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Glazers eye Hong Kong listing for Manchester United

Float would value club at about £1.7bn and provide profitable exit for American familyThe American Glazer family, which owns Manchester United, could list the company on the Hong Kong stock exchange in a move that would value the club at around £1.7b...

Manchester United fans call on corporate sponsors to back fight against Glazers

Budweiser, Nike and Audi asked to put pressure on family to sell club to Red Knights

Manchester United supporters are targeting big corporate sponsors of the club as part of their campaign to persuade the Glazer family to sell to the Red Knights consortium.

The Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST),...

Red Knights plan to wrest control of Manchester United by June with £1.25bn bid

Group of wealthy investors plans to take club back from Glazers and distribute shares to fans

Manchester United supporters spearheaded by a group calling themselves the Red Knights are poised to table a £1.25bn bid for the club by June that will involve fans owning a majority stake.

Under proposals...

Red Knights ponder their opening gambit in the battle for Man United

Fans fear the club's debt levels are putting its future at risk, but how likely is a bid by wealthy supporters to be successful?

The takeover of Manchester United by the American Glazer family in 2005 was never popular with fans who feared their highly leveraged bid would lead...

Plot to blow the final whistle on the Glazers owners of Manchester United

Jim O'Neill, Goldman Sachs economist emerges as champion to lead fight against Man United's foreign owners

It may seem strange that the chief economist of Goldman Sachs is behind an audacious plot to wrest control of Manchester United from the American Glazer family.

But Jim O'Neill, below, is a lifelong...