As the current UEFA rules stand, Manchester United are at risk of being banned from European football should Sir Jim Ratcliffe join the boardroom.
The 'multi-club ownership' rule as quoted in Article 5 explains how two teams with the same owner cannot compete in the same European competition.
What this means is if United and Nice are both owned by Ratcliffe, only one of these clubs could compete in the Champions League if they both happened to qualify.
Only one option is available for both teams to compete in Europe simultaneously and that is if United qualified directly for the group stages and Nice were to finish in the Europa Conference League spots, or vice-versa.
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