Jon Smith, one of the world’s first football agents, has suggested that Sheikh Jassim could be forced into paying significantly over the odds to beat Sir Jim Ratcliffe in the race to buy United.
He told CaughtOffside: “It would appear vaguely intelligent for the Glazers to have looked again at the Gulf and said there’s a bigger game here and we don’t want to sell ourselves short.
“They’ve got arguably the biggest entity on planet football and if the Qataris are going to pay £5bn, maybe they’ll pay £10bn. Maybe it’s just a number and they’ll settle on seven.
“These deals are notoriously complicated and this is the biggest one of them all. I’m just of the belief that it’s a very heavy negotiation and it’s ultimately all about the money, obviously, but also about the timing.”
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