Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani both missed the soft deadline for improved takeover bids to be submitted earlier this week, which suggested the Manchester United sale process was becoming a tad farcical.
Both requested extensions and The Raine Group, which is overseeing the process on behalf of the Glazers, unsurprisingly agreed to that. The 'soft deadlines' are merely there to move the takeover process along to the next step.
Ratcliffe submitted his bid on Thursday, one day after the Wednesday soft deadline, but Sheikh Jassim still hadn't submitted his. Around 48 hours of confusion followed, but the second Qatari-led bid was finally acknowledged on Saturday.
