previously reported in The Sun that Sir Jim, the chemicals magnate, was the first choice having been engaged in a five-month-long bidding war for ownership of the club he has supported since he was a boy. The Glazers put Britain’s biggest football club up for sale in November last year. Nearly 200 days later, Old Trafford insiders told the Sun that the Glazers would prefer to sell majority control to Ratcliffe’s Ineos Sport rather than selling the whole club to Sheikh Jassim.
