current Emir Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, who is an instrumental figure in developing modern day Qatari football, both domestically and through the introduction of the Aspire Academy, is most notable for being the son of the country’s former prime minster Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al Thani."
“Sheikh Jassim was briefly president of Al Sadd at the early part of the century. Clubs in Qatar aren’t owned per se, instead they are funded by the state. Presidents are nominal powerful roles, but the day-to-day running is left to the CEO.
“Sheikh Jassim’s role in this would have been more political and ceremonial than offering any tangible impact on the pitch, however he oversaw a time where the club returned to the top of the domestic league.
“Since he left later in the decade, he’s been largely out of football, switching his formalised roles to the finance sector with the Qatari Islamic Bank.”
That proves, Sheik Jassim's arrival could send standards in the dressing room up the roof. Erik Ten Hag has already done his best within the little time he has taken over as manager.