Manchester United have received a whopping £3.8BILLION takeover bid from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
The Saudi royal family, who are worth a staggering £850bn, are hoping to tempt United's current owners the Glazers into selling the club before the start of next season.
The proposed takeover bid comes after United chiefs have been seen spending an increasing amount of time in Saudi Arabia, according to The Sun.
Sources close to the Glazer family claim that they are against selling the Premier League club but an offer that big could certainly tempt United's owners.
The American owners purchased the Red Devils in 2003 for £790m but if they decided to accept Bin Salman's offer, the Glazers would bank a huge £2.2bn profit.
The Saudi Prince has previously been linked with buying United last year but sources insisted the club is not for sale, especially after Bin Salman became embroiled over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The £3.8bn valuation from the Saudi Prince is dependent on whether or not United can secure Champions League football next season.
Should Ole Gunnar Solskjaer fail to deliver Champions League football, then the valuation of United would likely drop while a deal is unlikely to go through until qualification is confirmed.
Purchasing United would signal the Saudi family's intent to rival Manchester City as the top team in English and world football.
City, who are owned by Sheikh Mansour of the Abu Dhabi royal family, have guided City to becoming one of the world's best club teams after huge investments were made over the past decade.
Sportsmail contacted Manchester United over a potential takeover but they refused to comment on ‘speculation’.
Ehvdegekste
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Football is getting destroyed. Onlything they all are thinking about is money. The rich and big clubs want more and more, never satisfied. Getting rich people to buy there club with dirty money. It’s just cheating and not fair. It takes all the romance and beauty of football away. The big clubs our buying/stealing all the talents of smaller clubs at a younger age by the year, before a other club can buy them. The media just have to say a kid is a good talent and he Will be bought straight away. Those talents Will be bench or put in a B, C, D Squad and there talent go to waste. Just look at how many players the big team have and for what? They rather have a player they don’t use in there Squad then an other club Will have that player. If everything Will be going as it is going now, then only the big clubs Will be standing in the future and the smaller ones are milked dry and go away. Is this really what everyone wants? isn’t the beauty of football that there are smaller clubs and every team has there OWN talents and good players. And that a smaller club can win a game of a bigger club. I think it is and would be a shame to see that go away because of greed.
Kauenr
127
please buy Arsenal
clenzy20
71
They would tend not to,cos these big clubs has higher chances of winning trophies and higher chances of luring big players who are big am ambassadors,so they tend to make more profits when they buy bigger clubs,they don't want to invest more,unlike others who buy smaller clubs but they have to invest heavily before making huge profits and it might take longer time for them to make such profits unlike those who just buys ready made clubs.It all lies on tbe huge profits they will make,nowadays they've turned football to business everyone wants to make huge profits most rich people buying football clubs Nowadays are business people who sees it as a medium to make more profits not people who really have the sport at heart
GiorgioSalva
62
Isn't he the killer who killed the pour journalist in Turkey?? Football clubs should stay away from money with blood.