Manchester United would fetch a record amount for a football club should their American owners sell the English giants after 17 years at the helm, analysts said on Wednesday.
The Premier League outfit announced late Tuesday they were considering “all strategic alternatives, including new investment into the club, a sale, or other transactions involving the company.”
Analysts said the Glazer family could make around five billion pounds from the sale of a club it spent 790 million pounds to buy in 2005.
British billionaire and United fan, Jim Ratcliffe, is seen as a front runner for the club, which has fallen behind English rivals Liverpool and Manchester City in trophies won and stadium modernisation.
Ratcliffe, who owns the Ineos chemical group, has expressed interest in buying United after his unsuccessful bid for another Premier League team, Chelsea, in May. The London club eventually went for a world-record £2.5billion.
