1 month ago
The Mirror
Member associations shall include such an obligation in their statutes and lay down the necessary implementing provisions.”Article 7 of the UEFA rulebook is unequivocal. Should Qatari interest in buying Manchester United from the Glazer family materialise into a potential takeover, it may also prove the biggest hurdle to a transaction being completed. To satisfy the UEFA rules should a takeover be completed, they will need to provide sufficient evidence that there is no overlap with or links to Qatar Sports Investment, which owns Paris Saint-Germain. Otherwise, a deal is unlikely to be completed because it would lead to a situation where one of the two clubs would be blocked from competing in the Champions League. But QSI is affiliated with the Qatar Investment Authority, the state’s sovereign wealth fund.
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