Jim Ratcliffe says he has been told Manchester United are not for sale by the Glazer family and he can t sit around waiting for the club to become available.
Britain s richest man, chairman of INEOS, stated in August he would be keen to strike a deal should the Glazers be willing to sell up.
There have been multiple protests against the club s owners from supporters, including one in May 2021 that saw United s match against Liverpool postponed.
But any hopes fans had of a changing of the guard at Old Trafford have been dampened by Ratcliffe, who met with Joel and Avram Glazer.
Manchester United is owned by the Glazer family, whom I have met, Ratcliffe, told the Financial Times. I ve met Joel [Glazer] and Avram [Glazer] and they are the nicest people, I have to say.
They are proper gentlemen, really nice people, and they don t want to sell it. It s owned by the six children of the father and they don t want to sell it.
Ratcliffe was one of several figures who made bids to buy Chelsea before Todd Boehly s successful candidacy earlier this year, and the boyhood United fan acknowledged he would have tried to make a bid in the wake of his Blues failure.
If it had been for sale in the summer, yes, we would have probably had a go following on from the Chelsea thing, he added. But we can t sit around hoping that one day Manchester United will become available.
