Manchester United takeover latest as UEFA president's admission boosts Qatar bid

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The third and final Manchester United takeover deadline is on Friday and updates about the process is again beginning to filter out in advance of it.

Here are the latest United takeover headlines: UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has admitted European football's governing body pretends at least one club are not owned by the same owner due to their competition rules, which would smooth the process of Qatari Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani completing a takeover of Manchester United. ALSO READ: United give team news vs Tottenham and Bruno Fernandes injury update Asked about multi-club ownership on the Men In Blazers podcast, Ceferin replied: ”There are clubs - or at least one - where we still pretend it’s not the same owner [as another] but it’s the same owner, and I will not tell you which.

You can guess.” "One or two of those potential bidders for another club said to me."Look we have, like, 250 companies. We can do it [the takeover] from another company but we don’t want to do that.

Because it’s us. We can circumvent the rules'. They don’t want to do it. So we have to discuss things.” Such revelations seem set to smooth the process of Qatari Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani completing a takeover of Manchester United, meaning establishing distance between themselves and the Qatar Sports Investments, a subsidary of the state's sovereign-wealth fund may not be required.