Michael Knighton

Michael Knighton has claimed his consortium is currently drawing up an offer to purchase Man United from the Glazer family.

United fans are desperate for change and that means there are bound to be timewasters that look to take advantage of that, some for their own personal gain. Knighton's interview was recorded and published at a time when momentum against the Glazers is building again. The majority of supporters have taken his interview with a large pinch of salt, but for other, perhaps younger fans, Knighton is providing false hope. He may have good intentions but the truth is that he's not a credible custodian for a takeover. United endured their worst season for decades last year and this transfer window has become a circus, which has overshadowed the good feeling that followed Erik ten Hag's appointment. Knighton took to the Old Trafford pitch ahead of kick-off, clad in boots and a training kit.

Manchester United could soon be under new ownership if Michael Knighton is successful in his mission to buy the Red Devils - a potential issue for Arsenal, ...

According to Forbes, Kroenke has a net worth of £8.85billion, making him 195th richest person in the world. "Everyone knows that we need new ownership of this football club and that is my aim and those are my objectives. It is time for them to go." "We are now working on the offer document. Fresh investment and a desire to awaken the sleeping giant poses a great threat to respective owners Stan Kroenke, Todd Boehly and Joe Lewis. We have an inept and frankly useless ownership who know little about this game of football.

Michael Knighton recently revealed his desire to purchase Manchester United. During his previous spell as Carlisle owner, he moved to deny he had ever taken ...

"Everyone knows that we need new ownership of this football club and that is my aim and those are my objectives. I never took one coaching session or did one team-talk, ever.” Knighton revealed his ambitions to take over the Red Devils in a recent appearance with ‘Man Utd The Religion’. "I wanted to give those two young lads a chance,” Knighton said in an interview with the News and Star, the Cumberland News last October.

A former director of Manchester United Ltd. undefined, Michael Knighton, is planning to submit a bid to buy the operator of the U.K.-based football club ...

"My consortium is ready and waiting, the funds are pledged, the offer document is being drawn up and it will be presented," Knighton said, in A former director of Manchester United Ltd. MANU, -3.69%, Michael Knighton, is planning to submit a bid to buy the operator of the U.K.-based football club from the Glazer family, according to a report in the Manchester Evening News. Manchester United's stock was still inactive in premarket trading. A former director of Manchester United Ltd.

Knighton is a name that will sound familiar to older United fans. The 70-year-old businessman tried to purchase the Red Devils in 1989 in a takeover deal worth ...

Whether or not Knighton can follow through on his desire to buy the club remains to be seen. Knighton continued in the sit-down interview, anticipating further protests and confirming his bid to buy the club: “They [the fans] will protest and quite rightly. The club is in crisis, and it will remain in crisis whilst we’ve got this current ownership. “My consortium is ready and waiting. That simply means the club isn’t officially for sale. “We are now working on the offer document.

There were protests against the Glazer family's ownership at Old Trafford last weekend.

“And frankly, the fans worldwide have had enough of this regime. But my intention is to present these owners with a legitimate, potent and commercial offer to say: ‘You have run out of road, it’s time go, because your time is up’. Everyone knows that we need new ownership of this football club and that is my aim and those are my objectives.

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The offer document is being drawn out and it will be presented. But my intention is to present these owners with a legitimate, potent and commercial offer to say: ‘You have run out of road, it’s time to go, because your time is up.’” My consortium is ready and waiting. “I am making good progress, continuing to talk to the people, I have got some good pledges and good finance. We have an inept and frankly useless ownership who know little about this game of football. Everyone knows that we need new ownership of this football club and that is my aim and those are my objectives.

Michael Knighton has confirmed he is planning to submit a formal bid to buy Manchester United from the Glazer family.

Knighton and United fans therefore may be waiting a while for Ratcliffe to come forward with his own bid. Ratcliffe’s name may be familiar to United fans. But there are those who seriously doubt Knighton’s ability to be the club’s saviour.

Michael Knighton, the British businessman reportedly planning a bid to purchase football club Manchester United, is no stranger to the spotlight.

Manchester United did go on to become a commercial juggernaut, with incredible on-field success fueling the development of its global brand in the 1990s and the subsequent decade. “That is not at least until the club had been given a copy of my personal blueprint for the commercial development of the club.” This was a time before the Premier League, when England’s top division was known simply as the “first division.” It would be a few years before mega–TV deals, big-name overseas stars, petrodollars and oligarchs transformed the league and its teams into the global showcase of today. The news has prompted a positive reaction, according to the businessman. Knighton made his first Manchester United takeover bid in a blaze of publicity more than 30 years ago. The Glazers are coming under pressure to sell the club amid mounting fan frustration over Manchester United’s underperformance.

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“Quite honestly, the Lionesses, we could have played them and I think they’d have got a better result. Speaking to Man United The Religion, he said: “Everyone knows that we need new ownership of this football club. And frankly the fans worldwide have had enough of this regime.” We are now working on the offer document – remember, it’s a hostile bid.” Michael Knighton: “Everyone knows that we need new ownership in this football club. The American owners are under increasing pressure to sell the Old Trafford club following a disappointing sixth-place finish in last season’s Premier League and with over 70,000 tweets of #EmptyOldTrafford trending on Twitter. Follow Man United latest news updates on InsideSport.IN